HOME IMPROVEMENT!!!!

The show that has been filling my insanely boring life the last couple of days. Mark on the Wednesday after my surgery decided I needed something to fill my boredom the last couple of days so when he was at Wal-mart he decided to buy all 8 seasons, excluding 7 because it was not there. $10 an episode $70 all together has produced a week of laughs and a little less boredom than I was thinking it was going to be. When watching the episodes it makes me sad to think how much TV has changed and makes me more steadfast in my decision to not have cable. TV shows are so corrupt these days all about sex, drugs, money, and beauty making us all want to be people we don't need to be and have things we don't need to have. Home Improvement is such a good wholesome show teaching us good values of how to treat our family and friends. Mark and I have decided we are going to try and find more of those good old fashion TV shows and buy them instead of having cable for ourselves and our kids to watch.

OUCH, OUCH, AND ONE MORE OUCH!!!!!

So yesterday was the big day, surgery went good, bad, and painful. First of this blog is going to have lots of spelling errors and might not make sense so bare with. So Painful news first, when the Dr went inside my stomach to see if I had any endometriosis what he found was a very inflamed appendix, so guess what had to happen, they had to remove it. OUCH is all I can say, leaving me one extra day in the hospital and no work for one to two weeks. I have to say what an incredible husband I have, he has just been there for me helping me out, being so gentle and caring. Right now he is making me soup and watering the flower he bought me as a get well surgery gift. What a sweetheart. Next is bad news, the Doctor did unfortunately find endometriosis, and some other things in my girlie parts that he had to remove, which leads to more ouch. The last ouch is the three very painful holes I have in my stomach right now but the doc said they will heel quickly, thank goodness. Well now on to the exciting news, even though there was lots of endo ( I will call it that for short) he was able to get ride of all of it, no more. It will probably come back, but with a strict diet I can keep it from getting as bad. So this means baby making time hopefully. Marks counts are up my endo is all cleaned out, everything is looking very positive for us right now.
I will post some pics but please remember I had surgery and they inflated me up like a balloon, and I got very sick the first night, sweating and throwing up everything I ate. I had a sponge bath and nothing else like my hair has been clean.

3 NERVOUS DAYS LEFT AND COUNTING!!!!

So in three days I will be put under for the first time in my life and cut into as well. I don't know why I am so nervous it is nothing serious but I have been freaking out all week. I think I am freaking out so much not because of the surgery or even being put to sleep but with the possible results that will come from it. I am having Laproscopic surgery and a couple off other things checked that you don't want to know about, they are doing this surgery to check if I have endometriosis and if that might be a reason we are still not pregnant. If it comes back positive the chances of us getting pregnant go down even more to possibly not at all. So lots of prayers and faith the next couple of days that all will go well.

FLOWERS!!!!

Sometimes men do get it right. Today at work I got a special delivery from my husband, a beautiful bouquet of flowers. What a lucky girl I am, he just knows when to make me feel special, and how to pick out flowers, I was very impressed, my favorite kind and colors.

SAD TRI-ATHALON NEWS

Sorry Royall if you read this before I get the chance to tell you in person, but are fun little weekend trip to Magrath is going to be one member short. Sometimes being the manager really sucks.

These past four months I have been working really hard at loosing weight and getting in better shape so I could train to run a tri-athalon this summer, I have been doing so good and have lost a total of 25 pounds and can do all the 3 stages the tri-athalon requires. 750 meter swim, 26km bike ride and 5km run, however I have never put them together, that is what these next two months were going to be for, and hopefully drop another 10 pounds in the meantime. Until yesterday when one of my part timers asked for the weekend off for a wedding and my other part timer is away on holidays. How can I say no, I could not handle being the mean manager that does not let people have time off when they ask for it. Actually I have a hard time saying no to anything they ask for, maybe I am just not manager material. I know they like me but I have a hard time talking to them if they are doing things wrong or showing up late for shifts or not being professional enough with customers, ahh anyone with manager experience please help.

So with me being to layed back and having the inability to say no, has now left me with a goal unaccomplished for the year. However I think I am going to keep training for it, maybe try and figure out how to do one on my own.

