I'm sitting in the Taylor building on BYU-I's campus waiting for Niklas to get out of his bishopric meeting, so I figured instead of enlightening my mind through scripture study, I should finally give a little update of how we've been. ;) I'm not very good at blogging---I know, THAT thought never crossed your mind, did it?
A lot has been going on in our lives recently, but it's finally coming to a more relaxed pace. Sorta.
I ran a half-marathon (Top of Utah) in Logan, Utah on August 29th, and it was a blast! A half is 13.1 miles, and the actual race was much more fun than the 3-month training. I ran it with my former running companion from WA, and it was fun to chat while we began the race. (The chatting stopped about half-way through---it started getting hard for me.) The funny thing is she was nervous the night before that she hadn't trained enough, etc. But during the actual race, she was the one encouraging me to speed it up a bit by her pacing! :) We ended up running it faster than what we had trained at, and I was thrilled about that. It was a great accomplishment for me and I want to run it again next year. But probably never a full marathon---my knees can only take so much.
A few days later after my race, Niklas had a surgery done on his heart to fix his Wolfe-Parkinson-White Syndrome, which is basically having an extra electrical pathway in the heart that throws off the normal electrical cycle at times, causing rapid palpitations---at any time. There was always a chance that Niklas' heart would act up while he worked out or even when just sitting or laying down. It was problematic, and I think held him back from being more active, etc. Plus, there was a very rare chance that he could die suddenly from the arrhythmia; and I'd rather NOT be a widow any time soon, or later for that matter! So we scheduled a catheter ablation (burning basically) at the U of U hospital and the surgery was a success. They were able to find the area of the extra pathway causing the problem and obliterate it through burning. You can imagine our relief, especially Niklas'. :) I feel very blessed that he was able to get this surgery done and that he won't have to worry about his heart causing issues anymore.
Niklas is doing very well and is mostly recovered. He still has some nasty bruising on a leg where they put a couple catheters in, but other than that he feels great. During the surgery and after we stayed with my sister Kristine in Provo, and it was great to see and Alex right before their little boy comes. I am so excited!!! She is due September 20th and she is so ready to be done with the pregnancy. More often than not Kristine has told me, "Just wait until it's YOU...!" And then I find myself hoping that I won't be hit with the sickness curse that she suffered...but time will tell. (No, I am not pregnant, and won't be for a while yet.)
I've also started an online Master of Science in Accounting through Liberty University, and began classes August 24th. Each course is 8 weeks long, and I'm hoping to be graduated by May 2011. I just had this sudden desire to continue my education recently, so I went for it. So now I head to work, come home and work on my class. It's actually a baptist university...so that's been interesting. I'm a total black sheep, but I'm okay with that since it was more affordable. But it's opening up my eyes to how others my interpret the Bible. Maybe I'll share some of the case studies on here sometime...
Also, Niklas started fall classes this last week, plus got offered a job at Kohls in Idaho Falls and will be starting that this week. I am so happy about the extra income! So all in all we will both be in the same boat with working and attending school. Which equals busy, busy, busy.
That's all I have for now, but here are some old pics of Niklas and I back from October 2008. I was taking pics of us in our kitchen.
I think I was trying to get the timed shots set up in this pic.
This one cracks me up. I guess it's because you can't see my full face and Niklas looks less than thrilled with the up close shot.
This last pic of Niklas is him sporting the intensive Morning Hair. I mean, it takes a full 8-9 hours for this look.
2 comments:
The last pic cracks me up... how do guys get so ruffled looking during the night. The sad part is, he could throw on some clothes and go out like that and no one would think anything of it. Life is so unfair.
And yes, it will be you some day... but maybe you'll have a different experience than I did... maybe twins?
Hey... you posted. :-) I've not done that or awhile either and am not sure it's going to happen.
You could think of the hair as a natural born spike... who needs all of that gel? ;-)
Hope you're having a restful Sunday after the busy past couple of weeks. I'm trying to pick up the loose threads after getting home. Dad has a stiff/sore back and is napping at the moment... I'd better quit typing.
Love, Mom
I think I took a couple of photos at your apartment last week... nothing spectacular. I'll email them. I should have gotten all of you together when Trudy and Kayla were over. Was too sidetracked (and in pain) to think of pulling out the camera.
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