A day to make you reflect

This last Tuesday Jaden and I were sitting at home watching the Hulk when Jaden got a phone call from his mom. Jaden paused the movie and seemed really upset but wasn't saying anything that would give me any ideas about what was going on. When he got off the phone I asked him what that was all about. He then told me that his cousin MeLea's little girl died. I was shocked! Melea has already had a hard life and she is such an amazing person. She is deaf and so is her husband, they have 4 kids, all hearing. 3 little boys and one little girl. 

Shelbi (MeLea's little girl) was 6 years old. She had gotten sick and started throwing up on Monday and Tuesday morning Rian (her dad) was getting ready for work really early in the morning and went in to check on her and she was sitting up in her bed shuffling some papers around. He asked her how she was feeling and she told him a little better. He went to work and when he got home MeLea told him that she was just getting worse. So they took her to the hospital and a little while after she got there she went into a coma. Her heart rate accelerated really fast and then her heart stopped. They tried to do CPR on her but she wouldn't be revived. She died that night and no one really knew what happened to her or why she died. 

They found out yesterday that she had a hernia in her stomach that was releasing poisons into her body and these poisons killed her colon. All these things caused her to have a lot of potassium in her body which caused her heart to race and stop. 

Yesterday they went into her room to get a blanket that was her favorite to put in her casket and while they were in there they found a bunch of letters and pictures she had written and drawn for different people in her family. She wrote her testimony to her parents and drew a picture of her dad baptizing her and on the back a picture of Jesus. Then she drew pictures and wrote little notes to her grandparents, her brother, her 3 best friends, and her little cousin that she was really close to. Her testimony was so amazing especially for a little 6 year old that was only in first grade. To sum it up she said how much she loved her family, how she loved her heavenly father and Jesus so much, she was greatful for her Savior and close with Amen. 

She was an amazing little girl and I think that some one was there to prompt her to do that and help her say her good byes with out really knowing for herself, I am sure, that she was going to die. 

Her funeral was beautiful, and she was a beautiful little girl!  I write this in her memory!

Christmas!

Before I start anything I am sure you want to know the last two days of the 12 days of christmas!

On the 11th day of Christmas our secret friends gave to me some piping hot things to eat and drink.

I don't have a picture of the 12th day and I am so mad at myself for not getting one but this is what it said, On the 12th day of Christmas your not so secret friends gave to me... 10 players and two coaches... 

Jaden's sister and brother in law were standing at our door with an envelope with a red ribbon on it. They gave us the envelope and inside was two tickets to th

e Jazz game 2nd row! They are playing New Orleans so they thought we would really like that game! As soon as I opened the door to them I got all emotional. I really don't think they will ever know how much it meant to us! They are so darn giving!

This year for Christmas we went down to Henderson to spend tim

e with my family for the holiday. I flew down on the 22nd and Jaden came down on the 24th because he had to work Christmas eve. Keisha drove our car down for us and then just dropped the car off to Jaden when he got off his plane. Christmas eve was a lot of fun! we tried out some new traditions and of course kept some of our old ones. My mom wanted us to all bring a tradition from our in laws so I brought from Jaden's family the acting out of the Nativity. Everyone drew parts and then acted it out. It was  a lot of fun!

Christmas morning we got up at like 8 and then made 

and ate breakfast and then opened presents one at a time. It was a lot of fun. I was super glad that we ate before we started though. Austin, Mindy's little one, got sick that morning and was throwing up and stuff. That stunk really bad. We let Austin open his presents and then Jacob took him home. Christmas night we played games and just had  a lot of fun!

Here's some pictures of our fun!

Lexi waiting for her food.

The guys in there Christmas PJs

Christmas PJs!

Jaron having some fun with Austin!

All the girls cookin our big Christmas Eve dinner!

12 days of Christmas!

Ok I told you I would put the rest of the days of Christmas on here. Obviously it's still not over but here are days 5-10.

On the 5th day of Christmas my secret friends gave to me... Five twenty dollar bills! Can I just tell you what a shocker that one was! I almost started to cry when we got this one!

On the 6th day of Christmas my secret friends gave to me a goose down comforter for laying and a soft hippo. That comforter is so soft! I really loved the hippo! I kept hugging it and Jaden told me to put it down it wasn't mine, it was Kysa's!

On the 7th day of Christmas my secret friends gave to me... Seven rocks a swimmin and a movie with a body of water in it! I just thought that this one was great! I've always wanted one of those rock water things!
On the 8th day of Christmas my secret friends gave to me some items for 8 maids a milking! This was clever I thought. Milk and glasses, and then some cleaning supplies. I hope they weren't telling me to clean my house. lol!
On the 9th day of Christmas my secret friends gave to me some fun things to lay in and watch some ladies dancing. They are so creative!

