.: November 2012

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Thanksgiving

We went up to Clearfield to spend Thanksgiving with my brother, his family, and my sister. We also brought our nephew David and our friend Jordan Mower. It was a lovely day. We ate great food, played hilarious games, and had our annual gingerbread house competition. On Friday we were able to join the Grants for dessert and welcome Elder Taylor Grant home!

My yummy pumpkin roll

Palm Tree Chipmunk Paradise

Cactus Retreat

On Friday we were able to join the Grants for dessert and welcome Elder Taylor Grant home!

We were lucky to have Jordan join us for the holiday weekend.

Saturday, November 17, 2012

Official diagnosis

Kelly was given an official diagnosis today.

Viral induced (momo) Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome with Neurocardiogenic Syncope and Hypoglycemia

They are hopeful she will outgrow it as the antibodies wane. She is now taking salt tablets in additon to the bp medication. Treatment is just to treat the symptoms and wait.

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

A day with Aralie

Aralie came by and spent the day with me while Abner was working in South Jordan. We did some Christmas shopping, had a little massage, ate a yummy lunch, then came home to Carnitas from a new Pinterest recipe I tried. It was delish!

Friday, November 9, 2012

Snow day

Our 2nd snow of the season, it snowed for 24 hours straight. The chickens did not seem impressed. Chelsie had fun playing with the neighborhood kids.

Thursday, November 8, 2012

Just a little update on Kelly

Many of you know that Kelly has been experiencing medical issues since July. She has gone through so many tests and we have learned that she has orthostatic hypotension, hypoglycemia, mononucleosis, low vitamin D. While we have been frustrated to not find a diagnosis that ties all of these symptoms together and to know why she is fainting, dizzy, and in pain, we are thankful that some of her symptoms have improved over the last 3 weeks. She has only had a couple of mild attacks in this time frame. She is still dizzy every day and has leg pain daily but she is feeling more like herself and able to cope better. We have limited sugar in her diet which appears to be controlling the hypoglycemia. We are hopeful that as she recovers from mono, that she will continue to improve. She had a tilt table test done last week and while it takes most patients about 30 minutes to pass out, she did so in 4 1/2 minutes. After reviewing her heart and bp monitors during this time, the dr did not think she has POTS. We are so grateful for the power of prayer and thank all those who have offered prayers in her behalf. We keep praying that she will continue to improve so that she may return to her normal activities.

I forgot to post when our chickens laid their first egg! It was Saturday morning of General Conference weekend and Rue laid the golden egg! Scott estimated it cost about $600!

Chicky began laying very quickly after Rue! Her eggs are lighter and a bit smaller.

3 weeks later Ralfeefee laid her first egg---take note of the tiny egg on the bottom row! She sure made a squawk about that!

Now she's laying normal sized eggs but that first one was sure funny! We're still waiting on Buffy to start laying--she's the biggest chicken so we were shocked that she is the last to lay! Oh, by the way, the eggs are tasty!

Quotable Quips and Laughable Life

I decided that I wanted to add a small section with little things that my kids have said or done over the years that I never want to forget and I think are worth sharing. Unfortunately I was much better at writing these things down a bit late in the game....Chelsie steals the show here a bit. If only I could remember all those things I thought I'd never forget. I hope you take my challenge to write down all those things you hope to pass on one day.

When Chelsie was about 2 she had been jumping on my brand new couch, so I promptly told her to stop jumping on the nice furniture. Her response was very logical. "Then where's the mean furniture?"

While camping in the Sequoias, the entrance sign read, "1 bear incident this week...." Kelly mispronounced it as 1 bear accident....later in the bathroom, Chelsie noticed wet spots on the floor, and announced, "This must be where the bear had the accident."

We had a family home evening on choosing the right, and we thought Chelsie understood but when we asked her she said, "Yes, don't choose the left!"

When Kelly was in the 5th grade, she needed to use the classroom phone to call me. She dialed 9 to get an outside line, then she had to dial 1 because I have a long distance cell phone number, but she accidently hit the 1 twice. When the 911 dispatcher answered she was scared and just hung up. 5 minutes later the front office called the classroom stating that 3 sheriffs had arrived ready to take action and were wanting to know who called and why. Now it was by sheer coincidence that this was a morning that there was a prison breakout, so officers were on high alert. Kelly was embarrassed then, but can laugh about it now!

When Wes was about 4, he used to tell everyone that he was going to marry his friend Elizabeth, and that they were going to have 16 kids, and maybe a car.

When Chelsie was 3 1/2 we told her she needed to learn to spell her name. She responded, "I already know....A L I Z A."
(That was her best friend who taught her)

I was talking with my girls about the weather, and Kelly said, that stupid beaver was wrong, spring is not around the corner. Chelsie then chimed in, it's not a beaver, it's a warthog. Clearly I have failed them.