The Craziness That Is, For Now, My Life

Crazy, Boring, Frustrating, Scary..... These are all words that I feel like I could apply to my life right now just depending on what day of the week it is or what time of day! We've had a few interesting weeks....

About three weeks ago Kalani came home from the grocery store & basically collapsed on our living room floor in pain. He dealt with it for a couple hours and then finally admitted that he needed to see a doctor. I loaded up the girls and off to the emergency room we went. Six hours later he is released with the diagnosis of a pretty large kidney stone, pain free because of the shots he's received at the hospital and with a few prescriptions for some loverly pain killers. Super fun stuff!!!

One week later... I start having some cramping and lower back pain. I load up my Kami-Lami-Ding-Dong and head to the hospital. Kalani meets us there & the testing begins. Good news... I AM having some contractions, but they're not regular AND they're being caused by a UTI or bladder infection. Super great dandy. Gimme some antibiotics and I'm on my way home. Ta da!

EXACTLY a week after that... Wake up at 2am with MAJOR back pain. Try to tough it out & can't. Wake up dear hubby and tell him that he HAS to get me to the hospital ASAP! Call a neighbor to sit with the kiddos (who thankfully slept through the whole thing) and off we go for the second time in a week to Labor & Delivery. By the time we get there I am insane with pain and am pretty much begging for death. Two morphine shots, an ultrasound, and a few tests later I am told that I have a kidney stone. LOVELY!!! As IF the prospect of giving birth in a few weeks isn't bad enough! (By the way girls - they are almost as bad as labor! AND the pain is CONSTANT! It doesn't go away at all!) I am also told that sweet baby is positioned in a way that is putting stress on my right kidney and it is very dilated to the point that I will be in "severe to excruciating" pain at times, but it shouldn't be constant like the pain from the kidney stone. Woo hoo! My only options to fix the kidney problem are A) Deliver the baby (not a horrible option, but we'd really like lil' guy to grow for a few more weeks since I'm 34 weeks now), B) Insert a stent (owwwie!!! BUT, thankfully, they didn't want to do this because baby won't be in that much longer), or C) Send me home with pain killers and keep me down to try to let baby grow as long as possible. Option C is the one we went with...

SO... Now I am at home, trying to stay down as much as is humanly possible. I have a bad attitude because anyone that knows me knows that I don't like to sit still and REALLY hate having to depend on other people. A person can only watch so much tv, read so many books, and surf the internet for so long before they feel like they are going completely insane. That being said I DO appreciate all the love that has been coming my way. I have wonderful friends and family that have been helping with my children, my house, and my meals. I am truly grateful! Sorry for the gripe fest .... just have had some emails wondering what's up with me lately, so this seemed the easiest way to let everyone know! Hopefully my next post will be in the next couple weeks with pics of a new baby that is healthy and a mom that is exhausted, but back to her life!

Our March & April

Ok, so, I realize that I haven't posted for almost two months now. I am hanging my head in shame and vowing to do better in the future! In March nothing significant seemed to happen to warrant a post. In April I was barely home long enough to get anything done!

Here's what we've been up to the past two months:

After an entire winter of bad snowman snow, Kamryn FINALLY was able to build her first snowman at the beginning of March. She was thrilled and was soooooo disappointed when two days later he was nothing but a little snow pile. I wasn't thrilled with the fact that I caught a little neighbor boy stomping the snowman to bits before he was a snow pile. Brat.


We also went out to the basin to visit and attend Great Grandma Stevenson's 88th birthday party. It was so much fun (even in my huge pregnant, waddling state) to be able to see my family and visit!




Since I have to brag about all the funny little things my kids do... Kami decided to "surprise" me and draw an entire fridge full of "princesses" and was sooooo excited to show me!




At the beginning of April we ran to Cal Ranch and Kami saw the baby chicks. All she had to do was bat her little peepers at her father and, waa la, we own chickens. They are all gone now, but she had a fun month playing with them. Nila wouldn't have anything to do with them!


We went out to Roosevelt for Easter, Stephanie's birthday, and just a visit. I won't be able to go out again until the baby is born. Jonathan and Kalani got the idea to make Steph a birthday cake and ran off to the store to get "baking supplies". An hour and a half later two laughing little boys got back from the stores. They'd been all over finding critters to put on Teffi's cake, as she loves animals. I didn't get the picture until the candles had all been plucked off, but you get the idea. It was very funny!


THEN the Easter Bunny came and left some fabulous little piles of goodies for the girls, with Easter egg trail to find the piles of course!


Kamryn HAD to wear her fairy wings all morning and Nila was facinated with the singing, light-up microphone.


Nila & Kami ready to go hunt Easter eggs!


Here I am in all my pregnant glory, looking like I swallowed a massive watermelon. *Sniffle* I AM an Easter egg!


The girls had sooo much fun hunting eggs and filled their buckets multiple times!


The mighty egg hunters! Makayla, Nila, Kamryn & Rendan.


We also went to Mesquite twice in April. Kalani had to go help with a job down there for work so the girls and I tagged along. We went the week of Easter and two weeks after. Sadly on the first trip I forgot my camera, so I didn't get any pics of us at the Casa Blanca, or as Kami calls it, "the pink castle". We stayed in a suite at the Falcon Ridge our second trip and it was much more comfortable for me and much less smoke filled! The girls had fun on both trips and none of us wanted to leave the warm weather!






Anyway, that's what we've been up to for the past couple months. I have a feeling that May is going to be spent planting a garden and flowers and getting ready for our baby to make his appearance. I'll keep you posted!