post-surgery report

All is well with the knee. Surgery went well and I am back at work today. there is some aching in the knee, but overall it is less painful than i thought it would be. so i am taking it easy, but the recovery should be fine. and we'll go cheer on BYU tomorrow night against UofP.

Slideshow Tool

As you've seen below, you can add a slideshow to the blog. Sometimes that will be easier than posting a whole bunch of pictures. There are several sites that you can use to create the slideshow (Picassa, Flickr, Photobucket). I used Photobucket because it seemed to have the most options. Just go to www.photobucket.com and sign up for a free account. Then you upload your pictures and create a slideshow. To put it on the blog, you need to share the slideshow and click on the blogger icon. I can provide you with the user name and password then at that point. It then automatically creates the blog entry. It's kind of fun. Let me know if you have any questions.

Family Pictures Slideshow

We're back

We made it back to Utah without any problems. The roads were clear and the kids were great. Thanks again for such a great time. The kids really loved being with their cousins and had a lot of fun. Here are a few of the pictures we took.

kyle moving to IR

i'm officially on the injured reserve. i went to the specialist today and had x-rays and a MRI on my knee. i have a torn meniscus. so i am having arthroscopic surgery on 11/28. should take 4-6 (maybe 8?) weeks to get back to jogging again. i'm just excited to know what is wrong and get started on getting it corrected. i have been just dealing with it for way too long. so wish me luck!

Saturday in Provo

It was good to hear that Grandpa is doing well. It has been an anxious week as Tracey's grandma has been in the hospital as well. Fortunately both are doing better now. It was another beautiful day here. It got close to 70. It's been nice to be able to have the kids still playing outside.

Our resident Indian even showed up today. Logan likes to make his own costumes (all out of paper).

We had a cool Elders Quorum activity today. One of our Elders is part of our local sheriff's office and runs the Utah County shooting range (up Spanish Fork canyon). We took the Elders out there for some shooting today. We even got to shot the machine guns. My right hand is still pretty sore so I shot left-handed, but it was still fun.

Grandpa Roderick

Hi,
Grandpa has just finished his endoscopy and they found an esophageal ulcer caused by years of acid reflux that he didn't know anything about. It will require no treatment other than taking prilosec or nexium to heal up the ulcer and to neutralize the acid reflux. The Dr. wants him to stay one more night in the hospital for a bit more assurance that the bleeding is controlled.
The very best news for his symptoms.
We'll keep you posted
Ross and Duretta