My hubby is the BESTESEST!

Just had gush about how wonderful Ben is! He's been taking excellent care of me these past few weeks since my surgery and it has really helped. He's also taken on a 2nd job (part time) every morning, so the poor thing is working 7am to 9pm most days, even on his day off! He wants to help us save up for my tuition this fall and once I'm in the program so I can quit working full time since clinicals will be rough. He is my hero! I wish I could do more but he says I'm doing too much already and he just wants to help me make it through the program quickly. Isn't he the best?!?! I love you baby!!! :)

On a side note: Yesterday was my first day back to work. It went better than I thought but by the end of my shift (9PM) I was in worlds of pain and while I still take Percocet at night I am only getting about 3 hours of sleep due to insomnia problems caused by the high dose steroids I'm on. Today I didn't quite make it through my whole shift at work, the combination of no sleep and pain was just too much. *sigh* I'll have to make up the hours tomorrow (my normal day off) but my doc has put me back on my little happy green pills (for sleep) and said I need to rest as much as I can while not working because sleep deprivation will definitely increase the pain and drag out my recovery. So hooray for sleeping pills.... :)

Found It!

The camera, that is. It's been lost for over a week now, but Ben found it last night!!! Where did it go? Behind the couch... not sure how, as the couch is nice and snug up to the wall... I wouldn't be surprised if the pups had something to do with it... hmmm...

I've been meaning to take a picture of the Minsters to show off her improvement!!! That's right, folks, we had a miraculous recuperation! One day our Minmin was still open-mouthed and unable to eat/drink on her own and then all of a sudden she was again! We can tell she hasn't regained all of her strength with regards to chewing (she has a hard time with Greenies still) but at least her mouth can shut now and she's gone back to eating and drinking on her own!!!

Her mouth is just a wee bit open in this one, but this is amazing compared to how she was 3 weeks ago. Imagine hanging ALL the way open with her tongue falling out the side... poor girl.

Something else I'd wanted to take a picture of was my newest creation! I haven't sewed in a long time due to being so busy with work/school/Seminary but about a month ago I got myself a brand new set of scriptures and decided I wanted to make myself a cute little church tote, since the one I have is falling apart. It took me a while, but I finally finished it and am pleased with how it turned out. I had forgotten how fun sewing could be, especially when you don't know what the heck you're doing!!! :)

Another Baby Shower Cake!

Here is my newest creation, a clotheline themed cake for a baby shower my sister-in-law was hosting for a friend. This cake was extremely fun to make and I got to try out some more new techniques and it even forced me to get a little inventive! I'd originally planned on coloring the dowels up top (that make up the poles for the clothesline)brown with a marker but then I couldn't find the brown one so I decided to try to cover the things in fondant (like you would with modeling chocolate). After a few tries they turned out pretty cool! This is all starting to get a lot easier with practice, and what once used to take me 2 days to complete, I was able to do in one afternoon/evening! The only thing is that we're left with SO much cake at home... after all the trimming and leveling is done I have mounds and mounds of leftover cake and I just can't even stand to look at it, blegh! ;)

This is the cake's car ride over. Yes, on the floorboard of my car, lol. Some day if I actually get really good at this and start making bigger cakes this probably won't work so well... But for now it'll do!

The finished product once I hung the onesie and made sure nothing had fallen off during the very bumpy ride... courtesy of crappy Oklahoma roads.

My favorite part of the cake. I was so tickled when I found those itty bitty little clothespins!

So anyway... tada!!! :) I think I'll get some dummy cakes soon so I can work on bigger things, like elegant gumpaste flowers, etc.

Hooray!

He did it! Ben updated his blog for the first time in weeks! And quite the harrowing tale, at that! He is my hero. ;)

1096 Days & Counting...

In honor of our 3 year anniversary today, I thought I'd post one of my favorite wedding pictures! Can you guess why its one of my favorites? Think Harry Potter... think the tree in the background... starting to look familiar? Yup, its Temple Square's very own Whomping Willow!!!

Officially Gradumacated!

Well, while I'm at posting all these pictures I'll go ahead and actually post a really important one! Ben graduated on Friday! He received his MBA from Oklahoma City University and here we are after the commencement. By the way, whoever invented those ridiculous hoods (that are impossible to put on correctly, by the way!) must've been smoking something... Oh and on a funny note, when Ben got his Bachelor degree his tassel was pink, and well... what guy wants a pink tassel, right? This time around he was excited because he thought his tassel would be blue, like at BYU... well, not so blue, huh? For the life of us we could not figure out what to call it... copper...peach...tan? Well, while we were sitting in the audotorium and waiting for the commencement to start I began flipping through the program and lo and behold, there was a guide in the back that told all the colors and their respective degrees. As I scanned for "Business" I grew more and more excited... finally the mystery would be solved and this ugly color would have a name! And then I saw it... Ben had gone from "pink" to "drab." No kidding...