Some Pictures of The last Month

Grandpa and Ella
Ammon and Brooke's Birthday

Thanksgiving Dinner

The Hepworth Clan at Thanksgiving

Ella in the morning...

Halloween!

We started our Halloween off playing (well, Stephen played, I watched) pumpkin football with some friends. It was so fun!
So this year dressing up was tricky due to lack of time and lack of funds. The day before Halloween I was standing in our spare room trying to figure out what to dress up as and I saw a picture frame sitting on the table and it came to me, I'll be a work of art and Stephen can be an artist! I know I'm a creative genius! I think our costumes turned out rather well considering I only spent $1.25.

That night stopped by a friend's house and had some yummy homemade donuts and then we headed over to my brother's house to play games and have caramel apples. My brother and his wife dressed up as Han Solo and Princess Leah. I'm quite impressed with their costuming skills!

Pumpkin Carving!

I love this picture! Stephen looks SO excited!

Aren't we cute!

The finished product. Stephen's is on the left.

Campfires, Rain and Hail

So last night my brother, Ammon invited Stephen and I up Provo Canyon to have a campfire and roast marshmallows. Stephen and I were planning on going on a date but said we would come for the first little while. As we drove up the canyon it started raining, huge hard drops pelting the car. I started to get a little apprehensive, we were both wearing flip flops, naturally, and I was wearing a sweater that definitely wasn't water proof. When we pulled into the campground parking lot, however, the rain had subsided and we got out to trudge through the mud towards the fire pit. We met my brother's and sister's families and began to start the fire. Just about then the hail started...It wasn't golf ball sized but it was still pretty big. Ammon somehow got the fire started and we stood around it huddled under a blanket to fend off the worst of the hail.

Needless to say, Stephen and I left pretty quickly. But it was a great start to our date and a memory I'll keep for those times when I need a little laugh.

27 and Counting...

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY MY LOVE! Stephen turned 27 on October 13. We has his sister over for cake and ice cream on his actual birthday and then had my brother, sister and cousins over that saturday. It was so much fun! Stephen got Rock Band 2 and Ticket to Ride for his birthday. I wish I had taken pictures of him playing Rock Band 2, he was so cute!

It's been a while...

I know, it's been a while :( sorry.

In the way of updates my ankle's doing great. I'm walking on it and everything, YAY! I never realized how much I liked to walk until I couldn't do it anymore.

Stephen's doing great, plugging away at school. He still has the same early morning job, yuck, but hopefully we can find him something with better hoours.

Three weeks and counting

So tomorrow will be three weeks since I had surgery, YAY!! Yesterday I got my cast off and got a soft cast. I still can't walk at all but I am allowed to do some physical therapy, you know moving my ankle up and down, side to side, nothing I really WANT to do. But the good news is that I can shower again!

The ER and seven years of bad luck!

So yesterday on my way to the bathroom I got a little dizzy and fell over, almost. my fall was stopped by a full length mirror we have on our wall. I was ok, unfortunately the mirror wasn't. It broke into lots of little pieces. I cut my shoulder a little but nothing serious. Stephen cleaned it up and we wen on our way to the bathroom. While in the bathroom, I felt some glass in my cast, oh great. I was just going to leave it in there and hope it fell out.

Meanwhile, I had been having a lot of extra leg pain in my calf and shin in the last two days. I told this to my nurse case manager and she told me to go to the ER right away because it could possibly be a blood clot, I then told her rather sheepishly about the glass in my cast. She said that they should be able to take care of it at the ER as well.

Well, I'm happy to report that After a ultrasound of my leg and a CT scan of my heart, I don't have any blood clots but unfortunately the glass may or may not still be in my cast. Just another exciting day at the McCuen home. But, hey atleast I got to go outside.

Oh, and P.S. It took me another 1/2 an hour to get up our stairs:0)

Laying Around

So there's not much to say. I'm still recovering. It still takes 5 minutes to walk a few feet to the bathroom and I'm still exhausted when I'm done. My parents came this last weekend and it was really fun to have them around. It was great to have my mommy take care of me, not that Stephen's not doing an amazing job, but there's just something about your mom that makes everything better. Thanks for taking care of me mommy!

Itchy Ankle

So when they operated on my ankle they injected some pain blockers so my ankle wouldn't hurt so much the first day or so after the surgery. Well, the pain blocker have worn off and let me tell you, OUCH! But as long as I keep it elevated, iced and I take some nice narcotics I'm fine, a little loopy but ok. One of the downsides to narcotics is that it makes me super itchy! Mostly it's not too bad because scratching the itches isn't hard, except the itches in my cast! AAAHHH! It's driving me crazy! I'm not supposed to stick anything down there because it could cause infection and I can't hit the cast because it could cause bleeding so mostly I just pretend to scratch the itches but that doesn't really work. What to do, what to do? Any suggestions?