All in A Day's Pick!

We gathered all of this today from our garden. I guess we better have salad tonight! Our red onions are a little small but that's OK. We are excited for the beets. I will have to figure out how to cook them.

Wow! This is a BIG one!

Aubrey is enjoying the summer. Everyday she goes out and picks flowers for both of us. She is always excited if she can find a dandilion puff ball, or what ever it is called. She loves to blow them all over the yard. This one is a Big one! She was up to the task!

Working Together!

This one of our family assembly lines. In this one we are putting together Al's new DVD packets and getting them ready to ship out and for sale. It started with putting the DVD's in the box. Nana then placed them in another box and then sealed them up with clear seals. Then Dad, with his big new machine, put plastic around it and then Brooklyn used the hot air gun the shrink it to the box. Andrew helped everyone. But was especially good at looking for holes in the plastic, which would drive Brooklyn crazy because the would have to redo them. He had tons of fun! Kenzie wanted to be part of the action and so with gloves on....she slept. Aubrey was also there, but on the couch. No gloves needed for her.

Fun in the Garden!

Time to pick the Raspberries! Yum!

How does our garden grow?

With lots and lots of love!!

I can't quite seem to reach it. Need a little help here!
Wow Mom! I can't believe we can actually grow carrots! This one looks a little funky! Is it suppose to look like this?
I am not too sure about this. Carrots and food coming from the ground. I thought they can from the store?!
Yum! My favorite kind of lettuce. (Iceberg) Now if I can only get it out of the ground. It is really attached.

After surgery

Kenzie had a furry friend come and see how she was doing on the floor in the hospital. She didn't know quite what to think. While she was in ICU a different dog came to visit her. She probably thought she was dreaming. This dog was a mix of puddle and lab. It looked just like a HUGE PUDDLE!

This is what her back looks like after surgery. She is slightly bent over here. Her steri strips are still in place. She is healing well and as you can see from the before pics her back is a lot better.

This is Mackenzie standing straight up.

Kenzie's Spinal Fussion

The night before the big day I took this picture. You can see how much her spine curves. (This is standing straight up)

Her surgery was scheduled for 10am. We were told to arrive at Primary Children's Hospital at 8:30am. We went to the POP class the night before and Mackenzie was thrilled to be there. She has colored her doll and with a huge smile she raced the anesthetist down the hall and to the operating room. They called every hour and a half to give us an update on how she was doing. At 3pm they finished and she went to ICU. We had some problems with her blood pressure and also her epidural medication (leaking on the bed and not in her), but once those problems were addressed....all was well.

She was a little swollen after the surgery, but this was nothing compared to how swollen she was after the tried to get her blood pressure up with 5 boluses of fluid and then two bags of blood!

The doll recieved her PIC line just after Kenzie got hers. When one flushed the line...you got a little wet! Something to laugh at in a stressfull day!

NEW PICS FINALLY!

Aubrey is a lot of fun. I put her post of first and didn't realize I put everyone else on this post, which is a different post. Sorry... I will get this all figured out someday. So her pics are on the previous post.

Brooklyn has really turned into a little Lady this year. It was seriously like... over night! She is now 13 going on 18 yrs! Hope I can survive this. She is lots of fun when her attitude doesn't get in the way.
Yes... she has red hair and I think the temper comes along with it......FIERY RED!

Mackenzie is having a great time this summer so far. We are sticking everything into this week and a half before she has surgery. She will be having spinal fusion on June 17th. I am a little nervous, but she is fine... of course she has no idea. I guess that is why I am so nervous too... I have no idea how she will be after. Anyway, it has been a lot of fun. We went to Wolf Creek and had a blast despite the rain showers. We were able to swim, play racket ball, golf, play board games, watch movies, play pool, hike, and not to mention eat a little too much! We are planning to go to Lagoon as well!

Andrew is sure growing up. He is getting taller all the time. His body just need to grow out a little now. He is sooo thin. I caught him wearing his 4 T PJ's the other day. They fit him fine around the waist... they just looked like long shorts on him and the shirt.... oh my.... came up like
a top that hits the middle of your stomach. He was sad when I told him he couldn't wear them anymore.... I know no one would see him...but I could and it was too much for me!