Back In The Hospital

So poor Jason is back under the knife this week. He went into the emergency room on saturday because he has had a constant fever for a week now since he had his surgery last friday. The ER immediatley gave him an antibiotic through an IV in case he had an infection. Then the Ortho Doctor came in to see him and drew blood and pulled a bunch of puss from his shoulder. When the Doctor found out that the ER doctors gave him an antibiotic, he was not pleased. Pretty much that screwed up the results of the test. So he told him to go ahead and go home and come back in on Monday morning to run more tests and compare to the ones they just did, and it will give the cultures time to mature. So he came home after 8 long hours in the ER. Then that night around midnight, he started bleeding out of his cut! Totally freaked us both out. But we ran to the bathroom and let it drip into the sink. It was a gross mixture of blood and ooze. And it WOULDN'T STOP! There was nothing we could do to stop it, we went through bags and bags of gauze, and just kept changing it out about every hour. We called the Dr from earlier that day and he said they wouldn't even be able to do anything until monday (Jason's surgeon was out of town). So we just dealt with this at home, constantly bleeding. It was horrible, to say the least. Finaly, monday morning comes and we are in the hospital early. His surgeon looked at it and said that this is a very rare case, but pretty much he has an infection on the inside where they cut him open. He said it's just a chance thing and it happens only once in every 500 or so operations. He also said that the antibiotic they gave him ER really complicates things because it isolates the infection. (stupid ER!!)  So they got him in for emergency surgery to clean out the infection and take some sample to find out what it is. He had the surgery yesterday and it went well, the doctor said it was "as expected". They had luckily caught it in time before it had done any further damage to his surgery site and the work they had done last week. So, now Jason is laid up in the hospital, with a lot of bandages and tubes coming out of his shoulder to drain excess puss, blood, and infection. He will wait it out for a couple days and then wednesday go back to surgery to do it all again. If all goes well he'll be out of there by friday or saturday. This picture was taken last night. He said he's gonna try to get up and walk today! Go Jason!

The BIG 3-0!!!!

Happy Birthday to Jason! He turned 30 on friday. He was pretty much in pain and had a fever the whole time, but still had fun. We had some friends over and played games, ordered pizza and had birthday cake.

Bony Bankart

Here are the after effects of Jason's second shoulder surgery. It's a pretty big cut! It looks like the just about cut the whole arm off! For those of you who don't know, he was having some pretty bad problems with his shoulder, like pain, and it kept coming out of joint, and he wasn't able to lift his arm above his head with it coming out and a lot of pain. So he went under the knife for the second time on this shoulder. The Dr said that they were working on him for about 5 straight hours and that it was a really long, hard surgery. They had to take a peice of bone from his clavical and put it in his shoulder to keep it in place and stop it from coming out of joint. He said that this is probably the most painful surgery that he could have had. It's gonna take a long time (5 months to a year) to recover from this and he has to go to physical therapy 3 times a week. Poor Jason! Here's to a quick recovery!! He is doing better and is able to move his arm a bit now. He hasn't had to take his pain meds as often lately, so he's very happy about that.

AIRBORNE!

These pictures didn't upload in the right order, but here is Jason's airborne graduation and his final jump. It was so awesome to go and see! Braydon got to pin daddy's jump wings on him. He was a little nervous, but he did an awesome job! It was so cute!

Here is the fam after graduation. It was so windy and cold out that day, we were all bundled up. (well at least as bundled up as you ever have to be out here in Alabama, haha)

This is Jason taking off his parachute and gear that he jumped with.

Run, Jason run! Running in from the feild he jumped in. They land pretty far off from where they have to come, so I think they ended up having to run a mile to get to us, with ALL their gear and 2 parachutes.

All in all Jason really liked this training. He had so much fun. He was home practicing his landings off the bed and couch, and showing us all how to exit the airplane! It was a lot of fun! He was able to go through airborne with a couple of his friends, Aaron and James, they didn't get put in the same "stick" but he made some other friends and really had a fun time! I am so thankful that he had no injuries after the whole experience. Way to go Jason! I am so proud of you! Airborne!!

Bird's Eye Veiw

I just thought these were pretty cool photos. Jason took these from the air while he was away this week. I believe this one is Atlanta, he said there was a big fair going on that they could see. This is Callaway Gardens beach. If you scroll down a ways, there are pics of us playing in the water and the sand, this is where we were.

