Friends are the Best!

Mitchell was in the hospital (again) on my birthday :(

But my friends are the best! They took me to On The Border, my favorite restaurant, and then we went to The Pub. I know what you're thinking what is a good mother/wife/LDS girl going to a pub for. Well, I turned 21, that's why!! Even if I don't do what most people do when they turn 21 I can still celebrate right?

Flowers from my SIL and fam. Thanks guys! I love them!

There it is.


We bought fake hair, I got aqua and Keri got pink!

Legal!

Happy Birthday to Me!

I'm finally 21!

Pictures coming soon!

Home At Last

My man is finally home! He was in the hospital for 5 days and he's definitely happy to be out too. Now don't get me wrong I'm uper happy to have him home with us, but I'm not so welcoming of his new 'attachment'.

Yes, that is a drain, ekk. Coming out of my man's stomach, yuck. That he has to flush out twice a day, ew.
But I love him regardless of what he has hanging around his hip :)

Again....Really?

Mitchell got out of the hospital on Monday. Woot! He was recovering well, and even got to go to our friend, Matt's baptism. We thought it all was going to be back to normal soon...and then...

Dun..Dun..Dun..

Last night, Mitchell was was complaining about a bit of a temperature. 101.8 to be exact. I told him to call the Doc, they said to call if it was over 101. They told him he might have an abscessed, which is basically a pocket of infection/puss. Gross, I know.

So today he drives himself over to the Doc's office, he was feeling a lot better so we were hoping it was a falsey. Not so much, he called from the Doc's and told me he did have an abscessed and it may even be 2. Gooooooo.

End result: He's going into an outpatient surgery (I think that's what it is called) tomorrow, to drain it out. But if it is too hard to get to they will have to go 'the real deal surgery'. But even if it's the easier route he will still be in the hospital for at least 2 days so they can monitor him.

I'll keep up updated as our adventure progresses!

Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to all!

Mitchell was suppose to be discharged today but the doctor wanted to keep him for at least one more day. Boo. So Riker and I went to visit him after dinner. Mitchell felt bad he couldn't get me anything and couldn't be home with me, so he made me a card.

Cute Card By Mitchell:

To a mother so beautiful, wonderful, and sweet.
The best day of my life was the day we were to meet. (Good rhyming , eh?)
I wish I could have spent the day with you in my arms.
Instead I had to spend the day getting needles in my arm. (No fun.)
But while next year should be better.
I still want you to know how much I deeply love you and know you are the one.

Happy Mother's Day
From: Your Hubby

PS I love you so much.

He's cute, huh? I love him :)


Happy Mother's Day to me!

We played cards (I won of course) and Riker chilled.

This is from a few days ago. Riker was so excited me finally got to closer to Mitchell! The first little bit he couldn't get on the bed but this day he could. What a Daddy's Boy!

Sleeping Cutie

Since Mitchell has been in the hospital, Riker has been waking up in between 4 and 5 and coming to sleep with me. I woke up the other day with this little cutie snoring away beside me. Oh how I love my little guy!

He has all his snuggies around him too, all four of them. At least I know I have a little snuggler on my hands!

Bye, Bye Appendix!

Mitchell got his appendix taken out yesterday afternoon! We definitely weren't expecting that one. The normal time for staying in the hospital after appendix surgery is a day, but he's going to be in there for a couple days longer. Hopefully that's it! I will try to keep my blog updated, but if you're really anixous to know my life (which I know you all are), go to my facebook. I update that more often. Keep Mitchell in your prayers!

Stolen Memories

I don't know how many of you have been to DisneyWorld, but they have these Photo Pass cards. How they work:
there are people that work at Disney all over the park taking pictures and they hand out these Photo Pass cards.
Pretty nifty, I know. But once I got home and logged onto their site and totally fell in love with some of the pictures I realized they were $13 for 2 4x6s! Doesn't seem fair, right? Especially since you spend a whole months budget on food in one week at Disney. I tried anyway possible to copy the pictures from the site, but no such luck.
Then, I figure out I can just take a picture of the picture with my camera. Yes I, Kalena, has officially stolen from Disney. I never thought I would say that, but I did. Just take a look at this pictures and tell me you wouldn't have done the same thing.





