Brandon is Graduating

Good News!

This post if for anybody who read my earlier post about my sicknesses. So I went back for my checkup cat scan to see how the mass on my left lung was doing. The good news was it's smaller, not gone, but smaller. So that means it's not cancer!! Tumors apparently don't just get smaller they stay the same or grow. Bad news is I still have pneumonia a month later and it has now spread to my right lung. But I still consider this great news! It doesn't really affect me much unless I am working out and I am on a basketball team right now but other than that not much to complain about.

Nina's Wedding

Okay this post will be a little more fun to look at then my last couple of posts. My little sister Nina got married and she was a beautiful bride. Nina is the youngest sister and the last sister to get married. It was so great when she got endowed. All my sisters were there together in the Celestial room, it was so nice to all be there together. I love my little sister Nina and I am so proud of her. She chose a great guy to marry and I wish them the best!

A Cold, Strep Throat, and then Pneumonia

So We got back from Florida and the next day I was sick, but it was bearable it was just a head cold, so I just kept going. I had basketball practice every night plus games I had to go to so there really wasn't time for me to be sick. We'll two days later I got so sick I couldn't move my body hurt so bad and my throat was killing me. I got up early that morning and went to the doctor because I had a game that day so I needed to hurry and get to the doctor because we were leaving at noon. Well I get to the doctor at 9:00 a.m. with my two kids I might add. I was feeling so sick I wanted to die well 2 1/2 hours later they told me I had strep. At that point I couldn't handle it anymore I just started balling in the doctors office, I felt like crap I had two kids running around going crazy and now I find out I can't go to my game (not that I would of been able to even if I wasn't contagious). So I went home and called Brandon, he came home and took care of me ( I love him so much). My sister Nina kept trying to help out and take care of me but I would not let her. She was getting married in a couple days and I did not want her to get sick. So anyways I got on the antibiotic and a couple days later I was doing better.

Even though I tried to keep Nina away from me she still ended up getting a cold the night before her wedding. Anyway I got better I thought, but then two weeks later I had the worst pain in my back and chest and I couldn't breath. It was so strange and it scared me because it came out of nowhere. I was fine one minute and then a half hour later I went from a small ache in my back to sharp unbearable pains. My dad told me it was pleurisy and told me to take ibuprofen. Well that helped me that night but the pain never went away. So I was researching pleurisy and I found out that pleurisy is caused by other illnesses. They had a list of things that caused pleurisy and a lot of them were pretty scary. So I went to the doctor, they did a CT scan to make sure it was not a blood clot in my lungs. The doctor called with the results. She said good news its not a blood clot, bad news there is something on you left lung. She told me it could either be pneumonia or a tumor. They decided to treat it as pneumonia because that makes a lot more sense then a tumor. So I took antibiotic again and started to feel a lot better. I feel like I am out of the water now but I still have to go back in a couple weeks to make sure the mass is gone, if not I guess its a tumor. I am 99.9% sure it's not a tumor. But my husband wants to make sure.

I know this post was long and boring so I apologize to those of you who had to sit through it. The next post will be all about Nina's wedding and have lots of pictures so stay tuned.

Florida

We took a trip to Florida in January to see Brandon's family. We were there for a week and it was so nice to have a break from life and visit with our family that we don't get to see very much. Brandon's mom recently had a stroke so we really wanted to go see her and help out while she was recovering. We love visiting with family and Nana and Papa really enjoy their grand babies.

I Failed!

I failed, I had a goal to blog at least one time in the month of February and it didn't happen. 28 days and I couldn't find one day to just type a couple sentences just to say I was still alive. Now on March 1st I find the time. I know I didn't blog about the month of February. But it wasn't because I had nothing to blog about. It was the exact opposite. I didn't blog because it was a busy busy month. A lot of ups and downs. I will blog about them soon but here is a little preview of what's to come. Trip to Florida, I get a Cold, Then I get Strep throat, Nina's wedding, Brandon goes to Europe, Family Reunion, State Basketball, Nina's second reception, and last but not least I get pneumonia and pleurisy......stay tuned if you want all the details.

Christmas Break

We had a great Christmas break. It was filled with a lot of family and relaxing ( two of my favorite things). We did so many fun things I should blog about each separately but I don't have the time so I am going to try and fit it all in one post.

The girls Sunday morning before Christmas

Uncle Nate was in town (my little brother) we all went ice skating.It was Kiana's first time on the ice. She loved it. She was so cute she pushed that orange cone all around the ice to keep from falling.

Nina, Nate, Brandon and I hit the slopes. It was a nice day. We had a lot of fun.

Action shot of me and Nina lol. ( I am the one in the pink hood Nina is right behind me, you will probably have to click on the picture to blow it up if you really want to see us.This was Mariah's favorite present Christmas morning. She spent most the day in her box haha.

Kiana got a Hannah Montana Guitar from Santa and her Grandma and Grandpa got her a Hannah Montana bean bag . She really enjoyed Christmas this year. It was really fun being a parent this year watching Kiana get all excited about the magic of Christmas. She wrote her Santa letter and mailed it, and guess what. She received a letter in the mail a couple days later from none other than Santa himself. She was very excited. She got to sit on his lap a couple times this year telling him what she wanted for Christmas. She was excited to set out cookies and milk. She even told us she heard Santa's bells on Christmas eve. I love watching her glow with excitement when she talks about it. We went sledding at Rock Canyon with My sister Crystal and her husband Matt. It was a lot of fun. The Kids loved it! I was having fun until I hit my butt so hard it knocked the wind out of me haha. I didn't know you could get the wind knocked out of you by hitting your butt lol, but I did it somehow. They had more fun just playing in the tube than actually riding it down the hill.

My cute little Nephew KaeJay.

Crystal, KaeJay, and Matt