Round 6: Jude vs. Pulse Dye Laser

i wish i had more pictures to describe this day. it was really a bad experience for both me and jude. poor jude had somewhat forgotten that we did this every 3 months. when we got to hospital he was all smiley and talky. even when the nurse came to get him he was all happy and ran back to the room. as soon as he walked into the room i think he remembered. it broke my heart. the staff is always really nice and the anesthesiologist even came in singing "hey jude". it didn't help jude much, he didn't want to go. alas, they took him away from me and as i walked past the operating room i could hear him screaming for mama.

about a half an hour later dr. vanderhooft came out to tell me that everything went fine but she increased the frequency of the laser quite a bit. a little while later the nurse came to get me to take me back to my recovering jude. he was SCREAMING! he had a bit of a hard time waking up from GA. i have never seen him like that before. i think it was a combination of the GA and him being in pain. they wouldn't give him any stronger medication and he just kept saying "ouey ouey ouey!". it broke my heart. my mom and rog came with me this time and they kept asking how i do it while he was in surgery. well i don't do it, i cried really hard when he was waking up and in so much pain. my poor baby. the anesthesologist told me that next time we come i will need to come earlier so he can give jude verced, a mediaction that makes you loopy and makes your forget. i think it was hard on everyone.

once we left the hospital he was a little better but not his usual post surgery self. since he hadn't eaten in 12 hours we went to breakfast at Ruth's. he ate a little but mostly sat on my lap and whimpered. my heart is broken for my sweet boy.

what more can i say?

Yellowstone 2007

i got to go on my 1st family vacation with the gregory's after 5 years. we went to yellowstone and did it the gregory way. that entails staying in west yellowstone at the pony express motel and getting up everyday and seeing every part of yellowstone. terri packed us lunches everyday and we ate along the road at picnic sites. we were there for 4 days and had so much fun. i love my new family as if they were my own. we laughed a lot and only got sick of each other when the 2 children misbehaved, meaning trevan and landon.

the highlight of everyones trip was jude. he was so much fun and kept us on our toes. he says some pretty funny stuff these dayts. jude came home with a whole new vocabulary and yes he does know the difference between an elk and a moose.

poor rog, jude doesn't even like him.

picnicking in the park

my favorite animal in yellowstone is by far and above the buffalo. i love many things about them, mostly there cropped bell bottoms they sport on their front hooves. if you want i will make my buffalo noise for you and so will jude!

yaya & papa

this was someone through out the whole trip..... chasing jude.

i heart the greg's, or at least what is left of them.

jude did EXCEPTIONALLY well the entire time. we were in the car at least 6 hours everyday and he just carried on regardless. i did however come prepared.

jude didn't love old faithful, he kept saying "dinky". he cannot tell a lie.

paige!!!! look who we found at old faithful, peanut, lucy's brother.

prilly mo

okay, so we drove around northern yellowstone TWICE to try to find us some bears. how can you be in yellowstone for 4 days and not see one? well we managed. however, once we got to jackson lake lodge on our way home there was one in a tree. (its the black mass in the pine tree) we waited for a half an hour for it to come down and watched it walk away. it was miraculous and if i ever find my cable that connects my video camera to the computer i will show you.

patiently waiting and hoping.

the tetons!

date night with mommie & daddie

after being sick and in the house all day i was ready for a hot date with my boys. trevan needed to go to gateway to look at bike helmets so we went and ate at 1 of our many favorite mexican restaurants The Rio Grande Cafe downtown. turns out its delicious. my family has been going there forever but somehow it reminds me of my sweet senor. if you go there don't let the crazy crack heads on the street scare you, the food is kind of perfect!

beautiful beautiful boy

ok fine. so i broke my own rule. i always swore i would not be the mom with the white trash baby in a diaper running in the fountain at gateway. yet here we are watching jude having the time of his life.

this one is for you mom. your service did not go unnoticed to jude. he was proud of hims nannie's name on the wall.

for brennan.....

trevan & kennan simpson

just in case you were wondering......

this is how i felt pretty much our whole anniversary weekend. i guess thats what you get when you are 6 weeks pregnant?!?!?! like trevan keeps telling me as i am bent over the toilet "what did you expect? ". well trevan i didn't expect to be sick again with this baby. the good news is that my doctor, dr. parker says the sicker you are the healthier the baby is. i wasn't sick last time with my miscarriage, so that makes me a little optimistic.

p.s. please stay this time my little one

Just They Way You Are - 3 years

three years ago i made the best decision ever. i married my wonderful husband trevan. i dated trevan for 2 years before we got married. we dated so long for a number of reasons, the first being i had a missionary out that i loved very much. i knew i could be happy with both of these men because they were both wonderful. it was a rough time especially for my senor because like he says he was ready to get married after 2 weeks. i eventually chose trevan and truly it was my best decision ever. i have often heard that you don't know who you marry until after you marry them and i couldn't agree more. i knew trevan was good but i didn't know how good he was. he is my perfect match and there is not a day that goes by that i wish i would have married the other one. he is my favourite and my best!

we got married the day after his birthday so pretty much its a party 3 days straight when that time in august comes around. this year we went to park city for the weekend and had so much fun just being with us. we mostly just relaxed and looked in each others eyes.......

we ate at squatters and look what was on our table...... it was trevan's special day!

hello senor!

I said I love you and that's forever

And this I promise from the heart
I could not love you any better
I love you just the way you are

"appy appy" to da-ee

YEAH!!!!! trevan turned 26 on the 11th and we had a great party for him. i lub my husband and am so glad that i get to have him in my life. if i had a scanner i would post pictures of how cute he really is. i have 1000's of pictures of him and a lot when he was little and he may have been the most beautiful baby boy. he sure grew up into one handsome man!

one of trevan's birthday presents from his mom was this star wars shirt for jude. i know you can't see it too well but i think it was trevan's favorite present.

fyi.... trevan was and still is obsessed with star wars. sometimes he makes me call him luke, but only when he is in the right mood (if you know what i mean) hehehe

pretty gabi

just one of jude's little tantrums. its really hard to be 21 months, i know.

i worked with jude on singing "happy birthday" all week. by the end all we could do was "appy appy" to the tone of happy birthday. oh well, we tried!

jude loves his mama and da-ee

he also love this ball on the cake. little story is that he threw 3 tantrums throughout the day over not being able to have the ball on the cake. he didn't realize it was made of frosting.

you all should be jealous that jude has rog as his grandpa. he is amazing with little ones and big ones! he played with gabi (and jude) all night. he is so much fun!

i told both of them that this was going on the blog and terri said "good, i want to remember being pissed about rog wanting to put the tables away for good!". i love her.

thank you dustin and brooke

while cleaning up rog put his headlamp on judakins. jude thought it was great and ran around the backyard trying to catch the light.