January 2020

Well, it seems to be my norm to do my first post of each year 3 or 4 months in.

This year I stretched it to 5 months :)

Here's a quick update of things that happened before COVID changed our lives...

Josh was born with a "lucky" toenail (like on Nemo).  It has always been little and deformed.  When he had his feet operated on many years ago, his doctor offered to take it off while he was doing the other procedure but Josh was too attached to it and wouldn't hear of it :)

Fast forward to this January and Josh tells me he thinks it's time to have it taken care of.  He would struggle with it getting caught on things and it hurt whenever he had to cut it so he decided it was time to have it removed.

Dr Cook looked at it and suggested cutting it out instead of a less invasive treatment.  That way there would be less chance of any of it growing back.  However, he didn't have the time to do that at the moment so we rescheduled and Andy took him in the next week to have it done.

These are the before pics...

I will spare you the pictures right after it was done...they're a bit gruesome...

Here it is bandaged up and several weeks after...pretty much healed.

He had many follow up visits and all in all it was a bigger ordeal than we had expected but everyone is glad that it is done :)

                                                      

We had decided at the beginning of the year to try and get the kids to the temple to do baptisms more often.  I had heard it was kind of a nightmare after school with all kinds of wait time but a good friend had said that the sooner you get there the better.  So one day that Matt didn't have school we picked the high schoolers up and had them change there at school and then we rushed to the temple.  We were pretty lucky and didn't have to wait very long.  It was a great experience to be there with all three of them!  We did pie in the cafeteria afterward.

Here's some pics of Ben doing some sit ups with Andy during his morning exercise routine...

such a cutie!