St. George vacation

From left to right, Jana, Alice, Chrisi, Laney and me. My PTA friends, enjoying lunch at "Brick Oven" in St. George

Can't have a vacation without pampering yourself, what pretty toes after our pedicures.

Sporting those lovely flip flops you get after your pedicure.

The Thursday after Robert got out of the hospital "I left him" as he sadly told everyone, to go on a much needed vacation with my PTA BFF's to St. George, Utah. We had this trip planned since January, I was so sad when I thought I might not be able to go with them. Robert was blessed to come through his heart scare with flying colors, I felt he would be ok for me to leave. He was planning on returning to work the next day. I had a State PTA Board meeting all day Thursday, the plan was to leave when the meeting was over. My sweet Dad came and picked me and my friend Chrisi up Thursday morning and took us to the State PTA office where our meeting was. My friend Laney was driving a Suburan so we would have enough room for all our luggage and us. The condo we stayed also belonged to Laney's parents. The weather that Thursday started off sunny and no clouds, but as the day progressed we watched a storm blow in. It was coming from Southern Utah, the same direction we were heading. We kept checking the weather and road conditions to see if we were going to be able to make the 4 hour trip without problems. We even considered driving as far south as possible and then staying in a hotel. We were blessed and made it all the way, we stopped in Cedar City and had dinner, Jana lives in Cedar. We were in a caravan with Alice and Jana, after dinner Jana left for home as the 4 of us continued the 1 hour drive to St. George. We pulled into town at 9:30, after hitting the local Wal-Mart to get the essentials we continued the short journey to the condo. We had so much fun, there was only 3 of us staying at the condo, my friend Alice lives in St. George. We spent 4 days just pampering ourselves, no responsibilities, no children to get to school, homework to worry about. No one to worry about but ourselves....ahhhh. We stayed up late, some slept in ( I didn't do so well in that area, dang body clock). We got the pedicures, went shopping, lounged in our pj's, watched movies, T.V. ate lots of yummy food, ate out a few times. We even talked Chrisi into getting her ears pierced, (I didn't post the pictures Chrisi, promised I wouldn't). The weather wasn't as warm for Southern Utah as we had hoped, we did manage a couple of days of somewhat warm weather. My friend Chrisi flew home Monday, she had family obligations to attend to, so it was just me & Laney the last day. We went shopping, laughed alot and on Monday night our friend Alice joined us for a few hours of our last night. The drive home Tuesday wasn't any better than driving down if not worse. There are a few mtn. passes to go over and with it snowing it can make for a scary drive. Saw a few cars slide off the road, saw one car on its top. We were glad when we finally made it back safe.

Thanks to all my friends for the wonderful vacation, especially to Laney for organizing it all, and to her parents for sharing their wonderful home with us. Thanks to PTA for bringing these wonderful women into my life, they will be life long friends.

Happy Birthday Sweet Pea

Just a few weeks old

1 years old

1 year + old

2 years old

Almost 3 years old

Friday March 5th, my sweet and beautiful granddaughter will be 3 years old. I can't believe how quickly those years have gone by. She is so smart, loves to talk, to have you read her a story. She loves to watch movies at Grandma's house, "Stuart Little 2" and " Alvin and the Chimunks" are her favorites. She loves to play with our dog Buddy, and when Uncle Scott will pay attention to her she loves to be his Buddy. She loves to play outside in the summer, follow her Grandpa around the house and outside. She is a loving "Big Sister" to her brother, sometimes to loving. She loves her Mommy and Daddy very much, she loves to give kisses and hugs. Have a wonderful birthday my "Sweet Pea", your Grandma and Grandpa love you lots.

Gratitude

It has been a long five weeks, it will be five weeks ago tomorrow that Robert went in for Rotator Cuff surgery. Two weeks following his surgery he got a flu like bug with all the symptons, except it wasn't the flu. He was sick almost a week before he completely recovered and could feel somewhat normal. Fast forward to Monday of this week, Robert was sitting at his desk and all the sudden his heart started to race, his face got hot and he could feel the blood drain from his face, he felt like he could pass out. He laid his head down on his desk until the feeling passed. That happened again a couple of hours later, this time one of his co-workers got Robert's boss to come to his office, he told Robert he was going home and his boss would drive him. Sadly he couldn't reach me, somehow my cell phone was on silent. His boss strongly encouraged me to get him an appt. with the Dr. Tuesday morning we went to our Dr. and he checked Robert's heart beat, he was a little concerned and ordered an EKG right there at the office. After Reading the EKG, he told Robert that he needed to go to the ER. We spent the entire day yesterday in the ER while Robert was hooked up to a heart monitor. He had an irregular irregular heart beat, the top of his heart was in A-fib, not getting a complete beat, but just fibulating, so the bottom of his heart was beating alone. He had no signs of a heart attack, no tight chest or pain or anything. The ER Dr. was baffled as to how this started, thinking it may have had something to do with his illness after the surgery. The Cardiologist on call became involved, she wanted to admit Robert for overnight. He had another EKG done as well as a C-Scan, X-Ray and an Ultrasound. The Dr. said the best option was to run a scope down his throat ruling out any blood clots around or behind the heart, then the cardiologist would shock his heart into a regular beat. After a long restless night for him not getting much sleep with the nurses checking his vitals and drawing his blood he was pretty sleepy. This morning he had the procedure done, no blood clots and the shocking of his heart put it back to a normal rythmn. He has to take it easy for a couple of days, as well as being under the care of the cardiologist for a few months.... he says he's going to live. It was a scary experience that I don't want to have anytime again soon. Don't take being healthy, having a regular heart beat and being alive for granted, I know I won't.