Miracles

I have always believed in miracles but I dont think I had ever truly experienced one! On Tuesday Aarons grandpa went into open heart surgery, he needed 5 bypass and then he needed to have one of his valves replaced with a pig valve....everyone felt good about the surgery. 8 hours later when the surgery was finally finished his heart would not beat on its own, fortunately with the technology that we have they were able to hook him up to a pump and let his heart rest. After 5 days of his heart resting and them taking him off all sedation and pain medicine he still was not awake and it became clear that he was gone and we needed to let him go. Aarons family planned to take his grandpa off all machines on Sunday and let him go so I went and spent the night so that I could be there. Sunday came and we got up and prepared for the experience. Aarons parents left a little earlier then we did and as we got to the hospital and walked in the room Aarons mom, Karen told us that his grandpa was awake...honestly I thought she was imaging it and Aaron and his brother went and stood by his grandpa and his grandpas eyes moved which was more then we had previously experienced but still didnt seem like a lot. We hung out in the room for a while and waited for the doctor, while we were waiting his bishop came and his uncle David and his bishop asked him if they could give him a blessing...and far from what I was expecting he actually answered by nodding his head!! I was instantly brought to tears. His doctor eventually came in and was as shocked as we were that after 5 days of no response or movement he was responding! It was obviously not due to anything medically and was simply a miracle . He has continued to do well but today had to be taken into surgery due to the right side of his heart bleeding but they were able to close it up. This is only one step in a 1000 but its certainly better then the other plans we were going to be making.

2011

So far this year has not been so kind to us!
One night I was driving home and it was freezing cold and all the sudden my window just shattered...talk about a really loud noise!




Then last week we had to put Shelby to sleep, we have had her for years (she would have been 11 this spring) and she was such a great dog! She was so sick, her kidneys were not working like they were supposed too and she had a heart murmur. We changed Shelbys diet to special food and gave her 3 pills a day but it still wasn't enough. I was sure I would have a few more months with her but on Monday she was walking kind of funny and wouldn't eat and then when I went to bed I couldn't get her to come down...when I woke up Tuesday she was pretty much in the same place and not moving her legs at all so I knew what we had to do. The most devastating choice I have ever had to make. I was lucky enough to be able to pick a little velvet bag, a cedar box with writing that says Shelby Dog and also an ornament with her paw print, I can not wait to get them. That same day Aaron's grandpa went into open heart surgery...I will talk about that in my next post!

About Us!

Hey!

Im starting this blog so that I have some sort of journal when I want to look back on important experiences :)

Aaron and I met June 9th of 2007, we dated and on May 14th of 2010 he proposed to me! We originally planned to get married on October 13th of 2010 but because of our school schedules and money we decided it would be best to wait until May 18th, 2011! Before we decided to change the date we had most of the wedding planned and so we don't have to much left to do but I am starting to get excited about finishing up the last plans! I just barely sent out our cute save the dates!! (Thanks Christy at cheapshotsllc.blogspot.com for taking the pictures and designing the save the date)