Papa and his girls...

Raygen's new favorite thing to do is 4-wheeler rides with papa.  Papa's new favorite thing to do is give Raygen 4-wheeler rides, lol!

Parties and more Parties

Raygen hanging out in her Sesame Street chair at the office.  Don't you love her chew toy? lol 

Yep, I'm breaking out the olde' pics of my dad and I.  I hope he had a great Father's day.  He has been such a rock for me through everything.  I couldn't have made it this far without him (and my mom, of course.)  He is always there for me whenever I need him and he was such a support system at the hospital with Raygen.  He is such a great dad and I am so happy he is the grandpa to my children.  Dad you are amazing and I love you so much.  Thank you for all you do for us. 

My sister Traci, dad and myself.

My husband.  I can not even put into words what an amazing father you are.  You are the rock of our family and I thank you with all my heart for my two wonderful little girls.  You are an amazing man and I am very lucky to have found you.  You are always there by my side fighting for our girls and we make a great team.  I hope you always know how much you are loved.  I hope you had a great Fathers day! 

 

My beautiful niece, Bailee, graduated high school on Friday.  She is now an official Saint Martin Saint.  You are looking at a college soccer player.  Bailee is one of the most talented, beautiful, sweet, smart girl I know.  I am so proud of her and so honored to be her aunt.  She won so many scholarships and awards.  Bailee has such a bright future ahead of her and I'm so excited to watch her travel it.   

Besides graduation parties, father's day parties, and one birthday party all in one weekend I guess you can say we are partied out.  I also forgot my camera at work all weekend so I'm going to have to get some pictures from my mom to post.  We had a great weekend.  Even though we are all fighting a head cold we seem to be beating it, thank goodness.  It was so nice to see all my extended family this weekend (Aunt Carroll, thank you for always reading my blog and keeping everyone posted, we love you.)  Zoie heads off to bible camp next week and then when she gets home we head to Seaside for our 4th of July holiday.  I am so excited.

Hope everyone enjoyed their weekend and hugged there graduates and dads extra close.

Braces, for both my girls!

Zoie before braces...

Zoie after.  She got braces on her four front teeth for right now.  Maybe more later.  She looks so cute with her  new glasses and braces.  My girl is growing up way too fast for me.  This is her last full week of 3rd grade.  Where did the time go? 

Raygen also got her braces for her feet yesterday.  We call them her "pretty shoes"  She did cry at first at therapy with them on, but wore them for a long time at home with no issues. 

Going to work with her braces on. 

I don't think she was ready to wake up this morning.

 

So we have been so busy this week.  Zoie finished up with fastpitch and got her braces plus fighting a cold that is working its way through our family.  I am currently fighting this cold and I think my husband is going to be next.  He woke up this morning with a sore throat.  Raygen has been junky so I have been using our humidifier and putting natural oils on her to try to keep the cold at bay.  We have a busy week next week with the end of school and Raygen has OT in Kent and PT in Olympia.  I am counting down the days to vacation only 3 more weeks to go till I can enjoy a week at the beach with my family.  I hope we are over this miserable cold before vacation.

Playing...

 

Had to share...she is just too cute for words.

Prayers needed for our heart friends

Madison Yeung is a local 4 month old baby that is at Standford right now and had major open heart surgery about 10 days ago.  She has had some set backs the last two nights and needs a lot of prayers sent her way.

Poppy is a little girl who was born with HLHS and couldn't recover from her Norwood.  She spent about 52 days I believe with her chest open.  She just received a new heart a few days ago.  Her family moved to Seattle from Montana to give her the best care possible.  This little girl needs some prayers, she has been through sooooo much.

Ella is having her Fontan (3rd surgery for HLHS) today.  She needs your prayers and prayers for her parents on such a stressful and scary day. 

Raygen update:

Big Sister at her softball tourney this weekend.  We took 2nd place!!  Way to go Lady Loggers! 

Yesterday I took a deep breathe of relief.  I think whatever bug my baby was fighting is finally gone.  I was so happy that we stopped by our local park and let Raygen swing for the 1st time ever, lol! (After I cleaned it over and over again with Lysol wipes, of course)  I think she really enjoyed herself. 

I am so glad she is starting to look like herself again.  Thank you to everyone who prayed for her.  It really helped.  She is still taking her antibiotic so I am a little nervous about the bug coming back when she is done with it since we never did find out "what" it was, but I'm going to enjoy her just being happy again. 

Playing at work today. 

Thank you again to everyone who loves Raygen as much as we do.  She is a wonderful little girl and we are truly blessed to be her parents.

 

Please pray for our heart friends.  There is no greater power then prayer.

We still don't know...

So overall I would say Raygen is doing "better" but she isn't "better."  I hope that makes sense.  Since starting the antibiotic of a possible kidney infection she hasn't ran a temp, but she is still having outburst.  She will be happy and playing then all the sudden just start crying.  She has also been waking up during the night pretty fussy.  Then Raygen has times where she is just as happy as can be.  She still isn't herself at all.  I have a call into Dr. Polley to see what she thinks.  Randy thinks before we take her anywhere we need to watch her a couple days and see if we can pin point something that may be wrong since taking her to the doctor would involve a lot of test and Raygen would freak out.  I am still nervous that I'm missing something.  I just pray that I'm not and my daughter is just starting to be a "fit" thrower and I'm just letting my imagination get away with me.

Nope it's not a Kidney Infection???

Raygen's doctor office just called and her second urine sample we sent in was negative.  So we have no idea what was wrong with Raygen.  She has improved with being on the antibiotic the last two days so I am thankful for that, but at the same time scared that we are missing or hiding the "real" reason she didn't feel good and was running a temp.  She has 10 days of the antibiotic and the doctor said if it's helping go ahead and finish it.  I just wish we knew for sure what was wrong.

Kidney Infection

So we got a call from Raygen's doctor and her urine sample we sent in on Tuesday showed "something" growing so they are starting her on a antibiotic and we also sent in another sample today.  I really hope my girls starts to feel better soon.  Hopefully this is the answer.  Keep your fingers crossed I very much miss my happy baby.

She still has a fever????

Raygen is having times where she is playing and I have even heard her laughing at Elmo today, but she is still running a temp and she just looks like she isn't feeling too great yet.  I am still scared.  We are waiting to hear from the doc on what her pee sample showed yesterday.  We are still watching her o2 and heart rate.  I just have no idea whats going on with her.

On the mend...Knock on wood...

Thank you so much for all your prayers and positive thoughts sent our way the last few days.  They have been scary.  Thankfully I think Raygen is on the mend today.  We did get a pee sample sent into the doctor yesterday and should have the results tomorrow on whether our girl has a kidney infection.  She hasn't ran a temp today and has FINALLY let me put her down for time throughout the day.  I have done nothing but walk the hallway of my very small house for hours the last three days so being able to set her down for a moment has been a blessing, my back thanks Raygen.  We are still giving her Tyenol every four hours with her food bolus because even though she is feeling better and playing we can still tell she isn't totally herself.  I'm sorry it's taken me so long to post this update I guess I have been waiting to see if she was truly doing better before I post I didn't want to jink ourself.  I hope by this weekend Raygen is back to her "normal" then I can take a few breaths.