Apolo Anton Ohno

On March 16th Apolo Anton Ohno was at the Utah Olympic Oval filming a commercial for his new 8 Zone. Riley and I were lucky enough to be able to go to the oval and be in the commercial (not that you will be able to see us). After the commercial we got to go back and meet Apolo and get his autograph. He was so nice and even cuter in person. He signed a picture for Ry, Logan, and me. It was a lot of fun and a great experience.

Back to Blogging

I have been a complete slacker on my blogging, but I am back now. I will hopefully be able to keep up on it again. Our lives have been super crazy busy the last few months. The boys are both signed up once again for baseball. Logan is on the Seattle Mariners, and Riley is on the New York Yankees. They are keeping us busy with Logan, who has at least 4 practices a week right now for 2 hours. Riley's practices will start on Monday so it will just add to our busy schedule. So I am hoping to be good about updates but we will see.

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Monday night Logan and I had a Mom and Son date night. We went to see two of my nieces in the play Seven Brides For Seven Brothers at Woods Cross High School. It was a lot of fun to see the girls in their first high school play. I really can't get over how old they are getting. They both did a great job and the play was a lot of fun. I am so glad that I got to spend time with Logan. It is so fun that he likes to go to plays and such with me. I hope it stays that way for a little longer, before he decides he's to cool to hang with mom!!! Some of the pictures I took are a little blurry but I could not have my flash on and we were not real close to the stage so I had to zoom in almost as far as my camera would allow. My nieces are the in the Brown Dress with the Blonde wig, the Green Dress with the black wig, and then the one that wears the black wig also is the one in the blonde wig and black and pink dress with Logan. Their names are Cheyenne and Dakota, Love you girls !!!

Four Years Ago Today

Four years ago today our lives dramatically turned upside down. Our family faced one of the hardest things in our lives. It all started late on Sunday Jan. 30th, 2006. Our oldest son Logan who was 5 at the time developed an extreme thrist and was constantly going to the bathroom. He had no appetite and no desire to sleep. At first we thought it was because he had been sick for the past few days with croupe and had been taking a steroid to get rid of it. Brandon and I took shifts all night of staying up with him. The next morning I called the doctors office and they said it was a side affect from the steroid and to just watch him. I couldn't help letting my mother instinct kick in and starting looking in one of those childrens medical books. Logan had the symptoms for dehydration of a child with Diabetes. I told my husband and he said we should listen to the doctor and just watch him and that he would be fine. So we sat and watched and waited throughout the day. We tried to brib him to eat by taking him to AB's drive inn to get lunch. Well needless to say it failed, 10 mins after getting our food Logan had downed 2 kid size sodas and was then in the bathroom throwing up. We quickly packed things up and went home. He looked so tried and sickly looking. I was so worried about him by this point and called the doctor again. Our usual doctor was out of town so the other doctor told us once again to just watch him, that he may be getting the flu. I was not happy with this, but then decided to try and get him to take a nap with me. Brandon took Riley, who was then 18 months, and left to run some errands. I was able to get Logan to fall asleep for only 30 mins. when he woke up because he had wet my bed. He started to cry and was so upset because he had had an accident. I quickly put him in the bath and got him cleaned up. By this time it was after 5pm and there was no sign of improvement. At around 7pm my neighbor came over to see me and when she saw Logan she instantly told me to call the doctor again and to take Logan to the ER. So as soon as she left I called the doctors office and left a message for the on-call doctor. When he called me back and I preceeded to tell him about Logan he asked me if my childs breath smelled fruity!!!! I was in shock, I was wondering what kind of quack doctor I was talking to now. He then told me to trust him and just smell his breath. So I had Logan come over to me and open his mouth so I could smell it. To my surprise his breath smelled liked APPLES of all things. I relayed this to the doctor, where he then told me " I am going to hung up now, please get your son to the ER ASAP". I was even more worried and upset and asked him what he thought was going on and he said to just get to the ER. I ran and got Brandon and relayed all this to him. We then frantically called to find a sitter for our sleeping baby. Brandon's brother Jeremy and his date Tricia (she is now his wife) came and sat with Ry. We left and went to the nearest ER which was Jordan Valley Hospital. When we got there they girl at the desk didn't have a clipboard for us and said she would bring us one out in a bit. The ER was packed and 3 more people came in shortly after us and were all given clipboards and paper work before us. I went to the desk and told the girl that we had been waiting and she said she was sorry that she had forgot about us. I filled out our paperwork and turned it back in just as I sat down they called us up. They told us they had to get Logan admitted right away. I asked if they thought they knew what was going on and she then told us "I can't tell you my opinion." They took all his vitals and put us literally in a storage room because they had no real rooms available. They sent a nurse in to put in an IV and take some blood. Just as she finished Logan threw up all over the floor and it was straight liquid. We then got him and the floor cleaned up and another nurse came in to poke his finger and take his blood sugar. It was then that I knew my mother's instict that morning had been correct. The meter only read HI, the meters can only read a blood sugar up to 600. The doctor then came in and told us that Logan in fact was being diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. It took everything in me to not lose it in front of my sick little boy. The doctor told us they were going to test the blood they drew to get an accurate blood sugar and in the mean time they were going to get us a real room and start him on a slow dose of insulin. We called our families and broke the news to them. Brandon then left the hospital to get Ry taken care of with his parents. I sat with Logan in the ER and watched as they ran tests and kept a constant watch over him. My dad ended up showing up at the hospital to be with us. While we were sittingthere I over heard some nurses talking about Logan outside his room. When I asked them what they were talking about they told me to ask the doctor. So I found the doctor and asked him what was going on. It was then that he informed me that Logan was a very luck little boy. His blood sugar reading had come back and his blood sugar was 1,260 !!! He told me how luck we were he didn't ever go to sleep because he would have gone into a coma and probably never come out of it. He told me that a normal person's blood sugar is between 80-120. Logan was in what they call Ketoacisdosis. His fat cells were breaking down to try and make insulin and causing sugar to enter his blood stream. He also told me that they had to be very careful to bring his blood sugar down so it wouldn't cause his brain to swell. I finally lost it, I couldn't take in anymore of what he was saying. They were going to have to transport Logan to Primary Childrens by ambulance. By this time it was 1:00am and we were all very tired and out of it. Logan asked my dad to ride with him in the ambulance, Brandon was going to meet us at Primary's so I drove my dad's truck. We were admitted at 1:30 am and were told that we would be there for the next week. They came in every hour and woke Logan up to check his blood sugar. Over the next 5 days we learned what was needed in order to take care of Logan from now on. I know that our amazing little boy was watched over by a very special guardian angel the days his pancreas was failing and during our ER trip. Our family is so blessed to have had Logan's life spared somehow. He was meant for more here on earth and I truly believe that. He has taken on so much in his short life and he handles it all with such strength that it amazes me beyond belief. We love Logan so much and are extremely grateful for everyday we have with him. I can truly say the scariest thing in life for me so far is the fact I almost lost my son 4 years ago. My heart truly goes out to anyone who has ever lost a child. I am sorry for the long post but this is something that has affected our lives that I can't explain.

