That one summer where we did alot

So I have been MIA, if you haven't noticed. It's sadly almost been 2 months since I have posted anything! AND ALOT has happened this summer. I have just been exhausted from this pregnancy and chasing the kids that blogging was the last thing on my mind. It was on my mind.. but the further I put it off, the more activities that came up and the further I got behind which made me put it off that much more lol.

So I am just going to do a quick recap on everything just so I can say that I posted about it and make myself feel better :)

So lets start with the 4th of July week....

My dad came up to visit for the week. It was fun getting to have him and he loved getting to see all the grandkids.

We started it out by going to Bear Lake...

Later that week we went to the zoo...

It was the twins first time at the zoo and they loved it :)

Then there was the cruise in which my dad loved. He used to live in Cache Valley WAY BACK WHEN he was in college so it'd been awhile since he'd seen it (He lives in Boise ID)

And here's all his kids, spouses, and grandkids :) It was fun having getting everyone together at once. This RARELY happens with me and my bros.

July 20-22 we went to..

YELLOWSTONE

(Picture overload)

The children got VERY dirty

Buffalo just walking along the side of the road

They really loved the hiking backpacks the got carried around in

Ended the trip with with suckers from the candy store in Jackson :)

We didn't see any bears this year but we saw lots of Elk, buffalo, we saw a coyote that I SWEAR was a wolf... it was from a distance but it just looked HUGE... and then we saw a cute little fox.

I just love Yellowstone/Jackson!

Happy Birthday To Me!

August 11

I had an awesome birthday. It was kinda a 3 day birthday bash..

On Friday my MIL took me and Lys to get mani's and pedi's :) Now i'll have cute toes for when baby Roman gets here :)

I also got my silhouette.. FINALLY!

That night we snuggled on the couch and played Mario Kart, me & Lys's fav game :)

Saturday night my aunt treated us to an RSL game and watched the kids for us. I love getting to be with my man and as much as I missed having my kids with us it was nice getting to watch the game without interruption ;)

Sunday, for my actual birthday, my husband had gotten me a birthday cake because no birthday is complete without a birthday cake!

My brother and sis-in-law gave me that beautiful necklace for my b-day. It has all my kids names on it. BTW we have went with Roman Alexander for our new little one :)

That night my mother in law thru me an ice cream birthday party and we just gotta chill outside and enjoy what's left of summer. 

It was an awesome Birthday!

LYS TURNS 5!

Even tho Lys knew she was having a birthday party she told us she really wanted to be surprised on her birthday. She had been looking forward to it all week and started the countdown after my birthday. It was pretty cute. We got some balloons rigged up on her door so she would be surprised in the morning with a shower of balloons :) I dreamt all night about missing getting it on video and woke up before she did that morning, was at the door with my phone and just as I was getting it on video mode.. she opened the door.. and I missed it :( go figure lol.. it was still cute tho.

Lys is always stealing my phone and watching movies and playing games on it. We finally decided it was time for her to have her own, so we got her an ipod. She hasn't put that thing down since :) It's nice when you get them presents they actually enjoy and play with. She told me she loves her new "phone" (she calls it her phone since it looks like my iphone) as much as she loves me lol... i'm just glad she loves it.

That night we had Lys's bday party.

Lys decided she wanted to have a Blue's Clues Birthday party.

Once all the cousins got their they each got their own "Handy Dandy Notebook" and had to find 3 of Blue's Clues to find out that Blue wanted Lys to blow out the candles on her cake.

Lys got really spoiled with all her presents and had such a fun birthday party!

The kids all gotta play games and win little prizes.

She had such a special birthday surrounded by all her family. It was a really good day for her and when I asked her if she'll always remember it she told me: " Well I took pictures of everything and all the people!" duh to me right lol.. glad she loved it :)

Whew... what a post.. lets hope I don't get that behind again!

Date night and a little trip to the ER

DATE NIGHT

Devin got a pack of RSL tickets for his birthday and he planned this game to go to for just me and him ( usually we have the kids and other family with us ).

This doesn't happen very often... infact.. this was the first time we were this far away from the kids and the longest we have been away from them! And it was the first RSL game we have been too that was just us since having kids! I seriously missed them but it sure was nice to have just me & Devin time.

It was so fun! It made me realize just how much I love this guy! It took me back to when we were dating. I think we both agreed that it was well deserved and was really special. Sounds cheesy, I know.. but seriously.. we don't know what it's like to just be together just us unless we are playing soccer together.. but that's not the same. ;)

It was an awesome game. We ended up winning. Plus.. I got to watch the game!! haha.. with kids.. you don't see much of the game..

A little trip to the ER

I have been getting pretty bad heart burn this pregnancy. I was on Dexalant my last pregnancy, which is amazing! But this time my insurance didn't cover it and it's only $180.. ya.. so I tried other things.. zantec and tums.. they worked for a bit but then stopped. 

So the last few nights I had been getting really bad heart burn. So bad it would wake me up but I would usually take some tums and go back to sleep.

The other night was different. I woke up from a dream of someone holding a bag over my head and I couldn't breathe! When I woke up I just figured it was heart burn again and took some tums and tried to go back to sleep. But I tossed and turned and the burning got more intense to the point I felt like someone was sticking a hot poker thru my throat.. yes very unpleasant. So I decided to get up and walk around because sometimes that will work with my heartburn but I got to the kitchen, Devin went in there to make me some mint tea thinking that would help, and I pretty much collapsed on him. So he took me to the couch and I just could not breathe. My lungs burned and I had a horrible pain in my upper back and was really short of breathe and dizzy. I started having a panic attack and thats when Devin decided it was time to take me to the ER. He called his mom who rushed over and off we went to Cache Valley Specialty Hospital.

They admitted me in and started me with an I.V. and just started pumping all sorts of drugs and doing tests. They tried some heavy doses of heartburn medicine, that did nothing. The gave me morphine, which made me feel drowsy and loopy but still didn't take the burning away. So they ran a test for blood clots and it came back positive. They didn't have the technology to make sure there was a blood clot in my lungs, which is what they were thinking was going on, so they had to take me to Logan Regional and since they deemed this a "Life Threatening Situation" they made me ride in an ambulance over to the hospital. It was my first time in an ambulance and I was so anxiety ridden but the Paramedic was so nice. He talked to me the whole time and we found out he knew my old soccer coach, who was a paramedic, and that he had just retired. Also found out that he just went to Sun Valley for the first time to go biking ( I was born in Sun Valley ). He went to a bunch of places around Sun Valley that I grew up going too. Not many people have been to Redfish lake, Stanely, or Alterus, so it was fun that he had just been to those places.

Once we got to Logan Regional ER they gave me more drugs and took me to get a CT scan. That was slightly uncomfortable, only when I had to breathe in and out of this small tube with your nose pinched closed for 2 minutes. Longest 2 minutes of my life, I started to get so claustrophobic and seriously thought I was going to have to rip the tube out and the nose pinch off before the 2 minutes was up!

Once they had it diagnosed they injected me with more drugs and kept me around for a little bit until the tests came back clean.. then they sent me on my way..

It was a LONG night.. everything started about 11:00 PM and we didn't get home until about 6AM. We were both so exhausted. I of course took that day off and just slept all day.

What an experience.. one I never want to experience again but I sure am glad that they figured out the problem and I am doing good and am alive :)