More Easter Pictures

I thought we had taken more pictures on Easter than the ones I found on the computer and then realized this morning that they were all still on the camera. So here are the missing pictures. Sorry!


Here is us with our candy. We also got two seasons of Everybody Loves Raymond for each other. They were so cheap at Walmart.



At Marta's house



This is Daisy with her ears flipped back.



The cute napkins Marta had for dinner.



Cute Miss Isha



Jordan



Daisy again with one of the bunnies we gave to Marta and Ed and the kids.

Easter Weekend

As you can probably tell, it has been a little while since our last update. My parents took my little brother Matt to Disneyland so I have been running the family business all week with my brother Dave. Since I have to drive to Provo everyday and then back, it's been a long week and I am SO greatful for the weekend. I think I listened to the Twilight soundtrack about 10 times at work (it's really good.....Thanks Krystal!!!)

We had a great Easter Sunday. After a wonderful day at church, we had dinner with Marta and Ed and the kids. I guess I should add Daisy in there (the dog) since she likes Kelvin so much. Whenever we go over she gets all excited and practically follows him around wanting him to play with her. He doesn't admit it very often but he really likes her too. He is definitely a dog person but usually likes the medium to big dogs. He is not a fan of the small ones (thinks they are too yappy) but she has gotten into his heart, it's so sweet. The only other small dog I can think of that he likes is Lucy my brother and sisters dog. The dinner was wonderful and then Felicia and I colored eggs and watched "America's Funniest Home Videos" while Kelvin and Jordan played computer games. I must say though that we got spoiled! One of our friends played the Easter bunny this year and dropped off a bunch of stuff. It was quite the Easter basket. Marta and Ed gave us Easter candy and my parents gave us a bunch of Emergency Preparedness supplies. It was quite the holiday. Lots of fun and candy (anyone want some????) and an all around great day. My parents have been doing Emergency Preparedness stuff for a while now with every Holiday since we have gotten older. On Christmas we got a dutch oven! It was so awesome. If you didn't know already, they are VERY into food storage and being prepared. I have learned a lot from them and still have a lot more to learn. When Kelvin and I moved into our first place, I had more food storage that I had stored under my bed than anything else. He was a little shocked, but I believe in being ready for anything and guess what.....It came in handy this year. We have mostly depleted everything I had stocked up! Anyway, off my little tangent and on to some pictures!


This is what our friend gave us! It does not include what we got from Ed and Marta and my parents.



We looked at the Nutrition Section on the big chocolate bunnies just for fun and were shocked by the fat content.



Our friend Aaron gave these shirts to us and Kelvin was VERY proud to wear his. Mine is way too big but I like to wear it around the house. There were a few of them left at his work apparently, and he brought us about 4 shirts.



A random picture that Kelvin took while I was getting ready one day.



And the finale.....A picture of the cutest couple in the world! OK...... so I might be a little biased. And I don't even like this picture of us very much.

Boys, Boys, Boys!!!

My parents went on a much needed getaway this weekend to Salt Lake and so Matt naturally came to stay at our apartment. He decided that he needed to bring a friend along and so he brought Kevin with him. I had an apartment full of Boys!! They were with us from Friday afternoon to Sunday late morning. I must say, these boys were so well behaved! They were polite and considerate and basically entertained themselves. We borrowed the Wii game system from Kelvin's cousin and so they had a good time playing games and watching movies. Kelvin worked Friday night and Saturday night and I was SO tired this weekend that I went in my bedroom and read and let them have rein of the living room and kitchen. They just played quietly and took care of themselves. It was great!! Saturday we went to see the movie "Race to Witch Mountain" with them. I had never seen the original before so had nothing really to compare it to but I really enjoyed it. The funny thing I find about movies these days is that they always try to throw something in about global warming. And this movie did just that! It was still good and worth our time though. It was such nice weather all weekend until Sunday morning hit and then it was a blizzard!

This was an hour or so after the blizzard and it is still snowing!







It's almost April and we are having another snow storm??? But we do live in Utah and you know what they say about the weather here.......If you don't like it, just wait a little while and it will change. It's been snowing for hours now and there is a good few inches of snow on the ground. Hopefully it will clear up in a while so it will all melt soon. We are very ready for spring. The birds don't appreciate the snow much either. They are chirping away and seem very upset by the cold.

