Happy Birthday....To ME!

So I decided that I'm really SPOILED! My sweet hubby got me the flowers, shoes, and book. Erin thanks a ton for the socks...LOVE them! And the movie!!!!! A big thank you to my mom who made this quilt for baby Gwyn! Thank you for making it a special Birthday for me I love you all!

Ok. since I haven't been on my blog FOREVER I totally need everyones invites if you have a private blog! My email is: caywjacq@gmail.com. Thanks a million!

Brynnah's First Day of School!

Internet Finally!

I just wanted to say a quick Hi to those of you who keep checking the blog with anticipation of a new post. Sorry I've disappointed you! We finally have Internet now so hopefully I will be posting a lot more often! Quick update:
Ryan: just started school. He's taking some generals hoping to get into an architectural program. He's still working at the jail and is still OK with it. He works weekend day shift which is really nice. Not only can he go to school but then he's able to help out more with appointments and everyday stuff!
Jacqui: It seems like I'm always crazy busy! I have Dr. appointments once a week now, NST(non-stress tests) twice a week. Of course I'm working on Christmas projects, trying to get them finished before the new baby comes. I'm due in 3 weeks from tomorrow! We are so excited for this little one to join our family. It's gone by so fast I can't believe it! Everything has gone so much better this time around. The gestational diabetes is well controlled so I've just been treated with oral meds. I've hit my 20# mark which is enough for me. My c-section is set for the 6th of October. I was hoping for the last week in September but my Dr. is pretty conservative....so 3 days before Brynnah's birthday it is! I'm feeling great and definitely ready. I can't believe I already had Brynnah at this point in the pregnancy with her. Sandi took some pictures of us so I will post when I get those back from her!!!
Brynnah: Is doing just great. She really is starting to look like a little girl now! She got a new haircut for school and it's way cute! Her first day of school was today and she was so excited to tell me about her day. It's so great to hear her get excited and actually give me some feedback. She still has therapy: OT and PT have decided to go every other week now instead of weekly so that's nice. Speech for language and feeding is still once a week. We are hoping this year at school she will start talking and interacting with the other kids in her class. She's excited for her new baby sister to come! She loves putting her head on my tummy and picking out clothes for her sister!
I guess I've blabbed enough. It's good to be back!

Brynnah's Hospital Stay

Can you believe I'm actually updating my blog!?! I know it's been months and months since I last updated! I'm not going to try and catch up...I will just start from scratch! Most of you know that Little Miss Brynnah is currently at Primary Childrens. She got sick about 3 weeks ago with a cough. It started getting worse and worse...so I took her into the clinic every day for a week. The docs really couldn't find anything wrong with her. On that friday I told them I wanted her in the hospital because her oxygen levels were dropping and we don't have a way to check them at home. They admitted her and still couldn't find anything wrong. They ended up sending her to Primary's in an ambulance on sun. When we got here everything started getting worse. The doc's decided to put her in the ICU. The next day she continued to require more and more oxygen. They finally decided to put her on a ventillator(breathing machine). The regular ventillator wasn't enough for Bryn so they put her on an oscillator (a high frequency ventillator). We've been here for 2 weeks and haven't made a lot of progress. The doc's have been keeping her totally sedated and immobilized. I stay up here all the time and Ryan gets to come up on the weekends. I'm staying at the Ronald McDonald House and have met some really fantastic people. It's nice to have made some friends here that can be a support! Today they switched Bryn back to the regular ventillator...which to be honest I was really nervous about. But, she's doing well so far. They switched her about 12 noon today. If she's still doing well tomorrow they will start to let her be awake a little bit more! Which is really nice for me I haven't seen her beautiful eyes, or her smile, or heard her voice for over 2 weeks now! Thank you so much for keeping us in your thoughts and prayers. We really appreciate all of you so much.

Long Over-due Update

Wow! I guess I hadn't realized how long it's been since I updated the blog! Let's see....Thanksgiving Ryan had to work...so Brynnah and I wen to Salt Lake to his sisters. We had a great time and of course lots of good food! Ryan said that they had a good thanksgiving dinner at the jail too.
Ryan: has just been busy working. He's getting ready to change shifts so he will finally be able to go to church with me!!! He's also been going to TKD (Tae Kwan Do) class as much as he can. He will be able to test for his 4th degree black belt in a couple years so he's learning all his forms and practicing ALL the time! Ryan also goes down to Bear Lake quite a bit to help his parent with the addition on the house.
Jacqui: I've been busy with Brynnah! As always. She still has therapy a few times a week, and she has school twice a week...so that means really early mornings...we have to get up @ 6! Other than that I've been busy getting everything done for Christmas! I made a lot of stuff this year...silly me! It seems like that's all I do....is make stuff for Christmas.....I usually start right after Christmas so I don't ever have to hit the after thanksgiving sales, and I don't have to do any last minute shopping!
Brynnah: Started school and is LOVING it! She is so excited to "ride the bus". They have a small bus that comes right up to the house. The bus picks her up @ 7 and drops her off @ 11:30. I thought I would have a harder time with her being gone that long ....but I totally love it! We had a meeting a couple weeks ago with her principal, teacher, and therapists. They discussed new goals for Brynnah for the next year. I'm really excited, we have some good goals set and I can't wait to see her progress! She's doing so great, all of her appointments are going great and her kidney is still doing FABULOUS! Her speech has showed really great progress the last couple of months. She is saying 4-5 word sentences....a few months ago she was stuck at 2-3 word sentences. She has started to say more about what she does during the day, and is constantly following us around the house!
We had a really wonderful Christmas this year. We did the 12 days of Christmas again this year, which is always fun. Brynnah helped make sugar cookies and we had a blast...she totally made a huge mess but we all had fun anyway! We had Christmas at our house this year. My mom and her boyfriend came over the wed. before and we had dinner and opened gifts to each other. We did Christmas on Christmas Eve since Ryan worked the whole time. Brynnah was sooo funny. Every time we turned our back she was opening presents! She kept saying " I wanna rip it" It was so fun to have her be interested this year! We also sprinkled sparkles and oats (for Santa and the reindeer) My sister came down the day after Christmas and spent the night. We had a lot of fun together! We got some great gifts this year! I got Ryan a Karaoke machine...which Brynnah loved! I got a wii fit and my sister was exercising and Brynnah did too! Brynnah was excited about EVERYTHING this year. She got lots of books, an art kit, and a room done in Zoo Animals! We hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season. And best wishes for a happy and healthy new year!

San Diego Trip

So we are still in San Diego right now but will be coming home on Wed. We have been having a wonderful time. The zoo was a lot of fun and Brynnah really loved it. We think that she enjoyed Sea World more, though. The zoo was really tiring because of all the walking around we did. The place is really huge and we ended up taking the tour bus ride to see the the animals that were clear in the back areas. If you ever decide to go there you need to take 2 days to do it. It is too much for one day. Sea World on the other hand was a blast because we could walk around the whole park and see everything we wanted to. We did miss a couple of the shows that we thought Brynnah would have loved because of the scheduling conflicts. We did get to feed and pet the dolphins and we also had "Lunch with Shamu." Brynnah really loved that because we were sitting right next to the pool where a couple of the killer whales were swimming. They had a trainer out there talking about the whales and then she had one of them do a bunch of tricks. It was really awesome. There are so many thins there to do and so little time to do it all, but we still had a lot of fun.
We are really looking forward to coming home even though we have to leave this wonderful weather. I'll get more pictures posted another time. We hope you enjoy these ones for now.