Poky

Yesterday was a sad day in our family, because our dog Poky died.  He has been a part of our family for 14 years!  We got him from the pound in Pocatello, and he was not a pup, so we are not exactly sure how old he is.  There are a lot of memories involving Poke, he "helped" Brian, Randy and Jared move a lot of pipe, he was our automatic doorbell if anyone drove in, he loved Blake and would get so excited whenever Blake would come home, he loved to go for walks and bike rides with us, he saved our house from getting egged and toilet papered many times.  Those are just a few, there are many more. He was Cindy's substitute collie. Today he has left a big hole in all of our hearts.  Here are some pictures that I quickly pulled off the computer as a tribute to Poke.  We love you Poke!

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September 10, 2009

Florida

On Sept. 19th, Blake and I flew off to Orlando, Florida.  Blake had a CME, and we visited some Disney sights.  We stayed at the Grand Floridian.  The weather was wonderful, Blake loved the humidity, we had a great time.

We watched fireworks from our patio every night.

One morning I saw ducks swimming in the pool.

Monday the 21st was Blake's birthday!  He got a Birthday Sundee at Planet Hollywood.

We went to Epcot Center!

Chelsey, this is for you!  Does it look like we are in Germany?

Now we are in New York City!  This is on Tuesday at Disney Hollywood.

Now Blake is in San Francisco!  We really travelled fast!

When we came back down this street, there was a rainbow right above New York, can you see it?

These were cool parrots in front of the Rainforest Cafe in Downtown Disney on Wednesday.

We ate at T-Rex cafe, in the ice cave, the room kept changing from pink, to blue to signify daylight and night. 

Peaches

Brian and Celia bought two boxes of peaches and wanted to bottle them.  They got ripe when Brian had to work, so they brought the peaches to our house and we helped Celia bottle them. 

Celia got all educated on the process of canning peaches.  It wasn't as easy or fast as she thought it would be, but it was a positive experience, she might even do it again next year.

Jared and Celia pealing peaches and putting them into the bottles.  (Jared looks like a giant standing beside Celia.)

If you look carefully you will see a flashlight to the left of Jared's arm.  We were a little more than halfway done with the peaches when the power went off!

Luckily, we were processing the peaches in the garage on the cache cooker!  We finished up by flashlight. 

Celia's taking some bottles out of the steam canner.  They look so pretty!  She got 28 quarts of peaches!  Good work Celia!

1st day of College

I know I'm slow with this post, but better late than never, right?  On September 10th, Jared started a new phase in his life, he went to college for the first time.  He is attending BYU-Idaho, but decided to live at home and drive to Rexburg every day.

Jared is telling Poky good bye before heading up the road.

Courtney is going to ride to Rexburg with Jared.  Normally, Jared will pick her up in Idaho Falls on his way past.  But, Randy had worked all night, so Courtney just stayed here and she and Jared left together.

Here they are with their back packs, all ready to go. Can you tell Jared is not thrilled about getting his picture taken?

There they go, off to BYU-I Adventureland.

You never know...

Last Thursday seemed to be just another normal day, until about 3:00 pm.  Then I got a frantic phone call from my mom saying that Dad had had a seizure or something, could I come quick.  I remember telling her to call 911, and she said she had.  I tore out the door and yelled at Jared to come with me.  We jumped in the car and got there as fast as we could.  Dad was in the recliner with the back of it pushed back, at first glance he just appeared to be sleeping, but as you looked closer you could tell that he was unconsious, and he was breathing weird.  Mom was on the phone with the dispatcher, she handed the phone to me and the lady asked me if Dad was breathing, I told her that he was kind of snoring weird.  She asked if we could get him flat on the floor, so Mom grabbed one leg and I grabbed the other and Jared got under his shoulders and we moved him to the floor.  Jared was then able to hold his head and keep the airway open.  The paramedics came and couldn't get much response from him, he did mumble a little.  They started an IV and got him on a stretcher and headed for EIRMC in Idaho Falls.  Mom, Jared and I left  immediately for IF, too.  The ambulance got there about 10 - 15 minutes before we did.  By then he was sitting up and talking, whew! 

They did a CT scan, and said that everything looked normal.  About 7:00, they were deciding that he could go home, Mom was with him in the room and I was in the waiting room.  Blake had come and taken Jared to go home.  But I guess Dad wasn't ready to go home, because he had another seizure!  After a while when he was just coming out of the unconsious state, when he quit breathing!  They had to come in bag him for a few minutes.  They got him breathing again and ordered another CT scan, it too came back normal.  By now they are worried big time and send him to the ICU.  They start him on some anti seizure medicine and hook him up to all kinds of moniters.  Mom and I went up to ICU, and they talked us into going and getting some rest.  It was almost 11:00 and we really didn't want to drive home, so we got a room at the Hampton Inn just down the road from the hospital.  Even though we had a nice bed, neither of us slept very much, there were too many "what ifs" and "what now?" going through our minds.

On Friday morning, when we got to the hospital, they said that he had a very quiet night and had slept good.  He could remember part of the ambulance ride and being in the emergency room, but didn't remember the second seizure or much of moving to ICU.  They let him leave ICU after doing an EEG and put him in a room on the 5th floor.  They kept him there for observation until Sunday after lunch.  He hasn't had any more seizure activity and the Drs. are pretty sure that he won't while he's on the medication.  We are hoping and praying that they are right!  He's pretty tired and worn out, but seems to be doing pretty good.  It was a very scary few hours for Mom, and the rest of us.  We love you, Dad!  We're glad you're home and hope you stay out of that dern hospital for a long time!