Beaumont Ranch

Saturday night we stayed at a Bed & Breakfast at Beaumont Ranch. It's about an hour away and is 900 acres. We did an ATV tour around the ranch, which was amazing! We had so much fun! The guide told Jordan that he had to stand up on the ATV most of the time so it wouldn't tip over since he is so big, haha! He didn't tip over by the way. After the ATV tour, we had a rib dinner in the barn, and then a cowboy breakfast was included the next morning too. We had a wonderful time and wish we could go back to do the ATV ride again. They also have horseback riding and zip lines there as well so we just may have to go back to do them all.

Prayer Request

Jordan and I got forwarded an e-mail today requesting prayers for the next 5 days for Doug, one of Jordan's friends who is deployed to Afghanistan. Doug sent this request to his fiancee who forwarded it, which eventually got to us. He said that we needed to pray hard for him right now over the next 5 days, harder than you have all deployment because the next 5 days are going to be insane. So pray people!!!

We made the switch!

We finally made the switch to a Mac! We've been needing a new computer, and we decided to try a Mac since everyone that has one seems to love it. I've only had a few days to play around with it, but so far it is really easy to get adjusted to. I love the picture program that comes with it-so far that's my favorite.

Poor Little Maj!

This last week Major gashed his leg! We can't figure out how he did it, but he just came walking in with a very large and very deep gash. He acted like he didn't even know it was there, but it was a pretty disgusting gash. You could see the white tissue stuff that surrounds the bone and muscle, it was so gross! We immediately took him to the vet where he got 6 staples. He was so tough. They didn't numb or anything, they just stapled him right then and there. I waited a few days to take a picture of it because it was kinda gross before. It seems to be healing alright and I have to take him on Thursday to get the staples out, which hopefully won't hurt him too bad.

This and That

I haven't really blogged in a while so I thought I'd just write a few things that have been going on (not much for the most part though-hence, my lack of blogging!) I just love this dog. He makes Jordan and I so happy! Here he is doing two of his favorite things-holding a toy and looking out the window.

So cute. I love his wrinkles on his forehead. Jason calls him "Crinkle face"

About a month ago two of Jordan's friends from West Point came and stayed with us. They are really funny together as you can see from this picture! They were here the weekend of the Superbowl and that Saturday was "Snuggie Bar Hop in Uptown." So there were people in snuggies everywhere in Uptown! It was quite a site to see!

Jordan's knee is doing good two weeks out of surgery. It still swells quite a bit, but it is only 2 weeks out so I think everything is going well on that front.

My mom is finally healing from her Staph infection. She got a MRSA (Methicillin Resistant Staph aureas) Staph infection a few weeks ago and it was really scary. You've probably heard of MRSA being a big problem after surgeries and in the military. It is an infection that is resistant to many antibiotics so it can be extremely dangerous. She didn't end up in the hospital (although I think her doctor almost admitted her a few times), but she was really sick for over a week. Her doctor gave her really strong antibiotics and now she is beginning another 30-day round of antibiotics just to make sure it gets all taken care of. So we are really happy she is healing and doing well!

3rd Times the Charm! Hopefully!

One of the few times Major actually got up there with Jordan. He won't stay up there and cuddle with him, and I think it's frustrating Jordan. Major is usually really cuddly, but I guess he's freaked out or something. He certainly won't go near the crutches! If they are really visible, Major won't even go in that room!

Jordan had a scope done on his knee today to hopefully finally fix it. It was a very short surgery, and the dr. seemed very optimistic. He found a bunch of scar tissue right near his IT band (which is where last surgery was done) and removed it. He said this is what has been causing his pain for the last 3 years. Jordan was most likely born with this scar tissue or it developed by age 18. He said there isn't much literature on removing this scar tissue but the patients he has done this with have all been fixed. It is a rare thing he said so that's why no other doctor has mentioned this before. We are hoping he is right! Jordan says purple is his color. haha

In the recovery room. He was VERY happy to be drinking a Dr. Pepper!

He is doing okay now. He is in quite a bit of pain, which I was wasn't expecting. The last surgery he had (which was much more invasive than this one), he hardly experienced any pain. The pain pills are not doing much for him so hopefully tomorrow will be better.

Oh Valentines Day

Valentines Day was interesting for us this year. I had a big test the day after so we decided to order Whole Food's Valentines Dinner. Whole Foods (if you don't know what Whole Foods is, it is a really nice grocery store here) always has these dinners you can buy from them on holidays. We eat lunch there a lot because they have really good warm food so we figured their holiday dinners would be just as good. Nope. It was absolutely AWFUL! yuck and yuck is all we can say. Even Jordan couldn't eat it, and he can usually eat anything! We also wanted to make Cassis Royals. We had many of these on the Mexico Vacation we took the Christmas before last and they were so good! So we bought some cassis and champagne to make them. Well, let's just say that they didn't taste like the ones at the resort. We had to add orange juice to them to make them drinkable. So Valentines Day for us was a terrible meal and a terrible drink! haha! Maybe better next year!

I got Jordan some cigars and a new cutter. Please excuse all the dust on the humidor- I guess I need to dust more often! woops.

He got me these beautiful flowers!