Pray for Jay

Please keep our sweet son, Jay, in your prayers. Monday night we were giving Jay a bath when I noticed that his groin area was very swollen, when I touched the area poor Jayden started crying and screaming. That night Jay didn't hardly sleep at all and cried the whole night, I knew that something was definitely wrong. Josh and I took Jay to the pediatrician as soon as they opened the next day to see his doctor. Our doctor took a look at Jay’s groin and told us that she was fairly sure that he had bilateral hernias and after feeling around she felt the hernias and tried to relieve them by pushing his intestines out of his scrotum. After the hernias were relieved Jay went straight to sleep. The doctor told us that we needed to go in to Seattle that day to have him looked at by the pediatric surgeon at Swedish hospital. Thankfully we were already going over to Seattle for my 6 week postpartum appointment at Swedish and then Jay had an ultrasound to check his hips (a standard procedure for all breech babies) and kidneys (they had noticed some warning signs when I had my last ultrasound). Well, needless to say the day way INSAINE! My appointment went well and Jayden’s ultrasound went wonderfully. I told the ultrasound tech that he had two hernias but she was so rough with him :( Jay was so good though, he didn’t even cry!! Next we met with the pediatric surgeon at the hospital and he was awesome! The surgeon was sure that he had hernias as well but wished that our pediatrician hadn’t relieved them so that he could see how bad they had been. Jay was so hungry but the doctor made us take Jay’s clothes off and wouldn’t let me feed him. The doctor was trying to make Jay cry and see if the crying would cause the intestines to protrude again, it was so hard to just stand there and watch my baby cry!! The surgeon said that he needed to call our pediatrician to go over what she saw that morning when she relieved the hernias. The doctor went over the ins and outs of the surgery and I told him how nervous the thought of having my baby be put under was to me (I mean he isn’t even old enough for baby Tylenol) and he assured me that they don’t like to do surgery until babies are at 12 weeks unless it's 100% necessary. We tentatively scheduled the surgery for 6-7 weeks from now but if the hernias continue to protrude we will go ahead with the surgery right away. I’m really praying that Jay’s body will just heal itself and that surgery won’t be needed but if it is I would much rather he be at the hospital’s desired age for the surgery. Please keep our family in your thoughts and prayers!!

double coffee date

Today we had a nice relaxed Sunday. Josh and I met with our friend's Megan and Brian for coffee this afternoon, they are going through pre-marital counseling and as an assignment had to interview a couple that had been married for about a year. Megan and I met in 5th grade and have been friends through a lot, she was even a bridesmaid in my wedding!! It was so nice to catch up with them and to hear about all of their wedding plans, it was also a lot of fun to be interviewed by them. Talking about the last year and a half of married life with Josh really made me realize and appreciate what an amazing man I married. I am so thankful for Josh, he has been there for me through so much in the short time we've been married. It was nice to relax and catch up with good friends and really fun to take a look back at the past year and a half.

Here we are at coffee today

Megan and I at my wedding

Megan and Brian at our wedding

my favorite picture of Megan and Brian @ our wedding

It is such a cool thing to see Megan with Brian. I couldn't have picked anyone as a better match for Megan, Brian is such a good guy and is so fun. I can't wait to see how their wedding turns out!

Friday Night Basketball

GO Uncle Richie!!

Tonight we went to Richie's high school basketball game. Jayden was such a good baby (as always) and was held by many of his fans! Tonight Jay wore jeans for the first time and wore his Jordans for the first time out of the house. If you at this point are saying, "what the heck are Jordans?!" we're talking about Air Jordans, you know... the shoes... and this tells me that you don't know my husband very well. Because, if you knew my husband then you would know about Jordans and you would know how much he LOVES them... I think he has over 80 pairs that he has collected over the years!! Josh loves Jordans so much that at our wedding all of our groomsmen each brought a pair (or borrowed from Josh's huge collection) and posed for pictures in them...

much to Josh's dismay, the guys didn't wear these shoes during wedding

So as you can see it was only natural for Jay's first pair of shoes to be... you guessed it, Jordans.

