The Erin Experience

Twinkies!

2009-05-11T14:47:00.000-07:00

So... I've been super busy lately so I'm sorry I haven't updated in a while. I'm walking again YAY!!! I'm doing much better everyday! It really only hurts when it's raining. I started walking 2 miles in the morning with Loni before work and that seems to be helping a lot. Other than that... MY SISTER HAD THE TWINS!!!! YAY!!!! They are both well and absolutely beautiful and perfect! I got to go down there last week for the blessings. Andy blessed them and he did a beautiful job.
Dad and uncle Neil were able to assist in both of the blessings. It was a wonderful experience. Emery was able to come down there with us and play with Adrian, so that was a ton of fun for her. Jen Fletcher and her daughter Lorelei drove down with us to! Then on Sunday we drove up to Auntie Karen's house and stayed the night, so I was able to play Rock Band with Amy and Jen all night! It was such a blast and I'm so glad Amy was able to come play with us. Other than that I've been pretty crazy doing a bunch of nothing!

4 Months Later

2009-04-14T10:10:00.000-07:00

I can finally walk again!!!! It's been 4 months too long and I never thought this day would come but YAY!!!! I even went to a playground on Sunday!!! It was so much fun! I did things I didn't think I'd be able to do so soon like climb up a "rock wall" and stuff... it did hurt sometimes but it got much better! I do get to go back to institute this week! I couldn't before because it is on the second floor with no elevator... so I'm pretty stoked about that.
Other than that, there's really nothing going on with life. I started work again with no restrictions, I don't have to do physical theropy, and YW's are keeping me pretty occupied. Other that my life is pretty lame.

Just One Week Left!!! WOOT!!!

2009-03-25T08:42:00.000-07:00

Monday I got a call from the doctor and they told me that I would have another 4-6 weeks to wait for surgery because the doctor didn't have the paperwork in on time. I was beside myself, I was ready to do the proceedure myself! It's been 3 1/2 months and I didn't think I could wait until late April early May to be able to walk again.
Yesterday I got another call from the doctor's office, they had a canellation for Wednesday April 1... yes April Fools Day I will be having my surgery and soon I will be back to normal. I can't wait, it's been a long time coming. I can't believe it's almost over, I can't remember doing things without a broken leg lol. My friend Gary keeps teasing me saying that it's a doctor's sick joke and I'm going to get into pre-op and get all prepped for surgery and they're going to yell, "APRIL FOOLS!!!!" I told him, "If they do.... they better pray that what I'm going to do to them doesn't take as long to recover from!'' lol.
I find out in Friday at my pre-op appointment how long the recovery from this surgery will be, it won't be nearly as long as my first surgery, and all the details about physical theropy so I will keep you posted with that.
Thanks for your prayers and good wishes while I've been recovering.

Yet Another Update on My Leg....

2009-03-04T11:59:00.000-08:00

So I went to the doctor yesterday expecting him to take off my hard cast and take x-rays and then put another hard cast on... well I got really good news, my leg and ankle have healed enough that I was able to get a boot, which is a cast that I can take on and off. So YAY!!! I can sleep without a cast on and I can shower and shave and stuff... I LOVE IT!!!! Also, I have at least 19 more days with the crutches... I am able to have surgery to get the pin out no earlier than the 23rd of March. The boot they gave me, makes me look like a start trooper from Star Wars lol.
Other than my leg... we just got a huge shipment of sailors in the ward... 9 to be exact. That's more Sailors than we've ever had young adults in the Groton and Waterford ward combined! It's insane!!! The boys actually out number the girls now... it's so fun!!!! We've been hanging out all the time it's great.
Also, I finally got to go back to work for about an hour last week and I'll be going to work on Friday and Monday this week, it keeps me on my toes at least. And I get to see all the regulars that I've missed.
So that's me up to date.... nothing else has been going on really.

Update on my leg....

