Just a bit of whats going on. .... This is Jen Dowd, amazing lady! Multi-Millionaire! Shes our upline and we love hearing her speak. I looked like crappy cause i was so sick still. but glad I went.

 While I was in the hospital and got to talk to my German Family! It was good to see their smiling faces we like to mess around.

 MMMMWWWWAAA!

 I MISS THESE FACES SOOOO MUCH!

 Roses from my hubby and kids while I was in the hospital. He knows I love my roses/gerbs.

 two kinds -these from kids

 his temp. bed. he was a danger in the crib with how wild he is so when we moved he was put in this till we could get his bed, which we have just waiting for it. that in itself will be work ;) but look how cute he is.

 we took mal to her orthodontics apt, in 6 months she'll be back for her braces! but this office is cool. these are headphones that you hear the movie thats playing and a bunch of game boys. He loves it!

 Mallory went to a patch for a field trip. she picked out this perfect pumpkin. well they had to paint it and use glitter if they want and turn it in for a contest. we browsed thru pinterest :) and she picked the one she wanted and we painted it together. we are pretty proud!

 Mallory on the back and horns on the side :)

 im not kidding when i say deathly ill! these pic are embarrassing but its the "hell" i went through! this was the night i was admitted. (Sunday night, Sept 25th)

 during the time i was away from home, my kids get some of the best people to care for them. I know they are loved and taken care of. there are only a few im anxiety free with my kids. Thanks, you ones you know who you are.

 again a horrible pic, but i was SO THRILLED to see my boys. i missed them so much.

 aunt tasha helping Jax do his daily treatment.

 One of the best aunts ever. she truly loves them as her own. and they love her.

 this is mr. he is so like this. this is his fire hat. lol this must have been early morning.

 sunday afternoon. DEATHLY ill again. this was 2nd day of IV thearpy. So sick, nauses and not well. shortly went to er are after this. Mom and hallie helped me.

 an adorable fall tree mallory made at school while i was gone. 

 silly boy. back in aug. hes so cute

 he cracks me up

 he loves her!!

thanks a million for your constant help tashi. im so grateful!

be patient people.. i have lots to blog, cant promise it will on get on here, but im trying. its been pretty crazy!!!!!!!!!!! thats an understatement.

Sp. Fork first-grade hero saves classmate whose heart stopped

SPANISH FORK -- One minute he was playing with his friends at the start of PE class. The next minute, 6-year-old Logan Powell was lying unconscious and his friend was running to the teacher for help. Powell's heart and breathing had stopped.

