Perseverance and Honor Roll

Today the girls had a Life Skill Assembly at school. The life skill for the month of February was perseverance. The first graders did a little skit and then sang and did sign language to the Rascal Flats song titled Stand. Below is a video of part of the skit. My camera ran out of memory towards the end of the song. Mikayla was the last letter "e" in the word perseverance. She also played the part of her teacher Miss Dusi. She did a great job singing and signing the words to the song. Her teacher said that earlier in the week she had Mikayla and another student teaching the song to the rest of the kids. They also gave out certificates for Honor Roll at the assembly. Ashlee got Gold Honor Roll. Which means she had a GPA of 3.75 or higher. Ashlee had a 4.0GPA. Both the girls are doing great in school. They recently did some district testing and both of them are achieving above what is considered "passing".

Note: After 2hrs and 45min of trying to post the video I gave up. I tried again, but it is saying there is some error with the video. So I guess I can't post it. It's really good too.

Surgery

Wednesday I went in for surgery again. I have been having lots of pain and other unpleasant things going on. The doctor thought that my endometriosis was back and had gotten into my right ovary. The plan was to do laproscopic surgery and a couple other procedures to clean things up, remove my right ovary and tie my tubes (we figured since they were going in, we might as well have that done too). Well once they got inside, they didn't find what they were expecting to find. They found a cyst on my ovary and were able to remove it while leaving my ovary in. And they found something out of sorts with my uterus, but they didn't find any endometriosis (which is a good thing). The doctor thinks since everything for the most part appears to look ok, that most likely my uterus isn't functioning properly and there is no way to tell if it is functioning properly. The plan is to see what happens the next three months and if things don't improve, I will have to have my uterus removed.
In the meantime I have been dealing with pain. The medication they gave me for pain made me sick. John called them to get something else and that almost made me faint. I am guessing this is a sign that I am just going to have to deal with the pain until I get through this. Today, I am feeling better than the last two days, so hopefully this means I am on the road to recovery.

Ear Piercing

Before

During

After

Before

During

After

When Ashlee turned 8 last year, John told her she could get her ears pierced. But she ended up with a really bad ear infection and we never did it. A couple days ago she asked me about getting it done. Yesterday we told the girls they could pick something fun to do on Saturday like a movie, bowling or Fun Works. But I had an idea, I asked them if they wanted to get their ears pierced instead. They both got smiles on their faces and said yes. So after approving it with John, we got in the car and took them to the mall to have it done. Mikayla wanted to go first. She was so cute. You could tell that she was being tough about it, but at the same time she looked like she wanted to change her mind. As soon as the ladies were done with it she jumped out of the chair as fast as she could (like she was afraid they were going to do it again). But you can tell by her smile in the after picture that she was happy (she told us later that she had butterfly's in her stomach). Then it was Ashlee's turn. She was excited. After all, Mikayla just did it without crying so that was sign everything would be ok. You just got to love that look on her face as they are doing it. Mikayla told her that her friend Allison just closed her eyes and then it was done. I guess Ashlee was taking her advice. They are both happy to finally have earrings. They did great. No tears.

Disney on Ice

Hayley,Sarah, Alyssa, Ashlee, Ashlee S., Taylor

Brooke, Mikayla, Allison, Heather & Riley

Heather, Brooke, Allison and Mikayla outside of Chili's Resturant where we had dinner before the show.

Inside Arco Arena.

Meet the Princess's before the show.

more group photo's before the show

Ashlee and Mikayla

Some princess displays that Ashlee took pictures of.

The Show: Minnie and Micky Mouse

Cars

The Little Mermaid

The Lion King

Tinker Bell

One of Ashlee and Mikayla's Christmas gifts this year was tickets to go see Disney on Ice with their friends the Stiles and Starkweathers from school. Wednesday afternoon, Meliesa, Heidi, Linda (Heidi's Mom from Colorado) and I took our girls (there were 15 of us total) to Arco Arena in Sacramento to see Disney on Ice. It was a great show. The girls had lot's of fun. It's amazing to see how much detail they put into the costumes and props.

Ashlee & Mikayla's Valentines Party

Mikayla's Party was a "Friendship Party." They started out by reading books about bears and cuddling with their favorite stuffed bear and eating Klondike Bars.

After reading they made a bear book mark, exchanged Valentines and ate bear cookies.

I like this picture of Mikayla, but I didn't realize what was in the background until I loaded the photo. Too bad I don't have Photoshop to edit it out.

Ashlee's class decorated papermache heart boxes and filled them with Hugs for their parents. Exchanged Valentines and had Valentine Donuts and Milk.

Ashlee's heart box and a card she made in art class.

After school the girls had some friends come over. They made some cookies and played.

In the picture above they are making an Oatmeal, banana, honey facial. With a Spa Kit Ashlee got for her birthday.


This is Ashlee with the Oatmeal Facial on her face.