My brother-in-law Michael who is younger than I am (39) had a heart attack on his way home from vacation cruising to Mexico. Sara called me at 11:00 p.m. on Thursday and told me that Michael had just had a heart attack and she needed me to talk with her while she followed the ambulance up to the hospital. They soon confirmed the heart attack and then they prepared to fly him to Phoenix. Richard, Daniel, and Mike drove Sara to the valley and got there about 4 in the morning. Mom went back and got Brandon from Heather's and drove up this morning. Jessica, David and I also drove down this morning and met Jordan in the valley because he was down there for an EA music tour. We picked up Jordan at Superstition Springs Mall and headed over to the Arizona Heart Hospital and this is what we find! My two brothers are still at each other, as you can see from Richard's grimacing face....he just got hit in an unfortuante place! Of course Daniel is grinning!
I guess they really had a fun time, I guess as much time as you can have in a hospital. They also had Daryl (Michael's brother) and Mike (Michael's nephew). One funny story about this hospital is I guess they were coming down on the elevator and Daniel said "Jump" not thinking that all of them would jump but they all did and I guess the elevator just shook, hard and dust came down from the top and they truly felt like the elevator was going to break!
Well by the time we got to the hospital Michael had been in surgery and had a triple bypass. The Dr.'s said his heart had been really bruised and they left some kind of pump in to help his heart pump to give it a little bit of a break and can heal. They want to keep it in at least until tomorrow. We went in to visit him but he was sedated and would be until at least tomorrow as well. He had so many tubes and IV's coming out of everywhere you could barely get in his room. He just looked so sad!
Well Richard, Mike and Daniel, and Jessica, Jordan and David all drove home tonight. We then drove around forever trying to find a hotel that was close to the hospital and just happen to get one that was really close. We tried to get one online but they were all so expensive! I guess they have spring training down here this weekend so everything is super expensive! So we went and got settled in. Crazy this was the same hotel I had stayed in one time when I came down for a dental convention with Dr. West. I remember it had amazing breakfasts! Sara and I went back to the Hospital to see Michael and Grandma and Brandon stayed at the hotel. Grandma took Brandon swimming, but Brandon started drowning and Grandma had to jump in the pool with all her clothes on. So when we came back Brandon was still swimming and Mom was sitting there in soaking wet clothes!
Well today is my anniversary and it was actually a pretty wonderful day! Rob took the day off and got to come to Church with us. Because of his work schedule he doesn't get to come very often. But I absolutely love it when he does! We came home and I had put a pork roast on to cook when I left and it was just right when I got home. I love Sundays! When we come home, everyone pitches in and helps cook dinner! Tyson made a wonderful salad and Darius made some awesome mashed potatoes with garlic, butter and bacon bites! Tyanne helped me make some cheddar garlic biscuits that turned absolutely wonderful! It is so nice to sit down to the table at least once a week and have dinner and just talk with the kids! Jess and Jordan came over a little bit later, poor Jess has to work nights tonight. I didn't hear from Emery and Duskin, but that is because they are on the Pacific on their way to Mexico....totally jealous! Robby did text us Happy Anniversary! Love those kids! Oh and Tyson got started on his mission papers tonight. He had an interview with the bishop and came home and got them started...Woo Hoo! But also melancholy at the same time! Man...
We decided we wanted to spend the day hiking and Geocaching. I found a couple of Geocaches up Tripp Canyon and out towards Klondike. We picked up Jess, Jordan and David at Jess' and Kason (Darius' best friend) also met us there. We gassed up and tried to find the road to Tripp Canyon, which took us a little bit to find. It wasn't easy. It was a neat road up the west side of Mt. Graham (actually the Pinaleno Mountains). We got to the first Geocache and make the short trek to the cache.
We finally get sweet little David into his carrier and he just snuggles next to his beautiful Mom! We are now ready to find our first cache!
Here is the crew Kason, Jessica, David, Darius, Tyanne, Tyson, Jordan and Me. We are following Tyson to the area where the cache is. It was a beautiful day!
We found the cache and it was near a grave out here in the middle of nowhere. Just makes you wonder who he was and why he was buried out here.
As we were headed up towards our next cache we found this little patch of snow. We had to stop so Jordan and David could see it up close. With Jordan being from Yuma, he hasn't seen much snow in his lifetime. So this is David's very first snow!
