Gators and Lizards

Jared went in for his final foot surgery on Tuesday.  As a final meal we let Jared choose where we ate dinner on Monday night.....this is totally off topic, but I'm not sure I'll get back around to this.  After dinner we had a family history FHE and Nate was leading the charge.  He was after a "hearts before charts" vibe, so he pulled up the family tree on the television and we started looking up where all our ancestors were from and used a cool tool to see if you are related to any prophets and I think Nate's family is related to every Prophet - usually through a lot of cousins.  I took it as an opportunity to tell them that now they had better up their games -the bar was set!  It was awesome and the kids loved it.  Way to go Babe!

OK, back to my original story.  Jared chose a burger joint for dinner and they were playing classic rock.  It was seriously good tunes.  I started singing out loud "alligator lizards in the air"  and my boys thought I had finally lost all my marbles.  No, no.  Not me- the songwriter had.  We waited patiently for the line to come back around and I had to pull up the lyrics to prove that I was singing them correctly.  It's a classic.  Ventura Highway.  

This first picture is right after Jared got a hit of versed.  He didn't think it was having an effect on him yet.  Clearly by the expression on his face, it was!  I was laughing so hard.  He was having a hard time focusing, so for a little entertainment I asked him if he could touch his eye.  He thought I was being ridiculous until he had a hard time finding his eye!  As he was being wheeled away I told him, "hey Jared!  Alligator lizards in the air!" buwahaha

 Because it took him so long to wake from general last time, they didn't give him as much.  There was a downside to that.  This time instead of signing his favorite song, he was really grumpy.  His throat was also really bugging him this time and he couldn't figure out where he was instead of being mad that he didn't remember anything because big chunks of time were missing from his life.   Nate gave me a hard time for putting thoughts of alligators in Jared's head before he went in because when they woke him up he freaked out and went into a gator death roll and about rubbed off all his bandaging and about rolled off the table- he did not do that last time- because they couldn't wake him up -  I blame that, not myself ;)  Besides, now Nate can brag about wrestling a gator.  

 Now Jared has 2 perfect feet that are ready to take him far in life -especially a mission!  Watch out world, there's no stopping him now!