Taylorsville Dayzz

We have gone to Symphony in the Park for Taylorsville Dayzz every year since we have been married.          We have even converted a few friends to join us.  This year the boys even got to ride a few rides.  This will probably be trouble because they will think that they need to ride every year.  These are horrible pictures.  It was so bright outside, I couldn't see in my viewfinder what I was taking a picture of.

 Grandpa Larry even was conned into riding down the slide.

 Some of the Prax kids.  My children treat them like they are siblings.  Hayden is not one bit nervous to wrestle their children.

 I don't know why Jackson can't just take a normal picture.  He always has to be doing some dorky pose.

 Blake felt the need to take some pictures.  Here are his pictures of the Morrill clan.

 We had a fun night even though my kids were CRAZY.  They couldn't hold still for two seconds.  That is why we like coming to the park to hear the symphony.  My kids can be crazy and no one cares.

My month in a nutshell

One month ago I woke up in the middle of the night to  strangers in my bedroom.  I was really confused and didn't know what had happened.  I did not even know who Chris was.  I did know that I needed to use the restroom and my social security number.  I was loaded into an ambulance and informed about what had happened...I had a seizure and was not responding afterwards.  I spent the day at the hospital trying to get my blood pressure back to normal and taking many tests to see if I had a tumor or any other obvious cause for a seizure.  I was sent home to recover.  My tongue was huge and I had bit through it several times.   My memory was horrible.  I couldn't even focus on a sentence without getting distracted.  I felt like an adult crammed into a child's brain.  I knew things but could not quite get to them, simple things like words.  A week later I had an MRI, lumbar puncture, and EEG.  They were horrible tests.  I did find out that I am not epileptic.  There was a small white spot on my brain but the neurologist thinks that is because I get a lot of migraine headaches.  He prescribed a migraine medicine that also controls seizures.  That was the worst thing I have ever done.  You know when there is a mile long list of possible side effects with a pill, I had every one but two of them with this pill.  At first I thought I was just having problems because we had just moved and I did too much for my body to handle, but I have realized that it was the pill that was causing to many problems.  I told my doctor that I would rather have headaches constantly than not remember what I am saying, be too tired to do anything with my kids, or just feel like I am crazy all the time.  I already am hating life because I can't drive for three months.  I feel like I have lost any freedom I had.  I also am mad because I wanted to do some fun things with the kids this summer.  I stopped taking the pills and have started to feel like myself more each day.  The headaches have come back but I am okay with that.  I had been taking this medicine for 3 weeks and felt like a horrible person the whole time with the mood swings, anxiety, memory loss, swollen tongue, not being able to read, and sleeping over 12 hours every day.  I have stopped taking the pill for 3 days and feel more like myself than I have in the last month.  I will be meeting with an opthamologist soon because one of my optic nerves is swollen and that could have caused the seizure.  Hopefully it was just a fluke and I will never have a seizure again or the opthamalogist will be able to detect something.  I am also hoping that with me getting back to normal, I can do some fun thing with my boys before school starts again.  I am so grateful for the many family and friends that have helped out during this hard time.  We could not have made it through the last month without everyone's love and support.

Year End Luau

Saturday was the Year End Luau.  It was the last activity of the year that I was in charge of.  That thought makes me so happy.  This was already a stressful activity but I had a few extra hiccups.  I  had a seizure the Saturday before.  I am not able to drive for 3 months because of that and I also am having a few physical problems that are common after a seizure.  I had great support from family and friends that helped me finish the last details and worked at the event.  I am so grateful for that.  Here are a few pictures of the boys having a blast:

I think that I need one of these in my back yard for Hayden to climb on.

Lego animals

We went to the zoo to see the lego animals.  I don't know why I didn't take some pictures of the boys with the lego structures.  Here are a few pictures of my "monkeys".

Hayden is 4!

I can't believe my baby is 4.  He wanted to have a "Cat in the Hat" party.  The pictures are out of order because some are from my camera and some are from my SIL's camera.  The party was supposed to be outside but of course we had bad weather that day.  It was pretty windy and everything I would try to set up would blow away.  We had to cram in our apartment for most of the party.  

Hayden's cake.  I don't know if you can tell, but it looks like one in the Dr. Seuss books.

I wanted to add a little more to it so it wasn't so plain.  Hayden would not have it.  He loved it just like this.

Some of the food.

Bean bag toss.

Jackson thinks he is just hilarious.

Blake loves to play with Jonas.

Sack race.

And this is how the day ended.  I have a constant wrestling match going on in my house.  It drives me crazy.  It is a good thing I have cute boys or else they would be out in the street. :)