Christmas Eve and Christmas 2009

This year Christmas Eve was at my sister's house in South Weber. We always get together have dinner, spend time totogether as a family, and exchange presents. There was a lot of laughs, good times, lots of noise, and presents. We had such a great night. After presents Santa's Elves delivered Christmas Eve Pj's for everyone to open. The boys couldn't wait to get home put out cookies for Santa and go to bed. On Christmas morning we had to wake our boys up at 7:50am even then that was pushing it for them lol. Once they were awake they couldn't wait to get downstairs and start opening presents. We all had such an amazing Christmas and now get to enjoy the nice school break.

Misc. During December

December was a busy month for us. We started out by going to the Nutcracker Ballet to see my niece McKenna perform as a blue soldier. It was such a great night, we went with my Dad and Step Mom and both of my sisters and their families minus Tammy's 2 youngest who were too little to go. McKenna did a great job, she was only in the first half so the second half she was able to come and sit with us and watch the second half. After we all went for a LATE dinner, good thing we fed the kids before we went, at the Olive Garden. It was so great to spend time together as family and visit. Throughout the rest of December between endless school projects for Logan, baking, shopping, and the holidays we barely had a moments free time. I once again did my holiday baking and can't believe how much my girlfriend and I did. We spent 2 full days baking and I filled 20 plastic tins for Brandon to give out at work, a bad tradition started when there was only 5 employees in in whole office. I hate to say it, but I am glad it is all behind us.

Village

As many people know I do a village under one of my trees every year. This is something that I have been doing for the past 8 years when my Nana could no longer put her's up. She divided her village 4 ways, my Mom, my Aunt Judee, my sister Tammy, and me. Since then each year I buy at least one new item for my village. I sometimes end up getting more depending on the new items for that year. When I went to put it up this year I realized I have become a little obessed with my village. Brandon told me I am no longer allowed to buy houses for my village (Thats What He Thinks YEAH RIGHT AS IF). I can see his point, but it is a very crazy addiction that I can not help at ALL!!! I even ran into a guy at the store who asked me if I did a village and when I replied yes he said stop now. When I asked why he said he had been doing one for 34 years and had over 300 houses and it took up half of his GREAT ROOM sized family room. Not to mention 3 days to put up!!! I guess that could be me in 26 years lol. Right now I have 40 lighted houses, 2 ice shanties, a skating rink, and one card board house which is what my Nana originally started hers with, not to mention all the people, animals, cars and more. I absolutely hate putting up my village, because of all the problems I seem to incounter while doing it, but in the end the day after it is done I absolutely LOVE IT and would not trade doing it for anything. I am so thankful for my Nana for starting such a great tradition in my life.

Thanksgiving 2009

Every year for Thanksgiving we rotate between Brandon's parents, my Dad and Step Mom's, and our house with my Mom and Grandparents. This year it was suppose to be with my dad, but where we rotate between 3 families our schedules didin't match up so we went to Brandon's parents. I started a new tradition with my kids that they got a kick out of, which is that we made name tags for everyone that was going to be at dinner. It was a fun little project to do with the boys. My job for Thanksgiving was of course to make the pies so I baked a pecan pie, and carmel apple pie, and a pistachio pie (my mother in-law made pupmkin). We ate dinner very late, but it was a great Thanksgiving. Brandon's Grandparents were there (his mom's parents), his Mom and Dad, his Uncle (mom's brother), his brother Travis and his daughter Hailey, his brother Jeremy and his wife Tricia, Tricia's niece Christa and her nephew Jayden, and our family. We all missed Grandma Gunn who passed away in July. She was in all of our hearts and missed. It was so great to be able to spend the holiday with family.