Gotta love anesthesia!

Well, I had my colonoscopy this morning at 9:00.  They didn't let tanner into the room with me so I was kind of annoyed.  I was going in for surgery and my husband couldn't even be there with me!! Kinda lame...but oh well.  Anyway, they took me back to the room and I had a good time talking with all the anesthesiologists that were in my room.  They were all super funny and I told them stories of when I got my gallbladder and thought the temperature thing they put on my finger was a fish.  They laughed pretty hard.  They gave me an I.V. and i hate needles, so I had to look away.  Well, when I looked the other way, someone else was giving me anesthesia! haha I was terrified.  I was having a nice conversation with the anesthetist and the next thing I know...I was asleep.  I woke up after an hour and a half, and the only thing I remember from immediately waking up was the nurse asking me, "Maddie, can you put on your clothes?"  and when you wake up from anesthesia you are really out of it and you just want everyone to stop talking to you hahaha.  Anyway, so this is from my husbands point of view, because obviously I don't remember anything.  So...the nurse wheeled me out to Tanner, and told him to get the car.  My nurse wheeled me to the car, and when I went to stand up, my legs collapsed so they had to catch me.  It's so funny hearing these things because I don't remember anything...haha.  Anyway, so when we were driving home this was the video tanner got:
copy and paste link below to watch:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hLee2JdHWs&list=HL1330674281&feature=mh_lolz



When we got in the house I was super weird. Tanner said that he left to go get something out of the car, and when he came back in the house I was just laying on the floor in the hallway.  He said, "Maddie, why are you on the floor?"  And I said,"because I came to find you." And then he would escort me to the bed again to sleep.  He said this happened twice where I just fell asleep standing up, because I was trying to find him.  So funny.  Then, while I was laying in bed I did a lot of strange things.  Here's one:

Tanner said that his parents came over to visit me and I didn't want to say hi to them or look at them or anything.  And they brought me flowers and tons of fruit and candy.  So sweet. I came out of anesthesia at about noon.  One of the saddest things was that tanner said I didn't even know who he was! I guess I looked at him and said, "Who are you?"  Sad, huh.  It's weird what drugs can do to your body...even though it's hilarious when you are trying to come out of it!!
There's more videos, but these were just our favorites. These two below are our all time favorites. so funny. I'm kind of a brat! hehe.
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 http://youtu.be/ZM44tWxVYMA



http://youtu.be/SjGcmz4megw

After this whole experience I realized how grateful I am for Tanner.  All day sunday I was by the bathroom haha and I would always yell for him to get me something, and he always did.  He watched movies that I wanted to watch, he made me "homemade" jello. literally. he found a mix at the store of make your own jello so he bought my favorite juice and made jello.  It was delicious. The best thing of all...was he sang me to sleep because I couldn't sleep.  i love that boy.  so stinkin much.

when life gives you lemons...drink 4 liters of lemonade.

So these past couple months have been kind of challenging, frustrating, annoying, and kind of inconvenient for Tanner and I.  October of 2010 I had my gallbladder removed because I had constant stomach aches, diarrhea, and food never settled well with me.  I went to the doctor and they found that my gallbladder was only functioning 10% out of 100%. So...they removed it as soon as possible.  That was a hefty procedure, and I was on the couch for like a week watching movies every day. Anyway, while tanner and I were dating, engaged, and now married, I've had nasty stomach issues.  Every food I eat would make me sick and leave me on the toilet.  After about a couple months of being married, my stomach changed from mild stomach aches to sharp pains, nausea, and other things.  Tanner and I did an experiment to try and figure out which foods it was exactly that were making me sick.  We narrowed it down to gluten.  Every time I would eat bread, crackers, cookies, oreos, and some other things, it would make me sick instantly.  So...we set a doctors appointment and scheduled a colonoscopy for tomorrow actually.   Today is Sunday, and I've just been doing the "prep" part of the procedure.  Let me tell you what....most miserable process ever. 

 

Do you see this?? The massive container on the left is 4 liters of liquid that I had to drink in 4 hours today.  it's bigger than a gallon of milk!!!!!  And not to make this even more dramatic but...that was the most disgusting thing I have ever had to drink.  It tasted like lemon flavored syrup.  It was so thick, and not appealing at all.  Glad that's over with. I'm grateful for my wonderful hubby that has willingly been bossed around by me today :) Sure love him!

 Tanner thought it was funny to watch me drink this. goober.  Well, today's heck is almost over, lets see what tomorrow brings.

Strawberry Cheesecake Bites!

I...LOVE pinterest.  Every dinner meal, every snack, every dessert, every breakfast meal I make at our house comes from pinterest.  I found this recipe, and Tanner LOVES strawberries.  So...I bought all the ingredients to make them, and I told him I had a surprise dessert I wanted him to make with me. So...we did.  Holy moly...they were so good!  We made probably 25 of them...and there were 5 left after 10 minutes of making them.  Looks like these will be a keeper!  I'll post the recipe in case any of you want to try making them!  They were definitely a hit :)


And uh...we kind of had fun making them.  And tanner had fun posing for pictures.

