Coming home

Kris was finally released from the hospital last night and will be driving home today! I can't wait to see him! And I mean it that he will never leave here without me again! Well, he might, I can't exactly go with him on business trips, but it's still fun to say. I've been so worried about him and I'm so tired from dealing with sick children alone, I have really come to appreciate him in the last few days! Joey I think is finally over his cold, but now Savanna has decided to get it - ugh - nothing worse than a baby with a cold! Anyway - just pray for his safe return in all this snow!

nother update - bad news and good news

So, Kris is STILL in the hospital out in PA. But, like I said before, the intestinal blockage has thankfully moved. Yesterday they did an ultrasound of his gall bladder and he got the results today. Bad news is he has to have his gall bladder out ASAP - good news is it can at least wait until he returns to Ohio. So they are giving him some food and stuff now and if everything works out with that then they are going to release him this evening and he will *FINALLY* return home tomorrow. Then he has to check in with a family doctor immediately and get the ball rolling on having his gall bladder removed. My poor husband! I feel so bad for him. This just stinks. But I know it could be soooooo much worse!

Just continue to pray for him and our family! Also pray that I might beable to get some sleep tonight! (Joey and Savanna have been keeping me awake allll night the past 2 nights in a row- Joey with his cold and Savanna being a parasite wanting to eat lots). *sigh* I guess the lord gives us these times so we appreciate the good times!

Update on Kris

Well, they just did the second CT scan and thankfully the blockage has moved. It's still in there, but it's moving, which is a very good sign. However, the doctor saw alot of fluid around his gall bladder, which worries him, so now they are waiting on an ultrasound of his gall bladder to see if that is the problem. That's the great thing about hospitals - the 'hurry up and wait' of it. If it is his gall bladder, hopefully he can come home before it needs surgery. It's still just killing me to not be with him. But he seems to be doing well and John is taking good care of him.

Joey is doing better, as well. He still has a cold, but he's eaten some today and seems to have energy.

I just hope it's not too long before I get my husband back!

It's been a trying day.......

OK so - I know it can always get worse, but sometimes it's hard to see things on the positive side of life! This weekend started yesterday with Kris going out of town. We have a friend of the family that lives in the Pocono mountais in Pennsylvania and John (the friend) is investigating some business ventures, and since Kris enjoys that stuff, he decided to take a break and go out there to help him and to hang out and relax a bit. So here I was alone with 2 kids, which I didn't mind too much because Kris works alot anyway and I knew he needed some time away from everything to just go and chill. I was worried about him going out there with the weather, but you can't tell him anything - once he makes up his mind to do something, he does it, so I let him go without much complaint.

Well today when I was at the store with my dad (we do grocery shopping together most saturdays) I got a call from Kris (this was at about 2 pm) saying that he was going to the emergency room because he was having horrible pain in his abdomen. Great. I was really really worried and just kinda sat around anxious waiting for some news. Thankfully John was calling me with updates when he could. I am so greatful that John is taking such good care of him when I cannot! They took him back for a cat scan and found that he had a blockage in his small intestine which has probably been there for a while and all the food or whatever he ate after the blockage got there has just been backing up behind it. Thus his abdomen was really kinda blowing up like a balloon - no wonder he was in pain! They drugged him up - which he greatly appreciated and had to put a tube up his nose into his stomach/intestines to remove all the pressure behind the blockage. They are hoping with the pressure removed that the blockage itself will move which will resolve the issue. If not, then, well, let's just hope it moves. Otherwise surgery may be necessary. Ugh.

I am just dying because I can't be there with him. I have to wait and see what is going on. Even if I could to fly out there, the airports are closed because they have been slammed with snow. And there's no way I can drive with savanna by myself and I can't leave her here since I am nursing her. Well, I could, but I'd rather keep her with me because with the whole nursing thing, it's hard to be away from her when she's this young. Especially since I don't know how long I would be gone.

AND to top it all off, Joey's been pretty snotty and conjested today, but I just chalked it up to a 3 year old's normal cold. Well tonight before he went to bed just for kicks I took his temperature and it was 101*. Poor kid. I gave him tylenol and he went straight to sleep, but he just woke up about half an hour ago and threw up. Now he is sleeping again, but I'm not sure if he will sleep or if he will wake up more sick. I'm just so tired - emotionally tired that is. I'm worried beyond belief about Kris, I'm worried about Joey, I'm worried about what I will do with Joey if I do go out to PA, I'm worried how Savanna will handle the trip, I'm worried about even if Kris does get out of the hospital, how will he get home with the feet of snow they got out there? I'm just worried about everything.

