Having Courage to conquer fear

One of the definition of Fear is something that causes feelings of dread or apprehension; something a person is afraid of. I am afraid of getting pregnant I am afraid to see

the pink positive signs on a pregnancy test, i'm afraid to see blood. Fear that I might lose my baby again,

though I want to have another baby. I would like to have a boy but I would love another girl just as much as a boy. Though this is hard I have to channel my fear 

into courage. Courage is doing what i'm afraid of to do, there can be no courage

 unless your scared. I know that there might be lots of tears in this decision, I

even know that through my pregnancy there can be complications, there can be nightmares and things that can haunt me, and a gut wrenching feeling that something will might be wrong. I will have the courage to keep trying even when fear is in my thoughts. I know that no matter whatI am given I can go through it that I am a strong person and is surrounded by some people that love me. Fear will not conquer me I will conquer fear!!!! Because I want this more than anything even through the tears I will be smiling.

How I can see from what i'm doing in my job that reflects back on me.

Last week Lisa and I saved someone's life by just a simple blood draw, it is amazing how you feel after that. Sure its just a simple blood draw when someone is on coumadin they have to be watched regularly to make sure the blood isn't to thick or to thin there are two ways to do it. The first way is to draw it in a blue tube a sodium heparin tube the second is a device similar to a diabetes machine gives it to us right away when your in the coumadin clinic thats how it is done so that the doctor can adjust your dose before you leave the office. The patient wasn't registering on the machine we kept getting errors and so finally we drew their blood and sent it stat. They were also sick at this time when the results came back they had to go back to hospital and they had been bleeding internally. The doctor came and thank us for our decisions to draw it and it stat. This week they came back and we talked for awhile about how thankful they were to be alive and they thanked us again. They told us how scary it was and I told them I had gone through the same thing about a year ago but a tubal pregnancy instead and we both felt very lucky to be alive with our familys today. I have this knack for remembering people I don't know how I am like that but one person was really sick I took a lot of blood from the blood culture bottles plus lots of tubes. Yesterday they looked so much better I recapped everything that had happened that day they were surprised on how much I had remember about them. We get mission letters every monday this week ours was about looking back at the things we had done when we were little and we can remember doing certain things and that put us to where we are today in life in our jobs. I loved helping people and making them feel special and loved and as I got older I wanted to help them feel better. I get to have great people that I get to meet and learn lots about their life the happy parts and the sad parts but it makes you just feel so great. They usually leave with a big smile on their face. I love what I do and I love being there to help find out what is wrong with them.

The grief and emotion through the loss of a Child is like Waves never ending.

