My baby is two!!

Well his birthday is almost over and he is sound asleep. I was watching him play today and thought back to the summer when he was born. He is very much my miracle boy! You have probably have heard the story i know it got a round but at least for journal purposes I want to write it down. I will try to keep it in the short version. Logan and I had tryed for a year to get pregnant so we were overjoyed to find out that we were expecting. I was due on October 6 2007. We joked that if he came ontime that it would space out our birthdays and anniversary at least a little(our birthdays are aug 25,and26 and anniversary sept 3) I was very very sick the first couple of months I would get up about 5 to go to work and in the first three hours of work i would throw up 10 to 15 times. not really pleasant but it was the first pregnancy and so i thought it was normal. I was just feeling a little better and i was about 20 weeks(may) and i got extremely ill. i spent most of the night throwing up and i got couple hours of dose time. logan and i got up at the same time to go to work and i was always the first there so i had no one to call in sick to. The first time i held him about 3 days old
I put on my clothing and headed to work, every bump hurt sooo bad i couldnt even walk standing strait up. I tryed to work and only lasted about 1 and 1/2 hours when my boss got there and let me go home. ended up at the hospital i called logan he was about 3 hours away, they had to take my appendix out. Logan go there right as they were wheeling me up to pre-op. the surgery went well and i got out the next day i missed about a week of work and i was feeling great. I started back to work and august came i was at work in the 8th and i had to go to the bathroom(not unusual) i kindof twisted and the pain i felt almost made me throw up. I wasnt sure if i could make it out of the bathroom or not. finally i got out and got back to my department i sat in a chair for about 2 min when the pain got so intense i started to throw up in the garbage it lasted about 15 min(really no exaggeration) my coworker rushed me to the er. They did emergency surgery and found that i had absesses in my abdomen. the surgeon quite counting at 37. i had infection from the appendix and it had festered for almost 3 months. the absesses had started to rupture which caused the pain. i was in the hospital for a week and had steroid injections to stimulate masons lungs and out for almost a week when i started to throw up and have contractions. i was so worried about mason but threw all of this he never faltered.
This is one of my favorite pics!!
got rushed back to the hospital and they found that 2 more absesses had returned one beind my uterus and the other blocking off my intestine. they put and tube down my nose to suck up everything that was block and many other tubes i wont mention. after some time and testing they told me my white count was more than double what it should be and that they would have to operate again. our choice was to deliver and then have surgery or they would basically have to take my uterus almost out to get to the other absess. they told us we had a few hours to decide but they were very worried that i was going to go septic (which probably would have killed me) this was about 2in the morning monday. we talked to peds and nicu and dosed very little about 5 in the moring the nurse came in with a smile and told me that my contractions had changed and i was in labor. i cant even describe the relief that went threw me. i knew our prayers had been answered and that mason would be okay.
first family pic about two weeks old
i delivered soon after to a 4 pound 7 oz boy and went in to surgery soon after. Mason was so strong every one commented on how he never faltered during the hole ordeal. as he has gotten older he has a very strong personality and is very stubborn but i cant help but know that, that is such a blessing because if he wasnt a fighter he would have never made it. He stayed in the nicu for 45 days and was released about the time he was supposed to be due. He was 7 weeks early and a tiny miracle for our family. i did end up having a 4th surgery but that just ment i could be closer to my baby(only a floor apart) When he was in the nicu they have to constantly monitor his heart lungs and such. the oxygen monitor was around his foot. every time they changed it(several times a day they would switch feet it could burn their skin) they would hold his foot to take it off and he would always raise is other so they could put it on that one, he did this without fail most of the time in the nicu. He is such a special boy every time i look at him i am sooooo grateful that he is our little boy!!
My angel!!!

Ready to start a new chapter in our lives!

I didnt realize how long it has been since i have last blogged. I will start from the begining. At the end of july we went to salt lake to be at the hospital for sandi's second surgury. Things went well and then mason and i stayed in bl for a few days before we drove to boulder colorado. My mom had a conference down there and so my sister, aunt chris(my dad sister) and i deciced we would fly to st could miniappolis where my dad is living. he was in the hospital trying to get somthings worked out with his health. We arived in denver on a wednesday night and we didnt fly out until friday so we played in lots of parks we had a ball . on the first night it had rained so everything was wet but it didnt stop us we slid down the slide and climbed all over. It was fun we got soken wet but had a ball. Mason can climb!! He watches the bigger kids and then he does what they do! he has always wanted to but without help he will climb the ropes and everything but the stairs to get to the top. I cant belive what a big boy he is!! He is turing in a little gentlman!! Im so glad he has a great dad to look up to!!



















Sorry the pic is sidways. I didnt get it turned around before i up loaded. The pic with mason holding his feet is in the car on the way home to bl and we had some high beat music going so he grabed his feet and danced it was hillarious!!

Mason and abby playing they became great buds!! Since we were right next to the mississippi we stoped and found a dock so we could dip our feet in the mississippi! (just so we could say that we did! :-)








We got to have a great visit with my dad I hadent seen him in 3 and a 1/2 years so he looked worse than i remembered. we are trying to get a plan set so he can move closer to family. He has a lot of health problems. I miss him and hope that we will soon be able to see him more offten (this we the first time my dad got to see mason other than pics)
Well during all of this i got a call from logan telling me that work was sending him to pinedale wy and that he would work as a dispacher and we would get a company vehical(no more paying for gass ya ya) and that he would be on salary!!! It is such a blessing!! He was being payed on percentage which means that he would make 22 percent of what his turck made. So now we have made the decision that we are going to move to pinedale so that we can be close! he will be able to be home ever night on his days on he will still work long days but it will be sooooooo nice to be able to be together again. We are now trying to get wraped up here in idaho fall and find a place to move to in pinedale! we are excited its funny what life throws at you. we never thougth that we would move to wyoming but it is whats best for us who would have thought. im very excited and a little nervouse now i have the chore of trying to get packed!!! thats a scarry thougth im not sure how well its going to go but here we go on to a new chapter!