We were able to go home to Idaho this summer starting in June. My best friend, Kellyn Clary, was getting married and I couldn't miss it. We have been friends since diapers and she became like a sister to me. Her wedding was so beautiful and you could feel the love between them. Thanks Kell for letting me be apart of your special day.
We spent the rest of June and all of July in Idaho enjoying the warm Idaho weather. We played in the pool, road horses and razors, played in Rigby Lake, and enjoyed fireworks and bonfires. Our trip home was so much fun and the kids absolutely loved it.
In August we went to Midland, TX where Alex had been working for a couple of weeks and where he would be for a couple more. We left as Hurricane Harvey was just about to make landfall and watched on the TV as it wreaked havoc throughout Texas. Our house and neighborhood were spared but not everyone was so lucky. There was a lot of service being done by those who didn't flood and by those who did. It really brought us all closer together and even closer to God. He works in mysterious ways.
In September Tayson had his tonsils out. He has been such a healthier and happier kid since then. He was pretty mean when he was coming out of the anesthesia but he recovered well and fast.
Life seemed to settle down for a few months as Alex worked more and Tayson started school. Tayson loves school and has some pretty amazing teachers and I can tell a huge difference between what he is learning this year and what he learned last year.
Thanksgiving came and Alex was able to be home. We had a pretty chill day at the house that included naps and football. I think it might be a new tradition for us!
December hit and Lydia broke her arm playing in the back yard. She ended up having a cast on for 3 weeks. About a week after she got her cast off she was playing on the playground at chick fil a and fell and smashed her face pushing her front tooth back. The dentist said that it will take about 6 weeks before we will know the extent of the damage done and whether or not the tooth is dead. She said that the prognosis for a tooth being moved like Lydia's did isn't good and that most of the time the tooth ends up dying. Here is to a long 6 weeks.
Alex will be home for Christmas this year and his family gets to come and enjoy it with us. We can't wait for them all to get here and are looking forward to a very nice and relaxed Chritmas! I personally can't wait for 2018!! I am hoping it goes a little more smooth then 2017.
Thursday, December 14, 2017
Friday, October 20, 2017
This year didn't start how we wanted...
January 4th I went for an ultrasound to get a due date and status on our little one. I hadn't been feeling right and was concerned, even though we were told not to worry, that the hemorrhage wouldn't resolve itself. Sure enough we got bad news. I had miscarried. On a scale of 1-10 I can't even describe the grief I felt. Alex was on his way home from West Texas after a job and I had to deliver the news to him over the phone. My heart broke. I can't even imagine getting that phone call and having to drive the 3 hours home.
After talking with the doctor about my options we decided to give a little pill called Cytotec, or as my dear friend refers to it "the pill from Hell," a chance to help my body pass the baby at home. That was seriously the longest 3 days of my life. We anxiously waited and to no avail. The pill didn't work. It was supposed to have worked in 12 hours! I think Alex and I both knew that it wouldn't work. My body isn't like most. I have never labored or dialated so I called and scheduled the dreaded D&C. To be honest I would opt for this every time. It was a painless procedure and I was home the same day.
The emotional toll a miscarriage takes on you is no joke. I admire you ladies that have had multiple! It has made me so nervous to even consider getting pregnant again. I didn't think it would effect me like it did.
As if that wasn't bad enough, Alex and I both lost our grandmas in March. Alex's grandma passed away and we had decided to have him fly up for the funeral. After talking with my dad however, Alex and I felt it best if we went as a family. My grandma had been diagnosed with cancer the previous June and had just finished up her last round of chemo in January when the doctor told them that it had spread. She hadn't been doing well and we just felt it would be smart to go home so I could see her before she passed.
We had Grandma Taylor's funeral on Wednesday. It was such a nice service and the weather was perfect. She was such an amazing woman and we all miss her dearly. We had just walked into my mother in laws home when I got a phone call saying my grandma had passed and to please come to Rexburg. Death is not easy and we have experienced our fair share but it was nice to be able to say goodbye to my grandma. My heart broke for my grandpa, who had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's, when he told the love of his life he would be seeing her soon.
