Some more "Firsts" for Tyler...

So, on Sunday we drove down to San Diego and Tyler got to experience the beach for the first time. He got excited as soon as he saw the water while we were in the car. We didn't really plan on swimming due to the water being pretty cold. We kind of just rolled up our pants and went in knee high and we played a little bit of tag in the water. Unfortunately, that resulted in Tyler face planting in the water :-). I guess he was use to running in the water... but it was pretty funny. And he wasn't phased by it and he just kept playing. Here are some pics of us at the beach.

Can you see his excitement? (I know... it's kind of dark shadow over his face)


This is before he face planted. :-) We had a lot of fun. :-)


All three of us before we left with coastline behind us. It was a nice day at the beach. :-)


Us with our friends (newly engaged friends!!), Jon and Emily, who were so kind as to take care of us in San Diego. They ALWAYS are such great hosts when we go down there. :-)

So, Tyler's other first was yesterday. Not that anyone really wants this kind of first, but he had his first surgery yesterday for his hernia. It was only about an hour and everything went absolutely smoothly. Although he woke up from the anesthesia just crying. He said he wasn't in pain. So, I think he just didn't like the feeling of being under the anesthesia and still feeling out of it when he woke up. He woke up stunned that it was over already. But... he stopped crying as soon as they gave him a popsicle. Here are sine pics from surgery day.

I just thought he looked so cute in his hospital gown! :-) He looked so tiny when he was walking around in it.

This is obviously before the surgery since he's still smiling. Afterwards it was the opposite.

And here's a picture of his lovely little war wound!

So, there are Tyler's firsts this week. Hope you enjoyed as we did... not that the surgery was enjoyable! Thank you all for your prayers. Please keep it up as they help us get through each day.

Surgery

For those of you that were not aware, Tyler was found to have a minor hernia at his phyical in the beginning of October. It took a long time but his surgery is officially going to happen this coming Monday, November 24th. We have to check in at the hospital at 7:15am. This hospital kept postponing and rescheduling the surgery which was very frustrating. But now it is official and I will be glad to get it over with. The surgery is supposed to be a fairly simple surgery but we would still appreciate your prayers. Tyler absolutely HATES hospitals, doctors, dentists, etc. So, please pray for the day to go smoothly from the beginning. Tyler is glad to be getting the surgery done with but I know he's very nervous. I hope they give him his anesthesia with a mask and NOT a shot so that he does not flip out. If it is a shot, that will be a battle in itself. So, please pray for all aspects of the surgery day to go smoothly. Thank you SO much!! :-)

Halloween Pics

So, on Halloween we went to our church's Hallelujah Party (For those of you that go/went to Immanuel or Trinity, it is just like Harvest Festival or Halloween Happenin'.) We tried to do a bit of a theme of "Cowboys and Indian" - Can you guess who was the indian? Well, Tyler absolutely loved his costume. He wants to wear the boots and the hat everyday. And for my costume, I actually had from a couple of years ago when I worked at the Boys and Girls Club. I drew up what I wanted, bought the material, and my mom was so kind as to make the costume for me. At first Taylor wasn't going to go so we don't have a lot of pics of him in his costume but we have plenty of Tyler. Here are a few pics of us in our costumes:

He was totally in to being a cowboy!

Here a few of Tyler and me just goofing around:

Here's a pic of me and Taylor. He was not really in to the pics and unfortunately did not get a pic of Taylor & Tyler together. Too bad cause that would have been cute.

So, those were our Halloween costumes. I think I had more fun dressing Tyler up than anything else. Maybe we will have to remember to take many random pics throughout this month since Tyler will be off track and home from school all the way until December 1st. I'm not even sure yet what to do with that. So, far it has been good so I hope it continues that way. Thank you all for your support.

And just a reminder that Tyler is tentatively scheduled for surgery on November 14th for his hernia (basically waiting for court approval for anesthesia). So, if you remember to pray for him as he goes through this. He half scared and half wanting to get it done. Until, next time, have a wonderful day, night, week, and month!