Let It Snow, Let It Snow

Yes, it happened again. It snowed here in good old Seattle. We are fortunate enough to live up on Snoqualmie Ridge where the snow loves to fall. This is the first time this year that the snow has stayed around longer than a day. I love looking outside and seeing all the trees and the grass covered. It beats the rain any day. It was also fun to have Ty around for two days working from home. Issy and I love it when he gets to do that. As you can tell, I am a big snow lover for sure!:)

My favorite is the snow on the branches of the trees. Where we live there are tons of amazing beautiful trees covered with snow. So beautiful!

My cute little girl all bundled up!

Issy and Tay playing in the snow. It was more Taylor playing in the snow and Issy watching. She is still a little apprehensive about the snow. She loves to look at it though.

Jen and I having fun with our girls in the snow. If you want to know what Bro means, watch She's the Man.:)

This snow completly froze on my car. I love it!:)

Would you like to see my football cards?

So Ty and I have this hobby of collecting cards. We love football, basketball, baseball and soccer cards the most. We love getting the packs of cards and opening them to see what players we have got. Ty got a great deal online for some great cards for Christmas. They came late in the mail so we got them after Christmas. We sat down to open them and Issy really wanted to join in. Ty and I always throwout the cards that aren't worth anything but this time Issy wanted them. Here she is sharing in our fun times!:)

"Oh My Tummy Hurts!"

Our little girl sure had a roung weekend. It started off by her waking up Friday morning at 3 a.m. sick with the flu. After a bath to clean up and few more episodes we were able to get her back to bed by 5:30 a.m. The rest of Friday she proceeded to feel better, then get sick. We realized of course she had caught the 24 hour flu bug. Friday we went to bed without any complications and Saturday we just lounged around the house to get her better. She was happy though but she didn't eat a lot. We figured she was just getting her appetite back. We thought we had made it through the storm. Well, yesterday(Sunday) we woke up early for church and Issy didn't want to eat breakfast. She was also a little winey. We got to church and sacrament she was fine. I realized though that she hadn't had a poop in a couple of days and this started to worry me. I tried to take her to nursery and Ty and I ended up having to go back and forth in there with her. Normally she goes just fine but she was winey and clingy. After tackling that through church we came home and from noon until 7 o'clock last night she was crying on and off. Her tummy was rock hard and she was pushing so hard. She was MAJOR constipated. All she would say is, "Oh my tummy hurts!". I called the nurse on the phone and she told me to give her a warm bath and then try (I know kinda gross) a surpository. She said if neither of these produced success to take her to the ER because something serious could be wrong. We did as the nurse said and there was no success at all. In fact at one point she was crying and pushing so hard she threw up. It was so sad for Ty and I to see our little hurting so bad and not be able to help her. We then got all bundled up and headed to the Swedish ER in Issaquah. The X-Rayed her and found out that there was a good sized blockage in her intestines. The told us to get this medication for her to drink to help. We got the medication and came home and realized that we were suppose to somehow get our 2 1/2 year old to drink 15 teaspoons of nasty tasting cherry flavored crap. We tried to shove it down her throat with her fighting us every way. Then two minutes later it came right back up. We realized this was a waste and so Ty just held her in his arms until she fell asleep. She woke up just after midnight with a SUCCESS as we call it and she went back to sleep for the night. Today I have already changed 3 diapers and it is only 10:30. I would much rather take that then my daughter in pain any day. If any good came from this craziness Ty and I realized last night how much our little girl means to us. I love her now more than anything and I am so grateful to be her mother.:) Here is a picture of her passed out after all the nuttiness last night.