Being home....

Since we have been home from the hospital it has been a bit of a challenge. Sadie was so sick of taking medicine that she would literally throw up the loratab as soon as she would swallow it. And then on Saturday she started complaining that her mouth hurt and she would cry when she would try drinking or eating because she said that it hurt. At first I thought that maybe she was just a bit dehydrated and that her mouth was just dry so I just kept on trying to get her to drink. Then by Sunday morning she was complaining that her bum hurt (to a 3 year old that could mean any number of things hurt)...Anyway I figured it was just from her surgery, but then I decided to take a closer look...she was developing a small rash on her bum so I put desitin on it...Well to make a long story short-she was miserable and by Monday afternoon all of the skin had peeled off of her bum and surrounding areas and was cherry red, and her mouth was on fire. So on Tuesday we took her to the pediatrician. She had a serious infection going on and he put her on 5 different prescriptions and sent us home. So on Wednesday and Thursday it seemed as if everything was getting back under control. But just our luck...Thursday night was horrible and she slept a total of 1 hour and she was in excruciating pain and she refused to pee. She went 12 hours without peeing and there was nothing I could do to help her. The loratab didn't do anything for her pain. So Friday morning I called out to Primary Children's and they are assuming that she has another urinary tract infection which must be a different strand then the previous UTIs because she is on antibiotics for UTIs. Anyway so they told us to go to her pediatrician in Vernal and have them do an urinalysis and culture and have the results sent to them. So that's what we did and we will get the results either tomorrow or Monday...But we did find out that she has an ear infection as well now. This poor little girl just can't seem to catch a break and I am just tired!!

Oh the joys of 'being home'.

Bilateral Ureteral Reimplant

This is Sis getting all geared up for surgery. She is a little doped-up on an anti-anxiety medicine in this picture.

Even though they gave her a sedative she still went ballistic when they took her back, but thank heavens she doesn't remember it.

She was in surgery for 2 hours and she did great. Everything went better than expected. The doctor told us that patients that have this surgery are usually super nauseous and can't keep anything down. So they have to stay in the hospital until they can keep pain meds down. But Sadie was a trooper and never once threw up while in the hospital. She did come out with a small tube coming out of her incision that they took out on day 2.

Her heart was really irregular and being funny all night the first night, so she had to be hooked up to monitors and they went off all night because her heart kept on skipping beats and getting too low than too high, so we got NO sleep the first night. But luckily after having the heart work-up on Thursday, the Cardiology department said that it wasn't anything too serious. She just has a slight murmur and irregular heart rhythm, but the anesthesia and the morphine were making it worse.


Maretta and Woody brought Tuck to see his sister. Sadie was so happy to see him and they brought presents!!

On Thursday, they tried getting Sis off the morphine and onto meds by mouth, she did pretty good for most of the day. She went to the play room to play and she tried having fun with Junior, Kallie, and Tuck. But then they couldn't get her pain under control and her bladder kept on having spasms, they gave her everything that they could by mouth and she was still miserable. I was holding her in my arms as tight as a I could trying to get her to calm down and she just couldn't. Then she yelled out, "PRAY DADDY, PRAY...PRAY DADDY, PRAY". So of course Tanner started praying and then she talked herself into calming down a bit, but then they decided to put her back on the morphine for a few hours.

This may sound so bad but I loved my morphine baby!! She was sooo sweet and loving. She was absolutely hilarious as well. She would say stuff like, "mom, we're swimmin with the fishes. Weeee, this is fun swimmin with the fishes." To this day she thinks that she and I went swimming with the fishes. Its so funny. But since she's been off the morphine she has been really ornery and kinda mean.

All she has wanted since her surgery is for me to hold her and to be with her 24/7. So that's what I do.....in fact it's disgusting but I didn't shower for 4 days!! Oh what we sacrifice for our little love bugs!

On Thursday we had all kinds of visitors...besides Merts family and Tuck we had; Camille, Emma, Jenette, Angi, Linsey, Bishop, and Sister Allred. Thank you everyone for coming and visiting and for spoiling Sis completely rotten!!

Since Sadie's heart checked out to be fine and she was keeping the meds down, on Friday afternoon we got to come home!!

THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR YOUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS!!

Boys' "pack trip"

Tanner and Woody took Tuck and Junior on an overnight "pack trip". They went just up the road and set up camp. They had a great time playing in the dirt and riding the mules. Woody didn't have such a great time sleeping however...it was impossible for him to get any shut eye between the snoring and coyotes howling.

All Boy!!

They love playing in the fire.

Vernal RO-DE-O!!

We went to the Vernal rodeo with the Bair family a couple of weeks ago. We had so much fun and the kids are getting so big and so easy. They were so entertained and just had a ton of fun. Good times-good times!!

Kallie and Sadie are bestest little friends, its so cute!

Here come the parachuters....

I sure love this little man!

BIG KAHUNA!!

We had so much fun taking the kids to the water slide in Vernal....actually we had such a good time that we are going again tomorrow. I just cannot believe how big my kids are. Tuck had no problem going down the slide by himself over and over and over, all day long. As soon as he would get to the bottom he would run back up to the top. Which was so good because he loves to run and has sooo much energy!
Sadie loved the slide (which surprised me) she kept Tanner and myself busy because she loved going down and also loved having either mom or usually dad carry her back to the top....Sadie also did not want water in her face so we would have to lift her way above the water at the end, that's my Sis-through-and-through...

AFTER THE WATER SLIDE WE WENT TO TOY STORY 3. IT WAS SUCH A CUTE MOVIE AND THE KIDS LOVE GOING TO THE THEATER....WE DEFINITELY HAD A FUN FILLED DAY!

OH HOW I LOVE SUMMER

FUN IN THE SUN!!

WE HAVE SOME GREAT FRIENDS, PAUL AND CARRIE, THAT LIVE IN LANDER, WYOMING. THEY HAVE A HOUSEBOAT AT THE MARINA WHERE THEY SPEND THEIR WEEKENDS. CARRIE IS SO GREAT WITH THE KIDS AND SHE INSISTED ON TAKING THEM ON THE KAYAK. THE KIDS HAD A BLAST!

BOOMER (THEIR DOG) DID NOT WANT TO MISS OUT ON THE ACTION

TUCK WENT BY HIMSELF FOR A WHILE, BUT DON'T WORRY WE HAD A LONG ROPE ATTACHED SO WE COULD PULL HIM IN IF NECESSARY. BUT HE ACTUALLY DID A REALLY GOOD JOB PADDLING.

SILLY GIRL!!

Park City- get-a-way

When we took Sis to the doctor, our good friends Pete, Melissa, and baby Rylan, brought Tuck with them and met us at their time share at the Canyons in Park City. It was a ton of fun and just relaxing. We swam, slept in, went on the gondola and had lunch at the top of the Mountain. Thank you so much for the great get-a-way Pete and Melissa.


I love the beautiful Mountains!!

Just enjoying the ride!

The cute Mittank family!!

Sorry I cannot figure out how to get my pictures to not go sideways, any ideas??

The kids had fun playing on top of the fireplace....silly kids!

29!!!

Tanner had his 29th birthday on the 16th of June!! We just hung out, played games, and had dinner and dessert with the Bair family. We had a lot of fun and I think that T had a great birthday besides the part of being a year older and closer to the big 3-0....

I LOVE MY BOYS SOOOO MUCH!!