Not only does he stand but he WALKS!

We just got back from Frenchie taking his first walk and he walks like the champ he truly is! He walked out of his room It is so much fun to see him progressing so much in such a little time!

He's Up!

Frenchie walks! Frenchie got up for the first time after surgery! YEA!! Congrats Honey!!!!! It took a lot of deep breathing and slow moving but he did it! I am so proud of Frenchie! It brought tears to my eyes to see him get up but they were tears of joy! As much hard work as it was it was a huge accomplishment for Frenchie!

Frenchie's back surgery went fantastic!

Hi everyone!

Just wanted to keep you up to date on how Frenchie is doing. The surgery went fantastic and the doctors are very pleased.

We stayed over at a friends house wednesday night since we had to be at the hosptial at 5:50 in the morning to prep Frenchie for his 7:30 surgery. Frenchie went through prep and very little nervousness. He came out of his surgery at 1:43 and as you will read below did not get to his room until 5:30. The doctor came and explained that everything went fantastic.

everything went very smooth with the exception that his room was not ready after surgery so he had to stay in the recovery room for 4 hours and listen to about 20 different heart monitors going from all the other patients! Frenchie's dad stayed with him last night and helped to keep the nurses on track. Needless to say the overnight nurses were very weak on their performance in regards to helping Frenchie. They did not have him switch positions every few hours like he was supposed to so he was on his back since he had gotten out of surgery at 1:30 Thursday. We have let the staff know the issue and we will make sure those issues do not happen again for the rest of his stay.

Today however is going better. One of the doctors from the surgery came in and checked Frenchie out and said everything looked great! Frenchie is also managing the pain and getting ready to get up and walk so I will let you know how that goes! As for me, I am glad that yesterday is over. It was very emotional to sit in the waiting room and not be able to physically be next to the person you love to comfort him but spititually We were next to each other the entire time!

I am so proud of him! I could have never gone through what he did as calmly and patient as he has! He is one tough cookie! He is going to put his brace on for the first time so I will write later!

BEWARE of rattlesnakes in AZ

There was a place in Arizona that actaully had baby rattlers in a box for people to see! CRAZY!.....

HAHAHAHAHAHA....just kidding it's just baby rattles! :)

Hot Air Balloons floating across the Arizona sunset

In the Evening, there are hot air balloons that float over DW and DH's home. Some nights the sky is peppered with hot air balloons.

However, this night there were only 2 balloons out. There was one morning that Frenchie and I saw 6 balloons floating over the foothills that we were hiking on.

The company that owns these hot air balloons has 4 different designs that are on the balloons.

However, all of the balloons that we saw had the cactus design on the balloon. We did not see any of the other 3 designs.

And if you wanted to you could take a ride on the hot air balloons for the bargain price of $175.00 per person!

It was very cool to see how amazingly beautiful these hot air balloons looked amidst the Arizona sunset!

Mimi's Cafe

Wednesday night in Arizona we went out to eat and decided to try a restaurant that of course we had not been to but a place that DW and DH had not been to also. They had driven by this placed Mimi's Cafe, and every time it was packed. We went there at about 7pm so the main dinner rush was over and we did not have wait to get seated. Our food was fantastic!

DW and DH's burgers were terrific and very HUGE!

My regular size Cobb Salad. It was a very cool presentation because instead of putting all the ingredients on top of each other they were arranged vertically on top of the lettuce!

Frenchie with his gigantic sandwich. Frenchie was impressed the the mushrooms in his sandwich were so big that the mushroom covered the entire length of the bread.

The decor at Mimi's was as delightful as the food. When we looked above our table this is what we saw:

Outside there were absolutely gorgeous flowers!

It was a fantastic and relaxing evening!

Phoenix, AZ - We miss you!

Last week we spent the week in Phoenix, AZ. For spring break Frenchie and I decided that we needed a much needed vacation. We stayed with our friends DW and DH and we had a blast! We did so much, took so many pictures, and have so many things to tell you that I will have to break up the vacation into multiple blogs!

So DW and DH picked us up from the airport and that afternoon we were off to Tommy Bahama's in Scottsdale. Here is the outside of Tommy Bahama's. upstairs there is a patio and down stairs also has dining outside. During the lunch hour, fabulous burgers are served but I could not get over the extraordinary view from our table.

While we were in Scottsdale on Sunday we walked around Keirland Commons (DW and DH help me correct the spelling please :) which is the shopping area around Tommy Bahama's.

Do you notice the clouds or lack there of? It is the middle of March!

Since it is the Easter season all over the shopping area there where grass sculptures cut and shaped into Bunnies.

There is a bar down in the area called Oceans, so it is only fitting that outside the bar and restaurant there is a sculpture of gold dolphins.

Don't worry more amazing photos are on the way!