 Super easy healthy dessert :) and super easy too!  Here's the recipe if any of you want to try it:


http://www.thesweetslife.com/2011/08/cheesecake-stuffed-strawberries.html    

Bye bye Felix...

Well, last week our fish died.  My sister Ashley moved to St. George in December, and she had a fish bowl, fish rocks, and all those fun things that fishbowls have in them.  So...she gave us her fish accessories for Christmas.  We decided to use them, and buy ourselves a fish.  In memory of them moving, we named our fish...Felix.  I came home from work one day, and I saw Felix floating on his lil belly on the top of his fishbowl.  Tanner wasn't home, and I wasn't about to take the dead fish out, so I just left it there to see if Tanner would notice.  He came home and that was like the first thing he noticed....our dead Felix :( He was our baby for 3 months...we are sad.  We decided we are going to get a frog, name him Felix II and see how long he lives. haha we are so strange. The same night Felix died, we went on a double date with our friends.  We thought we would try and pull a prank on them  by putting Felix in the toilet, and permanently stick him to the side of the toilet bowl.  That way when either of them go to the bathroom, they would see this random dead fish on the side of the bowl and freak out.  And then we would laugh.  Well, that never happened because they noticeda fishbowl with no fish in it before either of them went to the bathroom.  It was worth a try.  Bye Bye Felix...you will be missed in the Stevens  household.

Mountain Dew...

Well...I officially have the funniest husband in the world.  So...let me set the stage for you before I tell you what just happened.  So Tanner has a huge test  in the morning on all the bones in the body.  He's been studying for about 3 hours now...and I've just been waiting for him to be done so we can go to bed.  I've decided that Tanner can't just sit down for hours upon hours and just study.  He has to take breaks, pop his neck 5 times, do 50 push ups, drink mountain dew, dance for me, and many more things.  Well, as I was sitting here looking at pinterest he says to me, while staring at his liter of mountain dew, "Maddie, what if you woke up in the middle of the night and all you saw was this huge mountain dew bottle laying beside you.  You would probably call for me wondering where I was.  "Then all of the sudden the mountain dew bottle comes alive, and it says, I am your husband.  The "E" in dew would move as my mouth...so it would be real.  Wouldn't that be funny?"  HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA he would probably punch me if he knew I was writing about this... but I couldn't resist.  I just stared at him trying not to laugh, but then we both exploded.  It was super funny.  He does random stuff like this every day...and it just makes me laugh so hard.  Maybe this is a sign that he has been drinking too much Mountain Dew...whatdya think??

Can you imagine waking up to this in the middle of the night and it's your husband? hahahahahahaha.

Ok so I thought he was done...but he just said something else.  He said, "Maddie, what if I turned into my mac?  Then I would tell you to go out in the living room, and there I would be, the mac,  jumping up and down on the couch."  And then he goes straight back to studying. I love him....so stinking much.

Tanner + Maddie = LOVE

 

Well, it's our first valentines day together!   Last week Tanner came home from a day in Idaho Falls with his mom and sisters and surprised me with something I've been wanting since I was born.  MY OWN PAIR OF SNOWPANTS!  I've always had hand-me-downs, which have always been the 'bib' kind...which i hate.  I kept ranting and raving to Tanner how we should save some money so I can actually have my own snowpants.  haha.  Anyway, he came home one day and totally surprised me with my very own pair of normal snowpants.  I was pretty excited..and they matched perfectly with my coat.  He said that was his valentines gift to me :) such a sweet son of a gun.

Since it was our first Valentines Day together as a married couple, I wanted to make it special for tan-my-man.  We both had pretty busy days, which stunk, but i still did what I could to try to make it special for him.  The whole week i had been thinking about it, and what I could do that he would love.  I found some cute ideas on pinterest, one of which was to 'make your own love coupons.'  So...I did that.  Those turned out to be a hit ;)  Before he got home from school, I made our bed and put a bunch of presents for him on the bed. I got P.S. I love you, Unknown, and some other confidential things :) I put almond kisses all over the bed, as well as butterfingers, which he loves to snack on.  Oh ya and he is addicted to Mountain Dew....kind of a problem....so I got him a entire liter.  Yeah I'm a great wife.  You think I would be helping him stop his addiction??...haha well it was 50 cents...and valentines day :)  I made a delicious dinner....and we ate it under candlelight.  That was fun, something we've never done before.  Tanner loves, LOVES strawberries....so i surprised him with a pan of chocolate dipped strawberries.  When he saw them in the fridge he just looked at me with a huge smile :)  The rest of our evening was just so fun.  We decided we are the weirdest couple ever.  But that's what keeps our love alive right?? :)