The Most Exciting December Ever!

Holy smokes this month has been CRAZY~ and by crazy I mean its been:
BUSY 
FUN 
SCARY 
CELEBRATORY 
ADVENTUROUS 


It basically been an over all wonderful month so far! Here's why (brace yourself for TONS of pictures):

1) HAPPY BIRTHDAY to myself and Tristin! YAY. We had a TON of fun skiing over my birthday weekend with Jay and Christina. Jay and Christina rented a condo in Keystone, invited us to go up with then and we had fun and skied all weekend! It was my third time in my life skiing so it was a very mixed-feeling adventure for me. Adrenaline can be fun...until it's not fun. And nothing gets the adrenaline pumping in your veins better than sliding down a mountain of snow and ice at 30 MPH.

Birthday embrace for ME!

Here I am skiing my first run. This was taken when the adrenaline was still fun

There's Lake Dillion in the background

Gotta Love Colorado

Jay and Christina

Jay and Christina bought me a cake but we had to get creative with the candles. It was very sweet! and yes, I'm 24 Finally!

2) One weekend later Tristin and I drove back up to Keystone to celebrate the wedding of Jay and Christina! They finally tied the knot and celebrated by renting another condo up at Red Hawk and invited a hand full of friend and family to celebrate with them as well as participate in the semi casual ceremony. We were lucky enough to be invited to go and celebrate this wonderful occasion. I offered to play photographer for the weekend and so T and I had a lot of fun doing that  (as well as be a part of the ceremony). The happy couple looked stunning so taking pictures of the two of them was simple.

The exchanging of the rings during the ceremony

We did the actual wedding ceremony here....on the ice over the river...so I guess you can say they got married on a river :)

The bling

She was really easy to shoot for obvious reasons...and check out those shoes!! Love em!

This is one of my personal favorites! Can someone say "Boy band cover?"

Congrats you two! We love you both and are so happy to have you be a part of our lives and are honored to be a part of the ceremony! We adore you both and are lucky to have you as friends!!

2 weeks down, 2 more to go. We still have Christmas and our 5 year anniversary to celebrate!

Gotta love Decembers!

Christmas Video for YOU

Not YOU Again!

Round 4 of Antibiotics is up. Seriously, you'd think I'd be over this by now.

Last week I contracted just about every virus know to man. Ok, maybe that's a slight over exaggeration, I only got 3 different infections which turned into 4 and I'm now back on my 4th round of antibiotics. Ironic because it was taking all the antibiotics in the first place (which DID kill off the bone infection) that caused all the other things to manifest in my body.

Get this! I have taken more medication in the past 6 weeks than I have in my ENTIRE 24 years of existence! That record was one I was not hoping to break. OH well, such is life... If this is my trial to bare this year, I'LL TAKE IT! I'd rather go through this a dozen times than go through what we did last year!

Here's to modern medicine! CHEERS~

Yoga

Lately Tristin and I have had a lot of visitor from out of state (and country) come visit us. first there was Sonto and Antonio from Johannesburg, South Africa. Sonto is my best friends sister. I'll upload pictures from her trip in the near future once I get them downloaded from my camera. But this past week we had a lot of fun hanging out with Kim.

Pearl St, November 5th (hence the Guy Fawkes shirt)

Kim came to visit us at our humble Boulder home with the goal of experiencing different types and forms of Yoga. Boulder is kinda "Hippie Central" here in the USA so what better place to do it than here? There's probably 5 yoga studios on every block!

Thurssay Nov 3rd. The day after the Snow Storm

however, the day she arrived we were currently being hit with Snow Storm #2! it was like we were picking her up at the North Pole!

While she was here we were able to take her to some great restaurants around town as well as take her to Celestial Seasoning, Pearl Street and Whole Foods (having a Whole Foods so near by is a definite luxury for us). Kim even let me try Bikram Yoga (Which is very hot yoga) with her which I LOVED and am now hooked on!

It was a lot of fun having her here and we were both really sad to see her go.

First Snowfall this Fall

Aint she Pretty?

On Wednesday we had our first huge snow storm. The only problem with this snow storm was that there were still lots of leaves on the trees so a lot of trees broke which, in turn, broke power lines and therefore caused a lot of homes to not have power during these past few and very cold days. Thank heavens we were not one of these homes!

As far as my tooth/bone infection business goes, I am now down to 3 Antibiotics and taking painkillers only once every other day. Yay for progress. It's still hard to eat but at least I can eat.

It's a Pill Party in my Purse

 

No, seriously, it is. I have never seen so many orange prescription bottles in my life! Lets hope I never have see this many again.

I had surgery done Tuesday morning. Apparently my root canal was leaky and therefore infected the bone underneath it so they had to clean the bone as well as redo the root canal again.

*Are you ready for some gory details??*

The doc said when they got to the bone the pus was like a volcano when they opened it up and it took about 1 and a half hours to clean it out and seal it up again (I'm sorry if the word "puss" grosses you out). Post treatment they gave me 5 new prescriptions (3 being antibiotics, 1 narcotic and 1 pain killer) and informed me that I'd probably be in pain for the next 2 weeks!

