Sandpoint ( I know long time over due)

ok these pictures are really old kenna is like 1 month old but I have had this post sitting in my draft box forever so I figured I had to get it done. this is from our trip to sandpoint back in august :) we always have so much fun there though it was a little crazy driving 13 hours with a one month old, it was still worth it. We had way too much fun not to blog about it.

watching movies with grandma


kenna "watching" movies with grandpa.


Boat ride with the marks

End of the boat ride with the marks, I asked if they could come everyday around nap time. The boat ride pictures are not great but it is hard taking a picture on a boat with a cell phone.



We went huckleberry picking with my grandparents and oh what an adventure, we actually had a lot of fun and we will always remember this trip. luckily we didnt bring the kids otherwise it wouldn't have been so much fun.

we went to the first spot and only got about one little layer of berries on the bottom of the bucket, but we had heard that the berries didnt do well this year so we weren't expecting much. we decided we at least had enough to give the kids a little so they could try fresh huckleberries.
so as we went up to turn around and we got a flat tire, we were also lucky the expert tire changer jay was with us so he just whipped a new tire on for us. well then we started down the road and this happened. Yep two flat tires

Well two flat tires- one spare tire- Idaho mountains- No cell service = sitting for hours while sending things down the hill with passer bys(which dont come often in the mountains) we sent our tire down with one guy to take to les schwab and we gave him a whole bunch of numbers to call family to tell them where we were and see if anyone could go to les schwab and get our tire and bring it back up to us. of course we have no Idea if they got a hold of anyone so we had to just wait. eventually we sent grandpa with someone so he could go see if anyone new we were there. on his way down apparently he passed my uncle cliff bringing us up the tire. so after 2 hours of sitting we got our new tire and found grandpa at the bottom of the road waiting.
The good news is where the car tire popped the second time had a lot more huckley berries so we had 2 extra hours of picking time. :)



Here are just some random pictures







The boys at the park. poor owen had his broken elbow slowing him down













We had a great time thanks mom and dad. Cant wait for next time!!!!

Kennas great (not so great) adventure

well kenna decided to follow the family trend and had seizures last week. actually for me this has been the most stressful one. All 4 seizures she had were grand mal. it all started when I was web caming with trish, all the sudden I heard kenna making some weird noises from her swing , I realized quite quickly that she was having a seizure, she was turning purple. I picked her up grabbed my phone and called 911. (poor trish was freaking out cause I was but I couldn't hear her cause my earphones had been plugged in.) as I was outside talking to the 911 operator and bawling at this point a stranger that was just coming by asked if I was ok, he could hear me tell the operator that she was seizing and not breathing. he asked if he could give her a blessing which of course I said yes. I didnt hear any of it cause I was still talking to the operator, when the police got there he had finished and kenna had quit seizing and her color looked good. the ambulance checked her out and told me to take her to our doctor as soon as I could so of course I started getting things ready.
Clint answered my call fast which doesnt always happen and our neighbors who were moving in 3 days were home and able to take the kids. clint got home and we were off to the doctors, they got us right in and as they were checking her out she went into another seizure. this one lasted 3 mins the first one we think lasted about 4. they called 911 and got her on oxygen. so we took her first and hopefully last ride to the hospital by ambulance.



We arranged for jay and stacey to get the kids from the neighbors cause we didnt know how long we were going to be. they got her on medication around 5:30 just 5 hours after her first seizure (which is the fastest any of our kids have been put on something.) they told me they wanted to keep her over night and that only one parent could stay with her over night. so we decided the kids would stay at stacey and jays and clint would stay until it was time for bed then he would go home and come back early in the morning. well around 10:30 pm she had another one, I was so glad clint hadn't left yet, if any of you know me I freak out a little during these seizures. I was freaking cause she was on meds to stop it and neither of our other kids had them after they started the meds. I told the nurse clint wasnt leaving and they seemed really understanding about it and let him stay. I stayed up with Kenna until about 5 and then I went to sleep and he watched her well at 6:30 I woke up to everyone in our room she was having another seizure. grrrr not the way you want to wake up. anyway after testing and stuff they realized they never gave her a loading dose of the meds so her levels were really low. after they gave her that dose she didn,t have anymore. here are some pictures of her in the hospital










She reacted different to the meds, instead of being really tired she was grumpy and had a hard time sleeping. she is getting better so we hope things will just level out so we don't have to change the meds. she had another one just recently on sunday, almost one month exactly since her last one, we are hoping her levels are low again so we can just up it and everything will be fine. one thing clint and I talked about while we were in the hospital is how strange things that worked out the way they did normally wouldn't have been the case on any other day. I am just so thankful for the guy walking down the street who helped a HYSTERICAL me. and for the fast response of the emergency personnel and for the fact that clint got to his phone so fast and someone was there to take his shift. also for the fact that our neighbors where home, and stacey could come get the kids. there is so much I am thankful for I wish I could list them all. we will hopefully know today what is causing this sudden breakthrough seizure and we will get it fixed. thank you everyone for your prayers during this time.

Gavins Birthday ( a little late)

Well I am a little bit behind on the whole blogging thing so here is gavins birthday from august :) I wont go into detail about every picture but I will tell you we did an abc birthday for gav cause he loves his letters. He also love being a cat so we got him a cat for his birthday he loved it. it walked and purred.




















Gav getting his nose buttered!!!

also since Gavin doesn't go anywhere by himself I took him to McDonalds for lunch just the two of us, of course all he ate was his fries dipped in my hot fudge Sunday, with ketchup on it. yummy. anyways he had a blast.