Gibson

This is the picture that Todd got for us. We love it and it makes us happy to know that our son is with his Father in Heaven. We miss him a lot, but we love him and know that that is where he belongs!

Last Monday, Todd came home with a wonderful framed picture. It wasn't this one but it was this idea. It was a picture of Christ with a little boy, and he was holding him, they were kind of cuddling. It made me so happy. He hung it above our dinner table, so now when we are eating, it's like Gibson is there watching over us. It is so great! I also just want to thank all of you for your prayers and support. We really appreciate it and can feel it as we go through the day. Also, Jamie thanks for the AWESOME care package. Seriously! As soon as I can take a bath again, I am totally using very single one of those products, and I'll be slimy for like two days.. lol it'll be awesome! You guys are the best friends I could hope for and I'm so happy to have you in our lives. Also, Congrats again Janell, he is simply adorable!

Our Little Angel

Friday September 7, 2007 was the day of our ward camp out. We were so excited to finally get out and go camping. It was a great night, we had dutch oven and hung out with all of our great ward members. As the night was dying down, as was the fire, we were sitting around the small fire with a few other couples just enjoying the time. I was starting to feel a pain where the baby was so I stood up thinking that it was just a cramp from me sitting too long in a crouching position. It didn’t stop. It would come for a minute then leave. I kept talking hoping it would go away but it only started to get worse. Finally I told Todd, let’s go to bed I’m in some pain.

I was hoping that lying down would make it feel better. By the time we got to our tent, it was getting much worse. I asked Todd for a blessing. After he found some oil he and our bishop gave me a blessing. A few minutes after that my pains stopped, but a gush of fluid came out of me. I later found out that this is when my water broke. Those pains happened to be contractions. I was very scared. I had no idea what to do and there was no blood anywhere. So I had Todd go and get a nurse that is in our ward. She came and checked me out and told us to get to the hospital right away.

So Todd and I rushed back to town leaving all of our camping gear and bedding on the mountain. We got to the hospital and they gave me an ultrasound. They found the baby’s heart beat so I wasn’t incredibly worried at that point, which is actually a blessing. So we went home and went to bed, since it was or why it did. It was around 1:30 in the morning and we were very tired. I was told not to get up and just to rest in bed until I could see my doctor. Fortunately, my doctor was in his office on Saturday. If he hadn’t been there we would have had to wait until Monday which would have really bothered me.

We went to his office around 3:00 that afternoon. He did another ultrasound on me to see if he could figure out what was wrong with me. This time, there was no heart beat. My water had broken and sometime in the night, my baby had died because of the lack of fluid. My doctor couldn’t explain what happened One of the first things he said to me was, “You did nothing wrong. This just happened. There was nothing you could do to change it because you were doing just what you should have been doing.” This was such a comfort to me. He told me that we needed to remove the baby, but a D&C (which is a surgery) wouldn’t work because the baby was too big. So later that night, at 8:00, we went to the hospital so he could put sterilized medical seaweed into my cervix so we could open it up and so I could deliver the baby the next morning. I was supposed to go to the hospital at 6:30 so they could speed up the process.

That was one of the most painful things I have ever had to go through. There was absolutely no medication for me and the shoved two sticks of seaweed into an opening that had never been opened. The seaweed was there to soak up fluid so that they would absorb and become bigger, therefore opening my cervix. They did this because of the natural salt in the seaweed. He then gave us a pill to take right when I went to bed that night to start my body contracting so that I would be able to deliver.

I took the pill and tried to sleep. As soon as I took the pill, the cramping began. I would try to sleep but the pain would come right at that brink. Around 2:30 I woke Todd up because I was hurting so badly. They were getting very painful and I couldn’t handle it alone. They were getting so bad that I ran to the bathroom and had to throw up. We were going to the hospital. We got there around 3:00 and when we got there I had realized that I was bleeding pretty badly. They called the doctor and he came right away, I was ready to deliver. They finally gave me some narcotics in my IV and that helped so much! They prepped me by the time the doctor had arrived. He came in and asked how I was doing, and then proceeded to help me deliver this baby. Suddenly he asked me to give him a push, I had no idea we were to that point yet. I gave one push and the baby was out. Then he asked me to push again to get the placenta out, he was worried that it would be too small and we would have to do a D&C to get it out. Luckily with one push the whole placenta came out as well and it was almost over. He cleaned me out just a little bit more and then they finally let me rest. The medication was in full swing at this point and I was so tired I could barely tell what was going on around me. They cleaned everything up and Todd was there to talk to me and see how I was doing. I don’t really remember much else.

