Surprise Baby!

So much has happened in the last three months I don't even know where to begin...

So let's just start here.
October I had a back surgery.
Not to correct the pain I was having, but the doctor found another herniated disc higher in my back that was causing the numbness in my thigh.
I have a fantastic doctor and the surgery went off without a hitch.
The only problem was the problem I had before the surgery and that is...
My aching back.
My disc is shot, rotten caput at L5 S1.
The bottom.
When I say bad, I mean ugly.
All they can do to fix it is fuse it and I can't do that and the reason why is because I'm fat and out of shape and I would probably never heal and I would and up fat and stuck in a chair with an aching back for the rest of my life.
I decided I have to lose ALL my weight and strengthen my core but since I can't move and hardly walk this is going to be a chalenge, but I'll figure it out.

I am obviously no longer a lunch lady and that makes me very sad and that's all I'm going to say about that.


Thanksgiving was great, we had turkey and pie and ate to much.

Christmas was fabulous.
Mikes parents came from Washington, his daughter Maddy was here, Wendy, my Mom and the Neighbor.
I loved having everyone here and the only thing that went off kilter was my Mother making a rather pornographic remark about some cupcake scented lotion and Wendy got a headache and had to go home right after dinner.
Wendy still had a headache the next day.
So she went to the doctor.
The doctor sent her to the hospital.
The hospital transported her to OHSU the BIG hospital.
Wendy had extreme pre-eclampsia that had been going on for over a month and her regular doctor (who was on vaction) let it go untreated and now it had reached a critical point of no return and Wendy was in real danger.
They could no longer control her blood presure and her kidneys were shutting down.

The only treatment at that point was to deliver her baby.
Two months early.
~Insert all the emotions here~
Hunter Thomas Copeland was born December 30th 2011.
He weighed 3lbs 6oz and was 16 and 1/4 inches long.

His parents are two of the stongest people I know.

His Granny Ma however, is a cry baby.

Hunter is now a week old and they have removed his CPAP that helped him breathe, his goggles that protected his eyes, the big blue lights that I don't know what the lights did I think he may have been a little yellow, he started nursing yesterday and now he's getting his IVs out.

Can you believe that?

This is Hunter on his one week birthday...

And this was him yesterday...

Amazing.

I made a super simple crockpot cream cheese chicken chili yesterday that was really good.

Plain Chicken

Plain Chicken Photo

My New Years resolution is to be a more regular blogger.

I seem to recal saying that before.

I mean it this time.

Do you want to see one more baby picture?

Ok, how about a video?

Peas.