The Strasser's

Well we are home, yay! now for a long night. I am hoping not because of the meds he is taking. So in recovery he was pretty groggy, not as happy as he was when he went in. Very cuddly boy now. All is good right now. He is taking 3 meds, bladder spasms, antiboctics (so he doesn't get a UTI), and pain meds.

Just got a phone call from the nurse in the operating room, they are almost done. He should be out in a little bit. Everything went well and looks good. He will have a catheter in for 2 weeks. So I he will be double diapered. That is all for now.

So they started the surgery at about 12:20. They usually like to put iv things in when they are back in operating room. Everything is going good so far.

Well Evan has been back there for about maybe 15 minutes. I took this picture before they took him back and he took his happy drink. All the nurses think he is pretty cute! Everything has gone good so far. Especially him not being to grouchy. He has been a pretty happy boy for not eating since 4:30 this morning. He did get to drink clear liquids until 8:30.

Look at those mossy trees! Cory and I don't get many pictures together. What a happy boy!

Alyssa has been asking lots of questions lately. There was one story I had to explain to her because we were talking about, it had been 6 years since my aunt had last seen the waterfalls. Well we were hoping nothing would happen on this trip, oh but something did happen, but I will talk about that a little bit later. We went to Silver Falls on Monday. While we were there we were talking about when Alyssa was a baby. And it was the day before Alyssa was going to be blessed, and I had some family from Utah that came for the baby blessing. Well my dad since my dad has brain damage, he can be stuborn about some things, and when we got there we were walking over to the waterfall and he decided since he had already been there before that he didn't want to go all the way around. So we thought well maybe he went back up to the parking lot. After walking around for a little bit we headed back to the cars to have lunch. But my dad was not there. So we waited had some lunch and walked aro...

Well I can't believe February is almost over with. March 2nd Evan is having is final surgery. I am nervous about it. But I trust that his doctor well do a very good job. I think this one might be a 5 hour surgery. Well I will found out more information next week at his pre-op appointment. I will have to find some things that I can keep busy with while I sit up at the hospital.

Well today I went back to Portland to get my aunt again, because she is going to be heading back to Utah. While we were in Portland we went to Voodoo Doughnuts and got a dozen doughnuts.

Valentine's Day was a lot of fun. I volunteered at Alyssa's school in the morning. That Cory and I went to the ward activity for the adults. Below are some pictures of the present that I made for Cory. Cory bought me some daises and some chocolates.

As mentioned in the previous post. My aunt was visiting her daughter in Portland, we went and got her and went to the zoo. But after the zoo we took her home with us to spend a few days together, we really haven't seen or spent a lot of time with her in a long time.  Since  Alyssa didn't have school one of the days she was visiting us we headed to the coast. It was COLD! But we tried to stay warm. I know lots of pictures of the ocean, I love seeing the ocean.

Well it has been a week since I have blogged something. But we are doing good. Nothing new has been going on. Alyssa is enjoying school. She is taking ballet. I still need to take a picture of our little ballerina. She loves being a ballerina. Owen is our funny boy, and very loving. Evan is finally crawling pretty good, and is feeding himself. I can't wait until he can use a sippy cup all by himself. He is going to have surgery on March 2nd. I guess that is all for now.

My aunt was visiting her daughter that lives in Portland. We thought it would be fun to go to the Zoo, last Friday, so we invited her to go with us. It was a lot of fun, cold and sunny, but a lot of fun. Here's some pictures!

So my final class in course one was this week. We learned how to make roses, and did a final cake. 3rd Rose 2nd Rose 1st Rose Here is my final cake, I wasn't sure what to put on the cake, so Alyssa suggested Hello Kitty. Here is kind of a side of view, I made the flower's that are on the side and let them dry for a few days. Alyssa was happy about the cake.

So this week we decorated cupcakes. Some of the pictures are a blurry because I got frosting on my phone. Next week I get to design my own cake. Not sure what I am going to do yet. Here are some pictures of the mum cupcakes. She said you could use this technique for making like monsters. Maybe for Evan's birthday I could do like cookie monster.   Practicing the shell technique Praciticing my Star Drop Flowers, Swirl Drop Flowers. I think my favorite are the swirl drop!! I think I will make some swirl drop flowers and dry thm and stick them on the cake that I make next week.