Dear Santa Love, Ryan

Ryan wrote the following letter to Santa today. I told him I would put it on my blog. Santa started checking blogs a few years ago.



(translated text)

Dear Santa Sydney is being nody (naughty)Today and I am Being nice and I want for Christmas RC Monster Truck and a spy car and a Transformer Love Ryan.

Click, Click... time for a new computer

Last night in the middle of the night I woke up because of a clicking sound. It happened about every 2 minutes. It sounded like it was coming from the laptop, so I got up and decided to shut it off. As I was going through that process, I thought, if I shut this down now, I won't be able to turn it back on in the morning, however I ignored the thought and shut it down.

Guess what, it wouldn't boot in the morning. Gave me an error that the hard drive was not recognized. I broke the news to Deni, who didn't have some of here things backed up on the computer. She was bummed.

I took Sydney to my parents again and took Ryan to school.

Work went by very quickly. too quickly. I'm not going into work tomorrow, so needed to get a few things done today, however I didn't finish them, so I guess that means I am going to work from home tomorrow and finish them up.

Good news at work. I got a new laptop. A Dell Latitude D620. It only has 3 gigs of RAM (memory) and a 100 gb hard drive. (ha.) Support guys get nice beefy laptops so we can run VmWare. I'm sure this laptop is way better than any of the developers at Novell. Go figure. No complaining here, I like the laptop. It has a widescreen, which I'm getting used to but is very cool.

When I got home, Deni had gotten our home laptop to turn on and had backed up all her files to our server. Something is wrong with the Hard drive and I don't expect it to be working for too much longer.

Pain pills

Last night I got Deni situated and medicated about 9:30pm. Pain meds can be taken every 4 hours. I got up and got her medicine about 1:30am and then 6:30am this morning. I woke up at 5:30am, but she was sleeping and thought if she was sleeping, she wasn't feeling any pain.

I got Ryan ready for school and took him to school this morning.

Sydney is at my parents today, so Deni can rest.

I got to work and didn't have my laptop. Was so busy this morning trying to get Ryan out the door I spaced it and forgot my laptop. I have another computer at work but it is always wierd to not have all your favorite bookmarks, etc. I survived work, probably not as productive as with my laptop, but I guess that happens.

Living Happily Ever After

Deni had surgery today on both her knees. She's been having pain when running for quite some time. After trying everything she could, she finally ran out of options and her Dr said he could scope her knees to see what the problem was. The Dr was going to scope both her knees and fix that he could while he was in there, but if there were big problems in both knees, he would only do one knee.

We got to the surgical center about 2:45pm and they took her back about 4:00pm. At 4:15pm they took her into surgery. Deni was out about an hour later. When they let me come back, Deni was shaking like she was freezing, however she had 4 blankets on her.

The Dr Kimball found a problem with the cartilage behind both her knee caps.

car‧ti‧lage  [kahr-tl-ij,
1. a firm, elastic, flexible type of connective tissue of a translucent whitish or yellowish color; gristle.
2. a part or structure composed of cartilage.

Dr. Kimball said that it wasn't due to any injury, but most likely it was hereditary. However, Dr. Kimball said with him cleaning up the cartilage problems and some exercises he will teach her that she will "live happily ever after."

For the next 2 days, Deni is to stay down with her feet elevated and every 2 hours while she is awake, she is to get up and walk for 5 minutes around the house.

The big problem with hereditary issues is Deni's biological father is dead, as well as her biological grandfather, so we only really know about half of her hereditary issues (from her mom).

We stopped on the way home to get pain pills and asprin. We also stopped in Springville to picke up Ryan from my parent. (Sydney is staying the night with my parents).

Will it blend....

So I was watching TV last night and heard about this new blender. Apparently, Youtube has made them pretty popular overnight.



The blender sells for about $400.00 - Watch the video before you say, "What, $400 bucks?"

Pretty cool blender

Vistors

Today was a busy day.

After church, we had my parents and my cousin (Shannon Crowley) over for dinner (about 5pm). It's been a while since we have had Mom and Dad over. Things have been crazy the last week weeks. It was nice to have them come out and visit with them.

After dinner, Sydney raced Grandpa Berger in putting puzzles together. She is a whiz with puzzles and took us all. She was able to beat Grandpa putting puzzles together.

After puzzles, we sat around and played Pass the Pigs. Ryan loves to play this game (and it's fun to watch him, roll the pigs).I had a Priesthood Preview at Church from 7pm till about 7:45pm that I had to run off to, so I left them playing Pass the Pigs.

Everyone was still there when I got back. We visited a little bit, until they had to go.

Roundtable

Tonight was the first time I had attended Rountable in Spanish Fork. Roundtable is a once a month meeting for all Scout leaders to attend to get ideas and training for Scouting.

Since I'm now over the Teachers quorum (Varsity age boys)(I thought I'd better know what I'm doing.

They taught us an easy indoor game that can be played.

1. Use any straight line on the floor.
2. Divide into 2 teams
3. Without crossing the line, attempt to pull each other across the line to the other side.

There were about 30 or so grown men (ages 25-50) playing and it was amazing how fast everyone was having fun and getting into it. Easy to do and very fun.

Back swimming

Last week I was sick all week, so I stopped swimming. I started swimming again today. It was wierd to not swim last week.

As usual, I swam 1 mile (1600 meters). My time today was 29:45. I had to really push my last 2 laps to make it under 30 minutes.

I also started walking on the treadmill at our house. I walked for 5k while watching Lost. Other than having to turn the TV up really loud, it was quite enjoyable to watch TV and exercise at the same time.

Grandma Bowers and Deni

We've been blessed to have Deni's grandma, Clovis Bowers, here for the past few days. I figured I would get a picture with Deni and Grandma Bowers.

Upside down puzzles

I brought Sydney home from church today as she has a runny nose. Her favorite past-time is putting puzzles together. She is very speedy putting puzzles together.

Putting puzzles together with the pictures up (as all normal people do) is getting boring for her. Within the last month or so, she has started flipping the puzzles over and putting them together without any pictures (Shown below)



Sydney finding the right pieces


As you can see (partially) in this picture she did all 12 puzzles this way today.


This was taken today, as well. She looked really cute (minus the marker on her face.)