Hallie Witt, also age 6, said her class was playing steal the flag outside when she noticed Powell lying face down on the grass. "So then I checked on him. When I rolled him over he did a gasp and I saw purple lips and slobber."
Witt knew to look for purple lips because her mom Katrina Witt had been ill over the summer and showed her daughters how to call for help should her oxygen levels drop.
Asking another friend to stay with Powell, Witt ran to the PE teacher.
"I grabbed onto her arm and I shaked her," Witt remembered. "I knew that would work because I do it to my mom a lot. I said, 'Logan's lying down on the floor and he's fainting.' "
Minutes later, Witt and her classmates were shepherded back inside the school. But their teacher, Jennifer Jolley, Powell's aunt, allowed Witt to stand by the window and watch the police and medical team arrive.
"I didn't think he would be OK," Witt said.
Lt. Steve Adams of the Spanish Fork Police Department said the 9-1-1 call from East Meadows Elementary School came at 11:30 a.m. Thursday. "There were officers already in the area, and the first arrived at the two-minute mark," about half the time an emergency response usually takes, Adams said.
The officer found three to four school personnel surrounding the boy on the grass. Two secretaries had begun CPR, according to school personnel.
Three minutes after the 9-1-1 call, another officer arrived with an automated external defibrillator, a medical device that can diagnose heart malfunction and shock the heart back into rhythm.
"The AED confirmed that a shock was needed, so that was administered," Adams said. "The officers then continued CPR until the highly trained ambulance personnel arrived."
Powell was transported first to Mountain View Hospital in Payson and then by helicopter to Primary Children's Medical Center in Salt Lake City. Doctors diagnosed him with Long QT syndrome, a genetic condition in which the heart races and then stops.
Powell's mother Laura Powell said that "before he leaves the hospital, he will have a tiny defibrillator placed in his chest. That will get his heart started right away if it stops again." Testing is underway to determine if his six siblings may have the condition as well.
Laura Powell said the doctors believe her son was not out of oxygen for very long because he's "improved so much faster than anyone expected."
Although still in the pediatric intensive care unit, as of Friday night Powell was "talking, looking around, imagining" and the ventilator had been removed, said Laura Powell. "He's going to live and be fine."
To Powell's parents, the timing of the incident was "absolutely amazing," Laura Powell said. "If he had been playing in his room at home or asleep in the middle of the night when his heart stopped, we would have lost him."
The family credits Witt, as well as school and emergency personnel and the AED, with saving their son's life. "He's here because Hallie knew what to do," Laura Powell said. "She is truly a hero."
Lana Hiskey, spokeswoman for Nebo School District, said, "We are thrilled with how well our staff and the emergency personnel responded."
Adams said of the rescue effort, "We're so grateful to arrive on a scene where people there are doing the right thing. The staff at East Meadows were appropriately dealing with the young man. From the location of the responding officers and the AED to the great service of the medical personnel, so many things were right in line to make this a perfect outcome."
Given the importance of immediate AED administration for victims of heart failure, last month the Nebo School District board approved funding for an AED in every school, with more than one in each high school. District personnel tested AED models to ensure the design they purchased would be optimally user friendly, Hiskey said. "You open the package and audio instructions tell you just what to do."
Laura Powell said that her son's experience has helped the school district make distributing the devices a priority, as well as training to go with them. "This can potentially save someone else's life, too," she said.
To read more about efforts to bring defibrillator awareness and training to communities, visit http://www.sads.org.

Read more: http://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/south/spanish-fork/article_fd165552-77f0-5d27-aee7-4af4b21949ac.html#ixzz1b6eDfgHG

Hallie my Hero

• • i just wanted you all to know HALLIE is a HERO.. here is a little short draft of what the event followed.....
    (it was almost 1130 am when i was headed to get lincoln from school, there were 4 cop cars in the back of the school, i was worried wondering about bombs or guns, i called the office and said i was a concerned parent and saw 4 cops and if everything was ok, she told me a boy collapsed during pe and they were helping him)... then ladies in my ward wrote what they knew. Mrs Jolley is hallies and this little boys teacher, it was hallies class at PE, i was so proud of hallie and told her she did the right thing, hal said the office lady came out and started CPR on him. ..... hal also said they flew him to salt city (lol ) and something about primary.. so i hope the life support isnt true and he is ok. hopefully mrs jolley will let us know. im am impressed with the school for sending the note home. maybe they had a lot of concerned parents call.
    
     MOM A
    
    Does anyone know exactly what happened today at east meadows? Marcus saw someone performing CPR on a student on his way home for lunch, and morgan just read on facebook that he was life flighted to Primary Childrens and is on life support. I'm sick just thinking about it and wondered if anyone knew the real story.
    
    
     MOM B Oh no, I haven't heard anything. I know when I was at the doctor with baby today next to the hospital in Payson they brought a kid, I think about 6 yrs old, to the E.R. and my doctor ran over there. When I was leaving there was also the life flight helicopter landing - wonder if it was related. How sad!
    
    
    MOM C They sent a note home with the kids saying that he collapsed during PE and had been taken by ambulance to the hospital and they were very grateful to those facutly members who were trained and helped respond. So sad!!
    
