Dang It!

I spoke a little too soon about the pain being manageable. I had another "attack" last night. The good thing about it is that it only lasts a little while. Pretty much right after the barfs I can go on with life. I just choose not to. I am so tired all the time.

I'm looking forward to the day I can be normal again. Whatever normal means.

Test Results

Yes, I do have gall stones. Not sure how many. The tech just said more than one. One is pretty large. Since my test was done on a Friday the results would not get to my Dr. until Monday so I have no idea what will be in store for me. My pain is manageable at this point so I don't think surgery will be anytime soon. Hopefully we can avoid that, at least until the baby gets here.

Angel Baby Update...Kind Of

I was hoping to be able to make this post an announcement of what exactly we will be having. However, the baby had a different idea. It is breech which made it difficult for the Doctor to get a decent angle and then the cord was in the way too. She said she would do another ultrasound later to determine the sex.

I am scheduled to have an ultrasound at the hospital next Friday to check my gallbladder and see if that is what is causing the pain I have been having for over a year now. I don't think they would check the baby for us, but it won't hurt to ask!

This picture makes it look like the baby has very long neck. It looks a little alien at this point!

It's not pretty...

but here I am at 19 weeks. We were hoping to find out the sex of the baby today, but no luck!

Our First Visitors

Sharon was in Idaho for a funeral and decided to bring Lisha and Shalis to visit us. They stayed over Sunday night. We got to have dinner and play Phase 10 Twist. Shalis and Sharon played with the girls a lot and were worn out by bed time.

Monday morning we had to leave bright and early to get Maggie to her eye appointment in Salt Lake. Sharon went with us, but Lisha and Shalis decided to sleep in a little bit and meet us later. We all met up in Park City where we had lunch and said our goodbyes.

Thanks for the visit! We get pretty lonely up here all by ourselves!

Zoe's Art

A few days ago we went to Wendy's for lunch. Apparently Zoe has watched me "marinate" my fries in ketchup too many times. She decided to make a fry sculpture in her ketchup. She was very proud of her accomplishment.

I love to see the results of their creativity...usually!

Good News

We had Maggie's follow-up eye appointment yesterday morning and things are going very well. She has had 25% improvement in her vision. Her eye is not turning in as much either. If we keep patching her good eye and working on strengthening her bad eye we may be able to avoid surgery and hopefully stop patching soon.

Good work Maggie! I know the patch is annoying, but you have done a good job of keeping it on and getting your eyes better.

I Had To Do It!

This morning was so cold that I had to turn on the heater. It was 65 degrees in the apartment when we got up. Too cold for me!

IT'S AUGUST!

What a Cutie

I just wanted to record a couple of Zoe's cute moments. She started saying her prayers a while ago and she is just so cute. We keep trying to get her to expand them, but this is what we get... "Heavenly Jesus Christ Amen". All the important parts are there and who can argue with a short sweet prayer.

The other day I was in the laundry room and could hear her calling for me. It didn't sound urgent so I just let her look for me. Eventually she walked into the laundry room and said, "Mom"
"Yes?"
"I like Jesus Christ"
She had the cutest look on her face and gave a little sigh and started playing with the clothes.

She keeps me laughing and I can't believe how much she has blessed our lives. I'm truly grateful that Heavenly Father sent us these girls. Sometimes I wonder if he regrets his decision, but we are all learning and growing and hopefully we will start to get this family thing right!

Final Pay it Forward

My last, and prettiest, pay it forward project was a blessing dress for Ava. It was a lot of work (and I even had help from Mom) and not exactly what Lindy had in mind, but I think it turned out really nice and Ava looked like an angel in it.

To my surprise the biggest challenge on this dress was finding 1/2" ribbon to go between the tucks in the bodice. I thought 1/2" ribbon would be a pretty standard size, but I was wrong. The only way we could get 1/2" was to use the kind that had little loopies on the edges. It turned out really nice and the loopies just added to the sweetness.

Four generations of Brown women. Well, Brown, Olsen and Milne women!

Ava Milne, Lindy Milne (Mom), Michelle Olsen (Grandma), Linda Brown (Great-Grandma)

One very tired and beautiful guest of honor!