10 REASONS KALINDA LOVES MARK!!!!

1. He is singing at the top of his lungs in the shower to Julie Andrews "My Favourite things" right now as I am writing this.
2. If you asked him if he saw Glee the other day he would have a very dumbfounded look on his face and ask what are you talking about.
3. He makes me laugh everyday.
4. He has had one sick day since he has been at his job with Devon, and maybe 3 since we have been married, such a hard working man, I know that is why he is blessed with such a good job.
5. He is still singing in the shower, but now making up his own version of what his favorite things are: hot tubs, and quading, and pizza, and days off.
6. His willingness to help others is marvelous, you ask him for help he will be there with no complaining and a big smile on his face and be the hardest working one there.
7. Helps with Dinner, Dishes, Cleaning the house, running errands all of the mom stuff, as I work full time and don't get around to it all the time, so pretty much we share the work load, which is nice.
8. How even though he is not the most romantic man in the world he is always trying to make me happy, especially if I am upset about something.
9. This one you might want to read at your own discretion, His cute little butt, especially in nice jeans and a T-Shirt.
10. His amazing bright, spunky, loving, adorable, personality that makes it impossible not to like him, even if you are really mad at him.
an extra number 11. How I could keep going on and on and on about my wonderful Mark.
So the reason for this lovey dovey post is because are anniversary is coming up in a couple of months and today I was thinking about what cute thing I could make for him this year, I started thinking about all the reasons I love this man to death and these were just some of them. 1 and 5 I came up with as I was writing this blog.

GREEN THUMB!!!!

Mark and I did some gardening for the first time since we have been married, actually besides the odd time I helped my mom out in the garden this is the first time I have ever planted anything. Mark says it is not gardening, but my hands got dirty and we had to water something after words so in my mind I am calling it gardening. When we first moved into our house three summers ago there was some pretty flowers in the front of the house, but they are not perennials so they died on us. The past two summers there has been nothing but barren dirt where the beautiful flowers use to be, so we finally decided this summer that was going to change. We went to this really cute local green house and spent about 20 minutes looking at all the beautiful flowers until we finally made our decision. Purple and white Pansy's was the final decision. They look great and add a wonderful touch to our house, even Cobalt loves them.

VACATION!!!!

Well I Could go on for hours and days about my amazing vacation but that would probably be boring for everybody else so I will some it up the best I can. First of all It was amazing, absolutely amazing. The weather was gorgeous, we did so many fun things and Mark and I had a blast together. I can only remember 3 annoying things happening.
1. I got very very sick on the boat on the night of day 1, but got better thanks to some pills,
2. I took those pills at universal studios to help with the motion rides and it made me very tired all day and I felt like a zombie I almost fell asleep on a roller coaster ride and
3. How it cost way more than we thought.

Really for that to be the only annoying things we are pretty lucky. So now to some up the vacation.
Days 1-3 were on a cruise ship, we had a blast and were fortunate enough to meet another young couple of the church and hung out with them the whole time, making it a lot more enjoyable as everybody else was drinking. We also got to go snorkeling in the ocean which was amazing.
The rest of the days were spent in Orlando, We went to Sea World first and absolutely loved every minute of it, my 2 highlights were the whale and dolphin show and then there was this little dolphin nursery where I made friends with this dolphin that kept playing peek-a-boo with me. Then we relaxed by the pool all day Sunday and got some nice color on or pasty white bodies. Monday we did universal, it was a lot of fun but like I said earlier I was like a zombie for a lot of the day. Wednesday was Mark's favorite day we went to the Space Kennedy Center, it was so amazing and we learned so much, plus we got to have lunch with an Astronaut who was on Apollo 15 and walked on the moon and took pictures with him that was so neat.
Then the rest of the days were spent in Disneyland, fun but not as exciting as I thought it was going to be. Definitely was our least favorite things we did but still he had so much fun. So that was about everything oh except I also forgot we got to go to an NBA Playoff game. I would have to say Seaworld, NASA, the NBA game were my favourite parts, but it was all great. By Thursday night though Mark and I were ready to come home and see our puppies we missed them so much but really enjoyed our time away together. If you want to see all my pictures you can check it out on facebook but I am going to post a couple of my favorites on my Blog.