Me and Alix - pretty in pink

Here's a pic of me and Alix from our slumber party on September 11th. She spent the night and we had a grand ol' time. She's a busy little girl. She loves coloring and playing on the swing set in the back yard. So far her fave is the slide :) She really laughs when one of the dogs goes down the slide too.
She's a lot of fun, but beginning to encounter the "Terrible 2's". How does an Aunt survive this time frame?

9/15/05 - 9/15/09 Still missing Jay

9/15/09 marks 4 years since Jay passed away. Our dog Taylor passed away that same day too. What a rough day.
I think this will be the first time that I haven't planned something for the day. Last year I took the day off work and took Alix to the zoo. If anything has helped me deal with grieving for Jay it's been Alix. She's so much fun and so sweet. This past Friday she spent the night at my house. All evening she went around the house looking at pictures. She would reach out for them and I would bring them closer to her. She liked the pictures of Jay alot. He would have been so proud to be her Uncle.
9/22/09 would have been our 14th Wedding Anniversary. Who knows where we would have gone for our annual trip. He always planned great anniversary trips. We went to Estes Park, CO for our honeymoon, drove by the hotel where they filmed "The Shining". Next year is was Mesa Verde, after that Vail. Then when we moved to California we went to Redwoods National Park and Monterrey Bay. AWESOME trips. I'm so happy we did all that we did. I have lots of photo albums of all the places we went.
So tomorrow 9/15/09 will be another rough day for me. I miss my best friend and my dear sweet husband Jay Alan Davis. And our faithful dog Taylor. And our cat Thomas.

I am lucky to have my AWESOME family of pets and my human family. And I have a lot of great friends who know that I have lost the love of my life and are still there for me. It's hard to be a widow at any age, but it's really hard to find someone in a similar circumstance when you're 35.

Spiderwebs and agility

How odd that these two subjects end up together? Not so odd since I feel that my agility know-how has spiderwebs. It's been so long since I've been able to run and play with my girlz. I haven't had any agility fun since mid-June and I don't know when I'll be able to run and play again. My knee is not feeling very well. Turns out that I have really bad arthritis in my knee and if I were 65 instead of 35 I'd probably have my knee replaced already. Since I'm so young, no knee replacement for me. It really sucks to have this kind of pain. I just got a new knee brace from the knee doc, I'm hoping that it will help out with the pain.

Now to the real spiderwebs. This spider builds awesome webs each night. His presence keeps me on my toes while walking around the yard. Some feel that I should KILL him. To be honest I'm afraid of spiders, but this guy is building his webs well away from my house and as long as I don't forget about him and walk into his web I think we'll be ok.

Enjoy the pics.

A day with Alix

I got to spend some time with Alix today. She's so much fun. She's really growing up fast. She's really starting to enjoy the slide and swingset in the back yard. Brindi and Darby kind of like the slide too :)

Dinner with Dad

Last night Dad and I went out to eat. Just me and him, it was nice. We went to a serious hole in the wall fish place in Southern Illinois. I had serious reservations about going in, but we did, and we survived. Their specialty is catfish. It was pretty good. Quite an experience. But mostly had fun hanging out with my Dad.

Here are some pics of the fish place.

A visit with Alix

Here is a pic of Alix from a recent visit. She's so pretty with a bow. :)

knees

I am recovering from knee surgery. I had the surgery on June 30th and am still healing up. Doc thought I had a torn meniscus, but turns out I didn't. Doc said that my patella, which should be smooth and round, was jagged and rough. Some of the pieces had broken off and were causing me pain. So he smoothed out my patella and removed the extra pieces. Recovery time is supposed to be 6 weeks. I am heading into week 5. I am back to work part time and light duty. Still walking with one crutch. I got the stitches taken out at week 2 and it appears to have been infected. A round of antibiotics were given to fight that. I'm hoping the infection is gone. I don't go back to see the doc again until August 13th, a day before my 35th birthday. My knee still doesn't feel right, and I'm still icing it frequently to help out with the pain. I'm hoping that my knee is 100% after 6 weeks, since the doc told me it would be 100% by then.

This really stinks because I will have missed out on at least 3 agility trials since this surgery. Not only missing out on trials, but also missing out on practices. I hope the girlz remember how to play this game once I'm back on my feet!

I can't wait until I'm feeling better and can run and play again :)