Cookie Baking

Lydia mixed, rolled, and cut!

Out & About

Hammonds Candies Factory Tour.  He was making candy canes.

Burgers & Beers in our very own heated “Beer Bubble”.

Family

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas Eve!

Last Surgery!!!

Had my last surgical procedure yesterday before I get my crown.  This one is low on swelling, but is quite a bit more painful than I expected.

They uncovered my implant, put on a healing cover and placed some more bone grafting material (the grafting is where the pain is coming from).  

I get color matched for my crown right after the New Year.  

Fire Across the Street

A lot of smoke coming from the roof.

Pretty Windy

Power out for almost 8 hours today when this big pine went down in the yard behind us.

Christmas-y

Latest First Snow Ever!

Birthday Excitement

We ate an amazing omakase meal at The Wolf’s Tailor in a private tent to celebrate Chris’s birthday.

The excitement came beforehand when Erica’s surgical site started spontaneously bleeding in mass quantities.  We are talking mouthfuls of bright red hot blood.  It took 30 minutes to get the bleeding to stop.  And then it bled a little more. We were both looking pretty pale by the time it was over.

We decided to venture out to dinner to anyway.  Erica packed a lot of gauze in her purse just in case and she didn’t need to use it.  Whew.

Toothless Grinning

Morning after Gum Grafting

I was under the knife again yesterday afternoon to have gums grafted.  They took tissue from my palate and stitched it around the implant site.  I haven’t looked inside my mouth yet.  I am good on pain this morning and only the tiniest bit of swelling.

This will require 8 weeks of healing.  My surgeon felt this will give me the best outcome and ensure healthy gums as I didn’t have a lot of gum to work with and they were thin.

They made a splent for me that protects the roof of my mouth and graft area.  I am to expect the feeling of a major pizza burn on the roof of my mouth, so I am waiting for that.  

Bye BHI

BHI - Day 5

Old Baldy Lighthouse

Dinner al Fresco


Sunset

BHI Sisters

BHI - Day 4

Turtle release just down the beach from our house!  There are 2 turtle nests on our beach that hasn’t hatched yet this season.

A wave was coming in and was going to take this one out!

See the little guy on the edge of the surf?




Today’s sand castle creation.  It survived high tide.

Playing War

BHI - Day 3

We kayaked a saltwater creek today.

Sunset 

BHI - Day 2

Sand Castle


Sea Turtle


Emily & Chris


Chicks & Cargo Ships


Sea shells


Sundowner 

BHI - First 24

We’re on Bald Head Island with the Phillips!  Here’s a recap of our first day.

We were stuck at O’Hare all day Sunday.  But we made it.

The Ferry to the Island.  Only golf carts on Bald Head.


Beach bums!


Turtle Nest.


Sunset