I am not sure if you can read that one so I will type it. On the 10th day of Christmas my secret friends gave to me A Pineapple Candle?????????????????????????????

That sure isn't a pineapple candle... what do you think? It is $100 in 10's! Some one really loves us and we really love that someone! I have a strange feeling that whoever is doing this isn't going to tell us who they are! I am a little sad and if I don't find out it will totally drive me up a wall... but I will understand why they didn't tell us if they don't. I sure wish I could thank them from the very bottom of my heart! They don't know what this has ment to Jaden and I! I will keep you updated on the last two! Hope you are enjoying this as much as we are and my sister Mindy. She calls me every night to see what we got, it's cute!

The Stranger

This is my favorite Christmas story of the season! I hope that you like it as much as I did. I dare you not to cry. Maybe I'm the only one who cries at stories, I am pregnant!

At Christmas time there was a man who looked so out of place

As people rushed about him at a hurried sort of pace.

He stared at all the Christmas lights, the tinsel everywhere,

The shopping center Santa Claus, with children gathered near.

The mall was packed with shoppers who were going to and fro,

Some with smiles and some with frowns and some too tired to go.

They rested on the benches or they hurries on their way,

To fight the crowd  for purchases to carry home that day.

The music from a stereo was playing loud and clear

Of Santa Claus, and snowmen, and a funny-nosed reindeer.

He heard the people talk about the good times on the way,

Of parties, furs, and food galore, and gifts exchanged that day.

"I'd like to know what's going on," the man was heard to say,

"There seems to be some sort of celebration on the way,

And would you tell me who this is, all dressed in red and white?"

And why are children asking him about a special night?"

The answer came in disbelief, "I can't believe my ear!

I can't believe you do not know that Christmastime is here.

The time when Santa comes around with gifts for girls and boys.

When they're asleep on Christmas Eve, he leaves them books and toys.

The man you see in red and white is Santa Claus, so sly.

The children love his joyful laugh and twinkle in his eye.

His gift packed sleigh is pulled along by very small reindeer,

As he flies quickly through the air, while darting here and there.

The children learn of Santa Claus while they are still quite small.

When Christmas comes he is the most important of all!"

The stranger hung his head in shame, he closed a nail-pierced hand.

His body shook in disbelief, he did not understand.

A shadow crossed his stricken face, his voice was low but clear,

"After all these years, they still don't know," and Jesus shed a tear.

I hope that you all enjoyed that little story as much as I did. Let us all remember what Christmas is really about. 

Merry Christmas!

Emotions!

So Everyone has told me that while you are pregnant you cry all the time. I didn't really believe so much because I was totally fine at the beginning. Not any more! Holy cow! I cry over everything. My mom made us this book called the 25 days of Christmas, everyday you read a scripture, sing a song (which we don't do, we just look at the name of the song to see if we know it or not and thats about it for the song) and read a story. The point of this book is to help you remember what Christmas is really about, Christ. So every night Jaden and I get ready for bed and then sit and read this. Pretty much every story so far has made me cry. I am such a baby. The funniest story though is when I went to pick up my pills at Kmart. I went up asked for my pills and the girl was ringing me up and said "Wow, are your pills always this much?" I asked her how much and she told me $255 for one and $165 for the other one! I was so shocked! I told her our insurance is suppose to pay 80% of our pills. She said well let me call your insurance and see what is up. She called them and then came back over to me and told me they told her we pay 100%. Our insurance doesn't pay anything! I just started to cry. The poor girl was like oh I am so sorry! I told her it was ok I was pregnant. She felt so bad. So I just got the cheaper one and left and when I got in the car noticed that she had left them both in there so I took one back in. I am not going to lie, it was so hard to do that because we didn't have the money to get the other one. But I know it would have been so wrong. I'm glad I was honest even though it would have been nice to have them both for $165. 

Poor Jaden, he has to put up with all of my crying. We fight about anything and I totally lose it. He's a good man though because he tries so hard to keep me from crying. 

I got good news today though! Since our insurance won't cover the cost of my pills I went online to see if I could find some where that could help cover the cost of it. I found this place called RX aid. They are making it so that we only have to pay $25 a month for each of my medications. That is such a huge load off out shoulders! The Lord is really blessing us! 

As soon as I get a chance to go over to my in laws house, I will put the other days from the 12 days of Christmas on here. These people are so giving! Like I said when we need it most the Lord provides! 

5th and 6th month; 12 days of Christmas!

So since I have been such a slacker I didn't put last months picture on so here is last month and this months pictures.

I'm getting huge! I really have nothing to wear now! I still have some shirts but pants, none. This is becoming a problem that I need to solve and fast!