2009-02-06T09:59:00.000-08:00

So I went to the doctor on Tuesday and I thought that they were going to take my cast off for x-rays and I was hoping that I was going to get a walking cast. Well, I went to the doctor on Tuesday and they didn't take the cast off, but they did take x-rays. He said that I was healing faster than he expected but I'm not ready for a walking cast yet. As a matter of fact he gave me a cast shoe, it's pretty much a big sandal with a cradle bottom to go over my cast. I can put a little weight on my heel and kind of shuffle along but I can't put weight on my toes at all. If I do I run the risk on the pin in my ankle going through the bone or backing out, both would be really bad. So I'm in this cast for another month, then they take this cast off for x-rays (for real this time) and then they are going to put me in a fresh cast for another month, at that same visit we are going to schedule the second surgery date to take the pin out. After the pin comes out in April is when I get the walking cast. So I've been pretty bummed, there are Young Single Adult dances and activities coming up that I'm going to miss because of it. And that stinks because these activities coming up are regional activities, the best ones of the year. So I'm hoping that there will be some fun activites this summer to make up for it.
Other than that there's nothing new going on. On Monday, some of my friends came over and we played games and then we went shopping. We went to Khol's and then to Famous Footwear. They gave me a fashion show and I took pictures while I was in the wheelchair. It was so fun! I hadn't laughed that hard before I broke my leg! I had tears rolling down my cheeks! I got texts from all of them saying that we're on for this Monday to! I'm so excited, I needed it so desperately. I am really looking forward to this Monday, it's helping to stay positive and not dwell on my leg. Which I'm really trying not to do because I really could have it a lot worse.
I've started knitting again, I took a couple of weeks off but I back in action, I just finished Natalie's and now I'm working on one for myself. It's hot pink of course! Emery is really jealous of it, it's her favorite color to.
Other than that there's nothing new going on. It's been pretty boring around here.

Nothing Really

2009-01-14T07:35:00.000-08:00

So there's nothing really going on with me right now, I'm just chillin' at home waiting for everybody to come home from work and then we play. My leg is healing really well, I don't get much pain anymore unless I accidently put weight on it, but even then it's breif. I'm still hoping that my cast will come off on Feb. 3 and it will stay off. I have such wonderful friends that sop by and visit me all the time and send me things, I just got a really nice blanket from Crate and Barrel from my friend in ME. It was really nice, also I hear every day that my regular customers at work ask about me. That makes me feel so loved. Aside from being cooped up in the house life is really good. I am so blessed.

A Fall For Grace

2009-01-10T06:49:00.000-08:00

Hey guys! Sorry I haven't updated in a while... to get you all up to speed I have a story.
On Dec. 12 was Elder Simpson's birthday so the night before we decided we would go put some pictures and cards and stuff on their door so that it was the first thing they saw when they left the morning of his brithday. Well, we started going down the stairs and all of a sudden their door started to open. So, what do we do? We start running.... we get down the first flight and then came the second flight, I got down about 3 of those stairs and got startled because Elder Simpson yelled something ( I can't remember what it was now). I tripped and started going head first down about 8 stairs, I somehow managed to grab the railing which considering the way I was falling was a good thing. I ended up breaking my left fibula and my ankle joint widened in the fall (so basically it broke also). So on Dec. 23 I had surgery on my leg... 1 steal plate and 7 screws later I came home the next day which just so happened to be Chirstmas Eve, and got to have Christmas at home. I went to my 2nd post-op on Tuesday and got my cast... I obviously got..... PINK!!! They also said I would be getting the cast off in 4 weeks, that makes me happy because at first they said 3 months. Here's the thing though, I'm not really sure if they meant 3 months after I broke it or 3 months after my surgery... I'm hoping that I will have it off and be walking again in 4 weeks, there is a YSA Regional Conference on Feb. 20-21 and I would REALLY like to go to that! So pray for me! Thanks...
Other than that there hasn't been much going on, I'm pretty much house bound during the day while everyone is at work and when it snows I'm stuck and we've been getting more snow than normal this year, so my life is pretty quiet and boring right now.

