THE WEBB FAMILY: DECEMBER 2013

PRE-PROCEDURE
December started out with a bang..Troy and I spent the 3rd-4th in SLC at IMC so Troy could have a cardiac catheter valvuloplasty on his mitral valve. Due to rheumatic fever as a teenager, his mitral and aortic valves were damaged but functioned fine up until last summer when he started to have leg edema, SOB, and fatigue. His cardiologist had planned on doing open heart to replace the valve mid December, then decided send us to Dr Wisenant at IMC for a valvuloplasty instead. This will buy him about 10-15 years before needing open heart.

POST-PROCEDURE
Everything went well and we spent until late afternoon in recovery. Usually patients stay the night, but since Troy was 'younger than their average patient', and our hotel was close by, they discharged us with strict instructions to come back if the bleeding increased or other issues arose.

Groin incision site. I watched it all night....nervous!

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The nasty weather Troy and I had in SLC for his procedure followed us home that weekend, and St. George received 7 inches of beautiful snow and frigid air. Troy took the kids down to the church parking lot to spin donuts in the car and they didn't love it nearly as much as Troy did! The Civic couldn't make it back up our icy steep driveway and spent a few days parked out on the street until the ice melted a bit. Our snowman lasted for almost 3 weeks in the back yard. Temps dropped to the single digits at night, and one morning we woke up to frozen pipes in our kitchen sink. The rest of the month we let our kitchen and downstairs bathroom faucets drip a little at night.

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CHRISTMAS TIME....

I finally did a Utes tree for Troy this year. I had so much fun decorating it and it turned out so cute that I hated to take it down. I think next year we will put it when football season starts!

Santa shares our love for Yogurtland!

Since Troy was just a little guy, the Webb family has always gone Christmas caroling to their neighbors. There wasn't a lot of us this year, but fun none the less. I think this was around the 40-ish year??

Chili and hot chocolate after caroling

The old toys at Grandpa Webb's have always been a hit with our kids!

Camrie's '10 minute' Christmas program with her Butterfly class. It really was 10 minutes straight up! They sang some fun songs and she did really well.

We always have to stop and check in on the fairies in their garden outside of the daycare. You can look, but don't touch...those are some tricky fairies and they will disappear!