Kohen's 2yr Birthday

Ok, so Kohen turned 2 on November 10th.  We celebrated it this last weekend.  We kept it real small, just immediate family.  We used to invite extended family and friends to Kaden's b-day's and it really just gets to expensive!  Not to mention he really doesn't need all those toys!  So we decided only to do big bashes for the big b-days, like 1st, 5th, 10th and so on!  Anywho, it turned out pretty good.  Kohen likes Spongebob so that what we did.  

It was a pretty busy weekend for us, I had a jewelry show Friday night, which was in Sunnyside and was dark when I got there and left and of course I got lost and was a little nervous!  I locked my doors while I was driving.  Somehow I ended up in downtown Sunnyside at 9:30 at night!!! SCARY!!!  Anywho, finally made it home totally exhausted! Saturday was the birthday party and Sunday we had a Seahawks Party.  We try to have a few of those during football season so we can get together with out friends!  So like I said a pretty busy weekend.  Thank goodness the next week and a half will be pretty tame!  So I hope all of you have a very HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!  And for those going out on Black Friday, GOOD LUCK!! :-)

New Blogger!!!

Ok, so here it is!  Thought I would start up a blog.  So I guess I start off writing about my family.  My husband, Ryan and I were married in January 2006 and have 2 beautiful children!  I'm sure every mother says that, but it's true!! Kaden is 5 and Kohen is 2!  This picture is from Christmas 2007, guess I need to take more family pictures.  

So this year has been a good and bad.  So lets start with the bad.  Kohen was diagnosed with Craniosynostosis in November 2007.  Basically that means that his skull had fused together too soon.  So his left side was starting to flatten and his brain was pushing out the right side.  Which if not fixed could start to cause pressure on the brain and eventually brain damage.  So needless to say this was a very scary situation for us.  After a ton of Dr. appointments at Children's in Seattle he was finally scheduled for surgery in June 2008.  His doctors were so amazing! So this next part is a little graphic, but here goes.  What they needed to do was cut him from ear to ear, peel back his skin, remove his forehead and eye piece, reshape it and put it back into place.  Sounds horrible, huh!  Well, he went in on a Tuesday for surgery, spent 

1 1/2 days in ICU, transfered to a regular room and was released Friday by noon!  So basically he was there for 3 1/2 days.  They warned us that his eyes would probably swell shut.  Well that never happened, so that's why we were able to go home so early!!  He was such a trooper!  So the good is since then he has healed and all of his post-op's have been great!  His head is starting to reshape and by his 1 yr post-op his skull, where cut, should be filled in with bone fragments.  It's been a pretty busy year for us, but no more appointments till June 2009, YEAH!!!  Oh, we did manage to take a family vacation for a week to Lincoln City in August!  That was a blast!