Happy Birthday Brently

freakin we wanted to be the first blogg for brents birthday but linnelle beat us at it but.........
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRENTLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday dear brently hapy birthday tooooo yyyoouuuu


love everyone in cali ........breanne says it the most

HAPPY 30TH BIRTHDAY BRENT DOUGLAS JONES!

JULY 11TH 1976 AT 5:13 P.M. BRENT DOUGLAS JONES WAS BORN. TODAY WE CELEBRATE HIS 30TH BIRTHDAY! YEAH! HAVE A GOOD ONE BRENTLY. WE LOVE YOU!
LOVE, LINELL, SAVANNA & PORTER

I wish I was baby

hummm what should i say i am a baby wanna b!

SHE'S A BIG GIRL NOW!

WE ARE SO PROUD OF ANNA SHE TOO HAD A GRADUATION! GOOD JOB ANNA AND WESTON! GOODLUCK WITH STARTING SCHOOL!
WHEN CALLING ANNA DOWN THE TEACHER READ A LITTLE NOTE ABOUT EACH CHILD OF STUFF THEY SAID ANNA SAID ONE OF HER FAVORITE THINGS TO DO WERE TO PLAY WITH LITTLE FAT BARBIES!

Ryan & Lizzie

Here is one of the few that I took yesterday at the Temple. It was a great time and we are excited for Ryan and his New Bride. Congratulations....(oh, and Porter is 3)

lisa needs serious help!!!

linell lisa would like an invitation to be on here. her email address is lisanothum@hotmail.com thanks so much

ryan

Summer Fun!

Well Summer is going good! I love summer and being able to spend so much time with Family! I love having the Cauble Family down, it is always fun. It seems like we have cousins over every day now, I love it! One day we had 7 extra kids at our house and I think that 5 of them were Vernets! The kids have so much fun...just being together! I remember when I was little... sometimes I wish I still was! Here are just some random pictures of the family from this summer, I hope you enjoy them!





Here is Grandpa....he is so CUTE! I love him so much!










Here is Emmie and her FAVORITE Aunt Laurie!









Here is little Issac...look at those eyes!











This is Dallen, Hunter, Nicholas, and Connor, they all wanted to chefs one day and they made one BIG Chocolate Chip Cookie!









The favorite thing to do when the cousins come to our house is to swim in the pool!






Here is Donni, isn't she so cute!















Here is McKenna, I guess what her mom was feeding here wasn't enough!

Here Comes the Big Day!!!!!

Well everyone hopefully you all know you are invited to be with Lizzie and I in the temple this Friday the 30th but just to make sure everybody knows we wanted to personally write and invite all of you one more time. We hope most of you can make it and thank you all for your support so far. We're excited and looking forward to another big step in life. And don't forget to come and help eat some of the food at the reception on Saturday.

Love Ryan and Lizzie

Weston Preschool Graduation

Weston Graduated from Preschool! Yay!!!! He is excited to start Kindergarten this Fall.

umm they finally mailed me my prom picture that we took there so here it is!

New Happenings around the Ozarks!

Yesterday was Uncle Merlin's funeral. It was very nice. It was nice to see old family that we hadn't seen for a long time. Uncle Merlin was a good man.
Tonight we returned home from Lilly Nothum's 3rd birthday celebration. The theme was Dora the Explorer and they sent the kids on a map hunt for treasures. Guess who started a water fight at the party, ummm Linda of course. It's always fun to be among family.
Happy Birthday to Lanae, Jenna and Michelle today also!
Anna, Olivia & Ciarra came over today and did a lemon-aide stand at our house. It was definateley a hot day to enjoy a good cold glass.
Time is nearing for the arrival of our new little boy Parker Indianna Jones. We look forward to his arrival. He is a very active little one. It's such a joy being pregnant. I really do mean that. I love feeling him move. Savanna and Porter are anxious to meet him.
Well, life is good. The gospel is true and we continue to be blessed. It's great to be part of such a wonderful family. Hope all is well with each of you and would love to hear any of your updates. :)

ok i just wanted to tell everyone how excited i am for this summer i have been waiting for it all school year and it will be packed with fun for me these are the 10 most reasons summer will be great...........

• 1. california 4 joseph and stephs wedding
• 2. justin grgaduates from byu
• 3. ryan and lizzie get married
• 4. girls camp & youth conference
• 5.summer school that actually sucks toataly though
• 6. vernets family will be here
• 7. sharron is here
• 8.my sister will finally be fat(shes pregnant) very exciting
• 9.grandma & grandpa finally got home from a long vacation
• 10. i get to sleep in and have a blast + a ton more of fun

p.s.those who arent comming out need to asap before we all go crazy

REMEMBERING THE PAST

REMEMBERING THE PAST!

