Happy Thanksgiving!

Since I just completed two months worth of blogging, I thought I would go ahead and get ahead. We got these cute Thanksgiving treats from Chris' mom yesterday so I thought I would use them to say Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Each turkey treat was unique and enjoyed! It was a close call last night when we came in and found the bathroom stool in the kitchen and sitting on the floor below the counter where the turkeys were waiting consumption and a missing Lilly. But she only made off and consumed Josephine's cookie so tears were avoided, but I am afraid that Lilly's blanket did not make it out unharmed. It was covered in chocolate and I hope the smell of chocolate made for sweet dreams because I was not willing to fight the issue of washing it right before bedtime :).

I really do have so many blessings and am thankful for many things!

Guard 2 - XanGo 0

XanGo employees have a soccer team and played the National Guard team. The only person I know on the Guard team is Chris and I know almost all of the players on the XanGo team, but don't worry, I cheered for the Guard and it payed off! They have played two games so far :)

A little pre-game warm up :)

the end of game 1

Who needs cheerleaders when you have fans like these :)

The Joy of Homeownership

Sometimes home ownership is not fun! Our water main sprung a leak! It took Chris about a week to dig holes deep enough and in the right spot to find the leak and when he found it, he found it!

We were lucky that there was no damage to our house. Chris was able to do the job with the help of brothers and a nephew! Thanks for all the help guys in saving us thousands! When we bid it out to a plumber the bid was over three thousand dollars for them to do it, but with lots of manual labor and technical advise from others and Trent's help it cost us less than $100 :) :) :).

Just to give you an idea of the kind of holes that were dug!

Stage IV Urinary Reflux - The conclusion

The Conclusion: bilateral ureteral reconstruction

The surgery took a little over 3 hours and of course I was a nervous wreck the whole time waiting, but I tried not to show it. Josephine was such a trooper. Her surgery was delayed by 2 hours prior to starting and she didn't even cry totally food deprived for the whole day, but she made up for it afterward and drank lots and lots of bottles!

For past post followers, Josephine has/had Stage IV Urinary Reflux and spent some time in the hospital in the beginning of this year. The surgery has come and gone and she is doing great. We thought the surgery would slow her down at least for a day, but little did we know that baby loratab brings out bravery in a 10 month old :) She had surgery on the 6th of October and stayed for 2 days at the hospital. For her surgery they reconstructed her urethras and reinserted them into her bladder. We have her followup testing next week to find out if she is all done! She is healthy and happy and growing like crazy! I wish all babies were as sweet and kind as Josephine is!

For the begining of the story go to: http://heidisbell.blogspot.com/2009/02/baby-josephine.html

Halloween 2009

We had a good time this year! It was like having 3 days of Halloween. It started with Annabell having a Halloween party at preschool, Lexie and I having parties at school and work the following day and then Halloween actually coming on Saturday. We had lots of fun!

Halloween - Fairy

This Lilly getting a head start on trick or treating :)

All ready to go

and post trick or treating dinner :)

Halloween - Black Cat

Lexie at her school Halloween parade. Chris had a hard time catching her with the cameral as she came running by.