WELL, HELLO THERE 2011

I've had a few gentle suggestions to start blogging again. But, now I have started receiving threatening emails...you know who you are! I seem to have a difficult time getting back to this after vacations. Anyhoo...thought I might catch up anyone who might still be checking on us.


We drove to Florida for Christmas with my family (pictures to come). The kids were all troopers. They have become quite the travelers. So thankful they are now all ~ not to point any fingers, Riggs! ~ easily entertained. I have no idea how my parents did it....driving completely across the country with all of us and NO DVD's! What were they thinking!?!?

We spent New Year's Eve heading back to Iowa, watching the temperature drop and driving through horrible storms to eventually stop in Sikeston, Missouri. We missed 2011's first several hours. We were all snoring at that point. I know. You don't have to say it....
Yoders are party animals!!!

So what has been going on for these first few days of 2011?
Well......let's see???

Scott is back to work, blowing snow and just testing to see how heavy the trash bags can be to have them still take it away. He lost last week. Too heavy. The things that entertain my husband??? See, he is of a generation with no DVD's! ha.

Brooklyn is back in school...loving to read and is working on telling time with analogue clocks. She has also started to petition to have her kindergarten teacher invited to her birthday party in August. The girl likes to plan!

Alex had her first chance at being snack helper in her pre-school class. And, seems to enjoy the independence of making her own friends without her big sister. She is getting to be a "little mommy"...which Brooklyn has informed me means bossy. Geeschh!

Riggs is 9 months old, weighs almost 27 lbs...crawling around getting into everything, wanting to eat his food and any other food that is close. He is seemingly getting bigger every second.
At least that is what my hernia says.

Yep, for me...in the first 11 days of 2011, I have already been to 3 appointments concerning my back and abdominal pain. OB doc says pain is due to scar tissue from c-section and 2nd operation to remove infected blood clot. PT says nope....maybe slight pain from scar tissue but mostly because my abdominal muscles are not connected and nothing is where it is supposed to be. And, the surgeon I went to yesterday says...yep, all of that plus he threw in a hernia as a bonus. Although, I don't really feel like I 'won' anything! I go back this week for a CAT Scan in order to make a plan for upcoming surgery. I don't suppose they can do the surgery without IV's, huh????

So there you go.
Our update.
More to come.....