Day #12

Last night's gift :

So pretty!

Day #11

Tonight's gift :

A true story from our prophet's youth. We read this as a bedtime story tonight. Good lesson within!

Day #10

Tonight's gift :

Beautiful calendar for next year! Aidan is going to love it! He has Josh print out every month to see what day of the week it is and this will make him not have to do that 

😊

Day #9

Tonight's gift :

Cute box

5 cute mugs,  Stephen's Milk Chocolate mix,  and spoons dipped in chocolate and candy canes for a first wonderful cup! 

Day #8

Tonight's gift :

A fleece blanket!

Which  I quickly took possession of! (but only because I'm currently FREEZING)

Day #6 & #7

We got two presents tonight on our doorstep :

This is a book about what the symbols of Christmas mean 

Movie night stuff.... An animated "A Christmas Carol"  DVD,  candy and popcorn! 

Day #5

Tonight's gift :

We  have no more gifts to wrap  so guess this will be useful next year!

Day #4

Tonight's gift :

Snowmen ornaments

Day #3

Tonight's gift :

I will come back and post pictures when we make it! 

Day #2

Tonight's 12 days of Christmas gift :

MoTab Christmas CD

Day #1 12 days of Christmas!

We came home last night from my parents to a surprise on our porch!

Day #1

My kids are going to love this! We are so grateful to be thought of!

Melody's seizure

I don't really want to have to revisit this, but thought I'd write it down.

This past Sunday, August 9th, we had just come back from my parents for my mom's birthday celebration and had dropped Aidan off at Linda's for his weekly sleepover. We were driving along 11400 S when Melody let out a cry that scared us. We had never heard such a sound from her. Josh pulled to the side of the road and we both hop out to check on her. As we came around and opened the doors, we noticed that her hands were close fist-ted and she was rhythmically shaking. I immediately shouted, "She's having a seizure" and Josh says "Call 911" while he pulled her out of her seat.

While I was talking to 911 (praying that I wasn't losing my child), a car pulls up and a couple comes out. They had seen our hazards on and us on the road with a baby. At this point, I was still on with 911 and at the same time with Lucas trying to calm him down (he must have been scared too). This woman asked me his name and that she'd get him to calm down. (She had Lucas laughing within seconds and I really wish I had some way to have gotten their info so I could thank them for stopping.I definitely thank the Lord for them because they were probably meant to see and help us)

Finally, the paramedics showed up and at this time, Melody had stopped seizing but was still very unaware it seemed.

I climbed with Melody into the fire truck that had arrived and they took us up to Primary Children's Hospital. Josh had to run to his mom's house to let them know what happened and to have them take Lucas. 

While driving to Primary's I was asked all kinds of questions about her and what happened. They explained that she had a Febrile seizure which is "an epileptic seizure associated with a high body temperature but without any serious underlying health issue. They most commonly occur in children between the ages of 6 months and 5 years. Most seizures are less than five minutes in duration and the child is completely back to normal within sixty minutes of the event"

Her highest temp got up to 103.7 in the fire truck so they packed ice packs around her.

Two days later and it seems her fever is starting to break (it hasn't been above 100 degrees since the hospital)

This was definitely THE scariest moment of our lives! Josh really thought that she would die in his arms (because until the paramedics told us what happened with her, we had never ever heard of these kinds of seizures. Shouldn't that be info put into a parenting class? We read that 1 in every 25 children will suffer with it)

I am so grateful that it wasn't something more serious  and I really hope and pray that she won't have another one in her life, but that if she does....we know why it happens and can be calm and just help her through it. I'm also grateful for all the prayers said on our behalf. 

Cast!

Here's his cast! They gave us so many colors to choose from and Lucas didn't want to pick. So I picked the green. It will stay on for 5 weeks. He has this little walking shoe so he can walk without slipping......he just has to figure out that he CAN walk!

A broken bone!

Poor Lucas fell to the ground on July 4th and broke part of his tibia.

The broken part is in the square I drew. I think the white arrow is pointing to where it was swollen on the outside.

Here he is in a temporary wrap. I will post again when he gets his cast on.

Summertime!

It's going to be a hot one! (I'm so glad I'm not pregnant this summer!! and will never be again!)

Thank goodness for a pool at Nana's (Both a kiddie pool on her porch and one in their neighborhood) and the one we bought :)

our pool before we got it outside

playing at Nana's house

ICE CREAM

I posted this on Facebook but wanted to share it here also, it's too cute!

NO MORE HELMET!

Melody is helmet free now! She was such a fast healer, she wore the helmet only about 4ish months! (The bad thing is, we should have talked better between our 2 doctors. We had just paid $2080 for a second helmet because she was outgrowing the first. If we had talked to the doctor that gets to say when she is done with the helmet first, then we wouldn't have needed to get the second helmet in the first place.)

I can now have her wear headbands more often! 

She is perfect!

Kendra's Funeral 1/9/15

Yesterday was Kendra's funeral up in Pocatello.

Josh's parents drove Aidan and Lucas up with them (and Josh's cello) so that Josh and I just had to take Melody in our Cobalt to save on gas.

We drove through some nasty air quality. This was about Ogden:

This was around Brigham City:

At one point on the drive, I hopped in the back to feed Melody. Then I started to sing to her and this picture is while I was singing. 

This was somewhere in Idaho on the way back home. This time it was fog instead of smog. It was coming up through the mountains:

Josh and his mom played a musical number for the service. It was "Our Savior's Love", it was very beautiful.
Emily (Kendra's mom) and DeAnn (Emily's mom) sang a beautiful song called All of Me by Matt Hammitt.

The opening song for the service was "I Am A Child of God". I found myself unable to sing the last verse "I am a child of God, rich blessings are in store, If I but learn to do His will, I'll live with him once more". I was so overcome with the Spirit and was crying too hard! I am a little embarrassed to admit, but this is probably the first time that I have had an experience that made me say "I KNOW this church is true". In a way I've always known, but it has never been witnessed to me so strongly!

I am so grateful for the Gospel and all the blessings that it brings us. I KNOW that families are forever and I KNOW that we will see Kendra again! 

Linda said it great when she posted on her blog....Most of us came to this Earth to learn and to be tested. Not Kendra. She came here to be a teacher; our teacher.

I will be forever grateful for the lesson that she had taught me. I can now say for sure that the gospel is true!