When you lose someone that you love there is grief and most of the times you know what to expect and how hard it is to go through losing them. The funeral seems to help with the healing process and every year on their birthday when you lost them it hurts. I  thought I  had now understood and known what grief really was, one day I was shown I was completely wrong about how much it hurt to love something you couldn't see yet and the horrible grief that followed it. July 2009  I found out I was  pregnant and I so happy I couldn't help but to start telling everyone that I was pregnant and its was my first child. My grandparents were ecstatic for Bentley and I  because they had waited a long time for great grandkids. At the point I had thought my doctor visits are going well, I went in for my 10 week apt and the lpn can't hear a heartbeat and so she tries an ultrasounds she can't find the baby  at 10 weeks you should be able to see the baby and hear the heartbeat. It was my first one so I was not really sure what is going on. She waves it off and says hey lets try again next apt we should be able to hear it clearly by then. Well about 10 days later I had started to bleed and it hurt but its not bright red, it was brow- which means it is old. It starts getting worse and the color change Bentley and I go to the er and sit there forever. I had to pee really bad and they still hadn't taken me in yet for my ultrasound I was scared and just want to go home at that point and curl up into a ball. I put my clothes back on and you walk out and the nurse yelled at me and asks me where is your gown? I told her the truth I was going to be leaving if I didn't get an ultrasounds soon. Finally they took me back to get the ultrasound something looks weird and strange not normal I was trying my best not to cry just having a little shred of hope that everything was going to be okay though I knew it wasn't something was very wrong. I got take  back into the room and the doctor comes in and tells me i'm so sorry to tell you this but you are having a Miscarriage its no longer viable your body is naturally getting rid of it. I immediately burst out into tears and I couldn't  stop crying the grief is worse than I had ever felt in my life. I all the sudden felt like I had just lost a piece to my heart and there was no way I could ever get it back my heart was broken in 2. The doctor says don't worry my wife had one and we had kids afterwards it happens to alot the first pregnancy that doesn't make me feel better but worse. A year later comes the date when I lost my first child I feel like i'm a mom but I had nothing to show that I had became a mother though in my heart I was a mom. It's hard its like dealing with all those emotions you felt a year ago. Seeing your baby on the ultrasound and losing it days later it is burned into your mind and hurts the image never goes away and you feel like you have lost a part of yourself. It slowly starts not hurting as bad, you learn to live with it and you have your good days and then the bad days. It took me three years to get pregnant again, this time your scared of you losing my baby once again. I didn't most anyone that we were pregnant again until we had heard the heartbeat and it was a good sign I had an easy pregnancy and it went great and smooth till labor and delivery but  that is in a different post. I figured okay well if this one is good then maybe that er doctor was partially right, I came to find out he is wrong and that he shouldn't have said it was just because it was my 1st pregnancy. Almost 2 months before I was Danika was 1 years old on July 26th coming home from 2 friends wedding that day (we were on our way home from the last one which was in provo) I all the sudden felt really sick to my stomach and had to go to the bathroom so bad I talked my self into holding it until we got home. When we did I took a pregnancy test and found out that I was pregnant I was shocked didn't know what to think and somber (every pregnancy is hard on me to be happy and excited for it scares me to death) i took three pregnancy test and showed Bentley and told the people i'm close with but told them not to say anything about it. We went to the doctors I had not had my cycle back from when I had Danika so I had nothing to go by when I got pregnant and had an ultrasound and confirmed I was about 8 weeks pregnant a few weeks went by I felt great then all the sudden I started bleeding once again I started freaking out crying my eyes out at work and I went to my obgyn and he looked at the baby again and said that the baby even looked bigger. I tried so hard to go off of that but it knew I was going to lose my baby again. I went to lunch about 1 week later and I felt so tired I took a nap I woke up went back to work but had to go to the bathroom I had kept feeling pressure and  cramps like the ones when your in labor I was now bleeding lot and I knew what was happening I continued to  work the rest of my shift through the pain smiling and happy while greeting customers sometimes i had to take a break. When I got home we went to a barbeque party that night and we got home later that night I went to the bathroom and I finally passed my baby I will not describe it because its still hard to talk about. I felt like I had lost another piece of myself once again but I had to be strong for my daughter and husband they needed me. Two weeks later my grandma said goodbye to this world it hurt because I missed her and I loved her and I couldn't see christmas without her and I didn't tell her I was pregnant to save her the hurt she would feel for me. It hurt but it didnt hurt as much as I did when I lost my children.We went about life normal in the day after my daughters 1st birthday we had to say goodbye to Bentley's grandma by that time I was so done with death because we had lost my great grandma the same year in March of 2013 I thought we were going to be okay. Nope Nov 22nd I found out I was having an ectopic ( tubal pregnancy) that was a hard thing I had to choose to save my life because my baby couldn't be save I was given two options 1 surgery removal of my tube 2 a shot to stop the growth because the shot was less money we went with it and it worked I had three months every week with blood work for my HCG levels to make sure that the shot was working and and that my levels went down to zero a couple of times I Had some scares that it had actually ruptured but didn't lucky and if it did I could have bleed internally. Bentley during this time worked graveyard and had no one to call if anything had happened and Danika was too little to know what to do at the time. I was always worried that I wouldn't wake up to see the next day. It took me awhile to heal emotionally from it and to stop having nightmares from it. a I am left with scar tissue and knowing that I have a great chance of me having another tubal pregnancy scares me to death I felt so selfish and still do to this day because I had to choose what to do I know I need to be here for my daughter and my husband that doesn't make it any easier dealing with it. In December of 2014 I had another miscarriage and it was just as rough as about the other ones were. I always know when I am miscarrying I usually don't miss my periods even though they have been irregular I have always had one. I didn't have a period in November I kept thinking I was going to have one but never did. In December i started knowing my signs of pregnancy and I got worried I took a pregnancy test and it came back positive the next day I started bleeding and before that happened I became irrational one day all I wanted to do was cry because I was so scared that I was going to to lose another baby. I managed that month as good as I could and I smiled and went to work. I have worked through all of my losses only 1 time did I go home early after I got the shot because I looked so pale I could hardly stand because I was so dizzy and felt sick to my stomach. Earlier this year in April we found out I was pregnant in March 2015 I had my 1st ob apt to make sure that it was in the right spot and it was in the right spot the heart was beating and everything looked good, 2 weeks later I was around 8 weeks and 5 days I went in and everything looked like it was going so well. Thinking everything was fine I waited until me being 13 weeks to go in and have a checkup for me 12 week one that I missed in utah. I barley had started my new job. I lay up on the table my new obgyn Dr. Tomlinson came in and after Tina was all done with me of course getting my history by 13 weeks you can hear a heartbeat with a doppler she couldn't find it only my heart beating. I know that it might not be a good sign. She goes and gets her ultrasound machine and she starts with and abdominal ultrasound. Now I have seen enough to know what I should be seeing and i'm not seeing what I should be. She has Tina come in and  help her she switches to vaginal ultrasound when she gets looking, she didn't have to tell me that their was no heartbeat I knew I couldn't see it beating. Then she told me I'm sorry but there is no heartbeat. At first im just in shock I just nod my head and agree with her. Bentley was working because we thought this one was going to be fine. I didn't know what to do or think or say but that I needed Bentley with me to help make a decision. My phone had no service what so ever I tried to text and to call nothing would go through. I didn't want to step out in the hall to use another phone. I was trying not to cry, Dr. Tomlinson hands me her phone and says here I have service use mine. Knowing bentley wouldn't answer the first time because he didn't know that phone number I quickly get out a quick voicemail that he needed to call me back. He calls back a few  mins later and i really couldn't get much out that he needed to come there was no heartbeat so he asks to  leave they let him. Dr. Tomlinson meets him up front to walk him back then she shows us our options. D& C and a drug to help induce labor we go for that because its cheaper. I was asked to start it on a weekend. Wednesday night i couldn't take knowing that my baby was dead inside of me, I take the medicine and I made it until 10 pm with out taking any medicine  it hurt so bad.   

