SONG: One More day...........After the events that happened with  Brianna it has helped me stop and cherish the moments more, now each morning when I go into her room and find her holding, her arms out for me to scoop her up, I find myself thinking of the words to this song One More Day.......By Dimond Reo so on that note her are some of the sweet moments since then,with Brianna just being her cute, and sometimes grumpy self......      

                  WE LOVE YOU MISS BRIANNA LOU

Brianna's scary day........But a miracle day.......

                                                                 January 6, 2014

            These are pictures of Brianna at the hospital on the day she gave us a scare the first time. Paul was on a trip to the States this week and it ended up being a scary day for me and the kids. I went in one morning to get Brianna out of bed to find her not moving or breathing, yes scariest day of my life. My first thought was we need to get her to the hospital, my next thought was we are not going to make it, as she did not look good.
          As I thought and prayed to know what to do i had the thought to so CPR. This was a little scary for me as i had learned many years ago at girls camp and classes many years ago. So knowing it would not be perfect i had to try. In the middle of trying to do CPR ,the kids and i were trying to get help.With a new phone we were not having much luck. Finally between trying to do CPR and get Brianna coherent we finally got through to a friend and the ambulance.After what seemed like forever I got Brianna Breathing again and sat there with my 4 kids terrified and re- leaved.
           We were all scared  as i sat there with my kids, I was holding Brianna who was crying trying to figure out what happened, i was crying as i knew at that moment she was ok, and my other kids were crying as they were so scard for Brianna.We kneeled there in the middle of our tears and held hands and prayed for the sweet mercy of the lord we had just experienced in our living room.
We later got to the hospital to have test done. It was a long day with not many explanations of what had happened that morning. But for me I knew me and my kids had literally witnessed a miracle in our living room that day.
              It sounded crazy to try and re explain to the doctors and others but in my heart I knew the only people who really would know what happened that day was me and my kids as we were there. Brianna had a long day at the hospital. Luckily my dear Friend Jean, came to be with me at the hospital so i would not be alone. I was grateful for her love and support on this long day. She stayed with me and brought Brianna's chicken nuggets etc.
              Later in the day two of the husbands of some of my dear friends, came in to give Brianna a blessing. They were both from our ward and happened to be working that day. Throughout the day people had been coming in and out in military uniforms, that when these two doctor's walked in there white lab coats, they looked like angels to me. At first I just looked at them and thought oh good the angels have come then saw they were the brethren that had come to give Brianna a blessing. It was a moment I won't forget.Another sweet moment was before my friend came and I stood there alone with Brianna, they wanted to do a Cat Scan. Brianna finally fell asleep and we took her in for the test.As I layed her on the machine for the test. I felt alone at that moment as I could not be close to her while she went through the machine. I prayed for angels to be with her and felt the sweet presence of Grandma Ruth there with her.  It was another moment I will not forget.
           It was a long day but I felt so blessed. Later in that week I had the opportunity to teach my children a lesson from our Latter day saint School curriculum about Laura Ingels horrible bad day, and good day all in the same day.We were able to talk about this crazy experience and see that even though it was a bad day it was still a good day for the miracles we had seen. As the day ended Katelyn put a big smiley face on her calendar for the day and I said whats that for and she said Mom it was a good day.Wow it really was.....................GOD GAVE US A MIRACLE TODAY.( or many miracles today)
         This was to be a short post to tell the events and then turned into my thoughts I have wanted to write down to remember what really happened this day, so it may be more for me then others but it is mine experience and I wanted to have a record of it.
 What I learned from this experience, God will guide us as to what to do when we feel helpless and alone, that there are miracles today, and that all moms should learn CPR because you never know when you will need it for your own baby and that, life is short, treasure the little moments and take time to kiss and hug your babies as you never know when it will be your last. Jenae's thoughts........

Yummy crepe treats

         YUMMY CREPES............

 

For Christmas I got a huge Crepe Machine.so of coarse we had to try it out on New years. They were pretty yummy. I don't know which was bigger the crepes or the kids eyes when we put one one there plate, full of yummy things like strawberries, Bananas etc. It has become a fun treat to serve up these extra large crepes.

Geocaching Adventure

                     GEOCACHING  FUN

              We even saw some goats on our walk up the trail. The kids loved seeing the Goats.

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We were excited to try out our new GPS for geocaching. It was a great christmas gift. We were excited to try it out.We had fun taking the kids out looking for a few of them. There was one not to far from our house, near a trail. I think we found it in a small patch of trees.The kids loved finding it and seeing what was inside. We had fun on the trail and at the park too.Thanks Grandpa Joe for sharing your love for geocaching  with us. We look forward to many more geocaching adventures with the kids.