2008

This year has been a great year and one where I feel that we truly have been blessed. Our first blessing of the year was the birth of our daughter Brylee. At 32 weeks I started having some mild contractions. I went in for a non stress test and as soon as I had a contraction her heart dropped into the 20's. It was so scary hearing such a slow heartbeat. The nurse rushed in and told me that something was wrong and that I might be having my baby that day. I was scared to death. They tipped me upside down and gave me a shot to stop my contractions. It turns out that her cord was under her head so every time I would have a contraction, it would press her head onto her cord cutting off her oxygen. After being monitored over night, they felt comfortable enough to send me home but I had to be on bed rest. I had to go in everyday for nst's and take a pill everyday so I wouldn't contract. The pill didn't help much so when I would go in for the nst I would get a shot on top of that, sometimes two. One of the nurses made the remark that I was contracting stronger then most of the girls in labor. At 34 weeks I had an amnio to see if I could deliver. Her lungs were only 20% developed so back to bed I went. I was able to make it until 35 weeks when my doctor decided that she would be better off being delivered. She was born on February 28th by C-section weighing 6lbs 3oz and she didn't even need to be put on oxygen. We are so thankful that she is here and is healthy as ever!!!

Moving on...In April, Preston graduated from BYU in Construction Management. I am so proud of him and all the hard work he did so he could finish early. He was able to get a good job with WW Clyde overseeing the building of roads and bridges. (He now works for Wadsworth Brothers doing pretty much the same thing.)

In June, we decided to put our house up for sale. We didn't think we would be able to sale since there were about ten other houses that had been on the market for over a year and they were cheaper than ours. Well, we sold it in 4 days. We couldn't believe it. The first people to look at it, bought it. In July, we moved into our new house in Saratoga Springs.
Also in July was when I thought I lost my wedding ring up at Payson Lakes and It actually fell off the tool box into the back of the truck as we were driving off. I couldn't believe how lucky that was.

August, I found my birth mom. One of the things I waited the longest for. I still can't believe It's true.

September, I met my birth family in person. A day I will NEVER forget. That was one of the best days of my life.

Those are pretty much the major things that happened this year along with a lot of smaller things.
I feel so blessed to be where I'm at and to have so many people around me that I love.
I am so grateful to be a member of the Church and for the blessings it has brought to our family. I know that I wouldn't be where I am now without it.

I hope everybody had a great 2008 and I wish everyone a Happy New Year!!!

Christmas....

Christmas morning was so much fun! I kept waking up thinking Kayston was going to wake up and go in and just start opening presents. We heard him open his door so Preston jumped out of bed and opened our door. He came walking in and climbed in to our bed and went back to sleep. Preston and I looked at each other and just laughed. We just laid there and waited for him to wake up and realize it was Christmas morning. It didn't take him very long to remember and then he got so excited to go see what Santa brought him.
Here are some pictures of our morning...

Kayston LOVES this four wheeler Santa brought him, he couldn't wait to open all his presents so he could ride it.Brylee got this cute unicorn from Santa, someday she'll even be big enough to ride it.Except, I think she would have been perfectly happy with just the wrapping paper.
After we got done opening presents, we headed over to my mom's house to open more presents.Kayston and Ayden got these cute digital cameras...and Brylee and Jinki got one of those toys you stand up to and play on it. Thanks mom and dad!! Brylee also got this cute baby doll that giggles, she loves it. Isn't this the cutest picture??!!

Christmas Eve.....

Christmas Eve we went over to my parents house and had a yummy dinner and then the kids got to open their Christmas Eve present...jammies!

When we got home we made some sugar cookies for Santa and left some carrots out for his reindeer. Christmas is so much better with kids!
We hope every body had a Merry Christmas!!! We love you all!

Toys For Tots...

Yesterday my husband had the opportunity to go with some people from his work and go shopping for "Toys For Tots". When he first told me what they were doing i thought it was pretty neat. He even got to take Kayston along. When he called me later that day and told me the extent of the shopping, it brought tears to my eyes. First they went to Walmart and filled up over 150 carts with toys. They had to shut down about 6 or 7 lanes just for them. They filled up a semi with just toys. And these weren't just cheap little toys, they got bikes, huge doll houses, video cames and players, pretty much everything Walmart carried. Preston told me by the time they were done, the toy section was pretty much empty.

After that, they headed over to Costco, and we all know the kind of stuff Costco carries. They filled up over 50 of their big orange cart things and they were over 6 feet high with toys. They filled up about 30 guys' trucks and 2 big trailers with toys, sleds, drum sets, keyboards, ipods, and pretty much every cool toy Costco carries.
Preston said that people would just stop and watch what was going on. Even the local news was there and did a big story on it.
After they were done shopping and OVER $100,000.00 later, they headed up to drop off all the toys.

I am so proud that my husband works for such a giving company and I am so happy that he and Kayston got to have such an amazing experience.





This is what the holidays are all about!!!

Growing SO fast!!!

Brylee had her 9 month appointment not to long ago and I can't believe how big she is getting. She weighed 22lbs 6oz and she was 30in in her length. That puts her in the 97th percentile for both weight and height. We just love our little chuncky monkey so much. She is always so happy and she brings so much joy into our family.

Rock Climbing...

I took Kayston to the park the other day and it had this mini rock climbing thing. He loved it and was actually pretty good at it. So, we decided to take him to do some big rock climbing. He did SO good and he had a blast! This kid is not afraid of ANYTHING. He was climbing higher then most of the "bigger" kids were. The only bad part was when we had to leave... he threw a huge fit. Like my mom always says..."you can always tell how much fun a kid has by how big of fit they throw when they have to leave."
He usually does pretty good about leaving places but I think he would live at the rock climbing place if we would let him.