busy, busy...merry christmas!!!

merry christmas everyone!!! it has been crazy busy around here and time is just flying by. the salon has been really busy the last few weeks. that is always a good thing. :-) my only complaint about that is that i miss nick and the kids. i've been so jealous that he gets to stay home all day long with the boys that i can hardly stand it. but i'm trying to not get too upset because i know i will have a lot to complain about when nick goes back to work in two weeks and my schedule will be 100 times more complicated. :-/ owen is doing really good. we are now doing daily bladder irrigation on him which are super easy because of the bladder access thru his belly button. we are doing these in an attempt to get rid of a bacteria called sudamoundous. he has had this bacteria in his urine off and on for as long as i can remember. the drs thought it was coming from his sick kidneys. so they were a little shocked when they saw it in his urine again now that both his kidneys are gone. now they believe that it has been coming from his bladder all along. since antibiotics can cause such bad diarrhea on him we are trying the bladder irrigations. so far so good. nick is doing good too. he is having a few small side affects but nothing that his drs are too worried about.
a few weekends ago nick and i took owen and liv on a date night. we went to dinner and to see the movie tangled. which was a great movie. we went to the theatre in blue springs and while there nick and i had a surreal and amazing moment. that theatre is where nick and i had some of our first dates over 16 years ago. it was so amazing to sit in the same place with two of our kids giggling and having a great time. and for nick and i to love each other even more than we back then. i truly felt our relationship come full circle that night. can't wait till noah is old enough to go with us.
today nick was asking livi to list 3 things that she is grateful for. when she was done owen walked over and said "i'm grateful for you daddy".............aren't we all :-)

Merry Christmas
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we are still here...6 weeks

hi all....i don't know where all my time has gone. we are 6 weeks out from the swap and doing great. we still have a nurse coming to the house twice a week for labs. still changing meds here and there. owen did end up having a virus that was causing the diarrhea and it seems to be getting better now that he is on a antibiotic for it. his appetite is way better now but his taste buds are totally different. he has been craving sweets but can't really have any because one of the meds he is on makes his body retain sugar. so it's been a struggle to get him to want healthier alternatives now. before he would take one nibble of sweets then turn it down or choose fruit which he doesn't seem to want now. it's just all so weird and different and hard to say no to him. beside all that he really is doing good.

we had a great thanksgiving. natalie and i hit up lots of stores on black friday. we've got the house ready for christmas. i think i'm done shopping for the kids but every day owen adds something to his list. he has been staring at the toy-r-us ad for two days. today i actually heard him yell at liv not to touch it because she would rip it. :-) it's really funny to hear him say because nick and i call him "owen the ripper" because he rips all paper.

it's late and i'm tired, so sorry this is a short post. i just wanted all my loving and loyal followers to know that we are still here. i will get some pics up later this week. have a great week!!