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Wednesday, December 15, 2010

The benefits of Massage Therapy!

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Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Christmas Special!!!

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Sunday, November 21, 2010

Yesterday Nick and I went to the last BYU home game! The game started with crazy wind gusts and ended with quite a chill! The Ref's were horrible, but still you can't stop greatness! We won 40-7! To have a day with just Nick was priceless! We have so much fun together! What a blessing to be married to my best friend! Shout out to Ed and Stephanie for making that quality alone time possible! I was in desperate need of a kid break! Now I am grateful for them again, and my in-laws, and for my wonderful husband!

Sunday, October 3, 2010

Feeding The Ducks!

This morning while cleaning out the fridge, it became apparent that we had lots of stale bread and buns! So I decided it was time to go feed the ducks! I surprised the kids and we took off on a mini adventure! I hid the bread and let the kids imaginations go crazy as to where we were going! It makes me laugh to hear some of their notions! I think one even asked if we were flying to Michigan! lol! It was so fun to watch them feed the ducks and laugh with out a care in the world! It reminds me that getting out and away from our day to day chaos is so therapuetic! We had a blast but at the end of the day, we were missing Nick! It's just not the same without him! Next time we will wait until he is there to go with us! We went to a movie last night and had a great time then as well! It has been awesome to spend some quality time with my kids this weekend! They are getting so big! Scares me! Glad we could slow things down a bit and enjoy the moment!

Saturday, October 2, 2010

Picture Day!

I do realize that it has been a very long time since the last post and I apologize! I will try to improve on my flaky blogging! In my first attempt lets look at some pictures of my very cute kids! Yesterday was school picture day and to make up for last years forgotten picture day, we made some effort and actually got ready! Woohoo! It was exhausting and expensive! It is tough to get four kids picture perfect!

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Graduation Day!

It did not come without struggles or sacrifices, but it was achieved ! Nick threw me a big surprise party and we celebrated hard core! Thank you to all that made it and supported me through out! I know that many of you wanted to come, but could not make it, we understand and are grateful for your love and support! Nick thank you for all the work you put into Saturday! I love you so much and really could not have done this without you! Thank you for loving me!!!! Saturday was such an awesome day! It has made my top ten of best days ever! My family being there, my speech at graduation, my friends, pictures, the flowers, the party, the DJ, all of it! WOW! What a day!

Me and my awesome husband at the tabernacle!

Graduation was all of Provo College but these are my fellow Therapuetic Massage graduates!

My advisor Shellie Snow! She is the best!!!!

My sweet family!

Me and Ed and Stephanie- The in-laws!

Seabass and Suzanne~ I was grabbing Suzannes bum in this shot~ lol!

My friend Amanda!

Cold little Ashley!

All the boys sitting around the fire!

Conner~Tyson~Noah So cute!

My hottie~ My hero!

My very own personalized cake!

Chris and Dick cuddling!

Jeff~ The best DJ around!

Doug and Amy and their cute kids!

Me my flowers and my sign!

Thursday, May 20, 2010

My Official Business Card!

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Finally a name!

After months of torment, I have finally come up with a name for my business! I was feeling like I was never going to come up with a name. Last night my family got together and went up into the mountains for a BBQ and campfire. My brother set off some rockets and while we were running through the sage brush I saw these little blue flowers. They reminded me of Forget me nots and then BAM! It hit me! Forget me nots but the not be KNOT! Perfect! I am so excited to begin this new adventure and I love that my business name is both clever and appropriate and there is no innuendo!!!!!

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Caden A Hershey Track Meet Hero!

Well today is a proud parent moment! Caden had the third grade Hershey Track Meet! He rocked the house! He ran in the 100M, 200M, the long jump, and the 4x100M relay team. He won first place in all his races up through the semifinals. In the finals he took Fifth overall in the 100M and third in the 200M, and second in the relay. This was against all the third graders in the combined Spanish Fork elementary schools! We are so proud of Caden and all of his hard work and dedication! I also walked away with a wicked one sided face/neck/and shoulder burn! It was worth it though! * A special thank you to Melissa for the awesome pictures! She stepped in when my battery was dying! I got the video footage and she took these detailed pictures! Thank you!

