Chase's Bi-lateral Bunionectomy

The patient recovering looks tough.
Getting into the doctors office.
Standing on the xray machine. Dr. Taylor.
Chase's foot, cute nails chase..... (4 days post op)
(The right foot)

April 6th was the start of Spring Break for the kids in Wasatch. Unfortunately for Chase, it was spent at home with his feet up. Chase has been having trouble with big calouses on his toes. Well, turns out it is because he has 70 year old feet on his 17 year old body. He had major bunions. So he elected to have them fixed. And not just one at a time like the Doctor suggested, he wanted them both done so he can be completely healed to start football in the summer. Two bones of his foot were cut and moved and pinned to straighten out his big toe. He was in surgery for 4 hours on the 6th. He spent the first 3 days with his feet up to prevent swelling, and with ice packs on them. In order to get to the bathroom, his brothers devised a plan. Tie a rope to a skate board, Chase would scoot himself onto the board and his brothers would pull him down the hall to the bathroom. It was actually pretty funny. On Thursday Chase had to go to the dr. for a wound check. the doc wanted to do some xrays to check the placement of the screws. While trying to step up onto the xray box, Chase stubbed his right toe. I thought he would pass out, it was very painful. He is now going stir crazy, but will miss a few more days of school, as he still can not put much pressure on his feet. I always dream of days where I can lay around and put my feet up, watch movies.......When forced though, it is not so fun. Oh, and yes, his toenails are painted. A girl came over to check on him and painted them while she was here. Cute!!

xtra prom pictures

Chase and Mom Dancing
Caroline and her big brother! Isn't that the cutest picture???

Wasatch Junior Prom, 2009 Chase and Maloree

Chase and Maloree ready for Prom
Chase and Mal, Rowdy and Bailey, Joe and Moriah
Chase ready to pick up his date.
The couple ready to be announced and Promenade, Mal tripped up the stairs. I'm surprised they could stop laughing.
Waiting to Promenade
Chase kept stepping on Mal's dress during the Promenade
Promenading

Chase went to his Junior prom in March. Jr Prom is a big deal here, not sure about anywhere else, but the whole town show up at the High School to watch the Juniors Promenade. The kids spend 2 weeks learning a dance in the mornings. He complained for weeks before going, but ended up having a really fun time. He went with his good friend Maloree Utley. The boys cooked breakfast for the girls and then took them to Park City, to the Color Me Mine. Then that night they went to the Zermatt for dinner and to the Promenade and Dance. After the promenade the kids dance with their parents, boys with moms and girls with Dad's. Chase even danced with Caroline, it was sweet (i'll post those pics separately)

The Rest of the Story....

Scoma's resturant in Sosulito.
Going to WICKED! It was Awesome!!!
Kelly at Alcatraz. They say "Break the rules, go to prison. Break the prison rules, go to Alcatraz." What a cool place!

locking up the bikes to go eat at Scoma's
Stopping on the Golden Gate Bridge (note the sign above me)
Getting ready to ride the bridge (see it in the distance) It was an 8 mile trip across the bridge to Sosulito, then we rode a Ferry back to SF.
Kelly's only place he said he cared about going, He wanted a Harley shirt from San Francisco.
Standing in front of some of the Chocolate making equipment at Girardelli. We had ice cream sundaes twice while in SF with melted Ghirardelli chocolate on them. mmmm good!
The trip was a blast, Thank you so much Kelly for this incredible gift.

