A day at the hospital

Today Steven had prostate surgery. The good news is that everything went really well. They didn't have to do as much work as they thought they would. I'm sitting in his room right now waiting for him to come up from recovery.
Annie is on her way to a french restaurant in SLC and Zoie is at Marnae's. Zoie loves to go to Marnae's. Debbie dotes on her and lets her do just about anything she wants.
I'm sitting actoss the hall from the room where mom died in July. I just about lost it when I walked on to this floor. It was all I could do to stop from crying. I can't believe it's still so hard. There are times when all I want to do is cry because mom never got to see my house finished. I know she would have liked the colors I picked out. I really wanted mom to help me decorate and figure out where to put stuff. I have such a hard time with all that kind of stuff. I really need to call Charla and have her come help me. I know that I've been putting it off because seeing Charla means probably talking about mom and I don't think I can do that right now.
Steve is due here any minute and I can't wait for him to get here and tell him that things went well. We were really worried that the Dr. would have to mess with his baby making parts but they were able to stay clear of that stuff. A big hurray for that.

Mondays

Mondays at our house are usually kind of busy. I try to get all the laundry done plus all the piled up dishes and other stuff from the weekend. Today isn't any different.
Annie has started her spring break but because of Steven's work and the fact that Annie has 2 softball games this week we can't really do anything.
Dad and Ann are supposed to be coming home sometime this week. They spent the weekend in Heber with Ann's daughter but aren't pleased with being there because it's still cold and snowy. We don't have any snow here in the valley and it hasn't been cold enough to frost for about a week now.
I really want it to warm up so I can get my garden started. I have to start totally from scratch this year. I have to find someone with a tractor plow and then a walk behine tiller. I plan on planting tomatoes, potatoes, winter squash, pumkins, zuchini and I think I'm going to try something new I don't know what yet but I'll find something. I'm going to offer space to Dad and Ann and perhaps Jason and Lyssa. I know Ann will take me up on the offer but I don't think Jason will.
I watch the show Big Brother on CBS. I would like to think that I could handle being on a reality show like that. I know that there is to much back stabbing and lying for me. I would miss my family to much. I don't think I could handle being away from my family like that. I know that I whine and complain about all the stuff I have to do, but I love my family more than anything in the world. Even the temptation of 1/2 a million dollars.
Yesterday we went down to Jen and Gerardos for the day. Annie and Bardo went to Conference while the rest of us stayed and watched it on TV. Steven and Zoie went out and played. Once while checking on them Zoie was trying to put a handkerchief on Steve's head. She finally succeded and he sat there looking really "pretty" with his red bonnett. They then went to the driveway to play with chalk. When Annie and Bardo pulled up the drive Zoie had gone to find something else to do and Steve was sitting there with his bonnett and chalk, boy did he look silly. The only thing that mattered was that Zoie was having a great time playing with her daddy.

Day 1 april 4, 2008

This is Steven, the dad

This is Tina the crazy mom This is happy Zoie
This is Annie, she's the one in purple on the left. The other girl is her best friend Sarah

This is day one of hopefully many days of writing. I'm not very good at this so this is going to be interesting to see how much I actually write.

A little about our family.

We are the Buckners. There is Steven, the dad, Tina, the mom, AdriAnn (Annie) the 15 year old, and Zoie who is 3. We have 2 dogs Jill and Jojo. Jill is a JRT and Jojo is a mini-weiner. We love to do things as a family including camping, fishing, bike riding and watching movies.

Annie is a freshman at the local High School and plays on the varsity fastpitch softball team.

Zoie is 3 and loves to play with her cousin Molly and with our 2 dogs.

Steven works full time and Qwest and goes to school at night. He is getting a degree in Criminal Justice with an emphasis in Forensic Phycology.

Tina is a stay-at-home mom and loves it. She missed watching Annie grow up because she had to work and really regrets it. Now she is doing everything she can so that she doesn't miss anything about Zoie growing up.