All in all, our trip home in March was nice. We got to spend quality time with family members on both sides and to have all of my cousins home at one time was amazing. We hadn't all been together in almost 14 years!
So, yes, our beginning to 2017 sucked but we have been so blessed and felt His love. We have the plan of salvation and even though we didn't get to bring another little one into this world we will get the chance to raise it in the next. We will be able to see all of those we have lost again and that is a comfort to the soul. I love being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and couldn't imagine my life without the gospel in it.
After talking with the doctor about my options we decided to give a little pill called Cytotec, or as my dear friend refers to it "the pill from Hell," a chance to help my body pass the baby at home. That was seriously the longest 3 days of my life. We anxiously waited and to no avail. The pill didn't work. It was supposed to have worked in 12 hours! I think Alex and I both knew that it wouldn't work. My body isn't like most. I have never labored or dialated so I called and scheduled the dreaded D&C. To be honest I would opt for this every time. It was a painless procedure and I was home the same day.
The emotional toll a miscarriage takes on you is no joke. I admire you ladies that have had multiple! It has made me so nervous to even consider getting pregnant again. I didn't think it would effect me like it did.
As if that wasn't bad enough, Alex and I both lost our grandmas in March. Alex's grandma passed away and we had decided to have him fly up for the funeral. After talking with my dad however, Alex and I felt it best if we went as a family. My grandma had been diagnosed with cancer the previous June and had just finished up her last round of chemo in January when the doctor told them that it had spread. She hadn't been doing well and we just felt it would be smart to go home so I could see her before she passed.
We had Grandma Taylor's funeral on Wednesday. It was such a nice service and the weather was perfect. She was such an amazing woman and we all miss her dearly. We had just walked into my mother in laws home when I got a phone call saying my grandma had passed and to please come to Rexburg. Death is not easy and we have experienced our fair share but it was nice to be able to say goodbye to my grandma. My heart broke for my grandpa, who had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's, when he told the love of his life he would be seeing her soon.
All in all, our trip home in March was nice. We got to spend quality time with family members on both sides and to have all of my cousins home at one time was amazing. We hadn't all been together in almost 14 years!
So, yes, our beginning to 2017 sucked but we have been so blessed and felt His love. We have the plan of salvation and even though we didn't get to bring another little one into this world we will get the chance to raise it in the next. We will be able to see all of those we have lost again and that is a comfort to the soul. I love being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and couldn't imagine my life without the gospel in it.
2016 in a blurr
2016 flew by! In March Grandma Janell came to visit and celebrate Lydia's 1 year birthday. We had fun attempting family pictures and Lydi loved her lady bug cake. In April Grandpa and Grandma McCulloch came for a visit and experienced more rain then they thought possible. We received 16" in under 12 hours. Our neighborhood was lucky and didn't flood but we were all very nervous. They neighbors behind us had water to their doors and we had water about half way up our driveway.
In September we decided to take a month and go home to Idaho and visit. We had fun playing on the farm and Tuku loved the free range. We also enjoyed loving on our new nephew Jensen. Lydi couldn't get enough. We stayed for almost the whole month before we had to leave for Texas so that Tays could start his first year of preschool. He absolutely loved it!
In November Tayson turned 4 and had an amazing time with his friends. That kid would be happy with a box as long as his bestie Cooper is around to play with him.
Grandma Janell came for a visit in December and got to stay for Christmas. We had found out earlier that month that we were pregnant and decided that as part of her Christmas gifts that we would announce our pregnancy to her. It was so fun to see her reaction. On December 20th I went in for my first ultrasound and found that there was a hemorrhage around the baby. The doctor assured us that they usually resolved themselves and to not worry about it. We had an amazing Christmas knowing we would be bringing a new life into the world the following year.
In September we decided to take a month and go home to Idaho and visit. We had fun playing on the farm and Tuku loved the free range. We also enjoyed loving on our new nephew Jensen. Lydi couldn't get enough. We stayed for almost the whole month before we had to leave for Texas so that Tays could start his first year of preschool. He absolutely loved it!
