New Year!!!

Now that it's finally February, I thought that I would post some pics of what has been happening in our lives - that and I finally got internet access with my own computer thanks to Annie's wireless internet.

For Christmas, Scott and Koen got nerf guns and Austin already had one from a previous birthday, so they decided to start having nerf gun wars. I would never go play because I didn't have a gun, so one day Scott decided we were going to go get me a gun. We got one for me and a couple extra and now the nerf wars REALLY began. This is Scott and Austin behind their fort.

Koen and I behind our fort. We decided since we have a ton of space in our basement family room, that would be the battle zone. We set up forts and go to town. It is a blast. I definitely can't move as fast as the boys.

Even Koen gets really into it. It's hilarious to see him get his gun all ready and when he finally does - he is so pumped to shoot it. We are still working on his aim.

I don't know how this picture ended up how it did, but Scott came around our fort and shot and this is what the dart did. It was the craziest thing. We have a blast in our basement just running wild!

On January 13th, Koen went into the hospital to have surgery on his little boyhood. He has had a condition since he was born and we are now finally able to take care of it. He was a good sport.

We arrived there at 6 AM and considering how early it was, Koen was pretty perky. He was kind of excited about his "new" jammies. It was hilarious because he had to have his cars with him at all times.

They gave him some medicine that would make him sleepy so it wouldn't be so hard for him to leave us. I was grateful for that. When it was time to go into the prep area, he was a little weary about the "ride" he was going to go on. After a little bit, he was kind of excited. He had taken his medicine by now, so he was a little drunk too. He thought it was pretty cool that his bed had rails and that it was on wheels.

This is in the prep area right before they took him back to surgery and he was so out of it. Scott was laughing so hard because the medicine made Koen act like this for a little bit and then snap out and then do it again and then snap out. Eventually it was like this the whole time. He even had his cars with him here too (they were cold, so they are under the blanket). It was sad for me to see him like this even though Koen was very comfortable.

This is after the surgery and we finally calmed him down to eat some jello. He was so mad and wouldn't eat or drink anything and we couldn't go home until he did. We finally got him to eat. He hated having the IV in. They wrapped his hand with gauze so that he wouldn't tear out the IV and he hated that. It made him so mad.

Overall, he did really well. His recovery went really well. Of course he had some pain, but all in all - he did really good. And needless to say - he is 100%. He is back to his crazy, wild self. We are just so grateful that things went so well, because I was so paranoid about a 2 year old with anesthesia and having surgery. All is well!!!