The Tooth Fairy will come tonight!

Tonight we had quite the ordeal. Aubrey has had a loose tooth for a couple of weeks. But tonight mom had enough with hearing about it and pulled it out! Aubrey was so excited she shouted "YES, YES, YES!" all the way to the bathroom to see where the tooth used to be. She already has her grown-up tooth behind where this one once sat.

Using ice to numb the gum


The Tooth is gone!


Tooth in the tooth fairy pillow

Medical Update

We are so relieved as we have received new medical updates on Steven. He followed up with a Cardiologist and after all his tests and blood tests came back they determined that it was NOT a heart attack after all. He had a respitory infection about 3 weeks ago along with double ear infections and a sinus infection. Somehow, he developed an inflammation of the joint where the rib cages meet around the heart which causes extreme pain. The symptoms can be just like a heart attack with the chest pain, shortness of breath and numbness down the left arm. The blood tests are what they use to determine if there are any enzymes in the blood which are present after a heart attack. His blood was clean. We are so relieved and so blessed and are extremely thankful for priesthood blessings.
Again, Thank you for eveyone's concern and prayers.

We have been truly blessed!

I need to write this down to remind myself later how truly blessed we have been this week. Tuesday morning, April 13th at 6:30 AM, Steven woke up with chest pains. He proceeded to get ready for work and never mentioned it to me until we were headed out the door to drop children off at school and go into work. I told him to go to Urgent care at least to get checked out. You know men, he didn't want any part of that. When we got to work, I took his blood pressure and it was 162/101. I freaked and told him to go to the hospital or I would keep nagging him. I guess I don't nag that much because he decided to wait til our family Dr. opened which is 1 floor below our office in the same building. He started to get numbness down his left arm and his hand was ice cold. He then got scared and went downstairs to talk to them at our Dr. office. They took his blood pressure and it was 189/117 now. We were ordered to go across the street to the hospital..."do not stop go and do not stop to collect $200". We walked in, stated chest pain, the women at the desk got on the phone and said "chest pain" and a nurse was standing behind us within 10 seconds. He was hooked up to an EKG machine, given an aspirin, started with an IV, wheeled down to get chest X-rays and later for a CT scan. It was determined that he had had a minor heart attack and was lucky he had come in when he did. He was admitted into the hospital for more observation and so they could draw blood every 6 hours to determine long term damage to the heart. I did so well at being strong until I headed home to meet my kids after school and to tell them the news. It all hit at once at how blessed we truly were and how fast things can completely change in our lives in a moments notice. I made 1 phone call to arrange for our home teacher to administer a priesthood blessing for Steven and within 1 hour, the blessing had already been given, my kids were taken care of, there was dinner hanging on my front door (because I was back at the hospital at this point), My RS president was rubbing my back at the hospital, and meals had been set up to be brought to us for the next 4 nights. Family and friends from all over have sent their concern, prayers and love for our family and we have felt it from every one of them. He is home now and trying to rest(he doesn't remember how to do that after working such long hours everyday). He will follow up with a Cardiologist tomorrow morning and we will see what life changes we have to make.
Our Heavenly Father hears every prayer offered, and He is there to help us. We are so truly blessed and evermore so grateful for all the love we have felt as we are trying to get over this little speed bump in our lives.

Earthquake #2!

So our 1st earthquake experience here in Yuma was December 30, 2009.
Now we have experienced earthquake #2 and this was much bigger. It started at 3:40 PM today Easter Sunday. Steven & I were taking a nap on the living room couch after watching conference and the couch stated shaking and the front window rattling. We woke up and both said, "that's an earthquake." All 3 children were upstairs playing and reading and came down those stairs so fast. We all went outside as we heard things falling upstairs. It felt like my 2-story house was going to crumble. It slowly got harder and louder than tapered off after about 45 seconds(which felt like hours I must admit). We went back in the house to assess any damage and to see what had fallen. We couldn't find any structural damage to the house but things were lying on the floors upstairs, lamps swinging back and forth, and a steel helmet of Steven's that fell off of our camper trailer in the garage. When we went back in the house, about 3 minutes had gone by since we ran outside, and the water in our pool was still rockin' back and forth as if we had numerous people doing cannonballs in it. There was water around the pool about 12' out all around where the water had splashed out. It has now been 90 minutes since we felt the 1st shake and we are still experiencing after shocks every few minutes that are really unnerving- like you got off a roller coaster, cruise ship or other water boat. My legs are still jittery. I definitely do not like the feeling. It was reported as a 6.9 and 20 miles deep at the epicenter in Mexicali which is about 60 miles from us. It has been reported that we felt a 4.9 here which was plenty for me.