happy birthday stacy!

my cousins from alaska are staying with us right now and it was stacys birthday last night and we had a happenin party last night and these are the pictures that i have from it. its nice to have family here and to be able to celebrate together, happy birthday stacy!

not ready for bath time

So my cousin holly is staying with us and she had 2 little girls and it was bathtime for them, but not for abby. i was downstairs and holly was upstairs giving the baths, well abby found her way up there and i thought she was just going to watch and holly had just gotten the other girl out and was getting her dressed, well abby decided that she wanted to join in the fun and in the 2 minutes that neither one of us was there, she found her way in, shoes and all. im just glad that she didn't slip and fall. they are just so darn cute.

zoo time!

We got to go to the zoo last weekend and its been forever since jeff was at the zoo, abby and i went last year but she enjoyed it so much more this time. abbys at that point in life where she wants to be running around all the time and not be in the stroller so that got frusterating at times but all in all i think it was a success. she loved seeing the animals that we always read about in books, but i am not sure what her favorite was yet. it was really fun to just spend the day as a family and get out of the house for a while, and enjoy the somewhat nice weather.

grandma and grandpa

abby is so funny, she loves grandpa. i think it probably makes my mom feel bad, but whenever my dad walks in the room she will walk past anyone and say grandpa with her arms out ready for him to pick her up. she doesn't care about anyone else being there when he walks in. its great that she loves him so much. my parents were over the other night and we were just about to put abby down and as you can tell i had just taken her hair out of the piggy so its kind of crazy, but we just all talked and hung out for a while. it was great to have them over.

play time with jake

we have my cousin jake staying with us from alaska, he likes to play x-box and abby just loves to sit with him and pretend shes playing. really anything he does she wants to do. its funny, she follows him around and just wants to play and most of the time he could just care less about her, but i think shes starting to grow on him.

an afternoon at primary childrens

So abby has been getting sick a lot lately and the doctor decided that they wanted to go to primary childrens hospital and take an eeg test to see if there happened to be another reason that she had a seizure. so when they take the test, they have to be sleep deprived so we had to put her to bed late and get her up early and she couldn't fall asleep at all during the day or the drive up, which for abby driving and sleeping is usually a great combination so it was a challenge. luckily i had my mom and dad there for help. they were nice enough to go with me and help keep her awake and be there for some moral support, it was great.

so they had to hook her up to a bunch of things on her head so that they could test the brain waves while she sleeps. it was sad but she did such a great job. we wont know anything for a week but hopefully all is good. thanks to everyone for the support and help with abby.

time is precious

so i got another glimps at just how precious time really is, everything can change in a matter of moments and we cant take anything for granted.
sunday night my family and i got together to go over to my parent store that they own and rent some movies and grab some stuff that we all wanted, and everything was good. abby has had a fever for a couple of days and she just wasn't feeling the best but we decided to take her with us just to get out of the house a little.
when jeff and i were done getting what we wanted we decided we should probably take abby home because she just looked like she didn't feel well. so we went out and got her in her carseat and were waiting for my cousin jake to tell us weither he was coming with us of with natalie while we were waiting abby started to shake a little and i thought she was cold, so i went in the back seat next to her and she only got worse so i told jeff we should take her to the urgent care and we left to go, a few seconds later she started shaking really bad and i could tell something wasn't right and she was struggling breathing, so i yelled at at jeff to call 911 and i took her out of her carseat and started back to the store, abby threw up on me and then went limp, she stopped breathing and i started freaking out, jeff was pounding on the door to get one of my family members to open it and we were searching for brint my brother in law who is a nurse and i knew was abbys only hope, luckily brint was the one by the door and let us in and i just handed her off to him and hoped with all my heart that he could save her, luckily he did and got her breathing again and we waited for the ambulence to come and it seemed like forever.
we then took her to the er and she stayed the night at the hospital and we took her home yesterday. i guess she just got to high of a fever to fast and the way her body fought if off was through a seizure and thats what happened. i have never been so scared in my life and wanted to help her out so much but was helpless. there was nothing i could do for her and i just wanted to make it all go away. i am so greatful to still have her in my life and i am so thankful to brint for helping save our little girl, i dont know what we would do without her in our home, shes so fun and we love her so much.
things are better now, we have to watch her temperature all the time but at least shes more of our little abby now.
so i am so greatful for every moment with her and with jeff and for how precious our time is together.