surgery update.

My surgery went well. I went in at 10am and was home by 2. They filed down the bone around my cyst and removed a bunch of hard tissue surrounding the area. Needless to say, it hurts. Basically, it feels like I went and had my wisdom teeth taken out again. I took yesterday (obviously) and today off from work and I hope to be able to go back tomorrow. Until then I have been eating A LOT of applesauce, mashed potatoes and Ben & Jerry's Peach Cobbler ice cream.

Our refrigerator was ready for post surgery.

Got the medicine and gauze ready..

Bella and her Ba Ba.. :)

Bella's new stuffed animal, Ba Ba.

Pitiful, I know, but it hurt.
this isn't from my surgery day, but isn't she cute!?

game time.

gooooo COCKS!

family picture

Rachel dancing to Cupid Shuffle.

I love this picture of her :) :)

surgery.

I have been having pretty severe headaches, neck/shoulder pain, etc. 2 to 3 times a week for about 6 years now. After visiting numerous Chiropractors, Neurologists, having MRI's, CT scans, and being on ridiculous amounts of medicine, today they finally gave me a reason for it all. I have a cyst (which I am very prone to) pushing on my sinuses. I will be having surgery on Wednesday, September 23rd to remove it and hopefully solve a good bit of these problems that are essentially ruining my life. So all in all it was a pretty good day :) Thank God for Midlands Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Dr. Park.

labor day weekend.

For Labor Day weekend weekend Alan and I decided to take a trip to Lake Jocassee with his parents. We left Saturday night and made our long, 3 hour journey up there. Sunday we went to Whitewater Falls and a few other places before making our way back to our villa on the lake. After we got home, we went to the lake and swam in the ridiculously clear water (for SC at least), and jumped off rocks and other semi dangerous things. Today, we went to Table Rock and Caesar's Head state park's before heading home. All in all, it was a wonderful weekend away from Columbia. Tomorrow, it's back to wonderful Bank of America.

2009 recap.

Seeing as I just started this blog, here are some pictures from 2009 thus far to catch up on some pretty important things. (everything in my life is important.)

January
Lake Lure, NC
(Where Dirty Dancing was filmed)

Christmas Picture

Snowboarding Trip
Beech Mountain, NC

February
Biltmore House
Asheville, NC

My 21st Birthday
February 13

March

Mount Lemmon
Tucson, Arizona

Tucson at night

Family.

Me, Dad, Jan (grandpa), Jacob (cousin) and Grandma
Green Valley, Arizona

Bella Lou Atkinson
6 weeks old

English's 23rd Birthday

80's Party

April
Mom & Shane's wedding
Saluda Shoals

May
Ginni's Graduation
University of South Carolina
June
Charlotte, NC
Jordan's 8th grade graduation/ 14th birthday present.
cruise to the Bahamas.
Myrtle Beach, SCJuly
Royal Caribbean
Cruise to the Bahamas
Blue Lagoon Island, Bahamas
CoCo Cay, Bahamas
August

6 month old BellaMy sweet puppy.

In her new USC harnessHer "modeling" picture ;)
..and THIS would be her "seductive look."

Well, that about sums up my year so far. It was quite a bit more pictures than I wanted to post, I couldn't pick just one picture for each month :)