1 Year

Yesterday was exactly one year from the start of some crazy health issues! Last year on New Years eve me and my mom went shopping at the Layton Mall and while in Charlotte Russe I experienced my first Mini stroke, but at that time I did not know thats what it was. I had just found out I was pregnant 2 weeks previous and later found out that it was the cause of my mini strokes. After my first mini stroke I had another one a few weeks later at the doctors office during my first ultra sound with Peyton. There I found out that I had a possible hole in my heart. My OB doctor immediatly got me into a heart specialist in Salt Lake and they did tests and did find a whole in my heart about the size of a Quarter. They wanted to do surgery on it as soon as possible to prevent any more stroke and possibly a massive stroke but they had to wait until I was in my second trimest. During that time, I was in and out of the hospital ALOT! I never had a massive stroke, but I did have numerous mini strokes. When I was finally in my second trimester I was able to have the surgery. They went through an artery in my groin and inserted a device to close the hole. Because I was pregnant they did not want to put me out so I was able to watch everything that they were doing (which was very weird and kinda freaky) The surgery went very well and they told me if I hadn't taken care of it when I did, then I would have had a massive stroke durning Labor. I was very blessed to have caught this when I did. After the surgery it took about a month for me to stop having the mini strokes and migraines. 6 months after the surgery I went in for a check up and it had completely closed. They were surpirsed by how fast it closed because of the size of the hole. Again I feel very blessed through out the whole process.
Now that its all over and its officially been a year, I am excited to know that its all behind me. I did have a little anxiety over the last couple days just because again me and my mom were shopping at the Layton Mall on New Years eve, but it was comforting to know all was fine. Whenever I look at Peyton I cant help but think how he saved my life. The doctor told me 1 in 4 people have a hole in there heart and dont know about it until they have a massive stroke and eventually I would have had one and could have been severley handicapped, had this not all happened. I love Peyton so much! He is such a blessing in my life and such a sweet spirit. I cant believe how good of a baby he is. We joke that he is so calm and content because he was so drugged up on Morphine and all the other drugs they had me on during all this. Now that its a New Year, I am just hoping for a Health issue free year!

NEW CAR!!!!!!!!!

We finally got a new car!!! YAH!!! After 2 years of driving around in an ugly red Ford Focus, it finally pooped out on us. Not completely pooped out, but enough for us to not want to risk Patrick being stranded somewhere. We are going to fix the Focus so we can have a second car. We had actually been trying to get a loan with our bank so we could try and get a car on KSL, but they kept denying us. We finally decided to go to a dealer ship because we felt we had no other choice. The dealer ship ran our info through to a couple different banks and turns out we got approved through OUR OWN BANK! Seriously?!?! Whatever, I guess as long as we were able to get a car right? Anyways, so the dealer ship we went through was awesome and got us into a great car for a great price! We are super excited about it. We cant believe its ours cause it seems to nice to be ours. We have to remind ourselves that it only seems so nice because our Ford was so awful! These are a couple of pictures of what our car looks like. It looks exactly the same as these just only White. Its a 2008 Saturn Aura. I just haven't had time to take a picture of our own actual car.

Christmas Memories

I have to start out by saying that Chirstmas time is a Holiday that is celebrated at our house starting at midight Halloween night. I think its 106.5 That starts playing Christmas music at midnight. Patrick loves Christmas time and I cant blaim him. He loves it so much because it reminds him of his mom and how great she made Christmas before she passed away. Even though they didn't have alot of money, she always made it special for him. So every year I try to make sure Chirstmas is special because I never want to take that feeling away from him. So this year I think I tried even harder and decided since we dont have much money to get lots of presents that we would go do activites that would help put us in the Christmas spirit. I already posted about the Festival of Trees on my last post, but this weekend we decided to go see the Christmas lights at temple square. Because Patrick has great memories of Christmas he really wants to make sure our kids have really good memories too and we feel like Corbin is finally getting to an age were he will remember things. So to make this special for Corbin we decided to take the train to Salt Lake. Corbin is in love with trains (which is kinda funny to me because he only owns 1 little train and like a billion cars and airplanes) He had so much fun waiting for the train, he couldn't hold still. Once we got on the train he just stared out the window for the longest time. He wasn't the biggest fan of seeing the Christmas lights but I guess that was more for me and Patrick. Over all though, it was a great memory that we were able to share with each other and helped us get more into the Chirstmas mood.

Festival of Trees

Patrick and I had the oppertunity this year to go to the Festival of Trees with some friends. I didn't really know much about the Festival of Trees until we got there and it was explained to me more in detail. After walking through all the trees and seeing the trees that were dedicated to little babies and kids and even adults that have either passed away or are still very sick, it made me appreciate how healthy my kids are. I tend to get frustrated when they have colds or ear/eye infections and cant seem to get over it, but seeing and reading about all these kids made me realize how truely blessed I am to have healthy kids. I think it is so awesome what the money goes to. I cant believe how much some of these trees sold for. It really helps put you in the holiday spirit. I wish I would have taken pictures of some of the trees. I was kinda busy chasing Corbin and making sure he wasn't touching the trees. We got scolded when Corbin saw the Lightening Mcqueen tree and ran up and started touching it. Some of our favorites were; of course the Airforce one made up of Airplanes. The BYU one. There was a really cool looking Shrek one that the tree was a palm tree. I loved the all pink one that had everything pink. There was also a really cute one that was made all baby girl. It had a crib with it, a dresser, lots of toys and books, and everything else you can think of that you would need to start a room for a baby girl. It was very cute! We had alot of fun seeing the trees and I think we may be making it a tradition every year to go. It was definatly worth it!

Comparison

I wanted to do some comparison pictures because I was thinking that they kinda looked alike at certain ages, but as I was going through my pictures I realized that they dont look much a like at all. Atleast to me they dont. Tell me what you think.

3 months old!

This is a few days late, who cares but me though right?! So my little baby is already 3 months old! Time is flying so fast and quite honestly I dont think its fair!!! Peyton is such a blessing to our family. He has such a great personality and is so much fun. We are starting to see alot of me in Peyton. At his 2 month old check up the doctor told us that he is in the 90% for his height and that if he keeps growing like this then he will probably end up being 6'4. Patrick is pretty proud of that, but we know he gets that from the Hall side. Peyton does really good with sleeping through the night. He only wakes up around 4:00 to eat for about 10 minutes then sleeps again until about 8:00 or 9:00. He is a very happy baby and loves attention. We love him so much and are excited to see how much more he will grow over the next 3 months!

I cant Believe how much he has changed in 3 months

Just for you Tiff!

Tiff and Jas are very big Nerds! After Peyton's blessing we went back to our house and had lunch. Well when Tiff and Jas left they were laughing. I wasn't to sure what was going on because I was so wrapped up in everything else, but later I found lots of retarded pictures in my phone. They I guess were pretty bored so they took my phone and took very random picutres. I posted all the ones of them, but didn't find it necessary to post pictures of my toliet or my clock or all the other weird things they took pictures of. The next day I called Tiff and told her how big of a nerd she was and she told me that later that night, her and Jas couldn't stop laughing at them selves because they thought it was so funny! I am just so glad that my phone could bring them so much joy! I love you guys!