Every year we go to Jonathan's Parents house and make homemade apple cider with their 100 year old apple press. I have been involved since we were dating. We also carve our pumpkins. This year I didn't do one. I helped make homemade Spud-nuts. (Doughnuts made with mashed potatoes...Yummy). The weather was so nice. It is always so much fun and I am glad that Aubrey is making some great memories.
I was in Utah over the weekend and drove passed this house on my way to my sisters house. At first I didn't realize that is was a house. The ENTIRE yard is covered in something "HALLOWEENISH". It looked like a cemetary. Every window had a ghost or something in it. Where do they store it all. I can't wait to see what it looks like at Christmas time.
My sister had her baby on 10-9-08. He is the sweetest/cutest little thing. Looks just like his big brother Tyler. Tyler told his mom, Krista, "Mom, did you know that our baby is here". He is so cute. Just can't get enough kissing those cheeks. They named him Gavin Hansen Gehmlich. Congratulations Krista, can't wait to hold him again tonight.
Happy Birthday to my wonderful mother. She is such an amazing person. Oh what would I give to have her a little closer. I hope you have a great day and the best dinner ever. Aubrey took this picture of "Grandma" when she was here a couple of weeks ago. WE LOVE YOU.
Oh...where do I begin. It has been the longest month, probably in my whole life. Jonathan had his left knee scoped on the 4th of Sept. It had been bothering him every time he would work out, play basketball, or stand for long periods of time (which is all the time since he is a teacher and coach). So he chose to get is scoped. They cleaned up behind his knee cap and also realigned the knee cap. The doctor said his knee was so worn out it looked like an OLD persons knee. It all began when the hospital told us we HAD to be at the hospital at 12:45 to prep for his surgery and the surgery was suppose to start at 2:00. They didn't start on him until 6:00pm. We waited in prep for 5 hours. AAAHHHH. He was out of surgery in less than an hour. Things seemed good till we got home around 9:00. He was in so much pain (Like he had just been tortured) that we went to the emergency room. They gave him a shot of morphine which helped to calm it a little bit. The next 2 days were going OK. He did his exercises as told by the P.T. Around 2:00 in the morning on the 7th we were in the E.R. again. His pain was even worse than the 1st time. They gave a couple of shots of Morphine which only worked for about 10 minutes each. Finally they put a line in his hand to give him the Morphine straight into his vein. They did that until about 8:00 in the morning when the pain finally slowed down. He had developed a Hemotoma (spelling?) After many doctor visits of trying to drain his knee, they finally were able to drain quite a bit of blood out of it today. He is beginning to show a lot of improvement these past couple of days, but still not all better. Thank you all for your help and prayers. I am so greatful for all of the wonderful family and friends that I have in my life. You are all truly the BEST. THANK YOU.
It has been a while since I have posted pictures of Aubs. She got her hair cut yesterday for the first time in a Salon. She did so good and loved it. Thanks Megan. She also went with Jonathan and G-ma Packer to glean potatoes. I had to stay home and work but looks like she enjoyed it. I will try post the pictures that I took in September in a couple of days.
Handbag Planet is launching their new website on October 15 and will be giving away a FREE handbag every hour that day! The cool thing - YOU get to CHOOSE the handbag you want to be entered to win.
So go and check it out - go HERE to enter.
Good Luck, But I hope I win.