  I have my good days and I have my bad days and when you need to do certain things in order to make sure and hope that you have another successful pregnancy it is hard to cope with and you feel so frustrated and you want to cry. Yet it seems like no one really wants you to talk about it so you hold it in and you don't want to be a burden to your husband either because there isn't anything anyone can do and he holds you while you cry and trys to make it as easy on you as he can because its both hard on you he knows that he needs to be strong for you, and men deal with the loss differently than a woman does. This grief is unlike any other it is something I can not forget it about because it has become apart of me and like water it is there and then all the sudden you get hit with this big emotion you can't stop it washes over you until you can get your barrings again until the next wave comes and you just hold on for life. I am very blessed and this is not a pity thing this is to help someone that know they are not alone.

I got a new job and it came at the best time!

I can't believe it I finally got a job that I have wanted for a long time it is like a dream come true! On november 10th I will be starting my new job as a Phlebotomist at Mountain Star Clinical Laboratories. This month will be a hard one to get through but this should help keep my mind off of my 1 year anniversary date where I had to make the choice to save my life and say goodbye to my baby. It was one of the hardest choices I have had had to make but I knew that I need to stay for my daughter and my husband. I remember sitting in the doctor office and he was giving me the choices of what needed to be done. He asked me if I wanted anymore kids I told him "NO" I am so done with having kids after two other miscarriages and this one being such a shock that I felt done. Then my amazing husband looked at him and said "Yes she still wants to have kids" when my head didn't know what to think. My husband spoke what my heart wanted and for that I am thankful for. I know that my husband knows my heart and that when I say one thing he knows the right time to step in and say what needed to be said. I am so glad that I have the doctor that I have right now he has taken the time and answer all my calls and questions even the little silly ones. The Medical Assistants brooke I am glad she came in at the right time I was able to open up to her and she shared her life story with me.

Being a Working Mother and I'm going to school for a month in August.

