Thanksgiving

LET"S ALL JUST SAY BEAUTIFUL!!

I know is that not the most beautiful turkey you have ever seen. I couldn't believe it myself. It was my first time cooking a turkey and I went all out to do the bacon wrapped one. Thanksgiving was great to see all of Greg's family at the church it was wonderful to have it at the church because of the room and the kids could just run in the gym.

I have so many things to be grateful for especially this year they have come into play. 1. first and for most family and the gospel. They have to go together. You can't have one with out the other. Well you could but you wouldn't want to. 2. Atonement- this has played a big part in our lives this year as it should every year. But especially because of Jonah. How much Christ did for all of us and what he has made possible to be together forever. 3. Greg - He is a hard worker and everything I wish I could be better at. That is how it should be but I need to try harder to make us equal to have him is a blessing. 4. Kids - I know family was number one but they are all important as individuals too. What can I say they make you grow each day to better yourself and to be an example. Even though most the time they are the examples to you. 5. Support- In all aspects of our lives this year. 6. Service- the greatest thing you could do for others. That was definitely been applied in our lived and being served. Makes you very humble.

I could go on and on and on but I am so grateful for all the blessing Heavenly Father has shown me and given me this year through our struggles and hard ships. Part of that is because he can't bless us enough if we don't have experiences or trials that make us better. Thank you to him and all of you for your help and support. Love all of you. Happy Thanksgiving.

Halloween

Snow White - that is all Faith wanted to be for Halloween. So of course we made it and she looked beautiful. She loved it and after we finished she said lets make Belle.

Penguin - Jonah made a cute little penguin. I had bought it last year when it was really discounted and it fit perfectly. We love them.

Long Time No Blogging

It has been a while since I have updated my blog since we got home. Things have been going well. A huge thanks to all those who helped and supported us through that hard time. Jonah is doing good. We are still going in for weight check each week to make sure he is gaining weight. But it is really frustrating because he is down right now an ounce. But who really knows if that is true because of the scale. We have done this multiple times once they weighed him 4 different times on same scale same day and there were 4 different weights. They did thins last week again twice same result. I am getting super frustrated with the whole weighing thing.. I need to talk to the Dr. and see what we can do. Besides that He got hiss stitches almost all out and that was a nightmare no joke 1 hr of screaming and me holding him. He still does have two left that will hopefully grow out we are just watching them.

Jonah is our little miracle baby we love him and are so blessed to have him in our family. Right now we are just stying close to home to avoid germs and sickness. Jonah cannot get any immunizations or flu shots things like that until six weeks after surgery. That would be the beginning of Dec. It is coming up soon though hurray. We are doing great and are getting excited for the holidays to come. Faith for sure cannot wait for Christmas.

HOME!!

There is never any place like home. We have our little family back together. The trip home seemed long only because I was anxious to get there. Thanks to my mom she decorated the house and made a sign that said "Welcome Home my Fam-o-wee" this is how Faithy says it. Loved it. Great to have family that supports you so well.

Now for the healing part for Jonah. He is doing good but will not eat very well and that is not a good sign. We have Dr.s appts. today and Thursday for him to get his stitches out. I will have to post some pictures of his battle wombs they are not very pretty right now.

Well it is great to be home!

Jonah Updates Again!

Things are going well. We have found out that his left vocal cord is not working. The Dr. said that it is one of the things that could have happened during surgery. His pace maker is in and working well they said. We have one more chest tube to get out before we can go home. This means we will be able to come home with in days. Wahoo!!! I can't tell you how much I am ready to be home.

They moved us up to 3 west on Wednesday. This is one step closer to going home also. I talked to Faithy and asked if she was ready to go home she said yes and wants to play with Jonah. How sweet is that.

Greg and I took a break from the hospital and went up to San Fransico today to see some sights before we went home. We were this close why not when you have a babysitter that is getting paid to take care of your kid. (JK) The nurses here are great and we love them.

First signs that jonah is coming back to his self. There are about three nurses that are now his girlfriends and they fight over who is going to take care of him when they are on schedule. It very funny we have become the party crib the nurses come over and talk and watch Jonah when they don't have andy thing pressing.

This is the first time that Mandi got to hold Jonah form the time that we got here at the hospital. It was a good day for all. The nurse let Mandi hold him and later the docs said that it was maybe not a good idea because the pace maker wires are still in.

Pace Maker

We came in today to the CVICU where Jonah was and plans have changed. They were going to take him for a pace maker on Tuesday and do a swallow study today. Well the nurse came in and said that they were doing the pace maker today at 2 or 3:00pm CA time. So they are postponing the swallow study and will do that another day. They are also going to do an ENT test where they put a scope down his thoat to look at his vocal cords. Which will be good to see how things are working because they have been thickening his formula because it is easier for him to swallow and not cough everytime he eats. But besides that I think Jonah is really sick of just laying in his bed for 12 days now. I can't hold him because of the pacing wires. But secretly one of the Dr.s let me hold him for 10 minutes while he was standing right there. YEH! I will let you know how the surgery goes today. Also try and put more pictures on somewhere.