Nolan celebrated his 4th birthday at Grandma and Grandpa's house. He got to have Cousin Trevor have a sleepover for his birthday, and they had so much fun together. When Nolan woke up he opened his presents from Grandma and Grandpa, Jake and the Neverland Pirates Toys! Later that night all the family came over for dinner, presents and cake! Everyone got Nolan cute Jake toys, and then we had a pirate cake. Nolan was so excited to celebrate his birthday with his cousins!
Rylee had surgery on her right ear on December 17th. Dr. Shelton performed the surgery again and it was another tremendous success. Rylee was a little anxious about the surgery this time, because she remembers still remembers the last one. She did great getting checked in a ready for her surgery and we only had a few tears when they took her back for the surgery. When she woke up from surgery we had a scare with her facial nerve. They have to move the facial nerve when doing this surgery and when she woke up the entire right side of her face was paralyzed. We called the doctor back in and he checked a few things out and helped us relax a bit and told us it is most likely the local they had to give her and it will wear off shortly, within a few hour. He said we had to wait at the hospital until her smile was equal on both sides. It was a very anxious time until after about 2 hour we saw her face start to move a little. In the end, everything ended up being fine, but we were scared for a little bit. She had a lot of energy for the recovery, but between me and Grandma Michelle we did our best to keep her under control!
Last weekend Uncle Travis and family came to visit, and it was the coldest weekend of the year! We tried our best to make the most of it, despite the freezing temperatures. Saturday night we made it to Temple Square and had a fun time walking, quickly, around the temple. The kids thought it was great even though we were all freezing, it was 5 degrees out!