Spring Break Weekend

Last weekend we went to Bryce Canyon for the end of Spring Break with two of our good friends. We had a blast! None of us had ever been to Bryce Canyon before so we thought this would be a great adventure. Although I have been to Zions National Park many times before, this park was different. They are only about 40-50 miles apart from each other and so I thought that they would have similar features. To my surprise and delight, they were a lot different. We took lots of pictures but like everyone knows, a picture never does justice to the real thing. We set up camp at a KOA that was about 15 min away from the park and because it was still early in the season for campers, we were able to pick our spot. We choose a nice secluded area that was away from everything. We had a beautiful mountain for our scenery and there was nothing else around. It was very peaceful. We went on a couple of small hikes but they turned into adventures as we are "off-roaders" and don't stay on the trail when it is safe to explore elsewhere. The first hike we did this and ended up climbing up the side of the mountain and into some arches for a good photo shoot. The sunscreen was unfortunately forgotten and as consequence would have it, I got fried!! But we meandered along and took our time with everything and just enjoyed being away from the stresses of life. It was a great weekend.

This is Haley and I. She and her husband live above us and love camping almost as much as we do. They jumped at the chance to go to Bryce Canyon. We've become great friends.




This is just some of the gorgeous scenery we saw.



These are some arches we found that we climbed up to. We went up the side of the mountain and let me tell you, it was STEEP! I think I was on my hands and knees all the way up.



The boys made the hike first and we took pictures.



This is the girls when we made it up.



Our Campsite with the awesome background.



I love this picture. It's just sweet.



On a hike along the rim.



This was a game we bought at one of the little grocery stores. It was a lot of fun but it was just some cheap PCV pipe thrown together that ended up breaking after a few games. Good thing is that it's easy to fix!



This rock is called Thor's hammer. This one's for you Roger!



We made a hike to a "Waterfall" and this is what we found. We followed another trail for 30 min thinking we hadn't come to the waterfall yet only to realize that this was the waterfall they were talking about.



The Mossy Caves

Recovery and Relapse

So my surgery went well when they finally did it. Things on Friday went wrong from the beginning. I was told to call first thing in the morning to get a time set up to go in. After waiting for 45 min on hold with the midwives office, they finally picked up my phone call. There was a new secretary filling in at the desk and didn't know how to pick the phones up from being on hold. So after her apologies I told her I was supposed to call back and get my time to do a D&C. She had no idea what was going on as she told me they don't do D&C's. When I then explained to her I knew that, I just needed the time that was scheduled with the doctor, she still didn't understand so I just had her page the midwife. I was told to sit tight as the arrangements were being made. At 11:30 I got a phone call from the hospital's surgical center asking the general questions of when I ate and drank last and told me to get ready because they would be calling me within the hour. After 2 hours passed I was starting to get sick. I had not had anything to drink for almost 12 hours at that point per my midwife's instructions of being ready for an earlier surgery. I called them back and told them I was starting to get dehydrated and feeling sick because of it. (I get dehydrated really easily. It's very difficult for me to even go without water for two meals on fast Sunday's.) I was instructed to come into the surgical center and get checked in so they could start me on an IV. We then went to same day surgery where the receptionist knew nothing of what was going on. I had to explain to her what was happening and what I was sent to have done. Then she asked me which doctor was doing the surgery. I was lucky that I knew the name but that was only because his nurse had called me earlier that day to also tell me to get ready for surgery within the hour right after the hospital called. The frustrating thing to me at this point was that with all the tests I did the day before and all the visits I had had to the midwives (who are also located in the hospital), I had to give all my information to every department. Every different place I went I had to give them all the same documents. Don't they had computers that can collaborate all that information? And also, why did I have to explain to everyone what was going on? When I had my visit with the midwife the day before, they told me it was urgent and that we had to do it on Friday and it couldn't wait. So why did I have to do all the chasing down and making sure everyone was informed about what was going on? I have not been pleased with the midwives I have been seeing.

