Prognosis and improvement

So Emily has B cell lymphoblastic leukemia. As far as we know she will be in the hospital for a month. They started her on steroids last night and you can already see the difference and improvement

The picture in the blue and white is from yesterday and the picture in the Grey and pink is from today of just one treatment.

Much Needed Baby And Momma Time

Jack and Emily finally got some alone time today. I don't know who is more tired, Emily who got a spinal tap, iv port and bone marrow sample, CT and MRI scans in one morning or Jack who is 2 days old and just started to open his eyes.

The Beginning

So there we were, sitting in the doctors office waiting to hear what was wrong with Emily's shoulder and neck. The doctor (doctor Codd from Glenwood/hillspring) told us that the biopsy that Emily did the previous Friday turned concluded that she had cancer and that the baby had to come out that day or as soon as possible. We had an hour and a half to get checked in to our room where a whirlwind of emotion hit us. The hospital staff was really nice and after an epidural and 6 pushes, Baby Jack was born. He was 6.7 lbs and 18.5 inches of awesome. Hardly ever cries, such an easy goin little guy that we feel that the Lord told him to go easy on us for the first little while. 

 He looked like his mom at first but he is surprisingly darkening up lol.

 Most of his faces seem to be like, "is it ok to cry like all the other babies yet? no? ok".

Emily is doing just fine. She has had an internal IV placed, a bone marrow sample as well as a spinal tap. For being a person who doesn't like needles, she is absolutely amazing. It's no wonder where Jack gets his courage and calm from. My parents are here and they are so great. They take little Jack and night to let Emily sleep. They have been so understanding and willing to help us in any way needed.

While Emily is focusing on treatments and recovery, I am the task man. I am fixing the school, work and insurance situations as well as moving logistics, family helper coordination and general informer. I will post and update as much as I can. We love that everyone is so willing to help and the miracles keep rolling in. In order to not overwhelm Emily and I with phone calls, please check the blog first for details on how everything is going. parents are exempt. Thank you again for all of your prayers and support! Lots more to come and if you have any questions, please comment on the posts with questions and Emily and I will do our best to answer them in the next post or two.

Managers conference

A few weeks ago. Emily and I went to Utah for a managers conference. We had a blast staying at the hotel. We would go to the hot tub every night because I was in meetings pretty much all day long. The company took Emily and I snowshoeing up to a yurt! They had a 5 star chef cookout a five course meal. Unfortunately most people were full after the second course. It was very delicious and I'm very happy that nobody liked rack of lamb except for me. So I had probably 6 plates of lamb. Then we went to a BYU mens volleyball game with some friends from Thailand. We also stayed with Sarah and Matt and Tennyson over the weekend we went to the zoo in and Tennyson was so funny and so sweet. The conference went really well I learned a lot of things and Emily got a lot of homework done.

General conference

Last weekend Emily and I went to Utah for General Conference. Are friends Ben and Devin had special tickets for us to sit with her family during conference. Those tickets also got us into a special lunch where all of the General Authorities eat in between sessions. We met elder cook and elder Bowen and also elder wick. The one who talked about his wife jumping out of the car with their baby. Then Devins mom took us on a tour of their neighborhood and showed us where sherry do elder Nelson, Elder Hales, and many others lives. We booked a hotel for cheap and it was super creepy and, well, super cheap. I didn't want to stay there I would have rather stayed with Sarah or Emily's grandparents but we're already but the room and it was too late to cancel the plus side of the location was that it was right across the street from the red iguana. So we had an awesome food there. We also stopped by Sarah and Matt house in played more card games and Matt taught us a lot of cool games. We're so happy to hear about his job and anxious for everyone to come stop by our place and hang out because we have a lot more room then we had before. probably triple the space.

Our apt.

This is our awesome apartment! We got couches that needed some TLC so we got a brown sharpie and that did the trick! It was awesome how well it worked. That's the before and after pictures. We bought the entertainment center and the foot rest/table too. All the colors matched! The picture in our room is big and fun to look at. Its really really big haha.

short update part 2

here are some more pictures and hopfully videos of our recent adventures.

This is Ben and Devyn(with Alana) They was the jackpot...a lot. 

I really want one of these. Really really bad. She was so kind and amazing. 

I was thumbless Jack for our Halloween party.

This was in twinfalls

This was the coolest juice we made with our Juicer.

our Yoshi pumpkin at Halloween.

This guy was mine and his name is Dozer

just a taste of our t-shirt sales this last holiday!

the after shot of the passenger side headlight. sorry these are way out of order. 

This is the before picture of our headlight. There was a crack in it and about an inch of water that would slosh around. 

an epic battle between jaws and Mr. mustache. sorry half of it is upside down. 

This one is Jaws

Another picture of Waterton lake. 

A very cool..thing we found in Canada. Oh Dr. Ho, what will you think of next?

This is the After picture of our new windshield and new headlights(installed myself)

panoramic view of Waterton lake. Only about 40 minutes from Emily's house.

On our way back from Canada we stopped at Pork Chop Johns. 

This one is called Punchy and was Emily's. They all started out as just perforated paper and we folded and glued them together on new years eve. It was sooo fun. 

Our new new years tradition. to the death robot fighting. 

This is Sir Mustache