4th Week of March

Here are some updates from the 3rd week of March.

On Monday, March 23rd, Steve went in for another kidney stone surgery.  I went into work that morning, then came home in the afternoon.  He was originally planned for surgery around 2pm, but they moved it up to 12:45pm.  I didn't make it home from work before Dave came and picked Steve up and took him to AltaView Hospital.  The boys didn't have school that day, so they were already home when I got there.  While Steve was gone, I had a few chores for the boys, such as cleaning up pine needles in the yard.  We also got our Disney Cruise luggage tags in the mail, yeah!

Steve being silly, getting ready to for surgery.  The boys cleaning up the yard.  Luggage tags!

I let Steve sleep in on Tuesday morning, so I took all 3 boys to school (each at different times), then took the train in to work.  The rest of the week, I took Nyles to the train at 7am, then Steve took the other boys.  I came back each afternoon to check up on everybody.  Steve was able to pick the boys up in the afternoon, but then was hurting the rest of the afternoon/evening, so he took pain pills to help.

He spoke to his Dr. on Wednesday.  Ironically, when she went in to retrieve the stone, there was NOT one there.  She looked all around on his right kidney, but didn't find ANY kidneys.  So the positive thing was he actually did NOT have a kidney stone this time.  It's great news knowing his body didn't create another kidney stone and hopefully his body is slowing down on the making of them.  Since she was digging around though, she still put in a stent, which he kept in until Saturday morning.  The stent is really uncomfortable and can hurt unfortunately.  The "stone" that they thought they saw on the scan ended up being a bruise in his kidney.  So now that they know it's there, they won't be fooled going forward.

Hudson killing bugs w/ the bug zapper.  Cute Piper.

Pretty tulips in bloom.  They took all the scaffolding down around the SLC Temple, so they're making progress.  Hudson made a life-size figure of himself at preschool.

More pretty orangish tulips in bloom in the front yard, and a purple one in the backyard.

Our pear tree, peach tree, and lilac bush coming back to life.

Abby and her boyfriend Jesus came down to SLC on Friday.  They came over to our place and had dinner w/ us that evening.  Steve smoked some pork, so we make pork tacos.  The boys then played w/ them outside after dinner.  Jesus was patient w/ Nyles and Carter and teaching them Spanish, which was awesome.  They also played soccer w/ him.  Abby jumped on the trampoline w/ Hudson.

We also played 2 rounds of Flip 7, then they headed to stay w/ his cousin for the night.  It was fun having them over!  Silly Hudson pretending to be Santa in the bathtub.

Sunday was Palm Sunday.  Because General Conference is happening next week, we had our Easter program at church during sacrament meeting.  The Primary kids sang the song Gethsemane and did awesome!  Dave and Joann were able to attend w/ us as well, which was great!

Carter and Hudson singing Gethsemane during sacrament meeting (our neighbor recorded it) 

Family pictures for Easter.

We played croquet in the back yard for a family activity that afternoon.  

Hudson preferred to squirt water on the lawn while we played.

Later,  Steve took the boys over to Altara Elementary while I was finishing cooking dinner.  They joined w/ other kids to draw pictures and write words of appreciation w/ chalk on the sidewalks for the teachers.  It's teacher appreciation week coming up this week.

Cool drawings from the boys.

We then went over to Dave/Joann's place for dinner.  Grandpa Carl also joined us for dinner.  I made chicken pot pie for dinner and blondies for dessert.  After dinner, we walked over to where Diane's house is getting built.  She's going to sign papers officially this week on the house.  It'll be great to have them all close by.  We then played Blank-slate, then headed home to get ready for bed.  The boys have one more week of school until Spring Break.

Checking out the framing, which is done, at Diane's place.

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