4th of July

Ty

Morgan and Austin at the Bees game

Gross, my son is a pig

Morgan and Rielly at the Bees game

Carisa

My grandpa, who died in the war in 1945.

What's more American than homemade ice cream?

Monopoly!

Breanne

It's a sad, sad day. Call me weird, call me a geek, but I am truely sad after watching the memorial service today and sad that he is gone.

Cowabunga Bay

A new waterpark opened in Draper so Tyson and his friend Conner wanted to go check it out. They had a ton of fun but I think they had a little bit more fun with their food.

Yay!

Good news, we took Rielly to the eye doctor today for a follow up. When he left the hospital, his eyes weren't totally mature, in fact, from the first eye exam he had in about January to the end of March when he came home, his eyes stayed the same, they didn't get any better but they didn't get any worse either. Well, today, the doctor told us that his eyes are perfect, they have matured, and there are no problems. This kid is pure perfection.

He has no idea what's about to happen


It was so sad




Oh my gosh! He looks mad and sad!

14 pounds now. People are FINALLY starting to notice.

10 pounds down in 3 weeks, _______(not telling) to go. Yippee!

This is Breanne when she had the chicken pox. She had them so bad, she had a high fever and slept on the couch for a week. Tyson had them 2 weeks before her, he wasn't sick at all and only had a few blisters. Every time Tyson gets sick, he doesn't have a fever and doesn't act sick. When Breanne gets sick, she has really high fevers and acts very sick. When she was a baby, she had a fever of 106 which freaked me out. We took her to the emergency room, they couldn't find anything wrong with her. She looks so sad in this picture.

 

Ruffy!

 

 

 

This makes me cry. This is Riellys second cousin, Bryan and Heathers baby, Leo. He was born at 27 weeks (Rielly was born at 24 weeks), 3 weeks before Rielly on November 14. He was 2.4 pounds at birth. He was not as fortunate as Rielly and has major issues from being born prematurely. He had massive brain bleeds and will most likely have cerebral palsy. He also may be blind and he is not able to tolerate feedings from a bottle like he used to. He has permanent shunts in his brain that so far have caused alot of problems. They keep getting blocked off and he has had 12 brain surgeries so far. He is still in the hospital and has never been able to come home. Remember this baby when you are saying your prayers. It makes me so sad that they aren't able to enjoy him like we do Rielly.

 

 

My attempt at professional photography, not even close, but still cute. I need a better camera. You can see the heart surgery scar on his back really well here. He is 9.7 pounds and 21 1/2 inches long, Carisa was 9.6 pounds when she was born!

Rielly

Rielly had a follow up visit with a cardiologist on Tuesday. At this appointment, I found out that along with the patent ductus heart "defect" he had, he also had the ductus arteriosis heart defect. The doctors knew this from the beginning but I guess Morgan was told but was probably overwhelmed with information and didn't understand what it meant so she never did tell me. I was alarmed at first, but the doctor said based on how he looks and how his heart sounds, the defect has probably healed on its own. We were so relieved! He needs to have an echocardiogram just to confirm that it has resolved but the doctor said there is no rush to get that done.

The other thing is that he was circumcised a week ago. I felt so bad for him. He was so onery afterward, as he should be! He had it done in the doctors office and the doctor made Morgan and Austin watch. I think I would have died having to watch him in pain. He is a strong little baby, he was fine the next day.

Tyson: Mom, do you know how much I love you?
Me: No how much
Tyson: I love you so much that if you died, I would kill myself just so I could be with you again.

Aaahhh, I love my kid

Happy Mothers Day

Sometimes, it's worth letting the kids write on your hand

Cuteness

Rielly and Kya
Stacies baby Kya, three weeks old today, now at 5 pounds and Rielly 5 months old, now at 9.6 pounds. How cute!

Funny! Although you might have to be a nurse to appreciate it

You KNOW you are a nurse when :-


You believe that all bleeding stops ... eventually.

You find humor in other people's stupidity.

You believe that 90% of people are a poor excuse for protoplasm.

Discussing dismemberment over a gourmet meal seems perfectly normal to you.

Your idea of fine dining is anywhere you can sit down to eat.

You get an almost irresistible urge to stand and wolf your food even in the nicest restaurants.

You plan your dinner break whilst lavaging an overdose patient.

Your diet consists of food that has gone through more processing than most computers.

You believe chocolate is a food group.

You refer to vegetables and are not talking about a food group.

You have the bladder capacity of five people.

Your idea of a good time is a cardiac arrest at shift change.

You believe in aerial spraying of Prozac.

You disbelieve 90% of what you are told and 75% of what you see.

You have your weekends off planned for a year in advance.

You encourage an obnoxious patient to sign a self discharge form so you don't have to deal with them any longer.

You believe that "shallow gene pool" should be a recognized diagnosis.

You believe that the government should require a permit to reproduce.

You believe that unspeakable evils will befall anyone who utters the phrase "Wow, it's really quiet isn't it".

You threaten to strangle anyone who even starts to say the "q" word when it is even remotely calm.

You say to yourself "great veins" when looking at complete strangers at the grocery store.

You have ever referred to someone's death as a transfer to the "Eternal Care Unit".

You have ever wanted to hold a seminar entitled "Suicide ... Doing It Right".

You feel that most suicide attempts should be given a free subscription to "Guns and Ammo" magazine.

You have ever had a patient look you straight in the eye and say "I have no idea how that got stuck in there".

You have ever had to leave a patient's room before you begin to laugh uncontrollably.

Your favorite hallucinogen is exhaustion.

You think that caffeine should be available in I/V form.

You have ever restrained someone and it was not a sexual experience.

You believe the waiting room should be equipped with a Valium fountain.

You play poker by betting ectopics on ECG strips.

You want the lab to perform a "dumb shi* profile".

You have been exposed to so many X-rays that you consider radiation a form of birth control.

You believe that waiting room time should be proportional to length of time from symptom onset.

Your most common assessment question is "what changed tonight to make it an emergency after 6 hours / days / weeks / months / years)?".

You have ever had a patient control his seizures when offered some food.

Your idea of gambling is a blood alcohol level pool instead of a football pool.

You shock someone with an unrecognizable rhythm ... until you get one you DO recognize.

You believe a book entitled 'Suicide: Getting it Right the First Time' will be your next project.

You can identify what kind of diarrhea it is just by the smell.

You will never name a daughter "Melena" or anything along those lines.. and laugh to yourself every time you hear someone by that name

You call subcutaneous emphysema "Rice Krispies".

Your immune system is so well developed that it has been known to attack squirrels in the backyard.

I didn't put in my last post that Carisa is graduating from COLLEGE! (just in case you didn't know)