Samuel's 1st Day of Pre-School

Samuel started pre-school again on September 3rd and is loving it. Russell misses him when he is gone and loves to go pick him up. I am enjoying the extra quite time and being able to have one on one time with Russell while Samuel is at school.

Quick Update

So things with my health are finally getting better now that I only have 7 weeks left to my inducement. They have had to up my blood thinner medicine every time I get my blood checked so I am on a super high dose. I do not like giving myself the injections and to be honest it has not gotten any easier over the past 3 months. I am grateful to be feeling better and able to do a bit more.

We currently have our house for sale. We have had a lot of people come and look and even had an offer made but they did not accept our counter and we could not meet their terms and still afford the other house we want to buy. Someone else came yesterday and wants to buy the house. They are going to the bank on Monday to see if they can get approved for the loan. So we will wait and see what happens Monday. I have posted a pic of our house.


Samuel started pre-school this week and is already loving it. He comes home telling me all about new songs he is learning and all the rules of his pre-school. He is a smart little guy and really loves school.

My Grandpa passed away a couple of weeks ago and I am sad that his service will be too late in my pregnancy for me to go to Oregon to be there. I was named after my Grandpa - I have his middle name Lee and my grandma's first name - Jennie. These are the grandparents I have been closest to and the first death on my side of the family that has really effected me. We are planning on giving our new son the middle name of Lee after me and my Grandpa. I told my Grandpa that before he passed and I think it meant a lot to him. I was one of the last people to talk to my Grandpa before he passed. I called on a Wednesday not really wanting to because I never know what to say and it is hard for me but I had a feeling that I just needed to call. My Grandma let me talk to him for a minute and we exchanged a few sentences and I told him I loved him and he said the same to me. I will be forever grateful I made that call. He never got back out of bed on Thuirs, Fri, or Sat and passed on Sunday. I know that it was the Spirit that helped me to make that call.

We are planning a family trip to West yellowstone and I will try to remember to take pictrues then blog about it.

New Family Pictures

Yesterday I picked up our pictures from Russell turning 2. He was not very smiley because he fell asleep on the way there so I was a little sad about that but I think they turned out okay.









Me and Will have not gotten a picture taken together since we went to a dance at Ricks College when we were dating so I asked him to take one with me and he did.

Memories of Me

So I just read Sarah's blog and thought it would be fun to hear what others memories of me would be. So as her rules stated leave a memory in the comment to this blog then go post it on your blog.

Summer Fun

I know it might be hard to believe but in between everything that has been going on we have managed to get some fun worked into the summer. The boys love snow cones and we make them quite a bit. They also love swimming in their Spiderman pool their grandma in Oregon got them. We blow up water balloons and throw them at each other and they both love that. Also Russell turned 2 on the 13th of this month and is starting to talk much more and be able to communicate what he wants much better.

This is Russell with his cake. It took him a few tries to blow out the candle but he was pretty excited when he got it.
Will bought him this inch and go worm ride on toy that he really likes.

Samuel likes to jump off the tramp into the pool. You can see we filled it with water balloons to play with.

Russell is getting so big. I wished he was interested in getting potty trained!

I am feeling a little better and able to work some now. I am not one who likes to just lay around. I still have to take it easy and not over do it and Will has to do most of the house work but he has been great and so caring through all of this. We went and got pictures of the boys and our family and get them back in 2 weeks. I will try to post them as soon as I get them. Russell wasn't in a very smiley mood because he fell asleep in the car on the way there. But we got a couple good ones.

Craziness

I know I have not updated my blog for a long time but I have a few good reasons. I will start at the beginning. I had knee surgery June 6th. I was not able to walk for a couple days and I was on crutches for a bit. The Wednesday after my knee surgery my calf was hurting so I called the doctor and they told me to get an ultrasound done on my calf. Turned out I had a blood clot from my ankle to the back of my knee. Not good. Especially where I am pregnant. So I had to be checked into the hospital. It was a short stay i got to go home Thursday night the 12th. Well then on Sunday the 15th i started having chest pains and Will had to take me back to the ER where they did a CAT Scan and found that a piece had broke off and is now in my right lung. Monday the 16th I had a filter put into my abdomen through my right groin to catch any more clots that might break off. Tuesday the 17th I woke up in unbearable pain, worse than having a child natural for those of you that have gone through that. Will came home from work and took me back to the ER where I suffered for 6 hours before they admitted me and put me on a morphine drip. The next week was a rough one. I experienced more pain in the hospital than I ever could have imagined I would face in my life. There were points where I didn't think I could be in so much pain unless I was dying. I had to be put on oxygen so the baby would not be harmed. They determined that I was bleeding out from my groin on the inside and had lost at least a liter of blood. Saturday the 21st was the first day my blood count came up which meant the bleeding had stopped. They started to take me off the morphine and Monday I got to go home. I was barley able to walk around because the pain was still bad but I was grateful to be home. Family and friends kept the boys while Will was at work so that was a huge help. I had a lot of time to think in the hospital and the one thing I will take away from this experience is that I know my Savior had to go through that much pain and more as he took on the sins and afflictions of the world. I have a greater understanding and respect for what He has done for me. I know that it was not easy for him to atone for me but He did it out of love for me. My love for the Savior has grown and so has my testimony.

To end with some good news, we found out that we are having another BOY! At first I was disappointed because this is our last child but after watching the boys I think it will be fun to have 3 boys and I am a good mom for boys. Now me and Will just have to agree on a name. The middle name will be Lee. It is my middle name. I was named after my grandpa and he will most likely die this year so we have decided that it would be nice if the little guy was named after me and my grandpa.

A Quick Update

So I have totally been slacking with this whole blogging thing. However I have good. After my trip to New Mexico we having been having nothing but bad luck. I got back and my old van broke down so we are down to one car. I did go to Women's Conference which was awesome. Hilary was kind enough to put me and my 2 friends on her guest list so we sat on the front row. Here are some pics. Hilary gave us all fashion advice that was hilarious!




I got back from that and had my MRI on my knee and got the results that I have torn my meniscus and my knee will not last until December so I have to have the surgery. So that will be June 6th after I am done with my travels.
Then I went on a Mother's Day retreat to a cabin in Island Park which was a blast. I played Guitar Hero and Sang some Karaoke. I wish I had taken my camera to show you pictures of that.
Meanwhile Will pinched a nerve in his back and was out of work for a few days and as soon as I got back from my trip he started throwing up. I had to take the boys to church by myself on Mother's Day which went better than expected. Samuel got to go up and sing me a song which he did very well. I spent the rest of the day after my nap taking care of everybody.
Samuel is playing soccer and had his pre-school graduation last week so here are some pictures of those events.









I leave for Oregon on Tuesday and will be there a week. I get back and then 5 days later go to California with Will for 3 days. Then will have my surgery the day after I get back. I will be on crutches for a couple days but should be all healed up after 10 days. I thought I would finish the blog with a few pics from New Mexico and the boys buzz cuts and a picture of when Russell fell asleep in teh window. Hope all is well with all of you.