Saturday, January 21, 2012

2012

The start of a new year and we are going to have the best one yet! I am not going to say It cannot get any worse because I know it can but I am so hoping for a lot less hospital visits.

In March we will be going on a Mexican Riviera Cruise with Chris's parents and his sibling and their spouses. I am excited, it should be fun. I just am not looking forward to getting this fat body into a swim suit, especially around his thin sister and sister-in-law. Ugh!

Trying to catch up...

Okay since my last post my children came home from Utah to live with us. It was the weekend of Halloween. So that weekend we had to go get costumes. There was hardly anything left, we spent hours and finally came up with stuff. I am just glad Teague is so easy going about those things. He was just like sure, whatever. Tate and Sayla however, needed it just perfect.
I know the kids had mixed feelings about coming back. They had made some wonderful new friends, and enjoying Utah and the time they were spending with their Father.
It was just in their best intrest to come home. I am grateful to Sonny for realizing that and being unselfish and letting them come home. I know their friends here were so excited to have them back.

In November Teague and his Utah football team went to Mesquite NV for a football tournament. He had lots of fun. They won the first game and then lost the second.

Thanksgiving was spent with both families. Chris was feeling so sick and was actually bleeding so we ended up in the emergency room. It was extremely frustrating for lots of reasons. They were just taking their sweet time trying to get the bleeding to stop. It was 4 days until they got it stopped. He had 8 blood transfusions. He was poked around 30 times. So he was in their for 10 days. Sayla's baptism was schedule for December 3 and we were not sure if Chris would be able to baptize her. He was bound and determined to do it. He came home on Friday December 2. During that week I had Sayla try on her baptism dress and It didn't fit. I bought it back at Easter when they were on sale. At the time I bought it, I kept thinking to myself go with a bigger size and I didn't and then I was regretting it. Do you know how hard it is to find a White Dress in December??? At least an affordable one. Well after lots of looking, our last and only option left was to go to Elegance in White. Of course they had lots of beautiful dresses and Sayla was beautiful in all of them. She felt like a princesses. She had a hard time deciding which one. We picked one out and I was choking on the price, but how do you say no to a little girl for her special day. Good thing grandma was around and could hem the dress for us. It was a little long.

December 3, Saturday morning we all got up to get ready for Sayla's baptism. Chris was way sick and not even able to go to the baptism. I was having a hard time with it. I just kept crying. I wanted him to be there so bad and I know he wanted to also. We had a wonderful turn out. There was lots of family and friends to support and be their for Sayla. Afterwards we went to our house for Soup and rolls. It had been about 45 minutes and I heard this yell from the back room "Help" I ran back to my room Chris said call 911 he was having Labored breathing, couldn't move and sweating bad. Becca who is a MA came back and was trying to get his legs to unlock and they would not budge. The paramedics showed up and took him away. We tried to keep all the kids downstairs so they would not know what was going on but they found out. Taya started crying and saying "is my dad going to die, I don't want him to go to the hospital" She was having a hard time. She is a Daddy's girl. I came out of the room and everyone was cleaning up for me. I made sure the kids were taken care of, then off the the hospital I went. He was poked another 9 times. They couldn't get an IV started. They even tried in his feet. He said that hurt so bad. His white cell count was around 1600 so they suspected an infection. They were not sure where the infection was. He was not started on anti-biotics, but he was admitted to the hospital. It is so hard when he is in the hospital. I get so exhausted from running to the hospital, home to feed and check on kids, make sure homework and baths get done, go back to the hospital, work and try to keep up the house. Some days I just don't feel like I can do it anymore. I feel this trial is just too much to handle, but every time we pull through it. After a week Chris came home. He was home for 3 days and was right back into the hospital. He was bleeding really bad. This time they got him right in to see where the bleeding was. He had a very large ulcer on some blood vessels. The Dr. said we have to do surgery or Chris is going to bleed to death. That is not something you want to hear from a Dr. So they went in and cut out the Ulcer part it was about 3 inches of his intestine. He had 21 staples. The Dr. when they cut that part out it had the clip in their from when they had tried to stop the bleeding before. It was diseased and they couldn't find any other areas of the disease. So hopeful this will help for awhile and there will not be any more episodes. He was in the hospital until Dec 20th.

Christmas was so nice. All of the family was in town. I was so happy to see nieces and nephews. They are so fun. We got very spoiled for Christmas from some ward members and some people from work. It is such a blessing to live in such a good area with people who love and care about you.

Becca moved out shortly after Christmas, the kids were sad to see her go. She went back to Utah where she feels like she belongs. I guess I can understand that.