Enough Already!

Is there anyway I could just put a pause on the bad events that continue to rush my way? I am not even asking that they stop but just pause while I catch my breath!

Are you asking yourself what in the world I am talking about? Well a million stressful things are going on in our life right now and just to top it off my sweet Katherine woke up from a 30 minute nap with the right side of her neck swollen hard about the size of a golf ball. She didn't act like anything was wrong as she smiled and laughed at her mom who was freaking out. I immediately called the on- call doctor (it was Saturday) and it happened to be my pediatrician and wanted to see her asap. So I brought her in and his response was that he wasn't really sure what it was. He initially thought it was a hematoma (bruise) and began to take her pjs off to see if she had any other signs of being abused. Then he checked everything else (ears, temp, all her vital signs) and found no other symptoms. He decided he wanted to get a CT scan to find out for sure what it was. However, it happened to be Sat. of a holiday weekend and he didn't feel comfortable (with her being only 4 mo. old) getting a cat scan from the weekend/holiday crew at Primary Children's Hospital. He wanted me to wait until Tuesday when there would be a full tech team and radiologist to conduct her "study". He seemed extremely concerned! Can I just say patience has never been one of my strong suits and that was the longest two days of my life! Well to make a long story short, the radiologists decided to do an ultrasound first to be on the safer side and found that it was most likely a strange infection in her lymph nodes. So for now we have her on an antibiotic hoping it will fix the lump on her neck but if it doesn't we will have to biopsy it and check for cancer. The concerning aspect is that they are not tender at all. She acts like she doesn't even know it is there. But she is going on her fourth day of the antibiotic and I think the swelling is starting to go down a little bit. It is hard to tell since I look at it about every two minutes but I am feeling a little bit better about it now. Here are a few pictures but they really don't do justice showing the actual size.

Have I mentioned how much I love her? Despite all this she is laughing and talking and smiling making everyday amazing no matter how tired I am !

Happy Mother's Day!

Well mother's day has definitely taken on a whole new meaning. My whole life I have wanted to be a mom! I have spent millions of hours taking care of other people's children but there is nothing like actually being a mother. I love going in Katherine's room in the morning to see her get so excited to see me or lay on the floor with her and have her talk her little language to me or give her a bath and watch her splash all over the place. I could go on and on but what I am trying to say is I feel so grateful for the opportunity to be a mom and I am glad we get a whole day to contemplate how special motherhood is. It was such a great day (other than Ty having the flu): the speakers in church started the day off by making a beautiful tribute to mother's, then we went with Ty's family and had a picnic up at the cemetery at Ty's grandma's grave, and then finished the night at my parent's house. I just want to say thank you to my mom and and ty's mom for being such fabulous mother's. I hope I can be as good of a mother as they have been.Look how BIG my baby is getting!

This is the only smile I can get on camera.

Better Late than Never?

I know it has been awhile since Easter but I figure I should still blog about it now since I have a minute. We had a really fun Easter egg hunt at Ty's parents house the week before Easter and Kate got alot of candy and money that her Mom and Dad of course stole. She also got the movie Pinnochio- our first Disney movie other than Baby Einstein (and of course her mom's favorite: HSM 3).

Kate and her darling cousins! She loves to eat her fist!On the Saturday before Easter my whole family did a 5k for diabetes up at the U. It was freezing!!! After that we went and got in the hot tub at the Ivory's, had another big easter egg hunt and ate alot of food! It was really fun!

Kate getting ready for the race!

We all look a little scary having just rolled out of bed!

These three were the fast runners. Me Kate and my mom definitely were the slow ones but it was still a fun race and a great cause.

HE'S BACK!!!!

I know you all have been missing seeing Ty on Channel 2 News every night..... but GOOD NEWS. If you hadn't noticed, heard or read it in the Tribune, Ty got laid off about 5 weeks ago in a big round of layoffs due to economy. But guess what?!!! He's back on the airwaves ladies and gentleman! Unfortunately not at channel 2 where he had some of the greatest friends he could ever ask for but now he will be reporting for channel 4 here in Salt Lake. So everyone change the channel and tune in tonight for his first time on ABC!