My Sister's Keeper By: Jodi Picoult

Wow, here is a tear jerker for you. This was a very quick easy, but emotional book to read. It is about a family that has one boy, one girl. The girl is diagnosed with cancer at age 2-3. They decide to have another baby girl to be a donor for her. This younger sister at age 13 files a lawsuit to sue her parents for the right to make her own medical choices. This meaning she could choose NOT to donate the kidney of hers to her sister, and thus her older sister would die. This book follows in each persons perspective the two week long journey. I absolutely recomend this to anyone! The movie is coming out soon, and I cannot wait to see it TOO! Enjoy!

Atlas Shrugged By Ayn Rand

So this was one of the longest, and hardest books I have ever read. I learned a lot of new words, that I have already forgotten! Anyway, I really loved this book! It is not very easy to describe what it is about, but it is set in the early 30's to 40's I think. During the railroad and industrial boom. If you have time, I definitely recommend this book. My brother Mike has talked about it every time I see him, so now I am glad to have someone to talk about it with. If any of you take on this book, let me know, I would love to see your insight and hear your thoughts on it!

9 new posts!

It has been a busy time for us! School is out and with us having insurance right now we are doing lots of Dr and Dentist appointments, this past week alone, Emily went to ER for toothpaste overdose, and Dr. for a virus that gave her high fever, and sores in her throat, Izzy had surgery on her tonsils and adenoids, MaKayla has been to dentist 2 times for 3 quad fillings (still has one more to go), I got my teeth cleaned and went to OB for check up, Brad had teeth filled, and a wisdom tooth pulled! But today I had time to update our Blog, it has been a while so there are 9 new posts going back to MaKayla's brithday! Enjoy!

Izzy's Surgery

On Monday Izzy had her tonsils and Adenoids removed. The Dr. said they were enlarged and causing her snoring and not being able to sleep soundly at night, and why she has had a runny nose her whole life. So anyway she did so great, she is feeling a little better today after a rough few days. We love her so much and are so glad everything went OK. We almost had to take her to ER yesterday cause she was throwing up a lot and not eating or drinking, but some anti-nausea medicine worked and she is doing great now! We had to be there at 6am, Izzy was all ready to go with her Bunny FLUFFY!
Anxiously waiting!

Just before going in, I had to leave her, but they let her take Fluffy and her Blanky!

When she was all done, she was still out of it, she kept looking at her arm and asking "what's that?" and I would say "it's an IV" she would ask "what's it for?" and I would tell her "it's giving your body a drink" then a few min later she would look at her arm and ask "what's that?" and we would do it all over again! She was so brave and cute!

Exploring

This last weekend we filled the truck up with gas and went exploring for 8 hours! It was pretty cool! This is built into the mountain, Brad wanted to go in, but I wouldn't let him, way too creepy!

This little CREEPY house was in the middle of NO WHERE! Only one way in and no other way out! It was like a scary movie, and I saw the whole thing in my head!

This is Gold Strike. An old gold mine that is not used anymore!

Some deer, I told Brad they should come back in deer season, cause they got horns!

This is the old landing strip. It is said that the Mofia back in the day owned this and they would fly people who were in trouble with them here and bury them. "this is where the holes in the desert are" says Brad.

This is Brad climbing the old wind sock at the landing strip!

My new Favorite tree. It is so pretty, I want to come camp here sometime, it is so huge, and has a spring next to it. WOW!

Emily in the ER

So Emily took her first trip to the ER, can't believe she made it 16 months! When I shower I give her a toothbrush with a little toothpaste and turn on the water for her. She brushes her teeth usually the whole time. Well somehow, I must have left the cap off of the toothpaste because when I got out she was very very fussy. I couldn't figure out what was wrong, all the sudden she was very lethargic and clingy to me, then she threw up. It smelled awefully minty, and that is when it clicked. I ran to the bathroom and sure enough she had sucked it down. I wasn't sure how much she ate, but there was more than half the tube missing. I called poison control and they said for her weight that the amount she had can be very toxic, and because she had allready thrown up once, it is cause for more concern. They said we needed to take her to ER. So we took her to the ER and shew threw up 2 more times, they took her blood and gave her an IV. The first test results came back that her calcium and potassium were just a little high. We had to wait there for 3 more hours so they could test her blood again to make sure the levels were going down, not up. They did go down and after 6 hours of being there, we got to go home. She was so good and cute there. She even took 2 naps! WOW! Thanks to Dr. Dallin and the staff at our ER they were so nice and attentive to her the whole time! Emily and her little bandages from IV and blood work!

Girls Trip up North!

My nephew Sam graduated high school this year, and my nephew Jared (his brother) had his homecoming, they were both 4 days apart so I took Emily and Izzy up North to SLC and Tooele for the week. We had so much fun! Me my sister Diane, my mom, and Izzy went to the nail salon to get pedicures, and nails done. It was Izzy's first time, she was so excited! She got her nails and toes painted up! My sisters Suzie, Lori, and Diane and my mom all took our kids to the zoo on Saturday. It was Izzy's first time to the zoo! She was in heaven! We had such a great time and the graduation and homecoming were so wonderful! I am so lucky to have such a great family! Here are a ton of pictures from the weekend: Izzy was most excited to go on the train!

Emily wouldn't hold still, so aunt Diane helped!

Izzy is SO BIG!

Izzy and cousin Tina looking good on the carousel!

My mom and all the grandkids that went!

Me, Diane, Mom, Suzie, and Lori

Izzy got to touch the giraffe scull

I put sunblock on Emily's face and hands, but she rubbed them too soon, so sunblock got all in her eyes, she was so red and swollen for most of the day, it was so sad!

They sat and watched these monkeys for about 20+ min. It was awesome!

A huge cockroach!

Izzy's beautiful nails!

Trying to hold still so her nails could dry

Getting toes done!

She doesn't look one bit excited does she?

Sam's graduation, there were i think 500+ students!

Aunt Diane keeping Emily occupied!

My brother in law Robert, nephew Jared, Sam, Clayton, and my sister Lori

Nephew Sam, so distinguished!

Memorial Weekend in Zion

For Memorial Weekend this year we went camping at Zion with Brad's Parents and Brother Scott and his whole family. Brad and MaKayla spent 2 full days hiking, the first day to Observation Point, and the second Angel's Landing. Me and the little girls hung around camp and relaxed. We celebrated Scott, Andrea, and Ellie's birthdays. We had so much fun! Here are a bunch of pictures from the weekend: