I've turned into a Hobbit!!!

My knee underwent surgery on July 14th. My leg had been doing well. However, after a really long day my foot swelled up to ginormous size. The swelling has gone down a little bit. It was actually bigger than the picture shows it to be. The morning after it swelled Brent and I were getting ready for church in the bathroom and he blurted out that I look like a hobbit with that foot. He of course expected me to give him a scowl for calling me names, but I burst out laughing instead. He's so right. My foot is so incredibly fat that it truly looks like a hobbit's foot. If we could have found some fake hair or something that resembled it, we would have glued it on to make it truly like a hobbit foot.The surgery was the second ACL reconstruction I've had. The first time seemed to have fixed my ACL problem but just last October I started having problems again. I saw a different doctor and he said my ACL was still letting my knee twist and shift in ways it shouldn't. We can't quite figure out if the ACL was put in wrong or if the cadaver tendon was failing. Whatever the reason, my new doctor fixed me up. He took part of my hamstring tendon and put it in place of my ACL. He also plugged up some holes that were in my bones with other parts of my bones and tightened another ligament in order to keep my knee from shifting and twisting the wrong ways. This better be my last surgery to fix this problem. I hate being limited on my movement.

Wicked

If you have never seen "Wicked" you definitely need to see it! It was so fun. "Wicked" tells the story of the wicked witch from birth to melting. It has a totally different twist that changes your perspective on The Wizard of OZ. The play is also hilarious. At least I thought so-I laugh at almost everything. Our parents-both sets-went to an earlier showing then we all met up for pizza before Brent and I headed to our showing. We all thoroughly enjoyed it:)

One of my favorite of our engagement photos. They were taken sometime in February. We got engaged on January 26th, 2009 on the way to my parents house for FHE. To make the story short I asked him when he wanted to get married, gave him a date and he said yes. I spilled the beans to my popsie (dad) before he could talk to him, but he did it anyway:) He knew he wanted to marry me, but was waiting on me so it was totally ok that I did the asking.

Disney Land

The first week of June Brent and I went to Disney Land with my entire extended family. We went on every ride we could and the ones we liked even more we went on a few times. One of the rides we liked was the Buzz Light Year Astro Blaster ride. This is a picture of the first time we rode the ride. After that we decided to take Grandma with us. She was in a wheelchair so they would have to stop the ride to help get her on. We would go ahead so that when the ride stopped we would be in a prime spot for shooting targets. It brought our scores way up. I think I even made it to high level three, or maybe it was four. I don't remember I just know it was higher than I have ever scored. Brent hadn't been to Disney Land in forever so it was a fun time for him. We enjoyed our time very much!

Bren'ts Birthday

Brent turned 28! We kept it real low key and invited some friends over to play games and eat cake and pie. I made Brent a cherry pie. It was my first time making a pie by myself. It turned out ok, but it was uqite the hastle to make. I had to run to the store twice just to get filling and that was after I already make the crust. It was kind of frustrating. We had a fun time. Thanks for celebrating with us Ryan, Amber, Jason, Amber and Seth.

Caves

While staying at a friends cabin for our honeymoon (thanks Seth and Mama C) we went and explored some caves. I was quite scared at first but it was second nature to Brent. There were some young girls there with their dad and they let us borrow a flashlight since we forgot ours. We had to squeeze and climb on our hands and knees just to get in. After a while I got used to it. However, when I had to give up my flashlight and get out just by the sound of Brent's voice it got a little freaky. Good thing I had another little girl come to my rescue with a light:)

2 weeks

It's been two weeks now since we tied the knot! Life is crazy as usual. We haven't moved in all of Brent's things yet but maybe that's a good thing. He says I'll be amazed at all the crap he has. I think its a great blessing though that we both have so much crap as opposed to no crap at all:) It's great that we haven't found any super weird habits that either of us has yet. I wonder if it'll stay that way. Most likely not. It'll be a matter of time before Brent realizes how crazy and weird i truly am!