My Birthday Week

2008-11-20T06:31:00.000-08:00

My week started Friday November 14th, we had a suprise party for Wilfrieda because her birthday was on the 15th. So we distracted her inside while I got the keys to her car and unlocked it so that the missionaries could fill her WHOLE car with balloons and cover her windows with paper. Then we tied a HUGE balloon to her car... it was so much fun! We had her going that one of our Elders was getting emergnecy transferred out of the area and he's only been there for like a week. Then we all suprised her and had a fun little party.
Then on Saturday we went to New York for the Radio City Christmas Spectacular. It was so fun, I went with Auntie Stephanie, mom, and Lola. We took a train into Grand Central and the walked... we found a street market that we spent about 3 hours in. It was so awesome... I got all sorts fo stuff and only spent about $30. It was really neat. Then we went to the show! There is a reason why they call it Spectacular..... it was.
Sunday was stake conference... it was really good. And I made a new friend, there is a new sailor in our ward and he came over to dinner, he's really nice. Then we had FHE on Sunday night with the Lynch's. Mark did the lesson. It was Masterpiece Theater... we had to act out parables...lol it was so much fun. It was cool seeing everybody's take on them and see their sense of humor.
Monday... the 17th was Adrian's birthday, I got to talk to him a little bit on the phone. He's sooooo cute... I love his little boy voice.
Tuesday was my birthday... it was a really good day. I went to work as usual, while at work I was vistited by Wilfrieda and then a couple hours later the missionaries came in and acted like they didn't know it was my birthday. Then I had YW's. The girls made a card for me it was really nice. Then I noticed Tori was missing from YWs so I went out in the hall to see where she went... all of a sudden I hear "DANG IT!!!" Lola, Tori, Wilfrieda, mom, and the missionaries were coming down the hall with balloons, cards, a guitar, and a cake! They were SOOO mad, they were like "GET BACK IN THERE AND ACT AS IF YOU KNOW NOTHING!!!" So I went back in and they came in and started singing Happy Birthday! It was alot of fun.
So needless to say it was a really great week.... I wish more weeks were like this one.
BTW Lola's birthday is coming up on Tuesday... any ideas for a great prank/suprise? I need some really stealth ideas

YW in Excellence

2008-10-02T06:26:00.000-07:00

Sorry I'm so horrible about comign on here.
Tuesday night was YW in Excellence, I thought it went really well. We did it all on "the worth of soles" get it? We did everything about feet and shoes, we made sugar cookies in the shape of feet ans decorated them so they looked like they were wearinf flip flops and we used m&ms as the toenails. The girls did a great job with their displays, a lot of thought went into each of them I was so impressed. We viewed the slide show that I made.... it was really good if I do say so myself hehe. And then as a gift we gave them this beautiful picture of the Savior washing the apostle's feet. They turned out beautifully.
We've also been having tons of fun pranking the missionaries. We've been getting them so good the past couple of days... they've been shaking in their badges. The best part is that we haven't even had to do anything!!! We told them that Tori was out doing something to their car so when they went outside they were looking at their car up and down totally examining it bumper to bumper. It was fabulous. So then Lola got out of the car and put a napkin on their hood and ran and got back in the car, well they caught her a started chasing her so I put the car in drive and drove off. Then we drove around pointing and laughing at them so they chased my car. I threw it into reverse and backed up and they caught up to us and sprayed my car with Mountain Dew. So we drove off, we got down the road and Lola goes we should go sit in their parking lot until they get home and then drive off. I was like better yet we should pull up and Lola get out and wait by the door and when I say "now" fling the door open and run and get in the car and we'll drive off. So we got there and we waited.... and waited... and waited. Finally I called Wilfrieda and asked her if they left the church yet and she was like yeah and the missionaries are right behind me, we're like almost home. So I was ok bye. I had Lola practice really quick, and just after that they pulled in. So I started yelling, "NOW NOW THIS IS NOT A DRILL THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!!!" so then we drove off. We drove around their building and we got to the traffic light Elder Warren was waiting down there for us so we just drove and I made an illegal turn on red to get away. So then we turned around and went back and they were still outside hahaha. So we pulled over to talk to them, they were like WHAT DID YOU DO? And we were like nothing!!! They totally thought we went in their apt. to do something. It was great. We finally told them the truth, and they were like MAN you got us!!! It was awesome because we didn't even have to do anything and got away with it.
Next time I'll tell you about last night and possibly upload the video so you can see. It's amazing! We're awesome!

