I hope he never remembers these days...

All in all, Landon's surgery went really well. He has had no complications or problems healing and in just a couple of days he was back to his old self. The first two days were rough. I felt so bad for my little man. You could tell he was in a lot of pain and really uncomfortable, and it broke my heart that I couldn't do anything to make him feel better. However, being a Primary Children's made me so grateful that Landon has never had any serious illness. Sitting in the waiting room and walking through recovery we saw so many children there who were there for major surgeries or suffering from much more critical situations than we were there for. It was heart wrenching. Although Landon seems to catch every cold and flu within a mile radius and has his fair share of getting hurt, he has never had anything life threatening. And we are so very grateful for that. My heart goes out to all those families!

Below are some pictures from while Landon was being prepped for surgery.



This was the tiniest blood pressure cuff I had ever seen.


Checking vitals.


Rockin' his hospital pajamas. Yes, even the child sized ones open in the back...but at least they get bottoms to go with them!



His little I.D. bracelet


He has no idea what's coming here.

And now here he is trying to recover from a hard day. I am sure he was not amused at my picture taking.






To make matters worse, two days later he fell while walking out to the car and got a massive raspberry on his noggin. Though he got over it fairly quickly.






And if THAT wasn't bad enough, he fell head first out of a shopping cart and got a serious knock to the head and black eye. I honestly felt like the worst parent on the planet. Still do. I'm not sure who was traumatized more...him or ME. I'm pretty sure it was me.







Poor kid can't catch a break. We love you, Landon!

6 a.m...

That's what time we will be checking into Primary Children's tomorrow morning for Landon's surgery. They said to plan to be there most of the day. The surgery itself only takes about an hour, but they won't release him until they have watched him for a while and he has eaten something and kept it down. Already my nervous mother worries are kicking in with the "what ifs." I really don't like the thought of Landon being put under. My Mom hated whenever any of us had to be put under anesthesia, and a story she told me when I scheduled my appointment to have my wisdom teeth taken out will probably haunt me until I die. For the sake of not haunting any of YOU, I won't tell it. :) I remember thinking that she was worrying way too much, and feeling glad that I wouldn't be awake to feel a thing. Little did I know that ten years later I would be in her position, thinking about the very same story. THANKS MOM!!

I have a feeling the hardest part about tomorrow will be actually getting up early enough to make it to the hospital by 6:00. Landon inherited my love for sleeping in and we are rarely out of bed before 9:00 - so it's not going to be pretty! But Chris is going to give him a blessing and hopefully we will all be able to get some good sleep tonight.

Keep little Landon in your prayers. Hopefully he will have a speedy recovery. We will keep everyone updated on how everything goes.

Meet Duncan...

This week we welcomed a 3 month old, 1.5 pound puppy chihuahua to the family! His name is Duncan and he is so much fun. For those of you that remember Randal, we loved him dearly. But he became a little jealous and out of control after we had Landon. He was a really hyper dog and needed lots of attention, which was fine until we had a new baby and Landon became our attention. Eventually we had to give in and we gave him to a good family about a year and half ago, but we have never stopped wanting a dog. Now that Landon is older and loves dogs, we decided to give it another try with a young dog, who will be raised around kids and never know the difference of being "the baby"and having it's roll filled by a really baby. To be honest, on the drive home after getting him, anxiety set in because let's face it, I will be the one home with him all the time. And right now, Landon is full force in his "terrible two's" and alone is hard to deal with some days. But Chris gave me his solemn promise that anytime he is home the dog will be his responsibility, and he will take him out every morning before he leaves for school and work, and will be "extra nice" and help out as much as he can. Well I'm holding him to it! But so far, Duncan has been amazingly mellow and loving, and is learning really fast. He hasn't had any accidents in the house and is really just happy to be around people. We haven't heard his bark yet, and I'm really hoping to keep it that way. For the most part he really just loves having something to cuddle up to, and is happy to just follow us around all day. He is so sweet and cuddly and we just love having in our little family!

This is his preferred sleeping situation if we aren't next to him on the couch.

A Day Out With Thomas...

As promised, here are some pictures from our day in Heber riding Thomas the Tank Engine. We had a really fun time! The weather was perfect and since we went on a weekday it wasn't overly crowded. The only trouble Landon had was every time Thomas would leave to take all the passengers for a ride, he had a hard time understanding that he would be back and then he could stand next to him again. Other than that, it was really fun and I think Landon could have spent the entire day there if we would let him!

We took like three hundred pictures, but here are just some of the fun ones...

Long past due...

I am letting way too much time pass between posts. I always have so much to say at the times when I can't get one the computer to say it. I sometimes lie in bed at night thinking of all the things I need to post about, and actually consider getting out of bed to do it. But from past experiences know that only makes falling asleep even harder than it already is. I feel so busy now that summer is here, though I am not exactly sure what is tying up my schedule more than usual. Maybe it's all the time spent outside with Landon. Another problem is that some of our pictures end up on the laptop and others on our office computer, so I will find myself intending to post but I will be on the opposite computer than the pictures I want to write about. (not sure why I feel I can't post without a picture!) Either way, here is my ditch effort to update on all the many events going on with the Rollers as of late.

First and foremost - Chris has finished his first year of Pharmacy school. Yay! One down. Only two more to go. I keep reminding myself that it will go by quickly, but this year really didn't seem to go by all that fast. However, I do feel that we have settled into a schedule of some sort and have finally adjusted to the little amount of time we get to spend as a family. The one good thing to come of that is really looking forward the time we do have together. I think that Chris has pretty much accepted that hours and hours of studying is just going to be a big part of his life for the next few years, and I have accepted that even though some days I feel like a single Mom, it's a sacrifice that will be worthwhile in the future. Man, I never realized how easy I had it before!

The week that Chris took his last test of the year was jam packed full of studying. But the day after he finished we headed up to Heber with Landon for "A Day Out With Thomas." The following day we hit the road to Vegas with two of Chris' buddies from school and their wives. I am on the wrong computer so - pictures to come!