The week in review

Well since it's been a while I have a whole lot to update.
Last Monday I had my gallbladder removed. It had been giving me problems for almost a year now. I went to the hospital at 5:30am and left at 10:30am. It was a pretty easy recovery the only issue I had was a blown vein were my IV was. Good thing it was in my left hand. I have still been watching what I eat but not as carefully as I had to before. I have my final visit with my surgeon on Wednesday and hopefully I wont have to see him again.

Wednesday and Thursday Nick was off. So we did a majority of our Christmas gift shopping. Toys 'R Us had a lot of our business. They had a coupon in the paper that if you spent $75 you would receive a $10 gift card. Nick also got a gift card for buying a new video game, so now i have $35 in gift cards to Toys 'R Us ready to be used on another gift. We still have a few things to buy but mostly it's just stuff for each other that we can't get while we are together, lol.

Friday night the new shops at Vintage Fair Mall opened. They had a little parade with Santa and Mrs. Clause and a few different performances. There was an ice skating rink, hot air balloon rides and free kettle corn and donuts. I took our girls and one of Bailey's friends. They had fun. Trystan was so excited to see Santa that she couldn't stay still. Nick had her on his shoulders so she could see above the crowds and wouldn't get lost. Who knew there were so many people in Modesto. After the parade it was our turn to go ice skating. Well more like the girls turn. They had never been before so it was hilarious to watch them. We had a long day ahead of us so we didn't stay long after the skating.

Bailey had her soccer tourney on Saturday and Sunday. Her team the Hurricanes had finished the season in third place. They had two games on Saturday. The first game they played against a team that had beat them the two time they played. We won by 1 goal. It was nice to finally beat them. The second game went by fairly quick with another win. Sunday mornings game was another story. The girls were all tired and it was so early. The ground was soaking wet and so they were wet which made it even colder. We ended up losing by a goal because one of the refs made a mistake on a call which would have made the game tied. We had to wait for two more games to be played to see if we had made it into the finals. At 11:30am the coach called and said we were in the Championships. So with either a win or lose we still finished ahead of what we did during the season.
The game was supposed to start at 2:30 pm but did not start until 3:15pm. So our girls had been sitting in the sun waiting for over an hour to play. They gave it their all and played just like the coach had told them. They still lost. But hey second place is still better than third.
CONGRATULATIONS HURRICANES GIRLS U12 SOCCER!

And now for news on the surrogacy front. I spoke with the Bill's tonight. We had been talking for a few months now about doing a sibling journey but had not decided on anything. When we met up in Vegas they dropped of couple of hints but still no decision was made. Well tonight they finnally said they wanted to proceed. I am all up for making Rex & Penny a big brother and sister so of course I said yes. They are goinng to talk to all the necessary people and get finances in order andn we will try for another baby next spring.