San Francisco

I am writing this quick note from San Francisco. We arrived yesterday, Wed. March 11. After we figured out how to get out of the airport on the BART system, we got to the Union Park area. We walked up about 6 or so blocks to our hotel where we are staying. Jody, Kelly's brother got us a room at the WorldMark by Wyndham. It is great, just perfect for us. We couldn't check in because we were so early, but they held our luggage for us and we headed over to Chinatown. We went in a few little shops and then found a Sushi bar, we had lunch and then walked to Union Park and through some of the shops there. When I vacation, I look for certain souviners from each place. I always get an apron, a charm, a spoon and magnet. So, my first purchase in SanFrancisco was a charm of a trolley car. We got passes for the week on the MUNI that is the transportation systems here. We rode a trolley car down to Fisherman's Wharf. The first thing in that area we did is go to the famous Ghiaredlli square. We had ice cream there. Then we walked way down the wharf, and took in all the sights and stores. Went to the Boudin Bread bakery and watched them make sourdough bread. I got my apron on the Wharf, it is an Alcatraz black and white stripped one. We bought tickets to go to Alcatraz on Saturday. We found a Harley store, which is Kelly's favorite place to get souviners. He got 2 t-shirst that Say SanFrancisco on them. We headed back on the trolley to our place and crashed early. We had been up since 4 utah time to get out of there. I ran across the street to a little market and got some drinks and we ordered a pizza to our room. It was good.
Today we hung around our room, being lazy till about 10:30. It was nice. We decided that we'd head back to the Wharf today. First we stopped at Lombard street. It is a vey famous, and the most winding street. We walked down it, and at the bottom Kelly started talking to a guy taking care of the gardens. He happened to be a resident of Lombard street and he was very informative and gave us some history. It was cool. We walked back up, Huff and Puff. And headed back to the Wharf. We went to eat at some little place. There is a little side street that had a million little places with crab, lobster, shrimp, etc. We ducked into this little restaurant, Nick's Lighthouse. I had Shrimp and crab cocktail, and Crab chowder in a sourdough bread bowl. Kelly had Blue Point oysters on the half shell and lobster bisque. It was delicious. Then we walked to Pier 39 and watched the sea lions, they are famous there. We walked all the shops on the pier and bought a big bag of assorted candy. We went to the Bay Aquarium, that was pretty cool. Then we caught a cable car down to the financial district. I grew up in a city, Las Vegas, but that is nothing like this city. It was incredible the buildings and the people. On just about every corner there are street musicians, and beggars and all sorts of crazies. But they don't really bother you, they just do their thing. We took a trolly back to the union park area. We did some more wandering through Virgin records, the Ferrari store, the Apple store. Then we saw a movie. We were talking on the trolley about finding a good steak tonight and the trolley operator recommended a place called John's grill. So we headed there for dinner. Come to find out it is famous, well in literary circles so to speak. It is where Sam Spade eats often. He is a character from the story, The Maltese Falcon. Very good steak!! Happily stuffed, we headed back up the hill on the trolley to Bush street where we walk one block and are back at our hotel. Tomorrow we want to rent a bike and we plan on riding across the Golden Gate bridge, they say it is pretty level, takes about 3 hours total. We will ride across the bridge and into Sosulito (sp?) and then take a ferry back to the Wharf. A friend of ours did it a week or so ago and said it was incredible. Good thing I've been going to the gym. Tomorrow night we go see Wicked, which is the real purpose of this trip. I am so excited!! I will post pictures later as I am too lazy to get the camera out and try to upload them right now. This has been so much fun so far. Thank you Kelly for this wonderful Christmas present.

Celine Dion - Salt Lake City

Tucano's @ the Gateway
Celine Dion

Sunday night was so much fun!!! A friend, Jill, invited me to go with her to see Celine Dion. She had the tickets for a while. It was awesome. Kelly and I saw her in Vegas a couple of years ago and that was a great show. This was a very good concert. Celine likes to talk to her audience. She apologized for the cancellation last November. She is a very pretty lady. We went to dinner at Tucanos at the Gateway Center. I had a great time, I hope Jill did too!! Thanks Jill!!!!

Saturday Fun

Today was a very fun Saturday. This morning, Kelly had to go fix Chelsea's car. It seems to have a problem every weekend when she comes home. At least it is when she comes home and not up in Logan. (that's not the fun part.) I spent some time cleaning out my car, scrubbing floor mats, washing and armor alling (is that a word?) the dash. (that's not really the fun part either) But is was funny because at the car wash, I backed up toward the wall and soaked my butt with one of the other wands in the wash bay, the guy behind me was probably laughing his head off. When I got home, Kelly and I started the fun. We headed down to Provo and to PF Changs for lunch. That was a surprise to me, but it was very good. Kelly said that is his new favortie. We just had some of their lunch bowls, but our favorites are usually, lettuce wraps, shrimp and candied walnuts, lemon scallops, and hot fish. mmmmmmmmmmmm. After PF Changs we headed to Sandy and the South Towne Expo center to the annual RV Expo. We are dreaming of a new 5th wheel, we are now thinking that a toy hauler would be the way to go so we can take the Harley places and have our own place to stay. Also, it would be nice to take it like down to AZ in the winter so we can still ride. Now keep in mind this is a dream. We have been looking for years, we just love to go to the expo and see all the fun stuff. Some of those motor homes are incredible with nicer furnishings than my house, they cost as much if not more. When we finally got tired, we decided to head back down to provo. Kelly took me to the mall to try on some clothes. I didn't find anything i really wanted, but it was fun. Chelsea and Caroline met us and we all had some pizza from Sbarro. Caroline had a hot dog from Iceberg. The girls went to see a movie and Kelly and I walked around a bit more. Kelly stopped me at the mineral makeup kiosk and asked the girl to tell me about it, so she gave me kind of a makeover. I didn't have my camera so the pictures above will just have to represent all this fun. I really like that mineral makeup. We drove around today with the top down on Kelly's 350Z, it was so nice out, in fact he got a little sun. We can't wait for spring. I have started planning my garden already. I want to be ready to go when the ground is ready. I had so much fun last year with the garden. Thanks Kelly for the great day!!