Whirlwind

2013 has been pretty crazy for us. I feel like we've been to the doctor at least once a week and lots of events and birthdays have been keeping us on our toes. Since Josh just turned 26 a few days ago, that meant that being on his parents insurance was coming to an end. So, the first week of January he had surgery on his nose and sinuses. He had a deviated septum and tons of inflammation and sinus problems. He's recovering slower than the doctor thought but hopefully once he's completely healed his sinus problems will be gone forever! The original surgery, the follow ups, seeing the dentist, and other doctor appointments have kept us busy.

I have also visited the doctor but definitely not as much as Josh... it started out with a minor sore throat which turned into a terrible sore throat which turned into major conjestion which I guess took me back to my baby years and I got an EAR INFECTION? I totally thought babies, maybe toddlers, were the only ones to get ear infections, but its not true. Almost 23 year olds can get them too... Its seriously the worst pain in the world! I got dizzy, nauseous, couldn't lay down because of the pounding in my ear, and every swallow, cough, or attempting to blow my nose all killllled. Luckily Josh wasn't cranky when I woke him up at 3 in the morning crying and he calmed me down and helped me get back to sleep. Lets just say that I will have plenty of sympathy for our kids when they get ear infections. I just barely got the hearing back in my ear yesterday. Its been the weirdest 2 weeks. Now I'm starting to feel back to my old self and I'm crossing my fingers that any sickness will steer clear of our house for a long time!

Since we've been sick and recovering from surgery, our birthdays were pretty low key. I actually spent my birthday in bed trying to get completely better before Josh's entire family came in to town the next day for Grandpa Hutchin's jersey retirement at BYU. It was fun to get a million texts and phone calls and cards and presents all day. All the love made me realize that the Blink 182 song, "What's my age again", that was stuck in my head all day was wrong. Everybody loves you when you're 23 not the other way around :) Josh got me all my favorite candies and beautiful flowers and I ended the night blowing out a candle on tres leches cake. yum.  

For Josh's birthday, we drove two car loads of people to the airport and then came home and relaxed. We kinda cleaned up our house but mostly we just watched this and ate treats. 

I may be the best wife ever for getting him this for his birthday. Josh is really hard to buy presents for, but this one I knew was a win. He absolutely loved it. (and I did too)