Growing up I never had the chance to do sports or to really take piano lessons or violin lessons because my family never had the money for me to be able to do things I really wanted to take part in or to be able to excel at and to get better at so that I could be really good in. That takes lessons and lots of practice in order to be able to get better at those things. In high school I found what my sport was and that was swimming, looking back I wish my parents would have had the money let me do it. My mom was a stay at home mom while my dad was the one that worked. He went back and forth with jobs and a lot of times they had welfare, now there isn't anything wrong with that i just wasn't able to do what I would have liked to do. Now some wonder why I chose to work full time instead of being a stay at home mom. I choose to work so that my husband didn't feel the financial stress of being a 1 person income now we are a 2 person income and so the stress tends to be less. We hardly ever have disagreements about money issues and he and I are happy, we also wouldn't have what we have if I would have stayed home with our daughter. Even though we are moving I would have had my house payed off before I hit 40 that is something alot of people in this day and age don't reach, or reach it at an later stage in life. We love all our cars and just purchased a new trailer for our four wheeler's. That is hardly the case though, I wanted my daughter to do any sport or musical instrument that she wanted lessons in, and give her more then what I had growing up. I also will teach her that she needs to earn things to, and work hard for the things she has. Yet how I grew up taught me that money wasn't important that I don't need it to be happy in life. If you put yourself to the task you will be able to achieve more than what you can. Then there is another thing in life she learns family is important the best thing in life is the bonds that you have and share with your grandparents. Those memories that you create with them are so important to your life, they wont ever leave your mind. My daughter isn't in a day care, she spends each day that my husband and I are working with either grandparents they have their days with her. These times with them help her develop a special bond with each one of them, and sometimes she spends the day at her aunt house to. She is always with family, if my husband and I aren't able to make it to family gatherings she goes with the grandparents so she meets the other family members. I let her go on trips with her grandparents to, though this separation can be hard and we miss her, she enjoys the time she has with the people she is with. She has an amazing bond with both sets of grandparents and i'm so glad that she is able to have that kind of bond with them. I receive pictures sometimes through out the day of her and what she is doing. I miss her at work and always think about her and hope that she is behaving for her grandparents which lucky for me she does really well even when she is sick. I feel that she has appreciation for my husband and I and she enjoys the days she has with us when we are both of and each of us one day off while the other one is working so she gets one on one time with us to we call it her "Special day".  Now i'm going to start taking a Phlebotomy class on August 4th  Monday and Wednesday nights and Monday night is going to be the hardest because I work 7-4pm and the have class 6-10 pm so I will have little time with her that day which means her bedtime might be later. On Wednesday I have it off so she will have the day with me and then spend time with daddy till he goes to basketball and she will then spend it with her grandparents. We will get off the same time that night, it is only for the month of August but this will help me get a better job so that I can help provide more and make it even less and we can have more money to put down on our house in Wyoming that we are building next year. When I hear her happy voice running and saying mommy with a huge smile on her face I know that I am doing things right and she is the happiest little girl a Mother can ever have, and that she has no resentment for how Bentley and I are raising her.

This is from the Family Reunion she attended with my parents today. 

 

A Date in the Mountains doing something we both LOVE fishing

Last Wednesday Bentley surprised` me date he got everything all worked out before he told me after work on Tuesday. He had my mom watch Danika for the night so that we could get up and go fishing at 5:00 am it was the best date ever, we caught 8 fish!!! We also picked up a quad racer to get it up and going for our trip in 6 days to Island Park for my grandpa's 80th birthday party!

I caught a Fish!

Getting our quad racer ready

He is just the most amazing down to earth guy out there

Family Pictures

My grandpa 80th birthday is coming up and so my aunt had asked all of us for pictures of our family. It had been awhile since we had gotten family pictures done almost 2 years ago when she was just born. We decided to ask my mom if she would take some pictures at the pond where she lived she was all for it. After work we went to my mom house and got all ready for pictures. We get down to the pond and there was some geese and ducks there, my daughter that just loves animals so we chased the geese and boy was she mad when she scared them and they flew away. This in its self just caused a huge scream and an upset toddler. There was on duck that doesn't fly his name is Gus and she wanted Gus after that. We took her to see him and he dived into the pond. Well we went to sit down for pictures and all she did was cry for Gus so our first attempt did not work out to well. So the next day we went to Murray park where there was no form of animals besides dogs and their owns which were gone quickly. Here are our family pictures I hope you enjoy them :D 

Last but not least our 1st family picture ever 2012

The top photo's are where we did our engagement in 2008
The bottoms where we were in the exact spot 2014

This is Our Favorite 

Black and White sitting on a rock

Danika Personality Shines and I love it! 

This is our 1st attempt