PrOM PICS OF SUNI

WELL HERE ARE SOME OF
MY PICTURES FROM PROM. I DONT KNOW WHAT IS WRONG WITH THEM MUST BE THEM THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH EACH ONE. I GUESS I DONT HAVE A GOOD SCANNER BUT OH WELL BUT I HAD A GOOD TIME BUT REALLY PROM ISNT AS GOOD AS THEY SAY! THE BEST THING WAS EATING AT TROLLYS. IT IS VERY GOOD. TRY IT SOMETIME!

Makenna's New Fashion

PROM PICS!

here is a pic of kara and her date jeremy i will get some more pics up later i just ran out of time

Kara is graduating!

Kara is graduating today and we just wanted to wish her the best of luck she is going to BYU Idaho we are very excited for her and so proud of her!

Guess What??????

I'ts a GIRL!!!!

Information on my Feet

Ok, so I've decided to take the time out to let everyone get in on the "know" with my feet. Ever since I was little I've had problems with my feet. (Some of you know and remember me in casts.) I remember when I graduated from 8th grade and we had a day at the park. I just walked most of the day and I distinctly remember when we were heading back to the school that my feet were hurting extremely bad. The next morning, I couldn't walk, and had to crawl to get anywhere and I used crutches for two days to get around. Things haven't gotten much better since then. I saw some doctors when I was in high school and they told me I could get an operation (I don't remember what they were going to do) but they said I would have to be in a cast and have physical therapy for 6 months. I opted not to do it. Even when I was on my mission, I had extreme problems with pain in my feet for those two years. Weight doesn't seem to be an issue, just how much I’m walking or standing on them.

Now, we had the chance to see some new doctors and get some opinions on what can be done. The first doctor told me I had some major arthritis in my joints and wanted to refer me to another doctor. So then he told me the same but elaborated a little bit. Said the subtalar joint needed to be fused, as that is where most of the pain was coming from. He said my feet were fusing themselves together and the pressure and limited motion in the joints cause the pain. He told I would have to be off my feet (no weight at all) for 10-12 weeks, then a walking cast for another 2-3 months. Then they would give it a year to heal, and then operate on the other one.

We set a date for the surgery and after doing that decided to visit a orthopedic surgeon to hear yet another opinion. I had my visit with him last Tuesday (the 9th of April). After looking at the X-rays he gave me a grimmer picture of what my bones looked like and what the options were.


Here is the x-ray of my left and right feet.


Take a good look at it. Here is the same picture with some lines I've placed on it. I've drawn attention to the joint in the red circles. The green line is where "normal" peoples bone is. It is round as that is the joint that enables the motion. The blue line represents what mine is. The surgeon told me that years ago the bone had collapsed making it an extremely dense bone.


Here in the third picture I've placed emphasis on the joints that would need to eventually be fused together. If you notice in my left foot the joint on the left (the one between the heel and the ankle also known as the subtalar joint) is virtually already gone. That is why I have more pain in my right foot then in the left.


So, there were four options the surgeon gave me.

The first suggestion was to have injections into the joints. This would help to determine where the worst joints were and how bad off they were. It would alleviate pain, but only temporarily.

Second was to fuse all the joints (the three main ones) and eliminate all movement in the foot almost guarantying the elimination of pain. Bad thing is that it then makes my foot a virtual "club" with 0% movement in my feet at all. He did not recommend this option and said it should only be done as a last resort.

Third was to fuse the subtalar joint (the one that is almost gone in my left foot). This would eliminate the majority of the pain while still allowing a certain percentage of movement in my feet. The downfall was that bone that was collapsed. He told me it needed to be packed with a bone graft from my hip. But since it was in the shape it was in they would have to use artificial bone and that the likely hood of the bone not taking, and not fusing the "dense" bone was high, causing more problems or even a loose fusion. I would have to have no weight on that foot for a minimum of 6 months or more giving time enough for the graft to take and the wound to heal.

Fourth was to try a brace around my foot. It wraps around my foot then draws together making it very snug. These would be worn basically for the remainder of my life, or until I had to have surgery and likely would need to wear them even if I had surgery. He suggested he would do everything he could to do anything but surgery for my feet.

The outlook did not look very good. I decided to try the "foot gauntlet". I've had it for about a week and before I say if it has helped or not, I am waiting until the time is up that he wanted me to wear it for. (8 weeks).

Sorry for the long post, but I wanted to let everyone know. I think that covers most of the questions anyone might have, but if you do have any more just let me know.

If you want to read more about either club feet or feet in general here are a few links:

http://www.footmaxx.com/clinicians/joints.html

http://www.podiatrychannel.com/anatomy/

http://www.clubfootclub.org/

http://www.blackburnfeet.org.uk/index.htm

(Sorry for the errors in spelling. It's late.)

laurie i finally did thanks to the nothums!!!!!