My New Favorite Photo!

My folks came up this year for Easter (okay, really it was a ploy...they mostly came up to meet LB), and we had a great time with them (and Amy and Ster, too, of course)! (And yes, they like him, and he likes them, and it went great!) But the best part was, despite the fact that I'm normally no good at the self-photo business, we FINALLY got a photo of the two of us together where I think we both look cute! YAY! :) ( Is that even possible? A photo where we BOTH look decent?!? WHAT?!) So there you have it, a cute photo of us at the tulip festival on a rare (GORGEOUS!) sunny spring day in Portlandia.

And just because they're so stinking cute, one of these guys, too. :) Love mi familia!

The Only Good Thing About Surgery

Flowers from my sweet sister--aren't they gorgeous!?!? I missed taking a photo before the roses were kind of bloomed out, but they are still beautiful!

My mom and sister (and consequently my brother-in-law) have been such rockstars this last week taking care of me. My mom came up for a few days and traded off with LB being with me in the hospital (my sister also traded off when she got there after work), then my mom took care of me for a couple days after LB had to go back to work. When she had to leave to go help my grandparents in Montana for a couple days, my sister took a day off work to take me back to the doctor for my post-op appointment and to hang out and take care of me. I seriously had no idea I still wouldn't really be able to be on my own after the first day or two. Little did I know...

Amy gave me the SWEETEST care package EVER. She gave me an amazing new Kleen Kanteen water bottle that I have yet to be without since I got home from surgery, an awesome book about Portland, a sweet rice bag hot pack, and this AMAZINGLY DELICIOUS tea called "Meadow" (which, if you didn't know, was my camp name for years and years). Plus she brought me a GORGEOUS bouquet of flowers (I vaguely remember pretty much everyone who walked into my room commenting on them for the rest of the day).

My work sent flowers, too, which was super sweet. My supervisor called me the day after surgery to check in with me and had them sent to my apartment after that. The only unfortunate part was that the decision had been made to stay at Amy and Sterling's for a few days (since I couldn't drive), so they sat outside my apartment for a few days before Amy brought me back over to pick them up. But the are really, really lovely.

So, I have to say, despite feeling like complete crap, having gobs of gorgeous fresh flowers at my apartment has been an definite upside to this surgery business! Thanks to my family and my sweet boy for taking such great care of me. And especially thanks to Amy and Ster for letting Allee and me crash at their house and invade their space for awhile, and for helping take care of Allee, too, while I was recovering.

My lovely flowers, minus the ones from LB.