Our Night at the Royal Ball

 A Royal Ball for the most deserving children ever

Hopekids with the help of Cinderella (Linsey Holley) hosted a Royal Ball for children with cancer and life threatening diseases.  It was held at The Castle in Layton, all of Cinderella's friends were there, Belle, Tinker Bell, Aurora, Snow White, Mulan, Jasmine, Pocahontas, Ariel and Tiana.

Each Prince and Princess were dressed in their best formal attire, ball gowns, tiaras, swords and wands. The Ladies in Waiting helped the Princesses with their make-up before they were taken over to get their pictures taken with All the Disney Princesses.

There was a live orchestra, dancing, and a royal jester who keep the kids entertained.

As the King, Queen and Royal Princess was announced, the trumpeters blew their trumpets to let us know they were coming.

As every Prince and Princesses and their Court (their family) were announce to the King, Queen and Royal Princess the trumpets continued to play.

Cinderella called all the Prince's and Princess in front of her and read them a magical story and then each with their Magical Wands chanted "Bibbity, Bobbity, Boo"! and the magical water fountain turned on for them. (you could hear the cute little gasps from all the girls).

As the night ended each Prince and Princess were given Autograph books to have the Disney Princesses sign.

This was truly a magical night for these kiddo's and one I am very grateful we were able to attend.

I wanted to Thank Lindsey Holley and Amy Oldham for all of their hard work and time that went into such an amazing event. It is one we will ALWAYS remember.

Outside The Castle

 

 

Both of our Princesses outside the Castle

Entering The Castle

The Beautiful Staircase

(kort disappeared so she did not get hers taken :( )

Ladies in Waiting putting on her make-up

Pucker Up!

BEAUTIFUL!!!!!

Pictures with the Princesses!

Cinderella gave Whitnee a kiss on the cheek when done

and she talked about that the whole night!

Cinderella tell the kids the story.

Ariel and the girls

Kortnee talking with Belle

Whitnee was so facinated with her gloves, she would not take

her eyes off of her hands.

I love how they are looking at her

Their FAVORITE Princess!

The Fairy God Mother

which I believe we ALL have one!

My Mom  (the Queen Mother) and the Fairy God Mother

The Royal Princess

The Queen (some how missed the King)

Dancing, Dancing, Dancing!

It's always funner to dance WITH OUT Walle 

(her wheelchair)

Thanks again for a great night.

Princess Royal Ball

We had so much fun at the Royal Ball.

We were interviewed by Desert News (twice) and was surprised

to find us actually featured in the story.

(it was really loud so they did not get the spelling of my name right)

Our First Royal Ball

I will post pictures of the night later.

Princess Ball

We received an invitation to attend a Hopekids event tomorrow night by one of my daughters FAVORITE Disney Princesses CINDERELLA held at the Castle in Layton.

We are all so excited to go, there will be dancing, dinner, make-up, nail painting, pictures and a carriage ride.

Who needs Disneyland when the Princess comes to you?

(some day we will make it to Disneyland)

Surgery pic's and update.

I am sorry it has taken me a few days to post.

Whitnee eneded up having Surgery on Friday the 16th on her feet.

Nate and I went in a little nervous because of what the Surgeon had explained to me what she planed on doing.

She said that they were going to make a small incision in the back of her ankle and cut the tendon and let it fly on both feet, and on the left foot she would make an incision on the arch of her foot and release the tendons there to help flatten out her foot.

I was NOT okay with the thought of the Achilles Tendon being cut and NOT reattached.

As we sat down with the surgeon on Friday morning she went into a lot more detail about the surgery  (which I wish she would have done a week earlier so I would not have stressed so much)

But she informed us that the tendon she would cut would not affect her foot as we had expected it to, and that there are 3 other muscles that help in doing the same thing so her foot would still function as it should. 

They just wanted to get her standing.

Here she is with Daddy before they took her back to surgery.

(versed in her system she was really loopy)

Here is the Anesthesiologist getting ready to take her back to surgery.

The Surgery took 2 hours and we were really excited to here that she extubated with out any problems right after surgery. GREAT NEWS!!!

BUT the Anesthesiologist had to pull her top two teeth (because they were loose) so there was no risk of her aspirating on them during surgery.

Here she is after Surgery, she looks so good

(even with missing teeth)

We were really releaved to hear that the Surgeons did not cut her Achilles Tendon, they eneded up reattaching it after all.  They did release the tendons in the arch of her foot and ended up cutting the tendon that helps you flex your toes due to the fact that it was so tight it was part of the problem.

(So basically she can't pick up things with her toes off the floor now, but she could not before so no big deal.)

The picture above shows her casts wrapped in co ban, After putting the casts on they cut them to help with swelling, She ended up having so much drainage that they ended taking the casts off and putting on another set before we got to go home on Saturday.

 After the Anesthetic finally wore off all she asked for was a wagon ride.

It took most of the day to finally get one up to the ICU. Due to our nurse having 2 kids to watch over so when she finally got in it she was really excited.

I love the smile on her face.

We now prepare to go back on the 28th of April where they will again take her into the OR, remove the casts, tighten the stitches on her foot, mold her feet for her AFO's and then recast them.

(they wanted her to be under the anesthetics for all of this and after watching them change the casting in the ICU on Saturday I am totally okay with that.)

Then I think we will finally be on a road to recovery after all of this.

Thanks for all your help and prayers, we truly are blessed with great friends and family.