I think I will list the things that I am thankful for so maybe I will smile a bit. I am thankful that I have so much family close to help me with the kids. I am thankful that Kris isn't any more sick than he is - it could be so much more serious. I am thankful that John is taking such great care of my husband - I'm sure that's the last thing he wanted to do with his weekend, but he is treating him like he is family, which I am endebted to him for. I am grateful for our church - I know it is same wherever we go. I was able to get online, find the bishop of the area that the hospital is in, call him and ask him to get priesthood together to give Kris a blessing. They should be able to get out there in the morning - unfortunately the roads are terrible out there right now. Anyway, just please keep Kris in your prayers and pray he will make it home safe and SOON! I'm not good at the single parent thing.

This is a picture of Kris with the tube and stuff that John took on his phone and sent to me. :( poor guy! He is never going out of town without me again!

New Blog Title

Whoever can figure out why I named my blog 'The Oval and the Squares' gets a prize!!! Let the guessing begin!

Donate Today!!

Today I went to the Blood Give-In at the Alladin Shrine Temple put on by NBC 4 and WNCI.

I just wanted to put a little post in here and say if you are eligable to donate blood, DO IT! If you are afraid of needles or are squeemish around blood, GET OVER IT and donate!

The red cross is in desperate need of blood - and as the picture says above, Live and Let Live - Donate Some Blood!! It's not hard, it goes quickly, and they give you yummy food afterward! (I got Raising Cane's chicken and Panera tonight!)

I'm also considering donating breast milk to the Milk Bank of Ohio to help premature and sick infants! Interesting, no?

Christmas 2008

Well, I know I haven't posted in forever, and I apologize to the few of you that actually look at my blog, but here I am with my belated Christmas post. Christmas went GREAT but was very exhausting. First off, it was so exciting this year, because this is the first year that Joey really understood the concept of Christmas and Santa and Christ's birthday and why we get gifts and so on. He was STOKED in the morning to find that Santa had eaten his cookies and drank his milk - he was even happy to finish the half of cookie that 'Santa' had left:


Next, he was very excited to find that Santa had left presents under the tree - here are some pictures of him opening them:

This one is Joey 'helping' Savanna open her presents!

It's hungry hungry hippos!! :) A classic

Now, the next story is sooooo cute! Since Joey understood that Santa would bring him presents, there has been only one thing that he has been asking for from Santa - a 'walking talking Lightning McQueen' (from the movie cars). I was so excited because I knew that would be a great gift for us to get for him. Well, my parents bought it for him before I got a chance to! So, I explained to him that Santa takes presents everywhere, and he might take his Lightning to another house and we'd have to go see. Well, of course it wasn't under our tree Christmas morning, but he was very happy with what Santa did bring him. He didn't even mention 'walking talking Lightning McQueen' once. I was happy he wasn't disappointed even though he didn't get what he asked for yet. Next, we went to Kris' mom's house for christmas dinner. I don't have any pictures from that unfortunately, but she got him a TAG reading system w/ some books to go with it. Again, he was very happy. And again, he didn't even mention his Lightning! I was hoping he had forgotten about it. Well, then we went to my Sister Julie's house for Christmas dinner. After dinner we opened presents. It was SO cute when he opened the Lightning from Grandma and Grandpa:

He smiled REALLY big and said 'IT WAS HERE!'

How cute is that?? He really had been thinking about it all day and was just waiting to see if it was at any other houses since it wasn't at ours. So cute. He's my little guy! Here are some more pictures of christmas at my sister's house taken by my mom, since I forgot to pack my camera!!

This is Joey and his cousin, Kenny

Jacob, Kenny, and Joey - he LOVES these guys!! He always can't wait to play with them!

My Savanna with her surprise face!

Savanna holding her new VW bus from Aunt Amanda and looking at her new doll from Great Grandma and Great Grandpa Slack

Savanna with mommy looking at her car toy from Aunt Melissa and Uncle Randy

Savanna didn't last long.... she loves sleeping on her Daddy!! :-)
For those who are wondering, Kris' shirt says 'NO, I will not fix your computer' - ha ha - so fitting for him!

My momma opening the gift I got for her - a ticket to Time Out for Women! For those of you who don't know, it's this AWESOME womens conference run by Deseret Book Company, which is affiliated with my church. It's always so fun! My mom, my sister Amanda, and I are all going together in Cincinnati in May! YAY!

This is my papa smurf opening the car we got for him - he collects models of old cars. I got him a 1960 something (cant remember the exact year....) Ford Mustang. I LOVE mustangs and will someday have one when I don't have to squeeze in car seats!

Overall, Christmas was an awesome day. We all had fun and it was relaxed, and both Kris and I got to see our families. We even got to go to Kris' dad's house after we left my sister's house. It is SO nice to have both of our families so close!! We get to share our holidays with them all and don't have to chose where we are going. I don't know what I would do without my family so close to help me with my babies!