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Conner and I enjoyed our trip to Houston last weekend. It rained off and on Friday during the drive so Conner now knows how to say rain. I had some baby stuff for Erin so Friday afternoon I spent time putting the things together since I no longer had the assembly instructions. Friday we visited Erin's parents and Conner had so much fun playing with them. Saturday morning we decided to go to the community pool and Conner had fun playing in the kids pool which was 1 foot deep. We brought him to the adult side to jump off and then he thought he wanted to jump in the deep end. Erin said she had never seen me move so fast when Conner made a b-line to the 10 foot section to jump off. We had a good swim for about an hour and then made our way home to rest. It was a good decision to go to the pool early because then it rained the rest of the day. I played a wii for the 1st time at Erin's and that was a ton of fun. Saturday night Jimmy and Heidi came over for dinner and Conner had a lot of fun playing with Erin's brother Jimmy. It was too quick of a visit but I'm glad Conner and I had a chance to visit, catch up and see the new house.

Yesterday, Monica called and offered us some Rangers tickets that Aaron's aunt Deanna had from someone they knew. We were told they were really great tickets, but we had no idea how awesome they would be. The game was scheduled to start at 7:05 pm and wouldn't you know it started to rain at 7:04 pm. We waited out the rain and Dr. Mike, Deanna's friend gave me a tour. Dr. Mike was the Rangers surgeon at one time and now his son is. We went in the private club and then Dr. Mike said "let's go this way". I followed him to the elevator and right before we got on he said to me, "I've never been kicked out before, we'll see what happens". None the less, I had no idea what I was in store for. We went up a couple of floors and I had a personal tour of the press box. While up there we enjoyed a hot dog. The rain finally ended around 8 pm and Aaron and I headed back to our 1st row seats. We were up close and personal - right by the batters. If you were watching the game on TV you probably saw us. Nolan Ryan was presented a check for his foundation and then took a seat on the same row as us for the game. My favorite player was Josh Hamilton (click on the name to see the story). I just read a story about in him in D Magazine - not too hard on the eyes either. I tried to get him to turn around but he just would not, so I had to settle for some back side shots. The game finally started around 8 pm and ended close to midnight. Unfortunately the Rangers lost, it was 7 to 1 in the 4th inning and then things went down hill. The Cleveland Indians won 8 to 7.

Conner in the car yesterday.

Quick Update

Conner's surgery was successful and recovering great. We arrived at the hospital at 6:30 am and they started getting him ready and was taken to surgery promptly at 7:30. The surgery took about 2 hours and we spent an hour in recovery and were home by 11 am. He has two incisions and should be completely healed in the next 6 to 8 weeks.

Aaron's dad called Monday morning to let us know that Lucille Boatwright (Aaron's Grandmother) had passed away early Monday morning. Aaron is handling the news well and will serve as a Pallbearer Thursday at the funeral. His cousin Stefanie wrote a great memorial for her on her blog. See the link on the side.

Grandmothers are very special and having lost my grandmother last year I understand the heartache. Here is a picture that we had taken with all of our wonderful grandmas.

Busy Weekend

We've been busy since New Orleans. I spent the weekend after getting home painting the guest bedroom. I've been working on cleaning out the room. Aaron and I went through the closet and through lots of books to try and clean out and organize. I'm not real sure how I'm going to decorate the room, but it's a good start in the right direction. I've managed to decorate most of the rooms in the house and I'm slowly making my way down the hallway. My next project will be to tackle our main bathroom. I didn't have much free time this past weekend because of work. Saturday we had a benefit event for our Teddy Bear Motorcyle Ride in Plano. Bullwinkles pulled together a bike night to help us raise money. Saturday night we drove to Denton to take my Aunt Glenda to dinner for her birthday. Sunday we held a Back to School Fair at the Center for our clients, mostly foster kids. The event provides all the needed school supplies as well as a new hair cuts to start the year. We also set up games, arts and crafts and food to make the event really fun for the kids and families. Aaron and Conner joined me at the Center for a little while. Conner tried the bounce house for a couple of minutes but didn't like it too much. He kept saying hot and hasn't figured out the jumping thing yet. He did have time to have a red popsicle which he managed to get all over him. After the popsicle, I sent Mr. Sticky right home with Aaron. Work has been really busy as all of the fundraising events I work on are in full swing. It seems that the to do list gets longer and longer and I can't seem to cross the "to do" fast enough. Aaron starts back to school this Friday and the kids start the week of the 25th. Aaron has a new principal at his school and is looking forward to a new administration. Since Aaron goes back to school Friday and our sitter is unvailable, I'm taking Friday off and will be driving to Houston to visit my friend Erin. This will be my first long trip in the car alone with Conner. I've planned on playing some CD's in the car that he enjoys. I may be really sick and tired of kids songs like "If your happy and you know it" by the end of this journey. Wish me luck!

In May at a routine office visit for Conner they discovered that one of his testicles had not descended. We visited a pedriatric urologist in June and it was determined that Conner would need surgery. Since we wanted the surgery at Children's Medical Center an opening was not available until August. His surgery will be Monday, August 18th. From the conversations with the doctors, this tends to be a common problem and a pretty routine procedure. Of course any time someone has anesthia you worry, especially if it's your baby. It is a day surgery so we plan on being back home some time Monday afternoon. I'll update the blog next week to keep everyone updated on the recovery.