Here Mom is helping him make his first snowball!
Here we were looking for the next cache and Kason took the lead. We never did end up finding it, but we still had a lot of fun.
Obviously some more then others!
LOL...got caught!
So Darius and Kason found quite a few clay pigeons so we decided to play ball with them. It was a lot of fun.
Jordan one handing it...can he do it?
Jessica....funniest thing ever...if I was taking her picture she could not hit it. She probably tried 30 times, but as soon as I put the camera down she would smack it!
Tyson thinks he can do better with a bigger stick.
Jordan trying again.
Mom rocks the big stick and the pigeons!
Poor Darius is just really hurting. So on our way up here there was one corner that had a lot of snow. As we were going around the corner there was a sign and I told Tyson to stop because I wanted to read it, which was a bad idea. As we were trying to get going again we kept sliding around and got stuck. The wheels just kept sliding on the ice. So we decided to get out and put some sticks under the tires. The ice was super, super slippery. Darius went to throw a stick and literally both of his feet came straight out from under him and he landed right on his tailbone. It was really really funny but I could tell he was really hurting and it continued to hurt him pretty bad throughout the day.
Kason, trying his hand at the big stick and the pigeon and he smashed it out of the forrest!
Such a sweet picture! David and his Dad!
We just spent a lot of time taking picture of this photogenic baby! He just has the sweetest face and the camera just loves him!
Taking my turn with this sweet face! I just love this good natured, loving, smiley baby!
I love him so much, sometimes I just want to eat his face!
He just has the prettiest big blue eyes!
Gosh...you just can't help but smile looking at this picture! Just such a happy boy!
A family outing wouldn't be complete without doing a family music video. We chose Pentatonix to sing with today, we love them! Here is the first one.
Here is our second. We would have done more but when the car started having issues we were more worried about that.
Our third cache for the day. This one had a story to go with it about a robbery and a shoot out at these rocks. So Tyanne is reading us the story while Darius and Kason check out the treasure!
Jessica, David and Tyson making their way up to the cache.
Well as we are making our way to the third, fourth and fifth caches (there just happened to be 3 right close together), the car all of a sudden keeps dying. It is like it isn't getting any gas. It had done this once before and Rob thought it was because we had gotten water in the gas tank and we did just top off the car in Pina just before coming out. Great! So here is Tyson trying to get a cell signal to call his friend's dad and ask him what he thinks. He teaches Auto Mechanics at the high school.
Looks like they got a picture of me heading out behind one of those trees!
So Tyson is staying with the car. If we leave it off for a few minutes it would start back up again so we would walk ahead sometimes and at time he would go ahead and we would have to catch up.
Tyson giving me a ride after taking a hike to the trees!
Tyanne giving David a ride! He seem very happy about it!
The kids walking up ahead to the next cache. What a sweet scene I love it when the kids get a long!
Here is Jess, David and Me bringing up the rear!
Jessica getting her groove on!
Even though we are in the desert...the scene was really beautiful! Kinda crazy, within a matter of minutes we have gone from being up in the pines to being in the desert.
David walking with his Mom.
Tyanne signing the paper in the last Geocache. We only hit one of the three caches' here because for one the car was really giving us issues and two we actually couldn't really drive to the last two. The ravines were just too deep, we actually got stuck and had to push the suburban out. The poor suburban had a really rough day. It took us a while to get home because it just kept dying. We would have to sit for about 5 minutes and then it would start back up again. We eventually made it back home after a great adventure!
We went to a Ryan Shupe and the Rubber Band concert and it was awesome! Jessica, Jordan, Emery, Rob, David and I all sat together. Tyanne and Darius along with the Safford Choir got to sing a sing with them. It was really neat. Tyson was playing basketball in Snowflake and didn't get to sing. But here is a picture of David with the band after the concert! Since Tyanne sold the second most tickets she also got to eat dinner with them. And as it turned out one of her best friend sold the first so you can imagine the fun that they had!
Today is my first official day as a stay at home mom. My head is just swimming on the things I want to do. I have girls camp to get ready for, which I am so excited for. I will have time to post things which I am really excited for.
I have a lot of my family coming this week, Jessica is graduating from nursing school. We are so proud of her! She has worked really hard!
Here is a video of Jessica singing at her pinning, she did an amazing job!
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