Operation Update... finally!

So as you probably know, we had quite the exciting christmas!
I started having abdominal pain at 7 PM on Tuesday night, but thought it was indigestion, or something. It kept getting worse as the night went on. Andrew left for work at 4 am like usual, and I didn't fall back asleep. I waited for a decent hour to call the doctor, and when I finally got ahold of him (8 am), they told me to come in ASAP. Andrew called Rick (his brother) to drive me, and Kelsea to stay with the kids. Dr Dickson was pretty sure it was my appendix, so he called the hospital and arranged a cat scan, and a surgeon, so once we got to the hospital, it went pretty smooth. Rick left the hospital around 10:30 when I was admitted, Andrew came around 12 and at 12:30 I had the cat scan. (then I booted him out cause he had a Christmas party from work at 1, and it was boring in the hospital- I didn't even have a TV in the room!) The surgeon had told me that I was at the end of his list for the day, and it would be a looonnnggg day for me at the hospital, but as soon as they had the results from the cat scan (1:00), I was moved up to surgery and by 2:00 PM I was put under. I guess it must have been worse than they thought! Andrew was back when I woke up (around 3), and by 6:00 PM I was discharged! The pic of me was taken about 5 hrs after the surgery, when I was at home. I am doing okay now. I can't do much, Kyleigh had a sleepover with a friend last night, and Andrew will pick her up on his way home today. It's been an easy day today, so that's good. I can't do too much, the house definatly looks a little neglected- not a disater, but neglected. I'll tidy it up by the end of the week though! :)











I had Andrew pick up the girls right away (rick took them home with him) so we could have a good Christmas still. We had the girls open on gift the night they came home, and then the rest in the morning. They were quite excited, and Kyleigh kept saying "it's everybody's birthday!". It wsa cute. We explained to her that it's Jesus Birthday, but she was still quite confused as to why we had all these presents. Andrew bought a gift for us. He found a picture... I would describe it, but I added a pic of it for you to see. I LOVE it! It's about 16" tall, and 24 " long. Looks good on the wall too!
It snowed here quite a bit! We got b/w 18-24 " of snow! I have not been enjoying it though, and now it's been raining, and I hear there is supposed to be another snow fall soon, so if it freezes... it's gong to be quite the mess.
Well, I will leave you with a few pics, and by the way, I had done 6 loads of laundry the day before the surgery, and they are sitting there on the couch (es) on the pics... it's gone now though!