The JENSEN Family: 2/15/09

My world is spinning...

I have benign paroxysmal positional vertigo. What is this BPPV, some of you might ask. Well it is the feeling that you are spinning or that the world around you is spinning. AHHHHHHHHHH! This last Monday morning I went downstairs to do my usual exercise routine and it finished with sit ups. When I stood up, my head was spinning and I had to fall back to my knees. I eventually made up the stairs and began feeling nauseated. What in the world, I thought. I spent most of the day on the couch with every movement of my head throwing me into this spinning motion. Tuesday I went to the Dr. and this was the diagnosis I was given. He said it was from me doing sit ups and that these little stones in the inner ear were dislodged and it caused me to have vertigo! He said it could take a couple weeks for me to completely feel better. What- who has a couple weeks to give with their head spinning?
To make a long story short, this week has been interesting to say the least. Being a mom of 4 kids doesn't allow you to have a couple of weeks to recover. I've tipped over while picking things up off the floor, in the shower, while making dinner, and wrost of all, while pulling my pants up after going to the bathroom. That's pretty humiliating! Each day has slowly gotten better so hopefully, I'm well on my way to a full recovery. And to think I'm going bowling tonight...wish me luck!

Valentine's Weekend

We had such a great Valentines Weekend. We have a family tradition that on Valentine's Day, Shane and I make a really nice dinner for the girls and we try to teach them proper etiquette and manners. It a really fun dinner and I think the girls really look forward to it. We set the table nice and have a couple of courses and teach them what silverware to use and how to place your napkin and all that good stuff. They'll be dating before we know it!

Shane and I stayed at the Zermatt Resort in Midway for 2 nights. It was fabulous! It's such a beautiful place and we LOVE that area up there. The food was wonderful, the outdoor hot tub was perfect in 13 degree weather, massage was much needed after a day of skiing and all around it was a great weekend away with Shane! I love you!

Shane is so sweet. He had planned to have roses sent to our room while we were there. They'er beautiful!

Shea and Mindy met us up at Park City on Friday and we went skiing. I don't think any of us, except for Shane, had been skiing in about 10 years. We took our time warming up but I was pleasantly surprised that I did alright. Kind of like riding a bike- it all came back. Shane is a snowboarder and I talked him into trying skiing since I thought that might put him more at my level. He is so awesome for trying, but it just wasn't his thing! I couldn't help but laugh at him as he fell and got back up and fell again. At one point as Shane was coming down the mountain, Shea asked him how it was going, and just at that moment Shane fell again and said, "I love skiing!" Needless to say he switched over to his snowboard at lunch and had a great afternoon on the mountain!

Here's Shane with such grace..

We had the best weekend. I told Shane we should make that a tradition. We'll see if it happens again next year!

Update..

It's been a while since I've blogged so here's a quick update..
Sage is such an awesome bball player. She runs so fast up and down the court and has her hands up on defense and has a great time. It was fun to watch her play this year!

I love my little Sage because she is game for anything. She always wants to participate and has fun with whatever she's doing. So for a week at school the kids dressed up every day. These pictures happened to be from "Nerd Day". She's such a good sport.

Every year Shane and a few of his buddies travel to Colorado for their annual goose hunt. They've gone now for quite a few years and really have a great time. My favorite is when they come home and clean these yucky geese in my garage and stink up the entire house because the stench is so potent! YUCK!