Before I delivered, I asked them if I could see the baby, so the doctor let me know that when I was more awake and alert, I could see him (the baby was a boy) whenever I wanted for however long I wanted. But at that point I needed to get some rest. All of the nurses left and Todd and I were in the room alone. I was so tired though I couldn’t concentrate. He tried to sleep on the couch that was in the room with us that converted into a bed. I was trying to get some good sleep but I had a blood pressure cuff on my arm that would check me every 15 minutes. It was the worst sleep I’ve ever gotten! Seriously! Finally at 7:00 the medication had worn off and I was awake. The nurse came in to check on us and I asked if we could see our little boy.

She told me that he was very fragile and she just needed to know if I was ok emotionally to see him. I thought I was just fine. Todd woke up and came over and we prepared ourselves for something we had never had to do before. The nurse brought in a little tray with some cloths in it. She put it on my lap and I had to unwrap him. He was so perfect. He hands were so precious along with his feet. He was only 6 inches long and 6 0z. We spent about an hour with him just admiring him and wishing we could hold him and take him home with us. We decided that we wanted to give him a name. Todd said that he looked like he was a guitar player because of his well formed hands so we decided to name him Gibson. Gibson is our angel. He won’t be able to be with us in this life, but I know that he is waiting for us with our Heavenly Father. We miss him and love him dearly. Keep us in your prayers because this time is not the easiest right now. Just know that our son is perfect and absolutely beautiful and we love him and can’t wait to take care of him!

15 weeks!

So I decided that I was just so dang excited to be a mom and to have a baby that I just had to kiss Todd and let him know how happy I was... hehe and then he took this picture of me. This is how big I am right now.. I'm not trying to poke out my stomach.. in fact, I can't suck in or anything, my stomach muscles hurt so much right now.. Just sitting down I'm sore, it's weird because it feels like I've done sit-ups, but in all actuality, I've done the exact opposite. We find out in four weeks if it's a girl or boy. It will be Sept. 25th, such a magical day! :)

Update

My dad is better, we don't know what really happened though but he's still alive and has seen doctors. Thanks for your support!

Tragedy

I just got a phone call from my father saying that he might have had a heart attack or stroke or something like that... I don't know what is going on exactly and he won't call anyone for help. He's had lots of health problems and needs help from those around him but won't take it. I am very scared... I don't know what to do from here in Cedar other than to pray and hope that everything will be alright. Earlier this week, Brent Christensen, or Skye's father passed away from a stroke. That hit me very hard because I respected and loved that man quite a bit as I came to find out. I just plead that all of you will keep my dad in your prayers, along with the Christensen family. I think the neighborhood has seen too much sadness recently and doesn't need to have another death.

First Day of School!

Yay for the first day of school! It was pouring as I was driving to school this morning and I thought to myself, what a way to start out the year! I hope I can make it through this semester, I'm sure I will! I'm excited for my classes and to be just one more semester closer to getting my degree... woot woot woot! I'm glad that I finally have something to do now, like papers and homework, isn't it great?!

Woo hoo!

So my boss came up to me and asked if I wanted to be a supervisor this up and coming year. I was so stinking excited! That means, pay raise!!!!! And since Todd just got a $3 raise.. that's right $3 we're going to be doing a lot better than we have in the last little while. Which means we can save up for our wonderful little package coming in February. Life is great! :)

My baby!

Well ok. so I finally just scanned all of my ultrasound pictures in... they aren't the best quality on here but here they are! Yay for my baby! Everything is going well and it's growing just as it should.... it's healthy and things are just fine... but isn't it cute?! The top pictures are from when I was only 9 weeks along so are the colored pictures.. the last two ultrasounds are from today August 13 and I'm about 12.5 weeks along... so that's how much it's grown.. woot!

Hurray For Doctors!

I just love my doctor! So basically, Wednesday I had a VERY rough day... They told me that if i couldn't keep anything down for 24 hours that I needed to go see them immediately... well that's basically what happened. I called him Thursday morning and they brought me in and checked on me. Not to mention that I was about to hurl all over the nurse, which I contained for the time being, but they checked me for dehydration and all that fun stuff. Then they prescribed me this awesome drug called fenergen or something like that. Basically it's just a cream that you put on your wrists and it goes right into your blood stream so you aren't as nauseous. Then they sent me to an infusion lab where I got to sit for two hours while they put two of those bags of fluid inside of me... yes like the one in the picture.. that's a lot of fluid! In two hours... basically I didn't know it was going to take that long, so I got to sit there, bored for two hours! But, then I realized how cool it is that they put me right up front as a priority to make sure that everything is fine with me and the baby. Everything is fine now and I can eat again! Yay for food! You guys really shouldn't take it for granted... there are things that I so wish I could eat... seriously! But yes, now I'm 12 weeks and almost full fledged into my 2nd trimester which is CRAZY! Just thought I would let you all know what is going on with me.. now that I'm out of vacation land... unfortunately!