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Dear friends and family,I recently changed templates and in the process lost most of my blog! I was so devastated since I had been obsessed with my blog and worked very hard. In the days that have followed I have replaced and added most of what I lost. Except for a post on our story. I was overwhelmed at the thought of rewriting it due to it's size and it's emotional effect that is has on me. I had resolved to let it go, that is until my dad flat out told me to put it back on! So here I am back at the beginning and ready to put my heart out once again! Nick and I will be reaching our ninth anniversary in August. We are extremely blessed and have much to be grateful for! When I met Nick it all happened so fast, yet I never doubted the feelings that I had. We got married and one month into our marriage we found out that I was pregnant. "Oh dear!" This was not what we had envisioned. Nick struggled with the reality while I blissfully took on my role as mother. Well maybe not so blissfully, but I had excepted that I was going to have a baby. At about five months into the pregnancy Nick finally came around. We were not ready, but we were very excited. Caden was born on the fourth of July! I remember that night as I held my brand new baby as I stood there staring out the window watching the spectacular fireworks! I was so overwhelmed with the moment that I had tears streaming down my face. That night Nick held Caden in his arms sleeping with him in his arms the whole night! It was such an amazing moment. Caden was a great baby, but he had some problems with going to the bathroom. When he was a month old he was admitted to Primary Children's Hospital where they did a rectal biopsy. It was very scary, but to our relief the tests came back negative. We struggled to find a solution over the next eight months. A specialist helped out with some of the pain issues, but he still had issues. One day we got tickets to go to a Jazz game for free! I did not have time to pump milk so we left him with formula and some whole milk just in case! He refused the formula and downed the whole milk! From that day on he never has had another problem. It was either something in my breast milk that hurt or something in the whole milk that helped! I will never know, but we were so happy to have a thriving baby once again. Who would of thought that a Jazz game would be such a blessing!Nick got hired on with Qwest and we moved up to Riverdale. Shortly after that we got pregnant with Ashley. It seemed that we were on cloud nine! Until Nick was layed off and days before Ashley was born we had to move to Spanish Fork. Nick worked for Fibertel and any other odd job he could do. He worked like a slave to make money for our family. He never once complained about all the hard work. He was such a trooper. His hard work payed off and since Qwest lost in court for the layoffs, we got his job back. Suddenly things were again looking good! Except for the kitchen fire that almost burned Ashley's sweet little face. No one got hurt so that was a huge blessing. We were living life and enjoying our tedious life, until one day every thing changed! I was holding Ashley and I slipped and fell down all fourteen steps. I seriously hurt my back and completely broke my tailbone. It was very painful and it seemed that the doctors couldn't help. It was also a hard time due to the fact that when I fell I knocked my IUD out of place and it got infected as well as my getting pregnant and due to the infection I miscarried. The pain was enormous yet my family suffered as well. I just handled the pain and said a lot of prayers and moved on with life as best as I could. Months passed by and I knew it was time for a baby! Nick was not as sure as I was since Ashley had a lot of ear infections and was either the happiest baby or the worst. No middle ground at all. We all lost sleep and Nick was still recovering. After weeks of persuading and a week moment on his part, I was pregnant. I knew that we were supposed to have four kids, but I also knew that this was my last pregnancy. So I immediately began praying for twins. My prayers were as always heard. I knew right away that I was carrying twins. I had this uncanny awareness that it was twins and that one was a boy and the one lowest was a girl. Nick was in shock, but he was excited as well. He was nervous because we were doubling our kid count and our mortgage all at the same time. We had just begun building out first home. At first things went really well! Nineteen weeks came and I started having problems with my heart. At twenty four weeks I passed out and Nick had to carry me out to car and rush me to the hospital. He was so scared and worried for me and the babies. Once there they decided to keep me there and monitor my heart and the babies. I went into labor and they gave me magnesium sulfate a drug that stops labor and makes you very sick! It stopped the contractions but for the next two months I was in and out of the hospital. Bed rest is the worst and especially when you have a four year old and a two year old not understanding. Halloween came and then the very next day at 351/2 weeks the twins were born. Allie came flying out and with very effective lungs. Conner was transverse so my Dr. reached up and pulled him out! It was