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// June 10th, 2010 // No Comments » // General, Home

Is about to change. After almost three years of living in our house they are finally building on one of the empty lots next to us. As weird as it will be to have a house next to us we are very excited about not dealing with all of the weeds coming from the empty lot. Things seem to be moving right along with it, one day they dug the hole, the next day they built the layout for the foundation, and then they poured the foundation. Can’t wait to go home today and see what they have done. Craig was able to find out that it will be the same model as our house, but it won’t have the same elevation and the layout is opposite ours. Just hope that their house is up far enough so we aren’t looking into each other’s kitchen or dining room windows.

On another note, Craig had another doctor’s appointment yesterday and wasn’t too happy to find out that he will need to do another six weeks of physical therapy. He still has swelling around his knee and his quad muscle isn’t back to full strength yet. Fingers cross that this will be his last round of PT and that the pain will all go away soon.

Another Knee Update

// April 21st, 2010 // 1 Comment » // General, Health

I’m happy to report that Craig is nicely recovering from his knee surgery. On Saturday he had a bit of a set back when Kacey decided she just had to see what the delivery woman had brought for Craig to open. Unfortunately neither of us remembered to keep her away from his leg so she managed to put her paw right in the middle of all his sutures. It caused so much pain that even the pain meds weren’t helping.

When the pain didn’t go away on Sunday he was worried that the tendon had been ruptured, so he called his doctor who assured him that as long as he was able to lift his leg that it was probably just irritated. By Monday afternoon the pain had gone down quite a bit and today he is moving around a lot better. He has an appointment next Wednesday to have the sutures removed and we are both hoping that this will be the end of all his pain. I’d like to send a big, big thank you out to Don, Pete & Mom for all of the last minute help in getting mom out to the house to take care of Craig this week.

Knee Update

// March 10th, 2010 // No Comments » // General, Health

Craig's Knee

It has been about a month since Craig started his physical therapy for issue with his knee and unfortunately he said that it’s more painful now than it was before he started. You can see where the “crack” is in his x-ray. The doctor told him that it’s common for this to happen but it’s not common for the piece to be so long.

He had a follow up appointment with the doctor last Friday and has been put on an additional type of PT for two more weeks. I’m not exactly sure what it’s called, but I know it involves wires and a device that has a dial that goes from 1 to 4. The doctor took his x-ray to the surgeon, who said that he would not touch it and that he should see a surgeon that specializes in knee injuries. So after the two weeks of PT he will have to get an MRI done so a different surgeon can look at it and see what has to be done. We will let everyone know when we know more.

Yay for Us

// November 16th, 2009 // No Comments » // General, Holidays

I know that this is a very small feat, but you know it’s the little things that matter the most! You might be asking yourself, what is it that she is so excited about?, my response to that would be “It’s all about the lights!”.

Taking full advantage of the wonderful weather we had this weekend Craig & I were able to get our Christmas lights up on the front of the house, of course they won’t be turned on until the day after Thanksgiving, but just the fact that we were able to get them up without freezing is enough to make me happy!

We also decided to replace last year’s lights with LED lights in hopes to keep the electric bill at a minimum. I’m still not sure how I’m going to feel about the bluish hue our cool white lights will have compared to the warm white ones, but since we couldn’t find the icicle lights in warm white we had to go with the cool white. I suppose we can go back to regular lights next year if I don’t like them.

To Blog or Facebook

// November 2nd, 2009 // No Comments » // General

One day I got a friend request on the Facebook account I created and forgot about. It all started rather innocent and then it turned into a full fledged addiction. I was updating my status all the time with stuff that I’m sure nobody even cares about, like.. went to lunch with the hubby and had a turkey sandwich. In the mean time our blog was being left to collect dust, missing birthdays, special events and lots of cards. As luck would have it I have become bored with updating my status, but I do still use Facebook to see what everyone else is doing. *insert recording here…:)* I am really going to make an effort to update our blog more regularly. I’m even going to try to get some new photos in our gallery. Wish me luck!