In November Tayson turned 4 and had an amazing time with his friends. That kid would be happy with a box as long as his bestie Cooper is around to play with him.
Grandma Janell came for a visit in December and got to stay for Christmas. We had found out earlier that month that we were pregnant and decided that as part of her Christmas gifts that we would announce our pregnancy to her. It was so fun to see her reaction. On December 20th I went in for my first ultrasound and found that there was a hemorrhage around the baby. The doctor assured us that they usually resolved themselves and to not worry about it. We had an amazing Christmas knowing we would be bringing a new life into the world the following year.
Thursday, January 19, 2017
We moved and more...
The last half of 2015 flew by as we found out we would be moving back to Houston before the end of the year. We were so sad to say good bye to our Bako family but excited at the same time to move back to Texas. We both loved it here so the move wasn't too difficult.
Alex came down a few times before we moved to find a place to live. He looked a quite a few houses before we decided on one. I feel like he was prompted to look at this house and that we were guided to be here. We moved into a nice little culdesac where we became instant friends with the neighbors who just happen to have kids the same age as ours! We closed on the house in December 2015 and have loved it ever since.
After moving in, I finally convinced Alex to let us get a puppy! We got a crazy german shepherd/lab mix. He is now over 1 years old and weighs in at 60 lbs. His name is Tuku, after Will Tukuafu who used to play fullback for the Seahawks. It's a good thing we became friends with the neighbors so fast because we pawned Tuku off, 3 weeks after getting him, on one of our neighbors for a week so we could go out of town!!
Alex got quite a few days off that December and we were crazy enough to drive home to Idaho to surprise our families for Christmas Eve and Christmas. We had originally planned to meet Alex's family in Arizona for the Seahawks/ Cardinal game but in the end we were convinced by his every loving brother to brave the nasty roads and come home. I'm not sure we will ever do that again but it was a fun little adventure.
Tayson got to play in the snow for Christmas and then after New Years we took off for Arizona for the game. It was a lot of fun and I loved the atmosphere of the stadium. Even though it wasn't much of a game it was still a great first experience.
On the way home from Arizona we managed to have a flat tire and had to stop at a random ER for Lydia in a little town called Benson, Arizona. She had a really high fever and turns out a UTI. By the time we got out of the ER, got her prescription and on the road again it was snowing really hard. I was under the impression that Arizona didn't get snow but now we know better.
To be continued....
Alex came down a few times before we moved to find a place to live. He looked a quite a few houses before we decided on one. I feel like he was prompted to look at this house and that we were guided to be here. We moved into a nice little culdesac where we became instant friends with the neighbors who just happen to have kids the same age as ours! We closed on the house in December 2015 and have loved it ever since.
After moving in, I finally convinced Alex to let us get a puppy! We got a crazy german shepherd/lab mix. He is now over 1 years old and weighs in at 60 lbs. His name is Tuku, after Will Tukuafu who used to play fullback for the Seahawks. It's a good thing we became friends with the neighbors so fast because we pawned Tuku off, 3 weeks after getting him, on one of our neighbors for a week so we could go out of town!!
Alex got quite a few days off that December and we were crazy enough to drive home to Idaho to surprise our families for Christmas Eve and Christmas. We had originally planned to meet Alex's family in Arizona for the Seahawks/ Cardinal game but in the end we were convinced by his every loving brother to brave the nasty roads and come home. I'm not sure we will ever do that again but it was a fun little adventure.
Tayson got to play in the snow for Christmas and then after New Years we took off for Arizona for the game. It was a lot of fun and I loved the atmosphere of the stadium. Even though it wasn't much of a game it was still a great first experience.
On the way home from Arizona we managed to have a flat tire and had to stop at a random ER for Lydia in a little town called Benson, Arizona. She had a really high fever and turns out a UTI. By the time we got out of the ER, got her prescription and on the road again it was snowing really hard. I was under the impression that Arizona didn't get snow but now we know better.
To be continued....
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