I thought that the start of the month was enough to have to deal with but apparently I was wrong. The update on me is that I haven't had another seizure but am still on the anti seizure medication and they are working on doubling my dosage. Unfortunatly this medication makes me very sleepy. My pregnancy has now been moved to high risk and I have to meet with the OB weekly now. I thought my two weeks of no driving were bad but now that has been extended to six months. Six months without driving is a very long time and I think it's going to be the longest six months of my life. So we have been working on figuring out how to make the no driving thing work with me having weekly dr. appointments and what to do when school starts in the fall. Unfortunatly all our summer plans of going to the library, park, etc. have to either be cancelled or replanned for when dad is home to drive us. Then on top of all the chaos I created, our air condtioner broke. St. Louis summers with a pregnant woman is not good timing for an AC to go out.  Luckily we were able to get that fixed fast and moved on with our month. But then, on Friday while I was visiting teaching, Jackson fell down a flight of stairs and split his head open above his eye. So my friend quickly drove us to the ER, where Jackson got 5 stitches. He is doing well and it didn't seem to phase him at all. I never thought we would have two ER visits in one month and I am hoping we can make it through the rest of June with no more.

Here is a picture of Jackson's eye the next day after the bandage was taken off.



Luckily we did have a wonderful Father's Day this year. We kicked off the day by getting Mark a Cardinals Canvas for the sports room. (After living here almost three years, it's just wrong to not have something Cardinals in the house). After church, we spent the evening with our good friends and lots of yummy food. We had a cheese ball we had all been craving for a long time but had to wait until I could find all the ingredients as an appetizer and then we had an awesome potato salad, burgers, and chips for dinner and then finished the evening off with our yearly Father's Day tradition of Death by Peanut Butter dessert. We were all stuffed after that meal. Here are pictures of the kids before church on Father's Day. 

I had been looking forward to our anniversary for a long time. For several different reasons. One because I was excited to go on a date completely planned by my husband including getting a babysitter and I couldn't wait to give him the gift I had worked so hard on. As many of you know our relationship started with about a years worth of letter writing. For years I have been wanting to do something with all the letters but never have and with it being our ten year anniversary I finally got around to scanning in all the letters and having them printed into a book. It turned out really nice and I look forward to having it and reading from it for years to come. So I was very anxious to surprise Mark with our book of letters. But apparently we weren't meant to have the wonderful ten year anniversary I had planned in my head. The night before our anniversary Mark had to do something he has never had to do in our ten years of marriage and that was call 911! Around 10pm I had a seizure in bed. I dont remember much about that evening except for waking up to find a bunch of guys in uniform in my bedroom and I wasn't sure whether I was dreaming or awake. Then I remember in the ambulance the paramedic saying, "your husband told us your 27 weeks pregnant is that correct?" I then told him, "I am not pregnant!" He responded, "your not?" I said, "no." At some point during the ambulance ride after starring at my fat belly I came to my senses and told the paramedic that I thought I was pregnant. After getting to the E.R. they drew a bunch of blood and took me for a CT scan. They didn't find anything from the CT scan. Mark arrived fairly soon after I did after a wonderful friend came to watch our kids. The hospital spoke with my OB and they decided to transfer me to a different hospital that deals with high risk pregnancies so they took me there by ambulance and put me on the labor and delivery floor. I spent the night there being constantly monitored as well as the baby. In the morning they did a very thorough ultrasound and believe that the baby is absolutely fine and wasn't affected at all. I then met with a neurologist who put me on an anti seizure medication which includes no driving for two weeks and adult supervision for two weeks. Mark's work has been great to let him work from home so he can supervise me, but unfortunately he is going to have to go out of town. That is where my wonderful friends and sisters from church are stepping in to babysit me while he is gone. Although I had no plans of spending my anniversary in the hospital or two weeks feeling like a 6 year old, I am so grateful to be alive and to know baby #4 is doing great. I can't say enough how grateful I am to my husband who has taken such great care of me, the kids, and the house. And I also want to thank everyone in my ward who has helped and is going to help this week with babysitting my kids, driving me to dr.s appointments, bringing in meals and yummy cookies, and babysitting me as well. We couldn't get through this without our Missouri family. Thanks everyone!

I can't believe it was ten years ago today that we got married. Time goes by way too fast.  Here are 10 things we have done in the last 10 years in no particular order.

1. We both graduated from BYU.
2. We swam with dolphins in Mexico.
3. We have moved 8 times.
4. We watched the Yankees play baseball at Yankee stadium.
5. We have lived in 7 states: Utah, Florida, Texas, Pennsylvania, Colorado, South Dakota, and Missouri.
6. We have bought three homes.
7. We have brought three sweet spirits into this world (with one on the way).
8. We overcame the struggle with infertility.
9. We have learned and are still learning how to deal with and parent a child with disabilities.
10. We have been to 9 temples together: Boise, Provo, Orlando, Dallas, Washington D.C., St. Louis, St. Paul, Salt Lake City, and Kansas City.