Wow its been forever since I have posted. So much has happened these last few months. In January of this year as many of you know Brian injured his back, he re-herniated L5-S1. It happened right after Christmas break and it was an absolute nightmare. He was in
un-controllable pain in his back and all down his leg and foot and it was really bad. I was 6 months pregnant with an almost 2 year old and things were so bad and hard. I
didn't know If I could make it through.
Thank goodness time passes quickly, here we are now in almost October and life is so great!! Since
Brian's injury he has had multiple injections to try and get the pain under control. (and remember we were in the middle of his second year of Medical School) Thank heavens for so many wonderful doctors who helped us along the way and took such great care of us. Brian was able to
finish out his second year with flying colors!! I
don't know how he did it, sometimes he would be up all night in pain and it was really hard to listen to him practically moaning, not to mention he could barely walk, and he was never pain free. I think this was the hardest thing I have ever had to go through. Thanks to the many prayers in our behalf and a loving and caring Heavenly Father we made
It through.
Ashley Mae was born April 16
th 2008 at a
whopping 9lb 8oz, yes she almost killed me. Before Ashley it always drove me crazy when people would complain about being pregnant and how uncomfortable they were and how they wanted to go early. Well Braden was a breeze but Ashley made me realize what so many
women were talking about. I was so uncomfortable I could barely do anything. And if I would over do it at all (which
wasn't hard to do) I would start having contractions. Once she came out My body was in such relief it was a miracle. No more pain, no more uncomfortableness (at least being pregnant) it was amazing!! And thanks to Dr.
Solovieva and all the doc's and nurses in
Kirksville who helped me all along it was wonderful!!
My family came out to help and see the baby and it was so nice to see them, and so nice to have so much help.
Also to my neighbors and friends they helped out with Braden and meals. I have never really considered myself a needy person but these last few months I was, and I needed help to get through.
Time has flown
since Ashley has arrived, Brian
finished school, we have moved from
Kirksville to Grand
Blanc, Brian had back surgery and things are finally settling back down.
Brain's Back surgery went excellent, thanks to an
incredible doctor (Dr. Huntsman) in Utah. He did
Brian's previous surgery about 6 years ago and we have been very pleased with him.
He has been in physical therapy and is feeling much better.
We love our new home, it is so much bigger than anything we have ever lived in. We
don't have enough furniture to fill it up but
that's ok for now. We have a big playroom downstairs which is so nice. Braden can play all he wants and the toys stay downstairs. We have 3 bathrooms, wow I love it. We went from 1 to 3,
ahhhhhh it is so nice. Oh
yeah and we have a 2 car garage, it has been so nice and in the winter especially it will be so nice.
We love being in Grand
Blanc, we miss family and friends from Utah and
Kirksville but we really love it here. I miss so badly just walking outside and having a neighbor out to talk to and kids for Braden to play with but we are figuring things out here. I love being in an area
that's not as isolated as
Kirksville, I mean it was nice but its so nice to be able to drive 10 min to the mall, etc.
I find myself so excited to go to church and see people and make new friends, there are so many wonderful people in our ward. I am looking forward to meeting and making new friends.
I am so thankful to be at the end of September, I know that our challenges are not over but we have made it through some hard times this year.
Believe it or not a circus came to town, yes to Kirksville and it was great! They had Lions and Tigers and my favorite Elephants. I have always wanted to ride an elephant and I finally got my chance!! This is a pic of Braden and I on an elephant ride. It was great!!!
If you ask Braden about the Circus he keeps talking about the "Lady Who Fell," there was a lady doing tricks on these long pieces of fabric hanging from the celling and she did all sorts of flips and tricks and Braden thought she fell, well she did... but on purpose. So yeah he is so funny.
It is finals week and Brian still took the time to come with us, I am so glad he did! It is so nice to spend time together as a family.
We were sitting on the floor and the elephants were just feet away, it was cool!
I decorated the house with balloons and streamers so when Braden came down in the morning he was so excited. All he wanted to do was pop the balloons which is what Braden and Brian did all afternoon.
Sarah Came over and brought Braden a birthday present......CHOCOLATE CHIPS his favorite!!! This kid is such a choc-aholic!! She also brought him a CHOCOLATE cupcake some CHOCOLATE sprinkles and some stickers. Whate cute kids!
Dancing with his bag of CHOCOLATE CHIPS.
These too love birds..... we will show this pic at there wedding!!
New rain boots.
Cool new Trike!! He is taking Sarah out for a ride.
This is the Baby Einstein Tiger Birthday cake I made for Braden. I really love to make fun Birthday cakes and braden loved it!!
Braden LOVED blowing out the candles, we would sing to him over and over and he would just keep blowing them out, it was so much fun!!
Braden and Sarah Eating cake and ice cream.
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