My new obsession

2008-09-13T10:42:00.000-07:00

So I have this new obsession! I am really getting into scrapbooking. Before it was just card making but I just started learning how to actually scrapbook the other night and it is so satisfying. Christina invited me over to her house the other night and we scrapbooked for like 3 hours and I'm going again on Monday. But I don't think I can wait until then.

Other than that there's not much else going on, I learned part of Thriller at FHE the other night. That was fabulous. I quit Dixie Donuts and Lola is going back so that'll be nice to not have to wake up at 3:30am anymore.

I've been keeping very busy with the Young Women, we went repelling a couple of weeks ago and we've had a few birthdays so I now have 4 Mia Maids, they've come a long way since the 2 I started with in May. I love them so much. Tori is doing great, she started semminary last Monday and she likes every part except how early she has to wake up lol. But she's doing great.

Lola moved back home last week and I love having her home, she's so funny and a blast to be around. She and I played with a bunch of the kids in the ward this morning at the 5K walk a thon, we had so much fun and so did the kids. I had them all sit on one end of the see saw and I ran and jumped on the other end and then bounced them, they freaked!!! They loved it so much they were like butt bounce me AGAIN!!!!

So I'm keeping busy and having fun doing it, other than that nothing is going on.

My Updates

2008-08-01T05:34:00.000-07:00

Hey guys, sorry it's been so long. It's been crazy and the only time I have to come on my computer is when I am preparing my lesson for Sunday.

Some good news! My friend Tori is getting baptized on August 15th. I am so excited for her and very pleased with her decision. I met her parents again and had dinner at her house with the missionaries, mom, and Brent. It was great and they are being very good about her choice to be baptized. They were a lot of fun, her brother was a lot nicer than Tori lead on, I was picturing the worst, lmbo.

Other than that there's not much going on. Some of the YW are out of town on vacation or at EFY, and I can't wait for them to come home! I miss them a lot. I've been very busy with them and getting to know them better, it's great. I was so worried that I wouldn't have anything in common with them and it would be hard for me to love them. But it was almost instant that I felt a Christ-like love for them, they are wonderful girls.

We went to a cemetary for Standards Night on Tuesday night, the girls were very creative with their stories and they tied in with the lesson perfectly! I was really impressed. We are getting a new Laurel (Tori), and new girl moving in in a couple of weeks, and Hannah Hutchins turning 12 next month, I can't wait to have a full Young Womens again.

TTYL!

Time Flies

2008-06-21T10:53:00.000-07:00

It's been a crazy month... between work, Young Womans, Young Single Adults, and family stuff I feel like I have no time for myself. On the more positive side I haven't had time to get into trouble!
Yesterday was Mark's birthday and we went down to Eastern Point Beach for a party. It was so fun, Christina and Brian were there and Alesha Christensen came out. It was just like old times it was really nice.
Tonight we're going to a luau in Manchester. Alesha is coming to that also, I'm very excited! It'll be so much fun, I can't wait.
Well, thats all for now. I think I'm gonna take a nap before we head out. I'm really tired.

A New Calling

2008-05-25T19:24:00.000-07:00

Today I was sustained as the first councilor in the Young Womens Presidency... CRAZY!!! I am really excited to get to know our Young Women better. We have some fantastic youth in our ward and I'm sure I will learn a lot from them.
It is sort of bittersweet though, this means I will be released from my Stake YSA calling. I am really sad about that but I know that the Lord know what he's doing and I was getting really burned out with that calling. The great thing is that I will be able to prepare the young women in my ward for the next stage in their life because I am still living it and because I have been working in that capacity for so long. The girls seemed really excited also, I got hugs from a few of them and some of the mothers were saying that their daughters were very excited about having me as their leader. That made me feel so much better. I was starting to allow the doubts to sink in, when Brother Thompson set me apart this morning, all those doubts went away and I knew with a surity that this is where I am supposed to be. I am so greatful for the gift of the Holy Ghost that testifies to me constantly of who I am. I can't wait to help the Young Women to understand their roles and who they are also. It took me a long time but I hope that I will be able to help them to understand what it took me years to understand.
Well, I suppose thats all for tonight. I am starting to get really tired and I have to work tomorrow :(