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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.  


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