Anyways, enough about Josh's shoe fetish, let's get back to our outing tonight... here are some pictures from the game:

Jay and daddy

Jay watching the game (or was it the cheerleaders?! uh-oh)

Jay and mommy

Hanging out during half time

Cheering on Uncle Richie

Jayden and Uncle Richie after the game!

It was a lot of fun to get out of the house and good to see friends. Plus, Josh and I (of course) love basketball and are always up for cheering on our siblings any chance that we get! It was a great game, especially since Kingston won, Northwest Sports Tonight was there taping the game and it was a good one!! Next week hopefully we'll make it out for Auntie Elle's game.

Family

This week we made a trip to Josh's family's home in Kingston, it was Jay's first trip there. We had a good time visiting with everyone and of course everyone had fun seeing and holding Jay.

Jay with Great Grandma Barb

Great Grandpa Don holding Jay

Great Grandma Barb, me, Uncle Richie, Grandma Patsy, Jay and Great Grandpa Don.

Me, Uncle Richie, Jay and Josh

Our little family

Josh's sister Elle had pulled an all-nighter studying the night before so she headed off to bed before we had brought out the camera. I need to get a good picture of her with Jay to put on here but until then here are a few pictures of her:

Brenton and Elle

Brenton and Elle again

Josh and I feel very blessed that our families get along so well together. The pictures above are of Elle and Brenton before homecoming this year, it was so much fun to take pictures of them before they left with their group. This is the second year that Brenton and Elle had gone to each other's homecomings. I think it is so great that they are such good friends; they chose to go with each other and have a blast instead of going with an awkward date! We're so glad that all of our siblings get along, it's so fun when we all get a chance to get together.

Here we all are at our wedding

Mackenzie, Elle, Claire, me, Josh, Richie, Tyler and Brenton

Wyatt

Yestday after 16 wonderful years our beloved dog and trusted friend, Wyatt, went to doggie heaven. We will never forget all the good times we had together. Wyatt was more than a dog, he was a member of our family, a loyal friend and great companion. Wyatt was a friend to all and kind to every creature that crossed his path, be it human or animal. He was greatly loved and will be greatly missed. We'll always love you Wyatt boy!

Lazy Sunday

Last night was a rough one, Jayden is usually a really good sleeper but last night he was NOT. Jay and I didn't get to sleep until 6 this morning so needless to say we didn't make it to church today :( Josh let me sleep in and watched Jay this morning for a little while, it was such a nice treat! It was so nice to just relax at home today, we did some cleaning and watched football. Josh, Jay and I met up with my good friend Nicole at Blackbird Bakery and had some yummy food. It was so nice to go to Blackbird Bakery, I probably shouldn't say that since I manage a competing coffee shop but they have such good food and a really cool atmosphere (but we have WAY better coffee). When I go to Blackbird I sometimes see customers from Andante (the coffee shop I work at) and they always looked surprised to see me there and they tell me their excuses for being at there, it's pretty funny! Our late lunch was super yummy, Nicole got tomato basil soup with toast and Josh and I split a piece of ratatouille. I'd never had ratatouille before but it was surprisingly really yummy and had lots of hearty vegetables.

Nicole and I met working at Andante (I actually interviewed her and hired her, haha) and I love her so much. Nicole's husband, Garrick, is an officer in the Navy and is out on the sub until the spring. While Garrick is out to sea Nicole is going home to Chicago to be with her family until he gets back. We're gonna miss them!

Great Great Grandma Hurd

Today was my Great Grandma Hurd's 98th birthday party at Crista Shores Retirement Community where she lives in Silverdale. My sister Claire and I stopped by with Jayden and Great Grandma got to meet her first great great grandchild! I didn't realize until we got there that great grandma had no idea that we were coming, it was so fun to see her face when we walked in! (I forgot my camera so the picture quality on these isn't that great since they're taken on my iPhone)

Here is my dad showing Jay off to Grandma

Claire, Dad, Jay and I

Here we are with the birthday girl

(we're missing my dad's mom to have every generation represented

but we span 5 generations in this picture)

It was so special to have great grandma meet Jayden and it was wonderful to catch up with family that we don't see often.