San Diego Temple

Ok this place is AWESOME! It is such a beautiful temple. In the center of the temple is this atrium where you're inside and there are glass walls and inside of the glass walls is this BEAUTIFUL garden. I just wanted to go between the glass and smell them. I'm sure they were wonderful. But it looks right out of the temple. basically the square part right in the middle of the two steeples is where it sits, if you ever get to go, go there! Plus, the seats in the session are very comfortable!
This was right after we did a session there.
Todd was very happy!
I was basically excited that we got to serve there!

LA Temple

We like the LA Temple!
We went to the LA Temple on my Birthday and our Anniversary... it was awesome! The session we went through was the Spanish session. It was so cool because the rooms were HUGE and it was so cool to see hundreds of Latino people in Our Heavenly Father's temple speaking Spanish. It was a testimony to me that our Heavenly Father loves all of us and he blesses us and no matter where you go in this world, the Church is still true as it is here and it is definitely for anyone, no one can say, oh it's just not for me. Because.. well basically, it is!
The coolest tree ever! We couldn't find anyone to take a picture for us so we just have separate pictures of us on this tree on the LA temple grounds.

Our Trip! Cont....

Right after the play... which was AMAZING! Holy Crap it was awesome! I have to admit... I was crying. I'm not sure if it was because I was so excited or because it was so good, basically we loved it... even Todd!
If you look really close you can see the stage.. These were our seats. Right after we took this picture the picture nazi usher yelled at us.. it was kind of funny.... but we were excited!
We took this picture right out of the Theater.. at this point I was hyper ventilating!
This is us at the very edge of the pier... we were very happy because in just four hours we were going to see Wicked! woot!

We went on the ferris wheel on the Santa Monica Pier... it was fun! We needed to relax after such a long drive and what not...it was so beautiful there.. but very expensive.. but still beautiful!

Thanks Katelyn... Our M&Ms!

We basically Rock!

Anniversary!

OK since our first anniversary is on Saturday we're now in San Diego and LA on our wonderful trip. We'll be here until tuesday and then after that, I"ll update you on our lives! I'm sure you'll understand...

Pinewood Derby!

Last night our Elder's Quorem had a pinewood derby... it's basically the coolest thing ever! We had some good cars going on! Here are a few pictures of the awesome creativity we had. In the top picture, the blue car that is third to the right is Todd's real racing car. It did really well! On the second picture down is a picture of the Oscar Myer car racing. That was Todd's funny car. It did pretty well for being a hot dog... we had fun making that car. It was hilarious! Farther down is a picture of the placement of the racers. If you notice, Todd got 4th over all. I was very proud of him and his car that he just found hat his mom's house. It was hilarious! Then there is a close up of Oscar Myer Weiner car in our apartment.. we were very proud. And the last picture is of the ward waiting in anticipation of who is going to win as a race is about to start. We had a blast! We love our ward.. they are so cool!

Woot!

So I'm trying to get Medicaid with this whole pregnancy thing... what a head ache! If we can't qualify for Medicaid, I don't know who the heck can! Anyway my first doctor's appointment is this week and we're very excited because we get to have an ultrasound! I finally get to see my baby. I hope everything goes well... I'm kind of nervous for something bad to happen... hopefully life will be good and there will be no complications!

I had no idea!

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New Job

I'm really trying to find a new job because since I've been sick all the time, I can't walk a lot or do a lot of heavy work. So I call in sick almost every day... it's ridiculous. So I really want a desk job. I'm trying to find one, so if by chance you hear about a good job in Cedar City where I can sit and work at a desk, let me know. We need more money for this baby growing inside of me... anyway.. hopefully the search will go well.

My life!

Can I just say how sick of throwing up I am. Today is the first time in two days I have actually left my apartment... and it's not that big of a place... I'm living but I just imagine how this can get worse. I'm really hoping it won't. I'm hoping that Heavenly Father will realize how weak I am and say, ok that's enough for Christie.... we'll see though...