my recovery

This is my foot before the surgery. (wow what a bone)
Here it is about 3 weeks after. Today its been 5 weeks. The doctor said that I can start putting it in a shoe instead of my boot......but sadly I tried every left shoe I owned and I can't get my foot into any of them. I thought that I would be out of my boot for good in one more week but now I am not sure because I don't know what shoes I would wear. But for the most part I am really glad that I am taking care of my feet now so later in life they won't cause me any problems.
This is a picture of me I took tonight so there wouldn't just be pictures of my foot on this post. :) Isn't Flannigan cute?!

foot surgery

On Tuesday I went to have a bunionectomy. I closed my eyes for "one minute" and I woke up and it was all done. I spent one night and then came home on Wednesday morning. I go back to work next Friday which is kinda soon but I will mostly just be doing computer work so I think I should be okay but we will just have to wait and see.
Matt has been so good to me taking care of me, getting me flowers. When I got home he had this set up for me with a tv tray and the pillows and blankets. He carrys me to the bathroom when I need to go because it still hurts to put weight on it. He makes me meals and serves them to me. I bet he can't wait for me to get my other foot done. Yesterday I was in pain but today it really hasn't been too bad. Our friends Brad & Stephanie came over last night and made us dinner which was yummy. Kilie brought us Lime Rickeys which are my favorite.
This was me getting ready today, Matt thought that it was funny. He got a bath all ready for me today, he has just been the best. Thanks honey for being so sweet to me.

cooking for my family

My friend Kilie invited me to go to her mother's ward enrichment last night. The Food Nanny was there and taught us the importance of cooking dinner and eating as a family. I bought her cook book (which they sell at costco) and I love it. There is over 200 awesome recipes.
I made bread today that only took 45 minutes from start to finish. It was so easy too. But Kilie and I decided that if we were going to be cooking all these wonderful meals for our husbands that we better have a dang cute apron to cook in. So we made these aprons today which took us alittle while but we did it.

This is the front cover of the cook book if you are interested. There is also a website thefoodnanny.com.

some old pictures

I was looking at some old pictures today and thought that I would post some. This was at Mike and Annie wedding in February 13, 2004.
Matt and I starting dating in October 2003. Dated one year and got married.
After just two weeks of dating Matt told me that he loved me. How cute is he :)

These last two pictures were the summer of 2004. Sherilyn was taking pictures of us and we ended up using them for our engagements.

This picture was December 2004 in our first appartment in downtown SLC. When we moved Matt had a job but I didn't. I had to get one pretty soon so we could pay bills. Our rent was $435. (wow that would be great to have that rent again.) We were young but I wouldn't change a thing.

Utah Symphony

Utah Symphony

We used my free tickets that I won from the rodeo to go to the utah symphony. It was at the Thanksgiving Point outdoor Waterfall Amphitheater.

Jon, Sherilyn, Matt and my friend Stephanie all went. It turned out to be a lot of fun. I didn't know that I would enjoy it as much as I did.

It was so relaxing to just hang out on the grass and listen to the music play.

Matt was being Matt in this picture he looked away on purpose that silly boy. All of us wearing black was not planned, I guess we all just think a like.

"...and they called the thing a Rodeo"

Today we went to Daybreak Lake. Its a park in Daybreak that has a beach which is the closest thing I am getting to California this year.
It was a little cloudy and 90 degrees and it felt great.

Sherilyn invited us to go with her and the kids. (thank you Sher)

I thought that it was so pretty with all the mountains around. Its so nice to only be about 20 minutes away from this. I'm sure that we will be coming here a lot more now that we know about it.

Last Saturday I went to the Lehi Round Up with my friend Kilie and her husband. Matt didn't come because he's just not that into rodeos and cowboys and stuff.

But I am so I went and had a blast.

I had a stamp on my program so I won 6 tickets to go to the Utah Symphony at Thanksgiving Point. It was either that or 100 dollars off of a tatoo.

So here I come symphony!

After the rodeo is over they have a dirt dance in the arena I didn't dance but I wanted a picture my the stalls. This is what I would look like if I was a bull. Scary right?!

After we went to the lake today we went to Ice Age 3 and when we come out so did the rain so atleast we had a half a day of summer today. Then we got home to the power out so I had no choice but to clean the house. But after 3 hours we didn't know what to do so we watched x-men 2 on Matt's little PSP and then the power came back on. Matt and I are so glad that summer is here because its about time.