Wild Animal Park on the Coast

We had just a fun time here as a family. It was nice to get away together just the 4 of us. It was my first time ever petting any wild animal and it was awesome!!!

Pictures to come

We are back and finally settled back in from our 2 weeks a freedom from work!!! It was a blast and, yes, Josh and I are still married even after all that driving! 3,000 miles!!!! :-) It started with Josh getting home from work at 2 am and me only sleeping for 1 hour because of Jax then we got in the car for a very long drive. We switched seats often because of how tired we were and got to Battle Mtn. to visit Todd's family at about 10:30 ish. We left there and made it to my aunt Lisa's house in Utah at about 6 pm. Long day of driving for Josh and I and a long day of sitting for the kids. We stayed at my Grandma's house that night then headed to Bear Lake for 3 days. The weather was great and we took the jet skis out a few times. Josh and Ethan golfed both days with my dad and his family. We then headed to Malad for a day of my dad's family. They are one funny group. Then back to Utah. I was able to see an old friend from high school who I hadn't seen since high school, Jo. Even though I have packed on 25 lbs since I saw her last she seemed to recognize and we talked like no time had passed (other then we were only talking about catching up with each others lives). Sunday was spent with my mom's family celebrating the safe return of my cousin Keli from her mission. Monday we started our long drive home through Boise. I had to see my two long time friends there at Ginger's house. Cassidy flew in from San Fran and we spent the day together. Josh watched the kids and we made fun of ourselves. It was great. We tried to make the rest of the long drive home that night so I could work the next day but only made it to Burns OR. It was a fight for who was going to drive because of how tired we both were. We spent one full day at home (Josh's birthday) packing for our family trip with Josh's family to Humbug OR. We do it every year. It was great because there were 45 people in our group. That is hard to cook for but everyone did it without complaints. (I didn't complain because Josh did all of it) We spent 2 days there with good weather then on the 3 it started to rain. It rained a lot. Josh and I packed up the kids and left the camp site and drove trying to find fun stuff to do. We found another beautiful camp site and a place to drive our car on the sand (Josh's idea of fun). We then went to a zoo type place were a lot of the animals walk around with you. We were able to hold and pet a 6 week old lion cub, wallaby, white skunk, and many other cool animals. It was well worth the money spent. We we returned to camp everyone decided to call it quits to camping the rest of the time because everything was so wet. It would have been miserable. And that ended our family vacations. I can't wait until next year to do it again!!! I did take some pics and will post them once I bring my camera in from the car :-)

Questions Answered

So I have had a ton of people asking me what happened exactly and I finally feel like sharing. This seems to be the easiest way then I know I wont choke up. (depends on the day for that)

It started Saturday (2 weeks ago) when I was with my parents. Ethan had an ear infection so my mom came with me to take the kids to the Dr. I had been having some cramping but nothing scary along with spotting which I also had with Ethan and Jaxon. I asked the Dr if I should call my dr to ask about the cramps and she said I should. After talking to the on call Dr he told me to either go to the ER or bed rest for the rest of the weekend. Josh and I had our first Dr appt for the baby on Monday morning. Dr. Tomlinson (I love him) did an ultrasound to figure out exactly when I was due. I showed that I was 12 weeks along and due sometime around Feb 27 but there was no heartbeat. He ran some more tests and saw the baby had water on his brain and spine which is common with Turners Syndrome. He said that was most likely what killed the baby. The baby died about two weeks earlier, right about the time I stopped feeling so sick. We were very sad and Josh was awesome with me even though he was so sad himself. Dr. Dan didn't want me to have a natural miscarriage for two reasons 1) I was so far along & it is like having a baby (almost) so there would be a lot of pain 2) I bleed a lot when I give birth for no reason. He scheduled a D & C the next morning. That night Josh was on splits with the missionaries and I started to cramp again. They turned into contractions so I called Josh. After trying to make it stop and losing the baby at home we decided to go to the hospital because I was still bleeding. It was so scary for me because no one was moving as fast as I wanted them to. I kept thinking I was going to leave my husband with 2 kids to raise which made me angry. I has sitting in a pool of blood and there was a pool of it on the floor below me before they finally started to take us serious about the fact that I wouldn't stop until someone did something. It was estimated that I lost at least 2 liters of blood. Josh was great sitting by my side all night until the next morning when they gave me a D & C to remove the rest of the tissue and stop the bleeding. So to make a long story long, that is what happened. We are so grateful to everyone who sent us meals, notes, phone calls and flowers. We feel so blessed to have such wonderful friends and awesome family. I know it is stupid to feel so sad about it but everyone has made me feel loved. Thanks for all your support. We love you!

Update

I feel really bad that I have not been very good at keeping my blog updated. After all my issues are gone I finally feel like posting more pics however...I have not been very good at taking pics. The last ones I took were from the 4th of July. Sad I know! But we are traveling back to Utah and Idaho next week so keep your eyes posted for those pics! Here are a few pics from the 4th.