Friends far from Home!

Well moving to a new place (almost 1 whole year in November) it seems like we haven't been her and feel a little disjointed from the people around us. That is why you always have friends, but they seem to be all far away. I would like to thank one friend especially today. You are awesome and I miss seeing you all the time. I wish you were my neighbor next door. I will be looking for a job for your hubby if possible LOL. Friends always seem to say the things you need to hear, but more importantly they just listen to all the troubles you are having. It seems as though our lives parrallel each other even though we don't know it. If we don't talk to often. It seems funny how that happens in our lives. I love all my friends and just wished they lived closer and not so far away. Thanks for the listening ear you know who you are. Love ya.

Summer Fun Staycation!

Here is what we have done this summer. I have been slacking and definitely not been updating my blog. So here was our summer. We went to the Palisade Lake where our family has a cabin with the Johnson clan. It was great to be together just as our family. As you see Faith got a little hair cut or say that a 5 year old niece had a hair cutting party with her cousins. Yes she was a victim. Faithy also took swim lessons which helped her not be so afraid of the water and got better aquainted with it. We also rode the front runner train from Ogden to SLC a couple of times. She loved riding on the train.

We went to the Childrens Museum at gateway with Holli my sister and her kids. Thanks to Primary childrens for giving us a pass to go for free. Little benefits of having a child that has been at Primary Childrens. They dressed up and acted out a play. They also played the part of a life flight team. So there is a pic of Faithy with Jonah because that is what happened to him. We also rode the Front Runner down to SLC to go the museum. The kids loved that. As a Archibald Family reunion we went to Cherry Hill for a little family fun. Faith could not even stop sliding on the kids slide into the pool it kept her busy all day.

We had our 7th wedding anniversary. I can't believe that is it has been that long already. Then finally Zach and Karli go married on Aug. 18th. They were excited all summer to get ur done. It was a great day and we were happy to be able to be here for that.

As you know we have been awaiting news on our little Jonah. Well we have finally got it. He will be having his next heart surgery on Oct 1st in California at Standford Childrens hospital. We are way excited that they will be able to fix his heart to have a longer life span. But at the sametime it is very difficult to just had your baby to a surgeon and hope for the best. This surgery will be a high risk surgery but after that only minor things will have to be done as he grows. We are so grateful for our little family. It puts things in prespective sometimes of how fast life can fly by. Always make sure you are doing the best and the most you can for your family everyday for you may not have them in an instant. We love this gospel and all the support we have received so for. Please keep our little Jonah in your prayers and pray for the best. We love ya.

Life Might Get Back to Normal

Hopefully for a couple of weeks we might have life back to normal. Jonah I think was missing the hospital and the one on one time he got. He got sick with the stomach flu and Primary's told us it could be a sign of heart failure. So we rushed to Primary's again and had to stay for 2 nights. Jonah did good until the moring of monday and he threw up again and they made us stay and other night until tuesday. But all was good to be there to support Angie and Jac while Makayla was there because she kept having seizures. All is going well. Life is just Crazy busy all the time.

Update on Jonah

Well we went to the Dr. on Wednesday the 28th of May. This was his first Echo since he had left the hospital. The concern was if his mitral valve was good enough size to function correctly to be able to make his heart a four chamber heart. Also to see if his left ventricle was a good enough size and funcitoning correctly.

Good news is that the mitral valve looked awesome and so did the left chamber. But there was another concern. His right valve in his right two chambers was really close the the hole in his bottom two chambers. The Dr. said there was some tissue that was connecting them. They are concerned that if they go to reroute the aorta into the left lower chamber that it is to close the that valve and it may ruin it. So their for. He emailed a Dr. in Boston at the John Hopkins Hospital there because he said they have more experience. He got an email back from him and he was interested in looking at our case. Our Dr. fedex all the file to him and was waiting to here from him. Then he was going to take it to the meeting where all the Cardiologists and the Surgeons get together and discuss each case together to decide what is best. The Dr. Arrington is going to call and let us know what they have decided.

The optitons are if they can make his heart a four chamber heart or to make it a three chamber heart. The best option is of course a four chamber heart. But they did say that if he had to have a three chamber that his life span would be greater than others because his left ventrical is a pretty good sized. Most three chamber hearts work only with on ventrical. So all of it is good new we are just waiting to if we go to Boston or here. The Surgery will probably be at the end of July or August.

Family Pictures

Finally, I am posting our family pictures that we got taken at the end of May. I think that they turned out pretty cute. As always we had our struggles to get their. We thought everything was going great. Greg was feeding Jonah and you guessed it he threw up everything that he had just eat. All over him and Greg their for we had to wash Greg's and Jonah's clothes and we were there for late. But good thing the lady just did it at her house and was a friend. But now we have cute family pictures for our new house. Yeh!

Faithy Being an Artist

Faithy got these paints from her Aunt Jill to borrow. She loved them and had to paint the next day with the paints. I put an apron on her so she didn't get it on her clothes.
She had a lot of fun and had to use every single brush that was with the paints. This is a picture she painted of her cousins. Love it.

Just the little things

Here is out little Jonah. Growing up fast and smiling like crazy. These are the little things that make you grateful for what you have right!

Here is Faith in her Easter dress you can see that she likes pictures taken and to show off.

I took this picture of Faith after having a bath. Because I saw it in a magazine and wanted to take a picture like that to put in my bathroom. It is different then having the kiddos in the bathtub. She looked so cute.