very intense for everyone involved, especially when he came out and was blue and not crying or moving! I thought he was gone and it did not help that a team of doctors rushed him out! It seemed like forever, while they brought out Allie and tried to distract us with her very loud health. I was dying inside and the sudden quietness pierced my soul. In the distance a dull cry began that quickly escalated into a full on tantrum! It was Conner and he was alive and screaming! I could breath again and I knew that he would be ok. Two weeks in the Nicu they were finally ready to go home but first I got to hold them together for the first time. It was a sweet moment that carried me through the many difficult and sleepness nights! When the twins were four months old I had my first back surgery. It was supposed to have been a week recovery. Not so much! It only made things worse and I could not do much of anything. A year passed by and I finally found a neurosurgeon who knew what he was doing! He did some tests and was shocked by the results. He said that he did not know how I was walking since the trauma was so bad! I was scheduled for surgery, and began making arrangements for my four children.The surgery was only supposed to be two hours but it ended up being six and a half hours long! They told Nick that it was such a mess inside and they ended up fusing my entire lower lumbar. The nerve expansion they did was crucial, but it was a little too late since when I woke up, I could not move my right leg from the knee down. I also had a drop foot so I walked like a trotting horse for months. I was still in major pain two months later and a cat scan proved effective. It showed that the lowest fusion had failed and bowed away from the bone. This caused three bone fragments to break off and fall into my nerve. Excruciating pain! The next morning I had surgery to redo the fusion and remove the fragments. Recovery was slow, but I was doing great. I began working out and healing was advancing every week! I had some minor set backs with ovarian cysts, one of which I had removed and biopsied due to some hardened masses they found. It all worked out ok and I continued getting better with my back. So much better in fact that they decided to take out all of the metal in my back. I had so much bone growth that the hardware was being rejected. In January they took it all out. It went remarkably well. I was feeling great when I started to feel tired and almost pregnant like. I kept brushing the thought away since I had had my tubes tied. I gave in and took a test. It came back positive! Thirty minutes later I began to miscarry. This was actually a blessing in disguise, since carrying a baby would have been very dangerous to me and a baby.I went and saw a specialist who informed me that due to my history and current situation, a hysterectomy was necessary. It was scheduled for the end of February. The was a success and recovery began that way as well. That night, I got the flu and threw up violently. Unknown until later, I had ripped all of my stitches open and for a day I had massive internal bleeding that was blocked off by a huge clot. When I did start bleeding it happened very fast. I was rushed back into surgery before Nick could even get there. The next morning, I had lost over half of my bodies blood count. I needed a blood transfusion. A couple of days later I was home and on my way to recovery! It has gone really well, other than getting tired I find that I feel pretty good! So why have I shared this with the world? Good question! Well my answer is this. I may not have all the answers and I don't know why we have had to go through so much, but I do know that we are stronger for it! We have been thrown into so many bad situations, but have come out standing stronger and happier. I would like to take this chance to thank my friends and family who have been there for me and my family every step of the way! It was never easy, but no matter how difficult, the support was always there! Thank you! I would also like to tell my husband that I love him so much and that I am so sorry that I have been such a burden. Through out all of this time Nick has suffered from terrible acid reflux. It is so bad that he had a scope done that was biopsied showing that he had Barrett's Esophagus Cancer! He is such a trooper! Medicine will hopefully keep it at bay and regular scopes. The road has not been easy, but it has been very worth it! We have an amazing family and together we know that we can get through anything and that while we are getting through things, we are enjoying all the small things and loving the big things! "We may not have it all together, but together we have it all!"

~ The Parcell's ~

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

The benefits of Massage Therapy!

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Christmas Special!!!

Sunday, November 21, 2010

BYU WIN!

Sunday, October 3, 2010

Feeding The Ducks!

Saturday, October 2, 2010

Picture Day!

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Graduation Day!

Thursday, May 20, 2010

My Official Business Card!

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Finally a name!

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Caden A Hershey Track Meet Hero!

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