We were then taken to a room where I changed into size XX clothes that they put out for me. (Did I really gain that much weight in the 3 months I was pregnant?) Kelvin laughed when he saw me because I was literally swimming in them. We were barely able to get the pants to tie in the front they were so huge. After the laughs and a few jokes the nurse came in and gave me my IV. It hurt when she put it in and stung the whole time. I later realized when my hand turned up all bruised that it was because the vein was blown. (Basically she went right through it) It still worked though and I'll count my blessings for that. We sat for a few hours and then we went into surgery at about 5:30. They had had a couple of trauma's come in and so the surgeries that were scheduled were pushed back. But they got me in, gutted me like a fish, and then got me out. It went smoothly and I felt good as soon as I woke up. My mom was there and took me home as Kelvin had to go to work right after I was awake and stable. Thank goodness for mom's. What would we do without them. The weekend went well, except that with all the excitement that past 2 weeks, we completely forgot that it was Stake Conference on Sunday. We found out about half an hour after it ended that we missed it. I was bummed because we were ready for church early and were ahead of schedule and our Stake has excellent Stake Conferences. But what could we do at that point. Monday is when it hit me. I hardly slept Sunday night because I was in so much pain and felt so sick. Monday was just a bad day. I am feeling better today but missed work once again. Tomorrow is the day I am counting on. I need to feel better tomorrow so I can get back to work and my life. It's funny how much you appreciate feeling good when you feel so bad.

Thanks to everyone who did so much for us! We really appreciate everything from the phone calls, to the dinners and treats, the company, the well wishes and the love yous! They all meant so much to us. A special thanks to my Mom who has been here when I needed her and let me laugh, babble or cry! She had to drive a little ways to get to us and came up whenever I needed her. I love you so much!

D&C; It's Not Just About Scripture!!

I tried to get an appointment 1 week after the miscarriage like the midwife wanted but the receptionist wouldn't squeeze me in. I had another appointment originally scheduled that happened to be 2 weeks after everything happened so I decided to wait it out and stuck with that one. Last week was terrible! I had horrible pain, muscle aches, muscle weakness, low grade fever's on and off and other things on top of it all. I missed so much work and school but this week has been a lot better. I was able to go back to work and school and thought things were finally getting back to normal. When I went into my appointment today, things appeared quite the opposite of normal to my midwife. After 2 hours of tests, I was finally released and about 45 minutes later I got a phone call when all the results were in and you guessed it.......I get to have a D&C tomorrow. I know this is a procedure that is done a lot and carries minimal risk to the patient, but I have to say I am a little nervous. I don't know what to expect or what's going to happen. I understand the general idea of it, but don't know any particulars. This is not something I have studied or am that familiar with so I guess I need to do a little homework tonight. At least this will be the end of it all and I should be back on my feet in a few days, or so they say. We are both so ready to have this all done and behind us. I just want to feel good again and am really hoping that this will help that to happen. So watch out, once this is all over those dancing shoes will come on and the party will start!!!!

Bad News Baileys!!

Unfortunately, on Friday morning we lost the baby. I wasn't feeling well on Thursday and called the midwives and was told to rest. By 5 am Friday morning I was having intense pain and bleeding. I called again at 7:30 and was told to come in as soon as they open which was 8:30. We went in and after a small chat and a look on their ultrasound (they couldn't see anything, the machine was very old) they sent us to the High Risk Pregnancy doctors down the hall. They did an ultrasound and confirmed that I was having a miscarriage. In fact they told us that by the look of things, the baby had probably died a couple weeks ago and that it was just cleaning itself out now. As this was the third miscarriage we have gone through, you can imagine we were pretty upset by the news, but we held our cool together (except for a few unavoidable tears from me during the final ultrasound).

As we told our families on Friday morning that we were going in and that there were some possible problems, they all started to pray. As our extended families started finding out they all dropped to their knees and started praying for us. The news spread to Chile fast and our sweet little cousins and their parents also were on their knees. We literally had an army of people pleading with the Lord on our behalf at the same time. Because of these prayers we were blessed and helped through this trial of ours to go as smoothly as possible. During the ultrasound there was a good piece of the sac left and so they started talking about our options, surgery or a pill that they now have to clean things out. After the minute it took to tell us about these options, she started looking at the ultrasound again and almost gasped! We asked what and she told us that the sac had actually moved from the top to the bottom and was going to expel itself naturally. She couldn't believe it, she said she had never seen that happen before. This is a miracle to us that came by the power of prayer! Because of this small blessing, I was saved from a lot more pain and a longer recovery. Never underestimate the power of prayer!

We are doing as well as expected. My pain is lessening and I am able to do a little more each day. Hopefully by Wed I will be able to go back to work and school. We also have our good moments and our bad moments emotionally, but for the most part we like to focus on the positive. There are blessing that will come out of this that we probably don't even know yet. There is a quote we have hanging on our wall that says "Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...It's about learning to dance in the rain." With all the ups and downs we experience in this life, we have each other. What more could we ask for? Our marriage has been incredibly strengthened through this trial as we have clung to each other and the Lord. Experiences come and go, some are good, some are hard. I just hope that this one is one where we have learned to dance in the rain!