Well I bought the antibiotics but decided that I was tired of narcotics and pain killers. Standard Ibuprofen is good enough for me, besides I think a little pain is a good lesson for me to not treat dental emergencies so lightly, and if ever the pain isn't enough of a lesson, looking at the super massive black hole in my bank account to pay for the procedure is enough punishment for a decade.

Thank you to my family and friends who have been keeping me in their prayers! They are much appreciated. It has been a scary few weeks but we are hopeful that the worst part is over.

Its a Freakin' Pain in My...

...TOOTH! (You thought I was going to say something else, didn't you?)
HOLY COW!  If I never saw another antibiotic pill or bottle of Vicodin, it would be too soon!  To say I hate all things pertaining to teeth and dentistry would be putting it lightly. Why, do you ask? Here's why. Are you ready for a tedious story? 

I promise I'll reward you with cute pictures and videos of This guy at the end of this post to make it worth while

5 years ago marked the beginning of the end for a particular molar in my mouth. I had a root canal performed on it 5 years ago. One year ago I had tooth ache in my tooth that had said root canal (which is funny because a root canal is suppose to get rid of the ROOT OF THE TOOTH and therefore rid of all pain. Ironic!). Turns out the moron who did my root canal botched it so I was advised to take antibiotics for the root infection and go to a specialist who fixes messed root canals.

Specialists=special surgeries=lots of money=SCARY=not so enthused Juanique.

You can see why I didn't rush to go see a specialist...

Now back to present day/year:

One month ago my root canal tooth started to hurt again. I went to my friends husband (who's a dentist and probably the only person I'd ever trust to work on me because I hate all things pertaining to dentists) who said the same thing to me, "Take antibiotics for the tooth infection and go see a Specialist. Also, here's some vicodin for the pain". 

Pain?? Tooth pain couldn't be THAT  bad, right? What on earth would I need vicodin for?

Round 2 of Antibiotics....done. 

Tooth pain? Gone. 

Juanique=Happy!!! Bye bye specialist. No pain means no problem in my world, right??

WRONG!!!!!

2 weeks later-Tooth pain! At this point I'm swearing like a South African Sailor and completely ticked that I have to undergo ROUND 3 of Antibiotics for this freaking tooth! ARE YOU KIDDING ME!? How could one stupid tooth that was suppose to be fixed 5 years ago, cause me so many issues?

So I finally swallow my pride, suppress my fears (I HATE DENTISTS!!) and email the endodontist/specialist who also happens to be my Bishop. He emails back and says "Get an appointment to see me ASAP!!". Unfortunately I was scheduled to work in Utah when he said I needed to get in so I scheduled with him a week out. How much bad could come from one weeks wait? After all, I HAD been dealing with this tooth problem for about a year  and have come out unscathed. What's the worst that could happen? 

Present week:

Utah trip was a success. I was busy busy busy. Took my antibiotics like a good girl BUT for some reason my tooth pain slowly got worse....and worse....and worse. In my mind I'm thinking, "Well this hasn't ever happened before? I'm sure it'll go away like the other times so I'm OK".

It did not go away like the other times....in fact, it did the opposite.

In my desperation I took out my orange bottle of vicodin and stared at it for the longest time. "Do I give in or do I sleep this pain off?" By nature, I'm not a huge fan of pain killers to begin with so to give in would mean to go against all my moral codes I've instilled in my brain. Sadly, pain overruled my code-of-ethics and I gave into vicodin

Vicodin-1   Juaniques code of ethics-0

THEN last night happened. Oh heaven I wish I could forget it!!

1:30am- I wake up and my whole mouth is throbbing from pain! Of course I panic. I've never experienced this in my entire life. Worse case scenarios are running through my mind like:

"My whole head is infected"

"my brain might have an infection from this!"

"OH NO, will I need to go to the emergency room?"

"This isn't going to kill me is it? OH HELL it is!!!"

"My vicodin isn't strong enough, WHAT DO I DO?!"

"They're probably going to have to take out several teeth and part of my bone now!"

Yeah, sleepless Juanique=Ludicrous Juanique. What does Juanique, who is intoxicated with fear, go and do? She calls her friend and her friends husband (who's the dentist) at 1:30am to find out if she's going to live or die!

Long story short, turns out I'm going to live and I just need to wait for the Vicodin to kick in. I'm not going to get a brain infection or loose multiple teeth. Be grateful that you aren't my friend who has a dentist for a husband although my friend, Rebecca, whom I called, was very sweet and loving and supportive over the phone with me at 1:30am. She's an angel! I don't know what I would have done without her and her husbands kindness. I probably would have walked over to the Boulder Hospital and checked myself in. She told me to ask Tristin for a priesthood blessing and then try and get some sleep. It was the right advise at the right time. Both worked miracles for me

After hanging up with her I realized just how crazy I had been to actually call someone at 1;30 in the morning about a stupid tooth pain!

Vicodin-2   Juanique's code of ethics (and sanity)-0

So there's my mark of shame for the year of 2011. It's my equivalent to drunk dialing someone. Thank heaven it was Rebecca because I don't know if anyone else would forgive me for something like that! 

I love you, Rebecca! Thank you for all the favors you do for me! You are a true friend and Sista from another Mista!

Now as promised, here are the cute videos and pictures of Evan that I took during this trip to Utah. Aint he a Cutie-pa-Tutie?

Nanan Just LOVES Mr Evan!