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Russell's New Look

For those of you who do not know Russ had surgery on Monday the 12th. He had a mole or large freckle (still a debate) on the side of his face and it was tested and came back as Melanoma. It was not very deep but the location that it was in was tricky. It was finally decided that he would be put under to take it out. The surgery went well but the waking up did not. We learned that Russ comes out of anesthesia EXTREMELY Violent. He tried to fight off the doctors and nurses in the O.R. and got up on his knees on the operating table and was going to hit some one but just could not get his eyes open. When you have the time call and we will give all the fun details. So here are some of the pictures of before and after.

Family Vacation

We got to take a family vacation up north last week and had lots of fun. I talked Russ into taking the girls to the Living Planet Aquarium in Sandy and I think we all had a good time. We got to touch the Stingrays which are slimy and take pictures next to the sharks. Tessa was fun to watch while she said "hi" to Nemo & Dory. Lexi was fun as well. She wanted to grab the fish but couldn't get through the glass and was not about to give up. We then stopped to see Nana since we haven't seen her for a while. She always has good stories and food and TONS of love for us.

This is Lexi eating her mommies ice cream. We thought it was so funny because she cried sooo hard and as soon as she saw the cone again she quit right away. Guess I have an addict on my hand.

Here is what we looked like for Halloween. Tessa was a ladybug and little Lexi a cow. They were soooo cute and Tessa got to go Trick or Treating with her cousin Carter. They had a ball.

Tessa at Granmas

Since we spent most of the week at Grandma Karla's house these are some of the fun pictures that we got to take. Tessa got to go to the courthouse and do some mock voting. Who says 3 year olds can't vote. She was so excited to put herself in as a write-in twice. Then while we were there we stopped at the store and got a baby pumpkin which she carried around for a while and the picture shows how she went to sleep that night.

Here are just a few pictures of the girls. Someday they might be models. For right now we are just working on getting them to look at the camera at the same time. :)