Skip to main content

July 2022 - Tad & Tad

For the 4th of July we stayed home and invited our next door neighbors to do fireworks at our house.  It's nice to have a dead end street / cul-de-sac right in front of our house.   Our neighborhood also puts on an amazing show from the park.  

Our neighbor Ian channeled his inner Dr. Strange with the sparklers:

https://youtube.com/shorts/69X8wOkoRcY?feature=share

Tyler sparkler video: 

https://youtube.com/shorts/GWROKR21f90?feature=share


We are excited to announce that we are finally adding another GIRL to our family this year.  We had a scare in June with some sudden heavy bleeding and found that I had a hematoma, a pool of blood being fed by the placenta.  It grew to be about 10 cm in diameter and 4 cm tall.  We began meeting with a maternal fetal medicine specialist and they were worried that I am old and our babies are big :).  They did checks every few weeks for the rest of the pregnancy.  I went on and off bedrest and light duty.  The specialist shared that bedrest wouldn't really do anything except cause more stress and higher blood pressure and that it was over-prescribed.  Thankfully, the hematoma stopped growing after a couple of months and my body re-absorbed it.  


We did a fun Sunday hike to Miller Nature Park / Bonneville Glen with the Beagley kids.  





Tad spelled "Mom" with Duplos :). 


The kiddos love Daddio. 


We were excited to see Malori and Kristian while they were in Utah this month and to meet their adorable daughter, Avi, who they just adopted from India.  


Tyler got to do a sleepover with the Statens at their cabin and go fishing in the river outside their cabin.  He had a blast.  



Tad got to meet Tad (Callister)!  He was talking about it for weeks beforehand.  I asked President Callister to come do a fireside for our ward and we got to have dinner with him and some local CTEM missionaries after the fireside.  It was a neat experience to visit with him and Sister Callister as fellow adults and to talk about life.


I had a scare with the diagnosis of a fibroadenoma, a noncancerous breast tumor.  It grew really, really quickly and was about 3 cm in size.  The radiologist said he could tell immediately that it was noncancerous during the ultrasound because it had smooth edges (not irregular) and was transparent.  


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

stairs and a silly little girl....

I forgot to mention a few August updates in my last post, and have some more Alexa stories (as always)...First, Kyle (with the help of Uncle Paul and Todd--thank you!!) finished the stairs and they look awesome!!  He completely rebuilt them (ripped them down all the way to the drywall). Second, both Kyle and I were supposed to be in this work athletic competition in August, but I had to back out for obvious reasons.  Kyle still did the tennis and basketball tournaments and made me oh so proud.  He even got this funny little basketball trophy for taking third place.  The other tournaments that week included horseshoes, ping pong, foosball, golf, Wii dance, volleyball, and a triathlon. We went to Ikea for breakfast last Saturday (so delicious and cheap!) and bought Alexa a stuffed puppy while we were there.  She now takes it everywhere continuously saying "puppy, puppy, puppy!"  Speaking of the puppy, she even dragged it through toilet water l...
4 comments
Read more

Good news!

I'm excited to announce that we went to the doctor yesterday for another ultrasound and I now have all my privileges reinstated!! Tear is healed and baby looks good, so we are very grateful.  As promised, I took Alexa to the park to celebrate.  We went swinging and ran around looking for flowers (dandelions). She has to stop and touch every flower she finds :). She insisted that her puppy come along. Maybe because she's a lazy bum and wanted to use him as a pillow!! We didn't get any really good ultrasound pictures from the tech (I should have made special requests!), but we saw lots of baby!  This was the ultrasound (20 weeks) where they check every little thing developing - every section of the brain, spine, chambers of the heart, kidneys, diaphragm, fingers, toes, blood flow, placenta, cord, measurements of head and waist (baby is 4 days bigger than the due date), etc. etc.  It's so fascinating to see all of that already developed and so teeny tiny...
2 comments
Read more

April - May 2012

We started out April very busy at work with the Shelf Reliance annual convention up at the Salt Palace.  I stayed up there Thursday morning through Saturday night and ran around making sure things went smoothly with registration, workshops, the AV Team, slide layouts, that the owners actually stopped to eat, etc. etc.  We normally had meetings with the AV Team until 2 in the morning to prep for the next day, and were up early in the morning with the consultants.  It was lots of fun!  The executive team even dressed up as an 80’s band for the final group session and performed some Bon Jovi and Air Supply.  They were in a band together in college, so I think this was like a dream come true.  Luckily, I was fortunate enough to use my amazing musical talent to help make up some lyrics to their songs that had to do with the company.  We also had a FANTASTIC guest speaker, Kris Belcher.  She travels a lot doing motivational speaking, and was phenomena...
1 comment
Read more