In Loving Memory

Rusty Lyn Nydegger
July 16th 2007 to December 16th 2009

With boken hearts we we say goodbye to our sweet little Rusty boy. He died unexpectedly in his sleep last night.






Rusty was one of the happiest dogs you could ever meet. We loved having him as a part of our family and we are just heartbroken that it ended much sooner than we ever would have expected. Rusty We love you so much and we will miss you.

Thanksgiving

This year we drove to MO to my sister's house. For thanksgivung dinner we met up with my grandpa at my aunt Lisa's.

The Nydeggers Visit

The Highlight of our Labor day weekend was a visit from Brett's parents (from SLC), and Brett's brother and sister-in-law and their their 4 Boys (from Chicago)!

This is Eli

We Took the whole family down to Hocking Hills to do a little hiking.

One of the hikes had standing water, and neither Rusty nor Isaac could resist the temptation, and both jumped right in, and Eli shortly followed.

This is James, he forgot his shoes, so he got a free ride for all of the hikes!

This is Danny, Katie and baby Sam

Brett and his dad were able to get some "man stuff" done and they installed a celing light in a couple rooms upstairs that didn't have one!

It is always so fun to have visitors! COME BACK SOON!

CALLING ALL COOKS: Cooking blog resurrection

Calling all cooks! Last fall I started a cooking blog, It was really fun to share recipes with everyone, I loved it! But as love can do, It kind of "simmered" its self out of existence, HOWEVER, I am bringing it back baby! (I just posted a recipe today!))

Here is how it works:

You can post any sort of recipe, but it has to be something you have actually made yourself. Please include a pic to go along with your post. . Please make your blog title the name of the recipe. Please add appropriate labels to your post.



Check it out at : http://pinchofthisdashofthat.blogspot.com/





Just look at all these yummy pics... all of the recipes are on the blog... You know you want to be a part of this...

SO... If you are already an author, Please oh please get posting

OR, If you want to become an author, comment or email me and I will add you in and you can start posting

Rusty Swims!!!

Rusty has recently taken up a new hobby... swimming! We take him to the pond by our house, and up until a few weeks ago he has been too afraid to get all the way in the water, BUT he finally decided that the wanted to catch the ducks SOOO bad that it was worth a shot.

It is so funny to watch, because of course the ducks swim way faster than Rusty, so he swims his little heart out but can never quite catch one!

He gets so tired so it works out well for us!

Cute little guy!

Newport Beach- i freaking LOVE my new camera

We went to Newport Beach California for a Nydegger family reunion. Here are some Pics I took with my New camera.

Maddy and Sam

Sam

seagull

Claire, Maci, Lilly

Post Surgery Pictures

It's been a long road, but today I finally got my surgical splint off! I am doing well and feeling better and better every day. Here are some rather pathetic pictures the day of and a few days after my surgery.

This is a couple of hours before surgery. I have no idea why I looked so happy. Guess I didn't realize what I was getting myself into. Had I known, they would have had to tie me to the bed to keep me from running out the door.

This is a couple of hours after surgery. After four and a half hours of surgery this is how I look ... terrible!

The suction tube I am holding in my mouth here became my best friend. It helped take the blood and saliva out of my mouth. The only time it left my hands was when I had to get up to go the bathroom. I would suction out my nose and mouth about every 2 seconds.

Sleeping was especially tough because I had to wake up every few hours and take some sort of nasty medicine.

This is day 2, feeling a little better. Except the somewhat sad look on my face is because Brett told me I had to leave the suction tube at the hospital. It was a terrible farewell.

From here the swelling got worse for a few weeks, but is gradually going down.

Stay tuned for happier pictures to come.

Surgery Tomorrow...

Hi Bloggers! Tomorrow (7/2/09) I will be Be having upper Jaw surgery!
Here is some info:

Orthognathic surgery is performed by Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons to correct a wide range of minor and major skeletal and dental irregularities, including the misalignment of jaws and teeth, which, in turn, can improve chewing, speaking and breathing. While the patient's appearance may change slightly as a result of their surgery, orthognathic surgery is performed to correct functional problems.Some of the conditions that may indicate the need for corrective jaw surgery:difficulty chewing, or biting food difficulty swallowing chronic jaw or jaw joint (TMJ) pain and headache excessive wear of the teeth open bite (space between the upper and lower teeth when the mouth is closed) unbalanced facial appearance from the front, or side facial injury or birth defects receding chin protruding jaw inability to make the lips meet without straining chronic mouth breathing and dry mouth sleep apnea
© 2006-2008 American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (AAOMS). All rights reserved.

My surgery is being done to correct an open bite. The surgery will be performed under general anesthesia in a hospital. Surgery will last right around 4 hours. My Surgeon will section my upper Jaw in to three pieces, reshape, and reposition the jawbones, then surgical plates, screws, wires and rubber bands will be used to hold your jaws in their new positions. All incisions will be made inside the mouth to reduce visible scarring.

After surgery, I will be on a liquid diet for 10 days while I am "wired shut" after that I will start with soft foods and slowly transition to a normal diet. I will be taking three weeks off work(which I am actually really excited about!). The initial healing phase is about six weeks, complete healing of the jaws takes between nine and 12 months.

Here is a little diagram that shows my situation
This first picture shows how my teeth are open in the front

And this second image shows the cuts and the plates the are placed to close my bite.

My Mom will becoming out on Monday to help take care of me, which I am SO grateful for. I am nervous, but ready to get this all over with! I will post some pictures of the recovery process, I am sure it will not be pretty! Wish me luck! I am sure it is going to be the BEST 4th of July weekend ever!

Four Years ago... Happy Anniversary

Happy 4th anniversary Hunnie, I can't believe that it has been 4 years already. I LOVE YOU!
These Pics were taken on our honeymoon, I thought they were funny!

mom and spen come to visit....

Last month I had lots of fun visitors, but I never got around to posting about it, so here it goes!
My baby brother came to wrestle in the National tournament in Akron, He did a great Job! He even won me a metal!!! My mom came with him this year, so it was extra fun!

After cutting weight all week to make weight for the Tournament, after it was over Spence was looking for some real good eats! He had heard about the burgers at the Thurman Cafe on a TV show called Man Vs. Food. So we set out to also conquer on of the BiGgesT burgers in the country.

We waited a little over 2 hours to get in to this place, but it was all worth it, gust wait untill you see the Burgers!

In fact they were so good that my cousin Anne also came out to get in on the action(well that and purse shopping)

Check it out!

Here are the Proud owners of Two "Thermanators" They have their work cut out for them.

Not to disappoint, They got the Job done no problem.

After that Spence and Anne figured their work was done here in Columbus, so they left, but Mom stuck around to finish off the week.

My boss gave me a gift card to a REALLY nice restaurant, so one of the last nights she was here we went out for a really nice night on the town, and ate at Cameron Mitchell's Ocean Club

What a fun trip.