This is the Atlanta airport from the sky. I just thought this was way cool to see this veiw. They had to fly right through the airport's airspace. If you look closely, you can see all the jets lined up at the terminals.......pretty neat.

This one is freakin' awesome. This is one of the missions they did while up in the "mountains". The soldiers are hooking themselves up to the rope and are gonna be lifted off the ground by the helicopter. I just thought this was a really cool veiwpoint.

Callaway Beach

On Friday we went to the beach with Kristin and her family. It was Kaleb and Kaden's (Braydon's Best Bud) birthdays. So we decided to head to the lake and have some fun. They had big blow up slides and trampolines on the water that we got to play with. It was a little hard to climb up those things, but way fun to slide down. I felt a little old when Braydon climbed right up the tall slide and made it look easy and I struggled to get up. Haha. By the way, sorry Kristin for falling on you!!! HAHA I just think this is cute......

Here we are. We could not get Braydon over to join in the picture, he was having tooo much fun with his friends.

Braydon and his best buddy, Kaden. Jason calls them the "A-dens"

So we are officially a product of our environment. We were sitting in our lawn chairs, Jason is drinking a "root" beer...(it really is root beer), and the kids are in a little plastic pool in their underwear! What can I say, I have no excuses! But, just to clear some things up, our kids don't usually wear their underwear in the pool, they really do wear bathing suits, and we were in the backyard, not the front yard. haha

This was just too funny, I had to get a picture. Ambria had her little baby bum showing through her little undies! So funny!!

This was Braydon's brilliant idea to put the car in the pool. Okay so maybe we really ARE hillbillies!! Haha

Sleepy Heads

This was just too cute not to get a snapshot of. Ambria just climbed up on Jason's lap and fell right asleep. If you look closely you can see her chicken nugget still in her hand. She fell asleep before she finished eating it.

Flat Rock Park

We took a litte trip to Flat Rock Park with some friends on Monday. It was so fun! Thanks guys for going! I don't know what I was thinking, but I only snapped 2 pictures that day and believe it or not this was the better of the 2, so Kristin I am gonna have to steal some pics from you! I know you got some good ones!

First Bikeride

We finally got a seat for the bike for Ambria to ride on. And Braydon got a new bike last week, so we can go on bike rides. Ambria LOVES it! She would sit in there all day and ride around if we let her.

Under The Knife

Poor Jason had to have surgery today. Everything went well. This is his first time having surgery or even anestesia, but he did really good. He was a little nervous about it. He basically slept the entire day and is recovering so good! Here are a few pics of the day. This first one was pre-hacking.... Post hacking....

Ambria having some fun in the waiting room. She had so much energy, I had a hard time wrangling her in. But all things considered (there was NOTHING for her to do there and we were there for 7 hours) she did VERY well! Not a totally unpleasant experience.

First of all, I was VERY bored, so I was just snapping pictures. Second of all, I usually never post pictures of myself, so this is a once in a lifetime opportunity. Haha. And as you can see, I am a very tired mommy today....

Jane, I Mean Jason...

So I walked into the living room the other evening, and this is how I caught Jason. But, what concerned me the most was not so much what he was DOING, but what he was WEARING. Yes, those are my pajama bottoms, yes they are PINK, and no I have no idea why he decided to slip them on.......showing his true colors, perhaps. Just kidding, but not really......hahaa. Yeah, that's my man, everyone.......hmmm.

A closer veiw, in case you didn't get enough in the first pic, just wanted to make sure everyone got a good look.

Braydon's gifts from Santa. He said is was the best Christmas Ever! I think he might be a little biased...

Ambria's Christmas. She loved all her gifts. Once she saw the Elmo live though, we would try to give her something new to open and she would just push it away. All she wanted was to watch Elmo. It was fun!

One of Jason's gifts. He got some Oakley Sunglasses, a watch, this xbox game, and some new slippers.

His game came in this box. I didn't want him to guess what it was!

I got a Cricut Expression! Yeah. I wanted one of these for a long time! Thanks baby!

Rigging Up The Lights

The first thing at Christmas that's such a pain to me....rigging up the lights!!! This definatley rang true for Jason today! He put lights up on the house and he was getting so frustrated! He hated it. The lights were all tangled up, then one lights burnt out and they didn't work. He complained the whole time........but we now have Christmas lights. And they look really good. Thanks Jason!!!