7th Wedding Anniversary

Brady and I celebrated our 7th wedding anniversary Sunday and Monday. He took me to The Homesteads Bed & Breakfast in Midway. We stayed in The Cottage Room. We ate dinner Sunday night in Park City at La Casita. We went back to Midway and sat in the hot tub while the rain sprinkled. Then we went back to our room and settled in to watch Must Love Dogs. What a darling movie!

The next morning, we ate breakfast at Fanny's Grill and put on our swimsuits to go for a scuba diving experience in the crater. The Crater began forming about 10,000 years ago. Water from snow melting on the Wasatch Mountains seeped deep within the earth. Two miles below the surface, the earth's interior heated the water and sent it skyward. As it percolated upward, it picked up minerals and they eventually formed the beehive shaped limestone deposit called the Homestead Crater.

The hole at the top of the dome lets in sunlight and fresh air while the interior stays heated by the mineral water. Below the surface divers can descend 55 feet into the hour glass shaped depths.

I DID IT!
I DID IT!
I DID IT!
I DID IT!
I DID IT!

I dared to get into the water, put on all this garbage and allowed myself to sink down 20 feet holding on to a rope. What an experience!

Dry Socket

I thought everything was going great with my wisdom tooth being pulled. . . boy, was I wrong!

I developed dry socket almost immediately, and I've been suffering for nine days now. The doctor has packed it with clove oil gauze (which he removed yesterday), numbed my mouth, put me on an antibiotic, numbed half of my face for half the day so it wasn't so painful, put me on Lortab (hydrocodone) and 800 mg of ibuprofen three times a day. This is a nightmare. Last night was the worst night, so far. I took one of Brady's super strength Percocet (oxycodone) and it only kinda pushed the pain to the background, somewhat, but it never fully subsided. I took four iboprofen and two Tylenol PM's after flushing my socket and waited for the pain to go away so I could sleep. I woke up pain free, but it has returned, as expected. I wish this week of pain was over.

I had my wisdom tooth pulled yesterday. It was very random . . . I was getting two old silver fillings replaced and Steve asked if I wanted anything else done while my mouth was numb. Then he kinda suggested it would be a good time to go ahead an pull that bothersome wisdom tooth. I texted Brady who said I should do it, and I did! Today is the day after, and

I feel fine.
No swelling.
No pain.

I've been trying to find a picture online of how my wisdom tooth was kinda wedged in by my other molar. This wasn't a traditional impaction of a wisdom tooth. It was actually wedged under my other tooth like it came from the front instead of the back. Crazy!

My teeth now look gorgeous. I need one implant tooth and need one more silver filling changed to white. It's a good day. I'd been dreading losing my wisdom teeth, but only have one to go and I know I can do it. I know I'll be fine!

Also, I just thought I'd let everyone know that the tooth fairy exists! He sent me to get my hair done after I had my tooth pulled! I had been a brunette for about four months and was going through endless misery, but going blond again has really lifted my spirits! :)

THANK YOU, BRADY *!@*!- I mean TOOTH FAIRY!

Silver City, Utah

A couple of weeks ago we were hanging around the house . . . being bored . . . so we decided to take a drive. On our way to the old mining town, Eureka, I looked up other ghost towns in the area. We kept travelling through Eureka and found a little place called Silver City. There was a massive foundation there that I later discovered was once a power plant. It was so very interesting, and only about an hour's drive from where we live. It was fun getting out of the house and wandering around a place that once thrived.

Please see the links I've attached. They show pictures of the place we visited. I wish I would have gotten more pictures of our family running around the old power plant foundation - scratching our heads trying to figure out what it used to be!