Yup.

Yup. It's about time that I post. Honestly, I feel like it is more a chore than actual enjoyment, but whatever. We had a fabulous Thanksgiving! I LOVE Thanksgiving and I have so much to be thankful for! An awesome husband, son, family, my testimony, and much much more, but I don't want to bore you. This year we went to Utah for a week for Thanksgiving and it was so much fun! We got to spend some quality time with family and friends. Here are some pictures and a couple video's of the last couple weeks! Enjoy

I just love this picture of Nixon and Grandpa playing! So cute!

Thanksgiving family pic. Don't mind that fat face, I had just stuffed myself.

Cousins!

Grandpa and Jill doing some kind of dance with a dutch song.

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This video is hilarious! Nixon thinks he is rolling the window down by saying "GO".

The things he does to make me laugh...

I seriously am so in love with Peter! It's almost sick how much I love this guy! He makes me laugh so much and we have such a great fun time together! Love you babe. You're the best!

SWIM VIDEOS OF NIXON

bAbY dAvId and SURGERY Before/After

First off, I want to thank you all for your thoughts and prayers. It was very much appreciated and I am so lucky to have such wonderful family and friends. Now I will tell you about my surgery. I went in on Monday at 2:00pm. Filled out paper work...signed some stuff...got my iv put in...I then met with Dr. Vaughn ( who was doing my surgery ). The anesthesiologist came in and I was so nervous for that more than the actual surgery. I am not sure why, but I was scared that since it was a 3 hour surgery I was worried that I would like wake up in the middle or something. I didn't like my anesthesiologist at all. He was so awkward and wasn't comforting at all! I told him that I was scared of that happening and his response was "that can happen." Thanks. Right after he gave me a little something something to calm my nerves. I don't remember anything after that. 4-5 hours later I woke up to my sweet husband giving me a kiss telling me it looked good, everything went well, and that he loved me. He really is the best husband in the universe. Anyways, my neck hurts pretty good. It has started to not hurt hurt, but become more super soar. It hurts to sleep. I am knocked out from the meds, but it hurts to lay down. My voice is a bit hoarse. Which is mainly from that breathing tube they stick down your throat. I can't drive for 2 weeks! I don't know what I am going to do with myself. It hurts really bad to turn my head plus being on meds they said for at least 2 weeks no driving. My sweet mom came into town and has been taking care of me and Nixon. He has been quite the little stinker, but he loves spending time with his Nana. My mama is the best! She really does so much for me and I am so grateful for all she has done!
Also, I have a new NEPHEW!!! David Simms Worden. He is the most beautiful baby I think I have EVER seen! He is so so so adorable! I am so happy for Melissa and William! They will be the best parents ever! They are such wonderful people and I couldn't be more happy for them! We miss you and we can't wait to meet the little guy!
( I will post a picture of him in a few days after I ask )

And here are some random pictures of Nixon and I thought were cute.

Past two weeks ( Revised )

So for the past two weeks Peter, Nixon, and I were lucky enough to stay at my in-laws and take care of the dogs, plants, and most importantly the pool while they were in Powell. It was so much fun to stay somewhere else, but still not have to travel. Their house is like a resort in itself. The pool is beautiful! We swam every single day except Sunday. Nixon LOVED playing with the dogs!It makes me want one even more! He played with them every morning and then during the day would swim with Shiro. Nixon played with Shiro last Wednesday for over an hour and a half! It was amazing! I don't know what we are going to do now that we don't have a pool to walk out to in the morning and the dogs for Nixon to play with everyday.
On Saturday my mom, sister ( Molly ), her friend ( Casey ), cousin and two of her kids, Emma and Crew, came into town to visit. Emma, who is 6, was such a sweetheart and played with Nixon so so so much! She was such a HUGE help! Crew and Nixon are 6 days apart. Nixon was so mean to Crew though. It was so sad. Crew is such a sweetheart and Nixon would walk up to him smack him in the face and then right after give him a hug and kiss because he knew he wasn't supposed to hit. They did play though really well after a few days. Crew and Nixon LOVED playing in the dog water. They played in there so much! It sure was gross, but so cute to watch.
It was such a fun couple weeks! We sure missed Abby, Grandpa, and Grandma though. We are so excited to see them!

Edited by: Peter Sundell ( my husband who has delusions of eloquence )

Nixon

Peter sweet cousin, Trina, was taking pictures of my sister in-laws kids and I asked her to take some of Nixon. She did a great job! Thanks Trina! Here are some of the pictures! Nixon hates taking pictures more than anything and it is so difficult to get him to smile anymore. You can see which ones were at the end when he was getting cranky. Enjoy!

Lately...

I have probably lost all of my followers ( if I ever had any ) due to my lack in blogging. It has been a crazy few weeks. Nixon has been teething and cranky as ever! He just cut one a few days ago and has one more coming in that I can see. Hopefully he will cut it soon!
As some of you know, I have thyroid problems. A few years ago I had hyperthyroidism and had radiation to kill it. Well, it came back ( which only happens to about 5% of patients ). Fortunately ( or unfortunately, depending on how you look at ) they caught it before my symptoms came back strong. One symptom is loosing weight rapidly which is why I was a little bummed that they caught it so soon. I have been having problems with my weight ever since I was diagnosed with Hyperthyroidism. After they did the radiation it changed to hypothyroidism which makes it really had to loose weight. I have been so unhappy with my weight and so self conscious about it, but I can't do anything about it. I had an appointment with an endocrinologist here in Vegas and it was pretty much a joke, but I thought that I should just go with him because he was on our insurance. I had a feeling that I should just call my doctor that I was working with in the beginning but stopped because he wasn't on our insurance. Well, as of a week ago he started taking our insurance for one reason or another. I was so excited and canceled my follow up appointment with the other doctor. I hope that after my appointment we will figure something out to do I will get everything worked out and I will get skinny again. So I have that to look forward too! I really need to get skinny before Christmas! I am so excited for Hawaii it's crazy!
For Ellyse's birthday we went to Las Vegas Mini Grand Prix. We had such a good time. Nixon got to go down the HUGE slide, the go carts with daddy, and he went on a small marry go round. He loved it all! It was so funny. Every time we would go back inside he would go straight to the marry go round. It was so cute! Love this boy!
Well. To those who are still reading my blog. Have a wonderful day!
Warning: this video is super long.