10 Years!

This weekend was our 10 year anniversary. We celebrated by going up to the Sun Valley area and staying at a bed and breakfast in Hailey for Friday and Saturday nights. Saturday we took the gondola to the top of the ski resort on Mount Baldy overlooking the valley. It was a really nice relaxing time! The breakfasts are superb at B and B's - we really recommend the experience you get at B and B's, the hosts are always so friendly and eager to please! Saturday morning, they had a map highlighted showing where all the yard sales were at, just in case we wanted to go! We did hit a few as we have heard how great they are up there - but I think we got to them a little too late!
After we had lunch on the top of the mountain and came back down, we went into Ketchum and walked around the swanky village. We felt a little out of place in such a fancy place! After that, we went up the Galena Summit for a drive over to a lake to check out the scenery and then moseyed back to Hailey. It was a wonderful day!
Sunday was hard to get out of there in time for meeting in Twin Falls, but we did it after enjoying an awesome menu of: home-made granola mixed with fresh fruit and granola, french toast Monte-cristos, and creme-brulee french toast (yum-yum) we couldn't pass up breakfast! We then went to meeting and then had a delicious home-made lasagna for lunch at Kristin and Blair's lovely home. Then we headed back to reality!! A great weekend!

Avery's Seizure Experience

So, I guess a few people have wondered what happened with Avery and her seizure, so I will just briefly explain.

About a month ago (July 20th) we headed out for an evening on our boat at American Falls. It was such a beautiful evening and we got out on the water about 7:00 p.m. and took a short little jaunt up to "Mexican Cove" (about 10 minutes from the dock). We all got into the water and swam for a little bit and then it was time for me to get out as I was becoming tired. Tyler was going to help me out of the water, so he set Avery on the back platform, (which at that time, he kind of scraped her back because he misjudged the platform) and as he did that, Avery fell over and was crying. We thought she was just upset to be out of the water and so Tyler propped her up again, but this time as she fell over, her arms went into the air and her eyes got wide and scared looking and her legs went ramrod straight. There was something obviously wrong at this point.

I got into the boat without help from Tyler and he got in and carried Avery(still screaming) into the boat. We decided that it would be faster to go to the new houses on the cove rather than go to the dock, and headed over there. I jumped out of the boat and up to a residence and had them call 911 while Tyler brought Avery up to their yard. I think by this time she had quit screaming and was actually out, but I'm not sure.

When the ambulance got there, Avery was in and out of a sleeping/screaming state. They took us into American Falls' hospital and there determined that they needed to transport her to the Pocatello's Portnuef Hospital by LifeFlight. They gave her some seizure meds but she was grinding her teeth and still screaming off and on.

I rode in the helicopter with Avery and the crew and got to Portneuf where they did all kinds of tests and then sent her up to a room for the night. Because of the hit to her back (which was really nothing, but at the time, the only thing that made any sense to the whole incident), I was scared that maybe she had nicked her back and done some kind of bizarre injury. But by 11:30 or so, Avery was in a more comfortable looking sleep and seemed quite normal.

By 4 that next morning, she woke up and was asking for us, and seemed quite normal.

The doctors kept us there until about 9:00 that next night, due to testing that they wanted done. Everything came back normal and they feel sure it was an isolated event, which is a relief to us. It has now been over a month, and you would never even know that she had a seizure. I can tell you that the look on her face was enough to convince me that she would never be the same again, but I am so glad that I was wrong!

Becky's Shower

Saturday, we had a baby shower for my friend Becky. It was a lot of fun!! Here are some pics of her day:

Update

I am sorry I never update this thing!! It's kind of last on my list of things to do! But I thought that I would add some things to this just as an update to our life.

As some of you heard about Avery's seizure last month, I will update on that...not many know that happened, and sometimes I think I dreamed it up myself! She is healthy as a horse with no ill effects and everything is great with her. Although an awful experience, we are so grateful that it was nothing worse than a seizure that we are being assured by the medical field should not happen again. So far so good.

Tyler has started a job here in Pocatello and hopes to be there for at least to the end of the year. It is a completely different avenue of work for him in that it is an office job-which has been a bit of a challenge for him-no physical labor during the day! Keep your fingers crossed for us that he doesn't get too bored, as we would really like to stay home for a while.

Also, we are expecting a Baby Girl in December, and so far so good with her as well. We are getting excited to welcome her to our family! Everything came out fine on the ultrasound 3 weeks ago, and that helps put some fears to rest for us. She is a kicker-much more so than Avery was!

Well, hope everyone is well!! Take care!