Drive through Canada

Day 1:

We got on the ferry about 8:00 p.m. We arrived in Prince Rupert, Canada about 2:30 a.m. Then we drove for 18 hours to Kamloops, BC.

Jayley using duct tape figured out a way for everyone to see the movie. You get creative when you are in a car this long.

The pictures don't do it justice. Canada was so beautiful.

Sam had to pee and at the exact time that he said that we passed a bathroom on the side of the road.

Surgery Day

Has it really been 3 weeks since I blogged and since Jaden was in the hospital? Time has gone by so fast. We are back in the hospital because today is Jaden's surgery day. We started at 6:30 this morning. They had her registered and prep by 7:45. The anesthesiologist took her back then and said the surgery was scheduled to start at 8:00. It is 12:57. So far we have received 3 updates:

1) She is doing good.

2) We are done mapping and have started dissecting.

3) So far she has not lost a lot of blood so no transfusion needed. She is still doing good.

They told us the surgery would take 5-6 hours. It's been 5 hours now. While we are waiting I am going to start blogging pictures from our trip this summer. They are on my computer and I have lots of time on my hands.

unexpected event

So when I get time to purchase a gadget to get my pictures off my camera and onto my computer I will have pictures of my class reunion. While we were on our trip Jaden's seizures started increasing. At my reunion they had escaladed to one every 1/2 hour. We called her neurologists and the prescribed her some valium. It didn't work just like it never has in times past and so we ended up driving her to SLC to Primary Children's. This was on the drive up. She was seizing about every 15 min. You can see how wiped out she was getting.

She bit her tongue during one of her seizures. Her tongue swelled up and you can see the damage she did to it on the sides of her tongue. ( she's sticking it out....it didn't swell that much lol)

Finally in the hospital.....and that is where we sit right now. We have been here for 6 days. She has had well over 200 seizures since she has been in the hospital. We finally have answers at least. This time after studying her EEG for 4 days they were able to pinpoint the location of her seizures. With that information they were able to look more closely at her MRI to find abnormalities in the frontal lobe of her brain. We are so excited. This means that she will be having brain surgery in Sept. or possibly in August. It's really scary, but finally we have answers as to why she has so many seizures and why they are so hard to control. It's so exciting to think of the possiblity of getting her off all of her meds and having her live a normal seizure free life.

Either brave or stupid....

So on June 15th we embarked on a long summer vacation. We ferried from Ketchikan to Prince Rupert, Canada. Then we drove 2800 miles through Canada, Washington, Montana, Idaho, Utah, and then arrived to our first destination which was Page, AZ my home town for my 20 year class reunion. This is the last of my iphone pictures. Hopefully, the rest of the summers posts will be better. We brought our real camera. I also am so far behind that I'm not really blogging I'm just getting pictures up.

Welcome home Travis

Sam's preschool graduation

Mother Daughter Personal Progress Retreat

We had an awesome opportunity to go to a mother daughter persoanl progress retreat at Silver King Lodge. It was so much fun. We went to Silver King for the weekend as Mother's and daughters and as a whole young women's group. We had the opportunity to work on personal progress both individually and as a group. We also got to hang out and play. Each Mom and daughter had their own room together. It was a ton of fun.

Mother's Day 2011

The boys changed out of their church clothes faster than we could get a picture.

For Jaden's birthday the whole family went to Ocean View. That was at Jaden's request.
Sam was not happy that he didn't get a sombrero on his birthday, so they brought one out for him to wear also.

Jaden wanted a dumbo cake. Jayley freehanded the dumbo on the cake for Jaden with a spatula and a toothpick.

Young Women In Excellence

Once Upon a Time.....

Easter 2011

I was out of town for a volleyball trip. I was quite pleased to see how Ron had dressed them. Not too shabby. You can tell he tried to put together an Easter combo. (Of course, I didn't help cause I hadn't bought anything this year for Easter. I was too involved in coaching volleyball. That kept me super busy.)

Date night with Jaden

Sam's 5th Birthday

Brotherly Love

Camping for Jake's birthday

We were having some great weather in March. Jake's birthday happened to fall on a weekend. On a whim we decided to go camping for him birthday. We had a ton of fun and it was freezing cold, but it was nice and sunny. We had another family go with us too and so the kids had a blast.