Favorite Christmas Song

Be sure and listen to the best Christmas song ever while checking out our blog. It is called the Pretty Little Dolly and is a little disturbing but incredibly funny. I hope you all enjoy it as much as I do. Merry Christmas!!

It has been hard finding time with the holiday weekend to get on the computer but I wanted to take a minute to give a quick update on Taylor. Yesterday they moved Taylor out of the PICU which also means she got the drain out of her head. She still has a feeding tube and an IV but that is it. She has been opening her eyes for several day's now and will respond with gestures to verbal commands. It was good to finally look into her eyes. I know we have a very long road ahead of us and a lot of physical therapy to do but we will continue hoping for the best. They are suppose to start her therapy on Monday so I will let you all know how it goes.

Good Day!

Here it is 9:45 p.m. I just got home from a long night at work but I could not wait to post. It has been a darn good day today. I got to go to the hospital to see Taylor and attempt to fix her mess of a hair. They had turned off her medicine that keeps her sedated before I got there and she has a really sensitive head so I don't think she appreciated much what I was doing to her hair! Shortly after I left the hospital I got a call saying they FINALLY took her tube out of her mouth! I was so excited. They have been talking about doing this for day's now. She is doing well breathing on her own and is moving around a lot more. I called my mom on my way home from work and she said Taylor waived 3 different times tonight. I can't tell you how I feel inside right now! I can't wait to see her and hopefully she will have a wave for me as well! Thanks so much everyone for all the prayers in Taylor's behalf. I am overwhelmed with the love and support from so many different people.

Last night I had a slumber party with Taylor at the hospital. Well there really wasn't much partying but at least there was slumber. My parents and everyone left around 8:30 last night and it was so quiet. I thought it was going to be the longest night but it was not bad at all. Other than regular checkups from the nurses every 30 min it was a pretty good night. After the day Taylor had on Friday anything seems better. Friday they just had a really hard time keeping her comfortable it seemed. After they gave her more sedation and got her fever under control she has been a lot more stable. So again we just keep waiting for the next move. They have talked about taking her breathing tube our since she is pretty much breathing on her own and they have kept her cranial pressure at good levels so we are looking forward to that happening in the next couple of day's. She looks really good. Her face is healing really nicely. She looks like our Taylor.

Hanging with Aunt Niki

Niki has been so nice to help out with our kids a lot and on Tuesday she had them at Carson's shop and they had a blast playing in the laundry cart. The kids love when aunt Niki is around. She is so good with them and plays games and always does lots of fun activities.
I don't really have much news about Taylor. I am like the rest of you and want to hear something, anything but pretty much all they can say is everyone is different and they just can't predict how long it will take. Yesterday was a rough day. They had a hard time keeping her ICP's(inner cranial pressure) down until they flushed out the tube that is in her head and that seemed to do the trick. She had a good quiet night last night which was good so we will see what the day brings. We are so grateful for the thoughts and prayers of everyone. I am always amazed at the love and support that is given in times like these.




Thatcher ran into a screen that was all dusty and it left a nice print on his face.

Taylor's toes

On Saturday Sydney and Taylor and 2 of Taylor's friends were in a car accident and Taylor had to be flown to the valley for her head trauma. We are unsure of things at this point and every day hope for good news. She has some bleeding in her brain and a lot of swelling but has not gotten any worse. We can only hope that her stubbornness will help her get through all of this.
She had crazy nail polish on both her hands and feet so we thought we would make her cute for when she wakes up. We made sure not to use any pink since she hates it so we painted her toes black with green and orange polka dots. Hopefully she will like them. I will try and update when I can or when we have any new information of her.

Happy Birthday Saydie!

I know this is late but life has been crazy the last few day's.  Saydie just had a birthday and turned the big 4!  She was very excited and has been talking about it for a long time.  We just had a quiet little party with just our family and had hot chicken wings at Saydie's request.  She went to some friends of ours home for the day and had a blast.  They made cup cakes for her and she got to decorate them herself and had happy birthday sang to her several times throughout the day.  She especially loved getting phone calls from all of her grandparents and aunts.  Sometimes I can't believe she is barely turning 4.  She acts a lot older than she is.  

What can I say about Saydie?  She is her own person for sure.  She knows what she wants and doesn't stop til she finds a way to get it.  We always say it is a good thing she is cute or she would spend her whole life getting in trouble.  Saydie is full of life and keeps us on our toes.  We are trying to steer her in the right direction and figure if we can do that she will do just fine.  These last 4 years have flown by.  Where has the time gone?  We are very grateful to have Saydie as a part of our family and can't imagine life without her.

Here are a few pictures of Saydie that I found on the computer in no particular order.

Saydie @ 3 years

Saydie and Dad

Hanging with her sister

Having a snack, she is alway's having a snack!

Wearing Emery's panties!

Saydie 11 months

Christmas @ Gma and Bonka's

Saydie eating a hamburger at her 1st b-day party

Saydie @ 8 months

I found out on Tuesday that I got the job I have been pursuing for about a month or so now.  I start next week and am excited and nervous at the same time.  Being a working mother is a lot of work and I definitely look up  to all those who do it and do it so well.  The hardest part is trying to find a babysitter because I have to pretty much find two separate ones.  One to watch Saydie and Thatcher and one to pick Chesley and Emery up from school and watch them as well.  Hopefully it all works out.  I am trying not to get to stressed about it.  

We had a good Halloween and I am still waiting to be able to download the pictures because they are not on my camera(my camera died).  Hopefully I will have pictures to share soon.