Another Kindergartner

On Friday we registered Jennilyn for Kindergarten!  While the parents meet with the principal, the future kindergartner's went with some of the teachers and had some fun and came back with this picture!

We are excited that we will have both Dillon and Jennilyn in school next year.  Jennilyn will be in an all day kindergarten class and she is very excited about it.  She did not like getting her kindergarten shots a few weeks ago.  :)

Sad Times

This weekend has been a long bittersweet weekend.  On Wed, my wonderful Aunt Sharon passed away after a long illness.  I am grateful for my knowledge of eternal families and that we will see her again.  She is also with her dear husband who passed away 15 years ago.

Today was the funeral, but because of what I will talk about next, I was busy with the Doctor today and was not able to go to the funeral, but I did go to viewing last night and saw many people I have not seen for awhile. It was good to see everyone.

On Friday Dan and I were excited.  We were 10 weeks pregnant and were going to our first Dr's appointment.  we had started to tell family and friends that we were expecting a new baby.  We get to the appointment and they can not find the baby in the uterus.   After a bunch of confusion we got me squeezed into the radiologist tech for a more advance ultrasound.  They did find the baby but not were it was suppose to be.  It was on the right side by my right ovary. ( For those who don't know 6 years ago this week I had a tubal rupture, after thinking that I had miscarried the week before. )  This fetus they found this time was in the same area, were I have no tube.

There was no life sign, and today the ruling came back as a Ectopic Pregnancy.  I had three options, full surgery (6 weeks recovery), a scope to remove it, or using a medicine called Methotrexate which is a radiation medication given through a shot  that devolves what is left of the fetus.

I decided to go with the Methotrexsate and I will have to go back in for blood work on Friday and again next Monday to make sure that it is working.  If it is not then we will have to do surgery.

It has been hard on both of us as we have been looking forward to adding our family for  awhile now.
But we will be ok, and I am at peace that we will add to our family one day.

Thank you to all the family and friends who have shown their love in person or vie Facebook, or email.  It has been wonderful to know that we have so many that love us and support us.

Thanks You and love you all!

Irene Playing

Irene looking for Easter Eggs

Irene~ "Mommy I want to turn you into a a shoe princess!" then touches  my feet with her wand!

"Daddy I want to turn you into a monster!"  Dan: "I don't want to be turned into a monster!"  She says it again and touches him with her wand

"I want to turn you into a Mermaid!" to Ruth

She is turning us all into something else tonight!

What fun little ones have using their imaginations!

Put It Back On!

Dillon with his tooth and you can see the small gap in his smile where the tooth was!

Dillon lost his 1st tooth today biting into an Apple!  I didn't even know his tooth was loose.  He was so mad about it and keeps telling me to put it back on!  I finally have gotten him to understand that he has a new tooth growing in and that he and all of his sisters will loose their baby teeth!

Congratulations Dillon on the next milestone of your life!  You are growing up!

Easter 2012

This year the kids were on Spring Break during the week leading up to Easter weekend.  We made plans to go to Idaho to Dan's sister Marsha's house.  Dan was to be out of town until Easter Sunday night, but then his flight got changed and he got home on Friday night really late.  So we decided to wait and go to Idaho after he got home, which worked out great so that we could spend time with my  side of the family too.

We spent Friday down at my sister Jaclyn's house and had an Easter Egg Hunt with the cousins and spent time with Nana and Papa Jack.

We left early Saturday morning and got there at 10:30am and spent the day with Grandma and Grandpa Burke and most of the cousins.

We got up and went to church and then during Sunday School Marsha and I came back to the house and hid the eggs and baskets.

The kids had a lot of fun with both Easter Egg Hunts.  And are enjoying their candy and small toys they got.

We hope all of you had a great Easter.  I love remembering that Our Savior has Risen and he lives!

Here are some pictures of our weekend!