It's Been A While

Sorry, I have been super busy with life so, I haven't found much time to blog. Not, that I haven't thought about it, that's for sure.

Whats Been Happening at the Sharlow's:

I am back to school. I have six classes this term and they are quite time consuming. Even my determination with being organized with school is not working so well for me this term. I was tutoring 8-9 hours a week up at the college. I have put my tutoring on hold while I try to get myself into a schedule that works. I will be graduating this June and I'm am excited and a little scared.

I went this last week and had my 3-month post op. for my Lasik. My vision is really good. I have a residual astigmatism that makes my vision fluctuate when I read street signs. Hopefully, my eyes will adjust to it over the next year and if it becomes to much of an issue there is still the option for a retouch. My vision is solid 20/30, but I do see at 20/25 quite well, and sometimes my vision is 20/20. I can't complain and I don't ever have to wear glasses. I am excited that I get to take a trip to the DMV and have my vision restriction removed from my license.YAY!!!

I also have been going to the gym, yes I said gym, for the last few weeks. I take a group power class (weight training) and a Zumba class. I do both classes 2x a week and then one day I do the elliptical and free weights on my own. I am loving it!

Jeff is working hard for the money!!! He has no idea the gratitude I have for him allowing me to stay home with the kids for the last five years, and for letting me go to college and get a degree. I don't think I could ever repay him for the amazing opportunity he gave me.

Madison is going to be five next month!!! Who said she could grow up so fast? I know it wasn't me. My little girl is amazing, bad attitude and all. She has lost three teeth over the last year. The third one she just pulled a few days ago. She is a bit advanced on the whole tooth business. Most kids don't start losing teeth till five or six. She's a pretty tough girl who can certainly hold her own, but she does it wearing a princess dress and a tiara.

Nathan is amazing in the word department! He speaks in full, 8-10 word, understandable sentences. I am blown away at how well he understands words. He is growing like a weed and is cute as can be. He loves to play super heroes, jump off the highest thing he can find, and doesn't like going to bed or taking naps.

I can't wait for spring!Pendleton is normally pretty cold in the winter but we get a lot of sunshine. That however, is not the case this year. I feel like we are living back down in Eugene/Springfield. It has been cold, rainy, and overcast for far too long. I am sick of it and need more sun, STAT!

Sorry this post is soooooo long. I will try to post more often but, no guarantees.

Same old song and dance

So not much going on here these days. I am getting close to the end of fall term at school and I am super excited for Christmas break. I can't wait to put up a tree and decorations but I have to wait until my school stuff is done.

Madison is doing really well in school. She is finally paying attention(most of the time) and doing her work. She does get distracted with a few certain friends of hers. I am also excited that she has learned how to spell "Madi". She is also quite into saying "I don't know why......." phrases. Which I find quiet interesting.She has also learned what lying is. This has been a challenge to try to teach her. She's so bad at it that we always know(Hehehehe....)She is really growing up, and I am such a stressed out, and proud momma.

Nathan is a jumping, punching, gonna get you, web slinging, fearless, transforming spiderman. He has such an amazing thought process. The things that this two year old says is far beyond what he should know, understand, and pretend.

Happy Holidays!!!! Take care and be safe.

2-weeks post LASIK

So, it has been two weeks since I had LASIK done. I enjoy the freedom of walking throughout the house. However, I am having some issues with driving. My vision is not as good as my doctor had hoped but my stubborn astigmatism is still hanging around and causing me some trouble. I have another two weeks before we know what the real out come is going to be. I hope it gets better or worse. If it gets better I will then be able to see clearly when driving, if it gets worse then I will be considered for a touch-up in a couple of months. If my vision stays where it is I will have to get glasses to drive. I am staying optimistic but I am a little worried. I do feel different without my glasses to hide behind.

Nate's First Haircut

I took Nate to get his first hair cut on Halloween. His hair was getting so long on top it was getting in his eyes and it just looked shaggy and akward. So, we (me and the sylist) bribed Nate with a sucker to follow her to the chair for his haircut. It worked like a charm! He did excellent and enjoyed his candy. I think he looks absolutly adorable with his new clean cut look, it makes him look like such a big boy.



I just realized that I don't have any pictures of Nate after his haircut. I will be taking one soon and getting it posted.

Halloween

We always enjoy Halloween, especially now that we have kids. Jeff has been lucky enough to get Halloween off every year since Madison was born, until this year. He worked diligently to try to find someone at work to trade with him in order to get the day off but in the end he still had to go to work Halloween night. Therefore, I got to get two little munchkins dressed and ready for trick-or-treating.



I was fortunate enough that my friend Rachel and her two kids were going with us as her husband was working that night as well, in fact he and Jeff work at the same place.



I also made the call to my in-laws for backup. Papa and granny were of course more than happy to spend an hour or so with the grand kids for Halloween, as they have for the last few years.



Here in Pendleton they do a safe Halloween downtown on Main street for the kids, it is great for the little ones. So we went downtown and got those kiddos some candy and I called it a night.






We went to our friends to hang out and Madi and her best friend Caiden handed out candy to kids that stopped by. I think Madi had more fun doing that than trick-or-treating. I even dressed up a little which I don't normally do.






We all had fun but I enjoy it much more when Jeff is there with us, maybe next year.

LASIK

Sorry I haven't updated over the last week. I have been super busy with school work, preparing for Halloween, and getting ready for my surgery.

Well, my surgery went great. I was able to see as soon as he was done. I did end up with a broken blood vessel when they were marking my astigmatism on my right eye. It was hurting quite a bit when my numbing medicine wore off. A few hours after surgery I went and saw my eye doctor here in town and he told me it would be fine and that it would go away. I find it such a great convenience to have my own eye doctor doing all of my post-op appointments so we don't have to drive almost an hour to Kennewick.

My eyes are sensitive to bright lights right now so I get to wear my sunglasses everywhere. My favorite was last night I went to WalMart and their lights are so bright I had to shop with sunglasses on at 8pm. I certainly got more than a few weird looks. When I got home Jeff asked me how my drive at night went, and I replied "I felt like I was doing something illegal."

I have to sleep with my sunglasses on at night in order to protect my eyes while sleeping, only for the first week. I also have to put drops in my eyes quite often but that certainly won't be forever. So far I am super happy with the results. In about a month I should be done with the drops, my eyes should be done adjusting, and my corneal flap should be plenty healed.

Oh, and Jeff got to watch the whole surgery. He was on the other side of a glass wall and had a large flat screen t.v. to see close up, what was happening. He also had an employee tell him step-by-step what they were doing. I'm kinda jealous. Hmmm.......I wonder if I can get a copy, O.k. not really. I can't believe I can see! It's amazing!

Yesterday we finally got to put Nathan's new bed together. He doesn't seem to even notice or care that he has a new bed, but it's cute and Jeff and I really like it. It makes his room seem much bigger without a huge crib in it.




We also had the kids paint their little pumpkins last night. Naturally, they had paint everywhere by the time they were done. We had a good time and it didn't take a whole lot of time.