Can you spell appendectomy??? Tyler can...

On Tues Sept 20th at 6pm, Tyler started having stomache pain. Of course I thought he just didn't want to eat his supper and told him to go lay down. Within a hour and half he was puking his guts out. I was thinking it was just some stomache bug, but Tyler was begging to go see a doctor. So I got an appointment in with the after hours doctor at our regular office. Needless to say, it wasn't stomache flu and we were sent to the ER, Cardon Children's Hospital at Banner Desert where it was determined that Tyler had Acute non-perforated Apendicitis. On Wednesday, Sept 21st at 12:00 he had it removed.

The following pictures are from the surgery.

Just a few pictures of Tyler's insides.... The appendix is the brown tubular looking organ near the top metal clamp.
And below is after they cut it out.

This picture shows the appendix cut away and preparing to pull it through the belly button. And below is a picture of his liver and gall bladder, which are both healthy.

Needless to say, Tyler is feeling much better. He was released from the hospital on Thursday, Sept 22nd. He is on limited play at school for the next few weeks. He is feeling great and healing well.

My version of school pictures

I'm revolting from paying the high cost of school pictures. This year it was going to cost us $23 a packet to get 1 8x10, 2 5x7's and some wallets.....$23! EACH!! That's over $90!

So today was picture day at school and I made it picture day at home. I took pictures of the boys before they went to school today...and I'd have to say they turned out great. I'd say even better than the school would do...

And the best part...

I ordered all the pictures I wanted from Costco, which are being shipped to my home as we speak and it cost me a grand total of $14! That's $14 for 4 8x10's, 8 5x7's, 4 4x6's and 4 sets of wallets. Needless to say I will no longer be purchasing through the schools. Not when I can do just as good of a job at a fraction of the cost.

Take a gander at the great results!

Happy School Picture Day!


As Jacob said when he saw these awesome pictures...


"Lookin' good!"

The Gilbert Temple

The primary had each child take a picture in front of a rendition of the new Gilbert Temple being built in our area. Once completed it will become our temple to attend.

Here is Jared... Aaron...

Tyler...

and Jacob.

We went of a field trip to the corner it is being built on. Of course I didn't have my camera. We'll have to do that another time. It will be located at the corner of Pecos/Greenfield Rd.

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