I wish I could say that I'm back in sunny Las Vegas where I left behind the cold and windy days of Salt Lake, but sadly I returned to COLD and WINDY here. I'm freezing!
My trip was definitely productive and even though I missed Ryan and the girls I am so glad I went and was able to spend 5 days with my parents and left there feeling they would be okay until I saw them next time. (I did bawl almost the entire time I was waiting for my flight at the airport though, I must have looked LOVELY)
Something fun we got to do while in Salt Lake was go to the bridal expo with my cousin Kristalyn who is getting married March 26th and my Aunt Cara. It was bridal overload. I have always thought that being a wedding planner would be so much fun, I mean I had fun planning mine. But this expo was crazy, photographers, food and cake vendors, announcements, dresses everywhere. And I am so glad I was not the one planning my wedding because I ate everything the vendors had to offer, if a bride's goal is to lose weight before the wedding (which Kristal does NOT need to to) then don't go to the expo. I probably gained weight :) We had alot of fun and Kristal found a photographer and announcements, and later that night found her dress so mission accomplished :)
This week for my dad is the actual stem cell harvesting, he received his PICC LINE (see picture below) yesterday and that is how they hook him up to the machine to funnel the blood in and out, it also makes it so he doesn't have marks all over his veins like he is a drug addict so that's good. We are told the stem cell collection is alot like when you give platelets which my dad has done before so I am hoping it is not that big of a deal for him.
My next trip back there is tentatively scheduled for the week of Feb 14th sometime whenever he gets admitted to the hospital to start the process of receiving his chemo and his stem cells back. I wont go on Valentines though I'll save that date for me and Ryan. February 14th also happens to be our 6 month anniversary. It's gone by so fast. Luckily this time I wont be away from Ryan too long because that weekend of Feb 18th happens to be Presidents Day weekend so Ry and Matt will come up and spend the weekend and then the three of us will drive home Monday.
It was sad leaving my parents, but it was nice to come home to Ryan and the girls. They all missed me I think :) Even though Ryan had no one to nag him and was able to watch whatever he wanted and went golfing LOL Ryan had the house clean and he made me dinner. It was awesome.
Tonight Matt is coming over to have dinner with us I'm making ribs, green beans and potatoes for the guys and helping Ryan move the dryer so we can fix the soap dispenser that is stuck in our washer. Having stackable front loaders is great for space in your laundry room but a pain in the butt when something goes wrong and you have to UNstack them! Hopefully this is our first and only time having to do this until we move and take them with us.
Tomorrow we are going to the UNLV vs. UTAH game at the T&M, this will be my first Rebel game this season which I am not happy about but we have just been so busy we haven't been able to go until now.
This weekend I want to chill and have Ryan take me on a date to the movies. I'm not sure what movie yet, I still want to see Country Strong so maybe that. Other than that I just want to do laundry, once the washer is fixed and I can actually load the soap, and just chill, maybe do a little baking. I'm in the mood to be domestic.
I'll be doing updates probably every other day about my dad, he is trying to update as much as he can to. He hates updating when nothing is happening :)
Much love to all!
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