Flashback Friday

I am flashing back to this photo for several reasons. It kinda covers a few memories for me.

1. My hair looks like this in many of my photos of childhood... always 2 bows.... always on the top of my head like little mouse ears.

2. My sister.... she is in most of my childhood pictures.... and I love her, she's awesome and this just reminds me she's always been there, and always will be..... sorry, you're stuck with me.

3. My mom and her long "flowing" dresses..... for some reason, that's a memory I have of her.

4. The brown paneling in our front living room of the Syracuse house I grew up in. It was there for years, but I do remember the day my mom tore it down.... it was a good day for her.... she hated that paneling.

5. Last, but probably the thing that jumps out the most.... The Couch. That couch was there through the majority of my childhood. It's ugly and obtrusive... but that's what I remember the most. Mom was finally able to get new couches, but I was in my teens then. This couch is my chilhood couch. Lovely, I know. (There is a reason they dont make them that durable anymore)

KIDZ KICK OFF!!!

My friend Tara over at KIDZ has come up with the most amazing and inspiring blog. I love it, and have been a faithful reader ever since discovery.

Families finding something wonderful and wholesome in a world of chaos and lost dreams.

Everyone needs something to put thier problems into perspective......

Go on over and check it out..... you just might need a few kleenex.

Flashback Friday

Thanks to Facebook.... I am on a serious High School kick...... So these are from Senior year.

The ever famous "Living Room" shot before leaving for the "Big Dance". This one was homecoming 1991. Yes, I have the ones with my date.... they will come later with a post about dances.

Some friends and I went to Vegas for our senior trip. Had a blast.... and did things I can't believe I did. How freakin stupid.... Like picking up these guys on the Las Vegas Boulevard, going for a ride with them in their hot mustang convertible, and then back to their hotel room at the Luxor. Seriously.... I would strangle my 18 year old daughter if she ever did anything so stupid. We are lucky we survived.

Again.... the trip to Vegas. What a blast. Great memories. Awesome friends. Let's do it again girls!

New Hospital

Bear River is getting a New Hospital!!

Woo Hoo!!

So on Saturday morning Cory and I took Gage with us and headed over to take a tour for their open house before they officially open this Wednesday.

Checking out the new OR with Layne and Michael in the green scrubs.

We had a Personal Tour from Mr. Layne..... (he's not at all excited:)

It was fun, and really beautiful... you'd never know you are in Tremonton.... It feels like Ogden. We are lucky to have such a great facility so close to home. And all of those great employees deserve to work in such a great place!

One Cool Kid....

Kassie got a "Cool Kid" award at school last week.....

for her patience and beautiful smile!

It's always nice when someone else recognizes the qualities that you see.....

Congrats Kassie!

We happen to agree!!

Flashback Friday - Before and After

Gotta love Before and After shots.... usually.

These I do not like.....

Senior Pictures..... taken in the fall of 1991.

Fall of 1992 (I think)

After Chemo.... had this taken as a little momento of what it did to my hair.... but hey, at least I still had some left! Most can't say that!

What a difference a year makes..... I can see it in my face too... but maybe that's just because I know what it did to me.

Beautiful Green Eyes

My Beautiful Green Eyed Girl......

has been complaining that she couldn't see very well at school now for a couple months.

You would think that having a mother that has worked with eyes for several years, would make it easy to convince her that you have a problem.

But No.

It took a few weeks of complaining to convince me. I just thought it was a phase of "wanting glasses" or something.....

So I made the appointment with one of the Doc's I used to work with. And yesterday was the day..... and yes, my poor girlie is Nearsighted!

Just a little right now, but geez.... I really didn't think she would be needing glasses or anything.

So, just a mild prescription.... and just needs them when she wants to see things farther away really clearly. So yeah, when the dreaded day comes that she is driving, she will definitely need them.

The thing that really caught me off guard was how hard this appointment was going to be for ME. I has been 2 years since Lamont died, but dang that was hard! I wanted him to be there....

looking at her eyes....

sitting in that chair....

making his jokes about what things he could see in her eyes...

and talking to me.

I spent countless hours with this man in that office.

Thousands of eye exams.... and that just doesn't go away.... I re-played memories in my head the whole time... I could "hear" him talking and know exactly how and what he would say.

I could "see" the way he held the slit lamp, indirect, and the lenses that he would use for examinations.

I saw his writing on Kristian's previous exam forms.... and I could picture just how he would hold the pen and his writing technique.

I wasn't prepared for the memories...... but so grateful for them. That's all I have left.

And Thank goodness my Beautiful Green Eyed Girl will be seeing really good again....... SOON!