For the past 4 days we have had a secret visitor. Some one has been doing the 12 days of Christmas for us. It has been so cool! They have been doing some really fun things So I have been taking pictures to show how much fun this has been. Whoever is doing this is really creative and fun!

The little note at the top says" on the first day of Christmas my secret friends gave to me a bat in a pear tree."

This is for the second day the note for this one said "on the second day of Christmas your secret friend gave to you some turtles and some doves for you to chew."

"On the third day of Christmas your secret friend brings to you Three french breads and spaghetti"

"On the Forth day of Christmas your secret friend has four calming items for you."

So that is where we are right now is the 4th day. Tomorrow we will see what we get.

Since I wrote last a lot has happened to us. A few weeks ago our jeep got broken into. I park at trax and leave our jeep there all day while I am at work and when I got home that day I got to the jeep and something was wrong with our lock. It looked weird but it was locked so I thought that some one tried to get in but couldn't and I was feeling better until I opened the door. The stereo and speakers and some other things were all gone. The jeep was left a huge mess. As soon as I saw it I just bust into tears. I called Jaden and then went to his parents house and got the insurance and everything taken care of. We just got the jeep back yesterday from being fixed. Our insurance paid for everything except $100 of it. We have good insurance. A couple days after that the battery on my car died. We have just had bad luck with our poor cars. I will try and keep this better updated. :)

A while back

Britney, Jaron, Lexi, Jaden and I all went to a pumpkin patch and I forgot my camera so Brit took pictures and sent them to me. So I thought that I would add them to my blog. We also went to the Pie, it was Britney's first time. 

Brit and Jaron at the Pie

Jaden and I at the Pie

Getting ready for Halloween

Jaden and I went and picked out some pumpkins that we likes at our local grocery store and then did some carving. We went to a pumpkin patch with Britney, Jaron and Lexi but I am a little too picky and couldn't find one that I really liked. But I thought I would show you some of the things that we carved.

After we were all done carving our pumpkins we made pumpkin seeds. It was so much fun. That was a first for the both of us. We really enjoyed our pumpkin day!

Jaden did such a great job on his pumpkin! I wish that I would have taken the picture the day that we carved them because they are now starting to rot and so Homers face got a little droopy. It still looks great after a couple of hard days for him! He is so creative!

We did a little more carving today the night before Halloween so I thought I would add these pictures as well. Our pumpkin is Jack the pumpkin king, Keisha's is a bear and Bill and Kerri's is just one happy little pumpkin! A little more carving never hurt.

Our fun weekend

This last weekend Jaden's sister Kami and her family were in town and we went and had some fun with them. Jaden and I both did different things, Jaden hiked Timpinogos with his brother Jesse and his wife Kim, His brother in law Rick and his kids Zac, Megan, and Emilee. They all seemed to have a lot of fun.

While they all hiked I went and played at Thanksgiving point with Kami, Lexie, Karleah and her guy friend. Lexie's favorite thing to do while we were there was to ride the pony. We frosted sugar cookies, Rode on a hay ride and all got our faces painted with an orange pumpkin. We all had a really good time.

That night after all our out door adventures we all went to Jesse and Kim's house and played rock band. That is one fun game. I liked the drums and the guitar. I didn't even attempt the singing, no way!

Tomorrow I have another ultrasound and I am super excited. Kysa is now 19 weeks, I am excited to see how much she has grown in just a few weeks. I have yet to feel her but I know that it will be soon! She is still just about 6 inches long from crown to bum. I'll put her new pictures on as soon as I get a chance to. Until then.

The growing process!

Ok, so I was talking to Mindy last night and I promised that I would update my blog and put a picture of my growing baby bump... so just for you mind... here is my baby bump from month 1 to month 4. It's crazy how fast I am growing!

SO there is the transformation. maybe to you it doesn't seem that big of a difference but to me it is huge! It's kind of fun to see my belly grow... my baby is getting bigger too then! I am still waiting for the day that I feel her. I think maybe I am thinking about it to hard. I really can't wait!

I thought that I would show you how beautiful it is getting up here. All the leaves are changing and it is getting a bit colder. Jaden drove me up Little Cottonwood Canyon when we had the first snow of the season. I was stoked!

I don't know if you can see it but there is a little waterfall in the trees! SO beautiful! This is the bottom of the canyon so pretty much Sandy. Farther up was the snow! It looked so cool because all the trees are orange and yellow. We got about an inch or two. You can see it on the log at the bottom of the picture.

We are suppose to get snow in the valley tonight and I am super excited about it. My mother in law is not as excited. I am always excited about anythin weather wise falling from the sky, maybe not so much hale! that stuff can do a number on your car. Just ask my brother in law Jaron.

Well I have another ultrasound on the 24th so hopefully our baby will be even cuter by then. I am always excited to see my little Kysa! If I have any more fun news to report before that I will!