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.

family pictures

Ok so we took family pictures way back in august but we just barely got them edited so here you go.







this is my parents with all there grandkids


This is the whole family together with our families for the first time in years, it was a lot of fun.
just us goofing off.

Owens broken elbow

Wow life has been crazy it seems like it takes forever to get around to my blog. well as most of you know by now right after kenna was born owen broke his elbow. we are still going to an orthopedic specialist and owen is making great progress, Fingers crossed he wont have to do physical therapy. Well here is kind of a run down of events

Kenna and Noahs baby blessings the whole family was together lots of fun playing with cousins, but too much playing with cousins ends up with.....



This. a late night trip to the ER. Now it took a while for us to actually take owen in because if any of you know owen he likes to draw things out forever the 24 hour flu ends up to be the 2 week flu. but once we noticed his elbow swelling we decided to take him in so the night before our 13 hour trip to sandpoint we are sitting in the emergency room.
owen was actually having fun after they gave him some Tylenol. (showing grandpa his cool wrist band.


Well after all the x-rays and nothing showing up they think it is fracture on the growth plate which dont show up on x rays until 7-10 days later so they want us to re x-ray later but they splint it and put him in a sling the night before our family vacation on the beach (no swimming)
Well since the 7-10 day mark was in sandpoint we end up at a doctor there . owen was in good spirit until...The doctor took his splint off and started playing with his arm. after his 2nd set of x rays we are told that it was just a sprain and that he should use it as much as he will (yay he gets to swim)




Now I dont have pictures for the rest of the story but here you go. the doctor ($200 later) tells us that we need to have a follow up in a week. I said we will be back home in a week so he tells me to go to our pediatrician when we get home to make sure everything is ok. so a week later we go to dr. again with x-rays in tow and behold (our amazing doctor) see's something on the x rays that no one else sees so he wants to re do them at his office. he does and finds a fracture to the elbow. so he sends a to the orthopedic specialist who see the fracture in every set of x rays, why no one else saw it I don't know. so Owen has a compound fracture all the way threw his elbow. the doctor was amazed that all the use of it didn't displace it. so there is the story we are still working on the stiffness of his elbow. he cant quite touch is shoulder but we are hoping that physical therapy isn't going to be necessary.

I have lots of blog post that are started just not finished so check back every few days to see if I posted something new. I will try to get all caught up soon.

Dinosaur Museum

well the whole month of august it was $2 tuesdays at thanksgiving point so we were able to take the boys to the dinosaur museum which we would never do unless it was 2$ tuesday it was and awsome museum but we figured it out it cost us 8 dollars to go this last time but on a normal day it would be over 50 dollars. we had a lot of fun it was really crowded though. they had so many hands on things for the boys to do. we also went to farm land.
this truck was in the farm land area the boys loved it and probably could of spent the day just playing with that



this is one big turtle