Pictures explain it all..

I decided my last few posts have involved alot of reading...Sometimes its nice to view a blog with lots of pictures and minimal words, so here ya go!

Easter party at Nama Nae's house

Easter party at Lanny's house

Easter morning ( my parents and Ty came over so Ty would have more fun Easter morning and we also celebrated my mom's birthday where I cooked her (and the others) breakfast after all the Easter fun)

The Easter bunny spoiled Paiser Ann this year

Easter Sunday before church

Easter couldn't have been better.  Paislee got so excited about every easter egg hunt she got to go on, Jayson surprised me with a basket full of my favorite treats and Jayson came one step closer to becoming a real man..I surprised him with the Echo SRM 225 haha, whatever the heck that means....

He claims now having his grill (which he got for his bday) and a weed wacker now allows him to be one step closer to manhood.. Yeah, big time dork!

I am so grateful for the Easter holiday where we get to spend tons of time with family, eat lots of candy and get toys, but  most importantly reflect on Jesus Christ and the life that he lived.  Although I do not understand how the easter bunny and hiding eggs all plays in with the true meaning of easter (it is really weird if you think about it...) but I am thankful for yet another holiday where we can remember what is really important in life and celebrate the life of Christ and his perfect example. Sorry for making you read more in this post than I intended you to. BUT, I would feel bad doing a post on Easter without including the most important part :)

Boo Yeah Grandma!

This morning I had a check-up with my doctor.  He said that I am now a ZERO!! I guess anything under a 5 is classified as a zero, which I was unaware of till today.  Hallelujah!! Man it feels good to finally be at this point.  Now it is time for the waiting game.... After 3 more weeks of once a week blood tests I can go in every other week for a month or two and then I only have to do blood work once a month.  Oh goody this is like Christmas!   When I asked him how soon we can start trying again now that I am finally at a zero he said, "unfortunately since this kind of cancer associated with a molar pregnancy is very dangerous and can start to grow rapidly at any stage you will need to be monitored for at least 6 more months and then you can decide.  If you were my daughter I would have you wait 9 months..." SO ladies and gentleman, 9 months it is!

It is so crazy to me still to this day that all of this has happened.  A month in a half ago I was glowing in the eyes with the thought of having a baby in October and now I won't even be able to start trying again till a couple months after that! And that is best case scenario too... I have noticed something about myself that I consider to be a HUGE blessing from Heavenly Father.  The months before I got pregnant I was SOOOO baby hungry (obviously, or else we wouldn't have gotten pregnant in the first place haha) and every baby or pregnant girl I saw made me so giddy to go through pregnancy and a new baby again..BUT not too long after my surgery I noticed myself feeling more content than I ever have been with my life and where I am at this point.  My baby hungryness is gone... Before I couldn't wait another day or second to have another baby and now I feel like I am completely happy with enjoying my life how it is and my beautiful little Paislee Ann.  

This whole experience has and will require a lot of patience.  Something I have always publicly shared as my GREATEST weakness.  This couldn't be a more perfect opportunity for me to make one of my weaknesses my strength's.  I am incredibly thankful for a mindful Heavenly Father who will do what he can to lighten the burdens we experience during trials.  I know that this feeling of contentment that I feel vs. the urge to add another baby to our family is a blessing from god and his little way of helping me make it through this trial of my life.  

Steve told me today at my appointment that he was really worried for me in the beginning after my first few weeks of blood work...He said things weren't looking very good.  Then he said suddenly my hormones dropped dramatically. He showed me on my chart at which point they began dropping....They began dropping incredibly fast my first blood draw after I had received a blessing from my husband and father. I contribute my exciting news of FINALLY hitting a ZERO to that very priesthood blessing.  I am so thankful for that power in my home and in my family.

ZERO you are so gosh dang great.  Thanks for finally deciding to come around.  Now let's just keep you around for another 9 months k?  

An Update on Me and a Little bit O fun!

Well to start this post off I thought I would update you all on how things are going since many of you have asked me to keep you posted.  I went in last week for blood work, but my doctor was out of town so I didn't get the results till today.  My hormones had dropped to 8.5!!! Woot woot! AND I went in this Monday for my regular pricking and they had the results back already and they had gone done to 2.6 or something like that.... Boom shackalacka! This is such great news.  I should be a 0 in NO TIME! I still have to go in every week for three more weeks and once I hit the BELOVED zero it turns to every other week I believe....I have an appointment on Friday so I will know more details then :)

The number 22 has always been my favorite number.  For many reasons...BUT these days my new favorite number is 0! Oh how sweet that 0 will feel once I finally hit it.  Gosh it is taking awhile, but I know I am incredibly blessed that I am so close already.  I don't know what is and isn't normal since I still have not spoken with anyone who has gone through a molar pregnancy, but I would like to think I am doing WAY better than most...haha Let's just pray I hit that 0 and STAY so that scary C word (chemo) doesn't have to enter the picture.... Believe me, I will let you all know when I hit my favorite number! Onto more good news......

Over conference weekend we decided to escape life and head down to St. George with my brother and sister in law (Matt and Rach) for a little gettaway.  I had a full week of no veins being poked which was very very exciting! We left Wednesday and stayed through Sunday and boy was it relaxing! Just what we needed to rejuvenate ourselves for the next little while.  The weather was absolutely beautiful and conference was amazing.  We had a jolly good time!                                

Paislee always does so good on our long drives to St. George.  For some odd reason she decided the last hour of the drive to wear her blanket on her head like this. What a goof.                         

We went swimming every single day we were down there and Paislee wanted to spend all of her time in the hot tub. We would swim in the pool and within 5 minutes she would point and say "hot tub!" so we spent alot of time there.

The girls loved eating the bubbles!

We enjoyed the nice weather and took the girls to the park, played with bubbles, wrote with chalk, played with dirt and all that other fun stuff toddlers like to do. 

These two girls have so much fun together.  It is fun having them so close in age!

Conference this year really was inspiring for me.  I learned so much and you can't help but feel uplifted after listening to these amazing men and women.  I'm so happy I get to hear from the leader's of our church in General Conference twice a year.  I felt like two talks specifically touched me and quite frankly made me cry my eyes out. Click HERE and HERE to read them for a little upliftment :)

Here the girls are eating their popcorn and watching "conference" (Little Mermaid)

I realized after the trip was over that we had no adult pictures...haha Rach and I spent alot of time at the outlets where we spent probably a little too much money...BUT, we got good deals so that makes it okay right? Little girl summer stuff is so stinking cute it is addicting.  Thanks husbands for allowing us to splurge on our children! 

On April Fools Day the boys went on a golfing trip so of course Rach and I had to come up with a fun joke.  SO, we left the garage open and hid our car (they took matt and rach's car golfing) so when they came home there was an empty garage.  They walked in and saw Rach and Kambree and said "where did Kylee go?" In the meantime I was hiding out in our bedroom because I am not a very good liar so I knew I would kill the joke the second they walked in.  Rach told them I was in my room and they were like, "WHERE IS THE CAR!? IT IS GONE!" Rach is good at playing it cool so she acted all concerned.  Jayson walked in to my room scared because he thought someone stole our car.  Of course it only took a few seconds for him to figure out it was a joke because I can't keep a serious face for the life of me.  I am happy to say we successfully April Fooled them though! Rach and I got a little giggle out of it..

And the way home....She slept the majority of the way with all of these blankets, hoodies and who knows what else is in that pile on her, I think a baby doll or two.... haha

What a great gettaway!