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The First Snow

The first snow came this week. And it stuck. I snapped a picture of the house in the first snow. It is October 19, 2007. I can hardly remember a year we had snow that stayed before Halloween. We had two storms this weekend as well. The news was saying we had about an inch Saturday, but I could look outside and see that it was more like 4 inches. The fall just never lasts long enough.

Halloween ride

Jake and I went on a date last weekend. Just the two of us. no Kate. We went on the Haunted Heber Creeper Ride. The ride was not scary but we had never ridden this local train so it was a fun adventure.

Also I thought I would point out the puffy vest I am wearing. It is one of two I own. Jake and I are obsessed with wearing puffy vests. Sometimes when we get ready to go out independently of one another we will both we wearing one. We joke that we look like tourists.

Kate and Lisa

Jake's parents were in town for General Conference, and his sister Lisa came up for a day as well. I snapped this cute pict of Lisa and Kate together and thought I would share it.

"Patchy"

Yes Patchy is what Jake and I have been calling me since Thursday. Because as you can see in the picture below, I am wearing a patch on my eye.... no I am not trying to relive Jake's third year of life, I under went some eye surgery of my own on Thursday at the Moran Eye Center in SLC. For what? Well I had some unnamed problem with my eyelashes, poking me in the eye and scratching my lens blurring my vision. The whole experience was very interesting, they mildly sedated me, but I could see the whole thing as they cut off the lower section of my upper eyelid and reattached it. I talked to the surgeon and his students who were watching for the majority of the time. What do you talk about while your eye is being cut open you ask? Well we talked about where was good to eat around the hospital, as I was forbidden to eat anthing for the previous 18 hours, I talked to the interns about Grey's Anatomy, and then when Dr. Weinberg was doing some cutting he asked me...." Have you ever done any international travel to a 3rd world country" Why yes I replied, then listed several countries he might be interested in hearing about....Ethiopia, Kenya, Egypt, Malaysia, China, Thailand.... as he stopped me to tell me he had found the problem with me eye. I apparently likely aquired a bacterial infection while traveling abroad and had a mild case of Trichiasis. Which he explains is the leading cause of blindness in 3rd world countires.....but can be treated- before you get to the point I was at by taking three little pills of a certain antibiotic, which he perscribed to me to take to be sure the problem will not return. Aparently some bacteria gets in your eye and creates some scar tissue pushing your lashes every which way including into your eye. Well it has been an adventure. I joke that I am going to be a pirate for Halloween. Also it has been a lesson in confidence, or finding I have more than I may have thought, as I am not self conscious in the least that i look like a modern day pirate. I would have included a pict of the actual eye, but I am afraid it is a little gross for some blogosphere readers.