Ok, so tell me which ones of you wouldn't have done what I did, seriously?!

DisneyWorld-Day Six!

Magic Kingdom

We found out we had an extra day at one of the theme parks so we decided to go back to the Magic Kingdom before heading home.

Peter Pan! I think we got an autograph and a picture from amost every character in the Magic Kingdom. Pretty impressive, I know.

Mickey Ears!
Riker's favorite ride (that we went on 3 times), Cinderella's Golden Carasel.
Check out that flip-flop tan from 6 days outside. He definitely gets that from Mitchell because I don't tan.

DisneyWorld-Day Five!

Hollywood Studios

This was the park I was more excited for, most because of the characters there. We got to see Lightning McQueen and Handy Manny, Riker was thrilled!



We also went on the Tower of Terror, I had been on it when I was little with my dad. It wasn't as scary as I remembered but it was still scary!

DisneyWorld-Day Four!

Typhoon Lagoon

On Thursday it was time for water! Thank goodness is what I was saying. Each day since arriving in Orlando progressively got hotter and hotter. Riker couldn't go on any of the rides so he just stayed in the Kiddie area while us adults switched off going on rides.

Going down the Crush n Gush. As you can tell being in the front is more scary than the back, either that or I'm more of a pansy than Mitchell.

DisneyWorld-Day Three

Magic Kingdom

Wednesday we went to the Magic Kingdom, we had been there 2 times before so it was nice to not feel rushed to see and do everything in the whole park.

First stop-Minnie and Mickey. Riker had been waiting weeks to see Mickey, he was so excited to finally meet him!
Goofy became Riker's favorite Disney character over this trip. He could hardly control himself while we waited in line to see him, he kept trying to cut in front of people.

He was also really excited to see Tigger and Winnie the Pooh!

DisneyWorld-Day Two!

Animal Kingdom

Tuesday we headed off the the Animal Kingdom. We knew Riker was going to love this park because he loves animals. Our first stop the Safari, Riker was loving it!


Rafiki and us!
I love this picture, if definitely captures my little man and his love for animals. If you can't tell he is looking at hundreds of fish.


Disney Quest

Because the Animal Kingdom closed early we headed over to Disney Quest. We didn't stay there long because it wasn't quite Riker-friendly.

We did play a virtual reality game, Mitchell won, I lost and Riker was too small. But the worker let him sit in the chair and pretend to play which was nice.

Downtown Disney

Then off to the Bibbity-Bobbity Boo Boutique to watch my nieces Olivia and Taryn turn into princesses.
While we were watching, Riker kept pointing at them and saying Princess. It was too cute!

After they were all princessed-up we headed off to the new T-Rex restaurant. It is just like the Rainforest Cafe, but dinosaurs instead. There is a meteor-shower every 20 minutes, which didn't go over too well with the kids.
This is the room we ate in, it changed colors from blue to red every so often. Mitchell and I thought it was fun!



This is a video of my niece Olivia dancing outside of the restaurant. Such a girl, and so darn cute!

DisneyWorld-Day One!

We're back!! I have tons of pictures, so I'm only going to put up 3 or 4 from each day. If you want more Disney fun, friend me on Facebook and check out the rest of them.

Epcot

We all have never been to Epcot so we were pretty excited about this park. Mitchell was looking forward to the 'World Showcase', which is a big semi-circle in the back of the park where you walk from country to country. There are different restaurants and shops for each one.


This was Riker's favorite part of Epcot, the water!

Mitchell is a tiny speck compared to this Japanese building. We went to really cool shop here in 'Japan' and got some chopsticks, chocolate, a soda, and a fan for Mileena with her name in Japanese written on it.