the eye

Well, the surgery is done, and all went well according to his doctor. She said the main muscle they had to work on really couldn't be called muscle. She said it was as thin as tissue paper so it made things a little more difficult, but she's still pretty confident. We go back next wednesday to get his eye looked at. Right now he's pretty much sleeping, but who can blame him. Having been up since 3:45am this morning, sleeping is really all I have on my mind too :P Of course, we all know I couldn't go w/out taking pictures, so here you go:
waiting to be hauled away

FINALLY got him called back down


no he's not looking at you, his eye doesn't close

looks like he got beat up, right?

J's eye surgery

It's the day before surgery. I got the call this afternoon that he has to check in 6:30am which means we need to leave here aroun 4:30am. His surgery is scheduled for 7:30am and is supposed to take an hr and 45mins. They say it's supposed to be 2hrs for recovery, but you never know. I'm just praying that everything goes smoothly and correctly the first time around. It will be an early rise and a long day....keep us and the medical staff in your prayers!

Halloween/Thanksgiving

I realized that I didn't post anything from Halloween nor Thanksgiving. So, here are some pictures from those two events:

Halloween
















Thanksgiving w/Brian

whose idea was it?

So, I wanted to get the family photos done in time for Christmas cards, and b4 J has his eye surgery bc who knows how long it will take his eye to heal from that. So, I decided that today would be the best day for it since we didn't have any appointments till this afternoon for Asher's OT. Well, I should have known not to schedule it bc the boys came back from a wkend w/their father UNCONTROLLABLE! They have been awful! Jaden was evidentally running in Shaun's parking lot and gave himself a scraped up eye, which should have been enough to make me cancel the pictures, but no. I put concealer on J's eye and scheduled the appointment. Did I mention the boys were being awful???

To top it off, the shirts that I bought the boys, I bought too big for BOTH of them. So, we get there early so I can exchange them. It was a big to do bc they didn't have J's color in the size smaller, so I had to change colors on the boys' shirts. So then she wanted to charge me more bc since they were different colors she had to return and resell and the shirts were more now. I was like, I don't think so! We got a manager over who told the lady to just over ride it which is good bc otherwise the boys would have just been in too large of shirts bc I WASN'T paying more simply bc I had to change colors. But we get there and amazingly they get us right in. I'd never seen any of the photographers that were there, but I guess it has been a year since we've had our photos done. People usually do change jobs eventually... So, we get this lady whom I've never seen, and she starts trying to take pictures. The boys aren't listening. Come to find out, they didn't take the security tag off J's shirt (not sure how we got out of the store w/out it going off), so we had to make sure it was hidden in every shot. Luckily it was in the back, but right on the top of the shoulder so it did make some poises impossible. But this woman is just snapping photos like it's a race to see how fast she can get us out of there. And, now that they're digital, you can't see the pictures as they're being taken. But, I could tell they weren't good even though she kept assuring me they were perfect.

So, it's time to look at the pictures. They were AWFUL! If one boy was smiling, the other was looking somewhere else or not smiling. She kept saying, oh that looks great, and I'm thinking, who approved you to be a photographer??? I straight out told her, I don't like them. There weren't any good family photo's to send out to friends and family, and only a couple of the boys that were actually decent. So now, I get another lady to do another shoot. The boys decide they've had enough. While they have PLENTY of energy to play in the waiting room, they have no energy to smile for anymore pictures. It was ridiculous! We did FINALLY get at least 1 pose of the family and the boys, and I said, we're done!

Here are the ones that the lady thought were perfect:





Jaden looked as if he could careless to even be present for the photos and half of the time Asher wasn't even looking in the right direction.

Now here are the ones I went with:
(this first one I didn't get any of, but it is cute)

the Christmas tree

So yes, I realize we haven't even had Thanksgiving yet, but today we went and bought out Christmas tree & set it up. The boys had been begging, and well, we had nothing else planned so why not! It was fun. Asher was being a little bit of a stinker, but did finally pitch in.

it's up

yeah, that was a little too heavy




doesn't he look thrilled!




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