    
    Katrina Wininger Witt My hallie had a little guy in her class.. her and a friend saw him lying face down rolled him over and she said his lips were purple and he had drool down his face and he made a big gasp so she ran and got the pe teacher. I called when I saw 4 police back there and they told me a boy collapsed during pe
    
    
    Katrina Wininger Witt Im happy they sent a note home
    
    
    Katrina Wininger Witt Oh I hope he is ok! ..my girls said its mrs jolleys nephew
    
    
  • MOM D
     That name sounds so familiar. That is really sad, I hope he's okay!!! Jay told me about it when he got home. I would be freaking out!
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tick tick tick tick tock...

we will have a couple new addtitions to the family hopefully tonight. Our little Cedar is in "labor" lol.. today and has been long..so we may also have a long night. I will post pictures of my cute bears... stay tunned.

2011 School Theme

"Treat others how you would want to be treated"

We've been busy so the fact that I actually got a theme this year prob wasn't possible without my sister Mindy. I'm grateful for moments like this were technology can help us plan an important day with our kids starting school just within seconds rather than weeks or months through the mail.
Our theme was "The Golden Rule" along with the book "You Are Special"


As I have been going through the girls couple days of school especially the first day, I feel there was a reason we did the theme we did. .... H.F must have known what would happen to my sweet little girl on her first day of first grade. Min, I don't know what you were doing or how you "got in tuned" if you want to call it that but i feel it totally helped us, even me.
Here are comments and things I wrote to my family and friends Monday 8-22-11.
We got so many responses and kind words that made me tear more. They were encouraging and telling Hallie she is Beautiful!! Even her Kindergarten teacher who offered to go talk with those kids and be there for hugs anytime Hallie needed one. We love Mrs. Lyman. The next day I even had a few friends and family ask how Hallie's day was the second day. Hallie told me it was much better and that Mrs. Jolley read a book about shapes who called each other names and were mean. Then they had a class talk. ( I emailed the teacher to let her aware of the issue) The teacher emailed me back so quick and was awesome about it.
This is such a very sensitive issue to me. I was very bullied. Not just in one school or one grade. My WHOLE life through elementary and Jr high .. some HS. It has made me who i am today, not strong as id like to be, very low self esteem etc. I don't want that for my kids.

My nieces EVEN in Germany last year had a very horrible experience with bullying on the way several times. I cried for them and wanted to be there to rescue them and give them hugs. ITS NOT OKAY!!! I pray for all children and especially mine to have a great fun year and love learning and to know they are awesome cause they are them!....
more to come

DAY 2: 8-23-2011

You really 28?!!

ITS YOUR BIRTHDAY SHOUT H.U.R.R.A.Y. I want to sing to YOU TODAY!!!! ONE year OLDER and WISER too :) Happy Birthday to Y.O.U!

Today is a special persons birthday. My little sis, my irish twin, my bf. I MISS HER!!!!!!!! I so wish she was here in the states, or me there touring Europe with her. Being there to watch her open her gift from me to see her reaction. .....but we are miles apart.

Min, I hope you know how much I love and miss you and how much I am thinking of you on this day. The day you became my little sis. I hope you have a great birthday this year and your wishes come true with a good year to follow.

I cant wait to hear that your package arrived SAFELY.

MMMMMMMMWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOOXOXOXO

I did it!!!!!!!!!!! Dirty Girl 2 miles

DIRTY GIRL RUN

JULY 2, 2011

Anxiously ....drving to the run at Wheeler Farms

Beautiful friends in my ward

i did something I have always said Id never do... but I feel that H.F. has a plan for us and puts us in places for a reason.

I have lived in my ward for 2 years now. Jon and I couldnt be happier. I have tons of gals in my ward who are soo fun and do so many fun things together. .... one of them being "lets do the Dirty Girl Run"....

Previous to hearing about this I went running with my good friend further than I thought I ever thought would. I ran 1.7 miles...WHAT!!!!!!!! NO WAY... I did... so when this was brought up that i could run 2 miles i said heck yes. and it was in the MUD!!!!!!!!!!

JULY 2ND CAME!!!!!!

Jax 22 mo