Over the past few years of my young life I have come to the conclusion that no matter what I did, I would eventually have a filling in every single tooth of my poor mouth. Then things started getting worse, after Marcella and Claire I have had to have root canals (yes that is plural, I think I am up to FOUR now). So as I was contemplating the rest of my life I realized it was more likely that I would have all fake teeth when I get older and you know it might be kind of nice. Then yesterday I had the "opportunity" to have a gum graft on my bottom 2 front teeth. No big deal right, well I also learned that sometime in my life I will most likely have to have all 6 of my front teeth grafted. So I said well would it be more beneficial to have them all done at once? Let's get it all over with right? Then they calmly tell me, well it is $700 a tooth. Are you kidding me? oh ya I just have $4600 (including the sedation fee) just lying around. So this time we opted to only have the two that are really bad done. I am trying to have a positive outlook and here is what I have come up with: well since I basically can't eat anything for 2 weeks I might be able to lose the baby weight I have wanted to. Bring on more liquids. This is the best time to get out of doing anything I don't want to do. At least for 2 whole weeks. umm I know that I will eventually come up with more things that might make this experience more enjoyable, but for now I hope you enjoy these pictures that have made me smile.
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This is Marcella before Church on Sunday. She gave her first talk in Primary. She did such a great job!
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This is one of the perks of having Claire eat out of a bottle. Every once in a while Marcella likes to help feed her.
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This is Marcella's new friend Hallie. They have so much fun together. They dressed up for the ball and then danced around our living room for a while, it was pretty cute.
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Claire Bear is getting so big. She now can sit up for about a second or two by herself. She has been laughing and smiling a lot lately and we are having soo much fun with her.
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This is how much fun Owen and I were having at Mim's wedding. Ha j/k it was so much fun Mim we loved it!
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Sweetie Pie
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This is Marcella making Macaroons. They were the easiest recipe to make. Marcella basically made it all by herself and they were delicious. I am sad I didn't get a picture of the finished product. I will have to post a picture after we make then again. If you love coconut, you will love these, Yum!
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This is me and Marcella right before we got our haircut the other day. We were having fun taking our pictures.
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I think this is one of the prettiest picture we took at the wedding. Grace is so beautiful.
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Nathan came over to trade us cars and it had been snowing a ton, so him and Marcella made a big fort for her to play in. The next day when it had melted Marcella said, "oh who ruined my fort?" She was super sad it was all gone.
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What an Angel
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Last but not least here I am in all my glory, swollen face and all. I hope that you are having a better day than me. Love you!
9 comments:
so sorry about your teeth! my sister is the same way, it doesn't matter how much she brushes/flosses, she always has a cavity or needs a root canal done.
but question here...what is a gum graft? i'm asking because i have had issues the gums in front of my bottom two teeth too & have been kind of concerned about it. but since we don't have dental insurance & no extra $, i've just had to live with it.
if you can email me that would be awesome so that i can just see if i have something as serious as you do.
ben.strader@gmail.com
thanks!
fantastic pictures by the way, your girls are so beautiful!
I love the pictures! And that's a total bummer about the teeth. Hope you're feeling better soon. At least we live in utah. You probably could have gone to Mexico and had the work done. I know a nice dentist. He's the bishop of a ward down there, but the works not that great so you would probably look funny the rest of your life if you were to do that.
That stinks so bad. I hope you get feeling better. The pictures were all really cute. I really like your new hair cut. I can't believe how long your hair was getting.
Thanks for all the cute pictures. I love them! I really hope you feel better soon, and you totally should take it easy and just watch some good flicks!
I am so sorry Kanien. If i still really wanted to be a dentist [sorry i changed my mind] you would be able to do it for free ;). That sounds so painful and i hope that i never have to get that done. Those are way cute pictures and i hope that you feel better!!
Kanien, that totally stinks. I'm sorry. If you ever need new teeth I will donate mine. I have 4 huge wisdom teeth protruding in the back of my mouth. just kidding. I love that picture of Jon and claire!! It is so cute.
that last comment was from lizzy I didn't realize it was posting as kristin
Wow, sounds like you have quite an experience. I've been so crazy with school lately I haven't even had time to do anything. And (gasp) we haven't worked on a menu! I will work on one for February though. I hope you heal well! Marcella is so cute by the way!
your girls are beautiful! I hope everything is going well for you!
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