Our Fourth of July

We had a great time yesterday. Karri and I got the kidlets up bright and early for the parade after staying up until almost one finishing our flip flops.

Here are some pics from the parade. Karri and lil:

James and I:
Baby James:



Karri and I:


Makailynn:

James:

Kaimen and Alexis:




Then we went down to mom and dads. the kids played with silly string.




Then we got out the slip n slide and bbq.




James opened his present:



Then we did fireworks and hung out:



A great day!

An Update

For those of you that do not know, my darling Tim suffered a massive stroke on Saturday in California. He has been transported to ICU at John Muir Hospital in Walnut Creek, CA. I am here in Cali staying in Alameda with a very sweet caring couple. I am being very well taken care of. I plan to fly home on Friday and spend the weekend with my kids and then come back. I love them and miss them very much. I am hoping to update here, since it is becoming more and more difficult as Tim spends more time alert to be both with him and constantly on the phone keeping everyone in the loop. Text messages are always good since I can return them when I can.

As for Tim, since the original diagnosis of he wasn't going to make it through the night, he has come a very long way. He is semi alert but still very sleepy. They have removed the breathing tube and he is no longer on life support. He has been able to voice the words I love you and want water. He continues to try to speak many more. He is paralyzed on the right side of his body, but I am confident that with faith and Tim's strong determination that that will come back. He is signing a few words, as he does know fluent sign language. We are meeting with the speech pathologist again today to redo his swallow test so that hopefully he will be able to start learning to eat again and we can remove his feeding tube. We will also meet with the physical therapist today and he will receive a neuro psyche eval to give us a baseline to be able to base his progress off of. The only thing keeping him in ICU right now is his blood pressure. He is on maximum doses of meds and they cannot keep it under control without them and they are all IV form. As soon as we can control the BP we will be able to look at moving him to a regular room. Then we will focus on the long road to recovery that we have ahead of us. We are looking at 10-12 months of rehab to get him to a functioning place again.

I love all of you and so does Tim. We are very thankful for all of the blessings and amazing people that we have in our lives. If someone could please copy this to the places I frequent (AW, TM) I would much appreciate it. Again, thank you everyone for your thoughts and prayers.

Much Love,
Angie

Alexis' baptism

Thank you so much to everyone that took the time to come to Alexis' baptism and confirmation last weekend and to her bday party. Here are a few pics for those who missed it.

It got awful quiet downstairs this afternoon...

Alexis and I were upstairs doing this weeks baking and the two boys were downstairs playing. It got really quiet for a bit, so we went downstairs to check and this is what we found:

Super Bowl Sunday

What a great day. Callie and I and the kids spent the morning making our own Super Bowl cake. Since the favorite team was split, we made the cake half and half. It is football shaped. We had a ton of fun making and decorating it. We went down to Mom and Dad's and met Jon and jess and their kids down there. We watched the game, ate tons of food, and just enjoyed each other's company.

Karri's Birthday

My best friend Karri turned 21 last week and we all celebrated by going bowling. I took the kids and we all had a blast. Callie and Derek also spent the weekend out here with me to help me with the kids, since I had to work both jobs last weeek. They were both the biggest help ever!

Alexis showing off her fan she won:


Callie and Alexis:


Karri with a tuckered out baby James:


Me and My crew:


James eating a french fry:



Ptate:


Derek and James:

More tummy time pics

I am a little late getting them posted, these are from last week.


Ami and Daniel


Beth and William


Becca, James, Beth, and William


Becca and James


Me and James

It's getting closer...

We are 15 ish weeks away from last spring frost here. That means only three more weeks until I need to start a few thing indoors. I semi-finalized our planting list today. So far it includes:

broccoli
cabbage
cauliflower
head lettuce
parsley
collards
peppers
tomatoes
spinach
radishes
leaf lettuce
peas
cucumbers
summer squash
carrots
pole beans
sweet potatoes
corn
cantaloupe
maybe a few other melons
strawberries
and possibly potatoes and onions
also a variety of other herbs will go in a box on the deck.

We have chosen to go with the square foot gardening method after much deliberation. http://www.squarefootgardening.com/ We feel like it is going to work best for us. This week I will be ordering seeds, and mapping out our boxes. I am thinking 5 boxes. I found the coolest garden planner. It is downloadable and printable. Check it out here:http://www.littlehouseinthesuburbs.com/2009/01/free-download-2009-spring-garden.html

Look for pics of seedlings for broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, lettuce, and parsley in a few weeks :)

Batbaby

The kids decided to be silly and put Payton's batman cape on baby James



Here he is "flying"

RFL Kickoff

Most of you know, I am the event chair again this year for the American Cancer Society's Relay For Life. It is held June 26th and June 27th at West Jordan Veterans Memorial Park. For more info www.relayforlife.org/westjordanut

Here are pics from our kickoff. It was held at Classic Skating and everyone had a blast. We had over fifty people and 7 teams attend!

Jenna's teams


Melissa, Bobbie, and Jessica:


Jon, Jessica, and Breanna skating (she had more fun that it looks lol)


We are also super excited to be welcoming two new little relayers in June :) Jessica is having a girl and Shelly is having a boy! Congrats girls!