Pictures from Lauren's recital...

Lauren with her dance teachers :Lexi and Erika

Lindsey's surgery/Lauren's dance recital

The Dr. marking her belly button before surgery.

We had a busy day today. Lindsey had her surgery to remove a little growth (papule) from the inside of her belly button. We went up to Primary Children's Hospital this morning for a 1:00pm surgery time. She couldn't have formula or solids after midnight and clear liquids up till 10:00am. She cried just about the whole way up to the hospital (40 minutes) and by the end I was crying too. She would look over at me in the car and reach for me. I am sure wondering why I wasn't giving her a bottle. I did ok till we got to the registration desk then I lost it again. Then did ok while we got her in her gown and slippers. They actually got her in a little early, which was nice. So at about 12:25 the anesthesiologist took her back. They let Bryan hold her as far as we could go and then he took her back. She didn't want to go to him and wouldn't let go of Bryan's jacket. Once again, I lost it. I am sure the people there were thinking wow - that baby must be having major surgery by looking at me! We waited till about 12:55 when the Dr. came in the waiting room and told us everything went well. We then had to wait till about 1:30 when they called us back to the recovery room. She already had 4 oz of glucose water and then they brought her 4 ozs of apple juice. She was fussy and we finally got her comfortable holding her and she fell asleep. They discharged her at 2:30 and we were on our way home. She was pretty alert as we were walking out the recovery room and all the nurses were telling us how cute she is. She fell asleep on the way home and slept for about another hour. Once she woke up you really couldn't tell she had surgery. She was standing and acting totally normal. Then later we had Lauren's dance recital. We were glad Lindsey was feeling ok. (Besides it being bed time)

Lauren did an AWESOME job along with the other girls her group. It was fun to watch them all perform together after watching Lauren dance around the house non stop for the past few months!!

For Grandma Devlin...

Lindsey is wearing a dress that my mom bought for Lauren and we saved it in case we had another girl. Although it is a size 12 months... Lindsey is wearing it at 8 months!

More pictures...

Here are the two more of the bedrooms. I still have one more to take and will get to that soon.

For sale...

Yes, we are selling our house. I know we are crazy to do it in this market, but we feel like we need to try. Our offer was accepted for a house up the street from us. So we will stay in the same neighborhood, school and ward. We love the area too much to leave. To save on making tons of color copies, I will post the pictures from the flyer in the next day or so. We are asking $277,000. It is 3030 sq. feet. 4 bedrooms and 2 1/2 bathrooms. The total square footage for the lot is 8000.

I hate this part...

So yesterday I decided that I was going to make Lindsey cry it out at night. I have helped her form some bad habits, and now we had to break them. She used to sleep through the night and we needed to get her back to it. She was getting up every 3 hours the last few weeks. So, I made sure she had enough to eat and put her to bed at 8:45. I thought it would be easy because I put her down for her naps while she is still awake and she does just fine falling asleep on her own. So right as Bryan turned out the light at 11pm she started crying. I went in, gave her her binkie and went out. 55 minutes later she stopped. I checked on her twice to make sure she was ok. Throughout the night she woke up two more times, but only fussed off and on for 5 minutes. When Bryan went and got her out of bed this morning and brought her over to me, she juts starred at me! No smiles. Once she had her bottle, she was much happier and started smiling and talking. Hopefully night will be much better! I hate this, but know that it is for her good. (And mine!)

Interiors Redefined...

Some of you have asked who it was the decorated some of the rooms in my house. Her name is Katie Christensen. She actually lives in Idaho, but is from Utah. Her blog is http://interiorsredefined.blogspot.com. You can see some of the cute rooms that she has done. She is awesome. She comes to Utah often since her family lives here, so if you are interested, let me know. She charges $35 an hour which is great!