Surgery is scheduled!

Well Lets start off with the Krispy Kreme doughnut bread pudding I made this weekend. YUMMY! a bit on the swwet side, but I tweaked the recipie to be not too sweet. It was so GOOD!. Surgery..... Gerald goes in this Wednesday Jan 10th for his surgeries. We have to check in on the surgical floor at 11 am so I am guessing his surgery will be around 1 or so. He will be in the hospital a few days and then gets to come home and rest. The doc said he will be very sore for about 6-8 weeks. He is ready to get it over and get to feeling better, but he is so disappointed the weather forecast is for snow here Wednesday & Thursday and he loves snow. It hardly snows here. The last time it snowed real real good we were also in the hospital LOL. I was having Thomas. Go figure. Thomas and I are going to stay with some close friends who live very close to the hospital. I am happy for that because driving and hour through the snow to get there is not my idea of fun. With the snow it would take twice as long. We had a blast this past Friday at Gerald company Employee appreciation party. They hold it at the Marriott Waterfront. They went with the Casino Theme again this year since everyone had so much fun last year. We had a really yummy dinner there. Fillet Mingon, asparagus, Garlic potatoes, and an asian salad. Then we watched the annual video slide show presentation and then off to gamble with our funny money. They give you a $1000 in play money to buy chips. At the end of the night you cash the chips in to buy raffle tickets for the door prizes, which were amazing. Tivo's Ipods, Nintendo DS, Diamond jewelry, Gift cards, Flat panel TV's, All expense trip to Vegas, and the list goes on and on. So I settled in to play some 3 card poker. It's really fun. I placed 3 $25 bets out on the table and ended up with a full house which paid me back $3,500. I struck it real good on that hand LOL. We had fun and cashed out with 30 raffle tickets, and ended up winning a goodie bad filled with some country CD's for Gerald and then we won a $50 visa gift card to the local mall for me! I was happy. We headed upstairs to the hotel rooms for the after party. We are not big party animals, but there is something about the company party that makes for a great time. Hey anytime the police show up and tell you to keep it down more than once is a good time. Thomas turned 3 Saturday. He stayed the night with friends on Friday and we picked him up Saturday and all of us went out to breakfast and then shopping. Thomas made himself a birthday bear at build a bear workshop. It is so cute. Then we all just hung out, got some dinner and we headed home. It was real low key, but Thomas had fun. We decided to wait until after Gerald's surgery to do a party, and even then I think we are just going to have people over for a BBQ and whatnot. The amazing DigiScrap race has been fun so far. Here are my two projects for the week.