Friday, January 24, 2014

Our Family...

 2013 in pictures...our family....Emily and Cam moved to Utah in June just in time to visit with Tiffany, Kevin and Conner for their visit from Delaware. We are so happy they are here...more grand children for me to spoil and love.
 Two beautiful girls...Ani and Cam meeting for the first time.

 Aunt Tiffany loving on Ani and Cam. Cousin Conner sharing toys...good boy.
 Our Family, Liana and her family were able to come down for the day from Kimberly, Idaho. We were so happy that they could be here. We love and miss them so much. Our grand children Damon, Sami, Brendon, and Temperance are growing up too fast.
 Tiffany, Kevin and Conner are so freaking awesome! Tiffany cooked, and helped to care for Ani, while I was in bed sick most of the time. Though I pushed through and had some fun with the family.
 Seven beautiful grand children. Damon 12, Sami 9, Brendon 7, Conner 17 months old, Temperance 14 months old, Cam 8 months old, Ani 8 months old.
 Liana and James.
 Thank you to Tiffany for the wonderful breakfast.

                                                          Conner and Cam
                                                                  Cam
                                    Conner is so funny, just like his mom and dad....

                                                Grandma and grandpa with Cam

                                                Andrea and Sloane....
                                                  Sloane turns 3!

                                                       Lucas, fourth of July in Utah
                                                                Lucas loves grandpa
                                                                       Family




                                                      Flooded bathroom...ugh...

                                                     Grand kids are so awesome!



                                             Sky and Solee, art fair in Salt Lake City

                                            Grandma sick and trying to take care of baby Ani
                                                                  Lucas

                                                              Going to the Temple.
                                                       Hospital visits...yuck...





















 Christmas time...I love it!












                                               Lucas loves to watch movies with Grandpa...
                                                Lucas, "I SEE YOU!"   Lucas wanted to see grandma...
 So the last year has had it's up and downs as usual. With two moves from Texas, Krysia and Lucas, and Emily and Cam. We love having them. Emily got to visit and see Tiffany's family. We are so grateful that we had so much family here. We missed Christopher, who moved to Oregon. Krysia and Lucas were only two weeks late in seeing the family in June, darn it, she missed out on having so much fun with everyone.   
A fourth of July with our grand son Lucas, he really loved the fire works. Sloane turned three and more beautiful with each passing year. Thank you to the Williamson's for having us in their home to celebrate with them. We got to see Sky and Solee at the Art Fair in Salt Lake City.

 Family dinners, flooded bathroom, illness, trips to the hospital. Grand kids playing, messes, laughing, playing, and eating...

Skyping with Tiffany and Conner, having Missionaries for dinner, going to the temple, teaching our grandson Lucas to pray and go to church with us. 

This year our family will be welcoming two more babies in the family. Krysia's baby boy, Jareth is due in May.

Tiffany is due in July, we don't know what they are having yet, we just know he/she is going to be cute like big brother Conner.

We had so much fun with Ani, Cam and Lucas here for Christmas...children make Christmas so special.

Both Lee and I have had some illnesses that have laid us out...I am still seeing doctors to figure out if all this dizziness is BPPV or Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo, Vertigo is a sensation of spinning. Individuals may use the word "dizziness" though this is a difficult term for a health care practitioner to understand. There is a difference between vertigo (spinning) and lightheadedness or feeling of being unsteady that is NOT accompanied by spinning. Loss of balance and falling, Nausea or vomiting, Nystagmus (involuntary eye movements). I hope and pray for some sort of relief. It can be very disconcerting and can also bring on a panic attack, and then it takes me a couple of days to recover and I don't know when I am going to have a spell, they just come on. And I am not an amusement ride kind of woman, so I don't have much fun when this happens. And to top that, I got walking pneumonia in December.
I have been feeling better...let's pray that continues. I have too much stuff to do.

Lee has had to deal with infections, and hospital visits. After his last hospital stay, he got a blood clot, and a staff infection that he is still dealing with. We hope that resolves it self with the antibiotics that have been prescribed or the doctor says they may have to do surgery.

I continue to care for Ani and Lucas and hope I remain healthy to continue to do so.


We will see what 2014 has to bring...