kendall had his surgery

the day finally came for kendall. he couldn't wait to get his surgery and start the healing process... only because he can't wait to play basketball again. we had to be at the hospital at 8:30 wednesday morning. he had already done his paperwork so we just had to wait for them to take him. the surgeon was ahead of schedule so it didn't take very long. i was told to be back in about an hour so the surgeon could talk to me and show me the pictures. i ran home to take roxi to the vet to get her stitches taken out and then back home again to drop her off. once i got back to the hospital it was just over an hour. the surgeon basically followed me into his room and then spent about 10 mins showing me everything and giving me his instructions for kendall. i waited maybe 20 mins and kendall came rolling in. he was already asking to use the bathroom. the two nurses just looked at me funny and said "we don't normally let you go just yet". kendall just told them again that he really needed to go. the RN questioned him a few times about being ready and then we helped him up and into the bathroom. i think he only said it was okay because the bathroom was right across the hall (plus he probably didn't want to clean up the mess!). once we got back to the room the RN couldn't believe how well he was doing, so he set him up in the recliner and looked at his vitals. they were already back to normal. he kind of laughed and said "well it looks like you are ready to go home. you have already paid for the hour so lets be patient and wait a bit longer". he just kept telling us how he has never seen anyone come out of surgery so quickly. kendall is pretty proud of himself because he has just set a new record! the RN told us that he has never released anyone with 16's all across the board, let alone 10 mins after coming out of surgery. (only kendall can turn surgery into a competition!) as we have found, kendalls high tolerance for anesthetics is both a blessing and a course. his so called block (man epidural) that was supposed to last 18 hours really only lasted 3. we were home at 12:00 and in pain at 1:30. he is doing good now, but if it weren't for the cryo cuff he would probably still be in some pain. i just can't wait until i get to use it, that's my one perk of his surgery!

taking vitals

looking pretty good after surgery

kendall was excited for the juice

what a hard recovery!

cryo cuff

roxi's fixed

this is roxi right after we brought her home. she was still very much out of it the rest of the night from her medication. we had to keep her inside and away from butch. butch wasn't very happy with us. that night roxi would fall asleep standing and when she started to fall over she would jump and run away. you could tell she was scared cause she had no idea what was going on. we felt pretty bad for her. as long as she was bundled up in her towel and one of us was rubbing her she did all right. she is doing great now and gets her stitches out this week!

jaussi family reunion

these pictures are from our jaussi family reunion over july 4th. kendall, troy and jason were spending most of the time at the sand dune jumping and of course competing to see who could get the farthest. (and just so you know kendall won!) kirsti and merissa spent awhile digging trying to find snow, but didn't ever find any. guess it was just too hot.

love you honey!

here are some of my favorite pictures of my man! LOVE YOU KENDALL!!!

boating pictures

we went boating with jason, nicole and their family in may. the water was still freezing, and as you can see in the photos, still plenty of snow in the mountains. that didn't stop us from trying to wakeboard!

wedding pictures

here are some wedding pictures for those who couldn't make it!

our house

i was asked to put pictures of the house on the blog. these videos aren't that great, but here you go!

here is the backyard and garden....