Happy Love Day

Lovey Dovey Day was Fabulous...
the kids got their annual candy gram when they woke up
Matt and I had an wonderful lunch date
and spent the entire day together. I love this man so much.
and we had our annual family Valentines Dinner.

We all had a great day full of love.

Jess worked all week making sure she had something for everyone in the family for Valentines this year. After she proudly delivered her handmade cards and carefully purchased treats to each of us (she got me a rose :)

I asked the boys if they had something for her?

Logan ran to his school stash and carried a treat behind his back and then told her to shut her eyes, he then shoved a candy in her awaiting hands and said..."Happy Valentines Jess, love ya."

Hunter climbed up on a chair and then announced that his card for her was oral....he then said....
"Dear Jessica,..." and proceeded to "tell her" what he would of written in a card and dutifully ended it. "Love Hunter."

Then Hunter looked at Logan as he was climbing back down and said.
" r'member when I let you go first yesterday on wii, that your valentines, k? Let's go play"

That satisfied Logan as that was more than he was giving Hunter and they were off.

I Love it.


Jess and Hunter had to make their own mailboxes for school. Jess my little competitive gal...HAD to start planning it the minute we learned of this...as they would be judged. So she stewed and glued and came up with this heart pillow man that held a mailbox that when it opened and it sung "Makes you Wanna Shout" which she cut out from a musical card and rigged it so it would sing when the mailbox opened. Clever huh?

She REALLY wanted to win, she said she had to write up a plan of her project in school and she wrote how much she wanted to win even though her mom told her winning wasn't was important. Well at least she heard it. So...

She stressed.

We tried to de-stress her.

She won.




Hunter made his without much discussion with his mom. About 20 less discussions than Jess and I had about hers. He was busily making his box about an hour before bed the night before and was very content with his shipping box mailbox and could care less if he won or not.
I thought is was great too.

He didn't stress.
He didn't win.



Hmm. Man, parenting would sure be easier if they all came out the same, but not near as entertaining.

Am I Pregnant??

Wednesday I hit the 6 week post liberation CCSVI surgery.

It is a wonderful time, but tough time!

I feel amazing.

But until I hit that second milestone I always wonder?? Is it coming back?

There is a fear until about 3 months of scar tissue creating a new valve. Also we are unsure of what the long term road will be for this procedure.

No, I am NOT pregnant, and don't hold your breath. But it is the best way to help explain it. There is a time in the early weeks that it is too early to see the stick turn colors to confirm, that you could honestly go either way. Sometimes during that time you feel, "ya, this definitely feels like all the other pregnancies" then you find out you aren't and you aren't really surprised that you aren't pregnant. You just don't really know for sure.

So that is how I feel now. I am not really sure???

So unless I had another venogram to confirm (like taking a pregnancy test) I seem to continue to analyze my symptoms.

But as for now. There is no denying that my leg pain is completely gone. My energy is great. My vertigo, tremors and morning headaches are still gone.

Tingling is still there, but hey, no complaints.

So I am trying very hard to continue to put my faith in Heavenly Father and know that whatever may be...is supposed to be.

And just be grateful for each blissful moment I am given when it is there.

(UPDATING THE BLOG: I have been slacking with family blogging so I am going to catch up the last 6 months and post them out of date order for now and post them currently, and then plop them back where they go later. Because I HAVE been taking pictures like usual just need to post em.)

Day Three: Recovery Day

Today we just hung out and recovered.

I had a very easy day.

I didn't hurt...yet. (that came later)

I had to be careful with my site at the femoral vein, being on blood thinners it was very important I didn't pull or stretch that area causing it to bleed. And they had to put my IV in my hand so I got a doosy of a hematoma bump there, but I am used to being a freak with the IV it happens with all my baby births.
But it was this little bump that when they wheeled me out, Matt took one look at my hand, got so faint I couldn't even talk to him about how great I felt, until he caught his breath and seriously bring color back to his face and take deep breathes.

No exaggeration here either I am afraid... I am totally serious. I actually said, "are you for real!?" The nurses always say (as he has had this reaction with all 3 babies) and says they are brought on by seeing someone he loves in pain.

Good thing he wasn't allowed in while they were destroying my valves!

Other than that I felt really really great. When I woke up the after surgery my head felt so clear and I had for the first time no headache behind my eyes.

I felt so refreshed I would of done our Disney Day today...but Matt just gave me his,
"Jenn your talking crazy talk again" look.

So we just hung out on the bed and watched t.v. and just chilled.

It was actually pretty nice.

Finally in the afternoon we had our appointment with Dr. Arata. I couldn't wait to tell him he was gave my life back and how great I felt. I walked into the waiting room and found a gal that I had seen at the pre op appointment. When we were both in the waiting room two days prior, she was in a wheelchair. Today...she walked in to her post op appointment.
I wanted to jump up and hug her. We started talking and like excited school girls about all the symptoms that have gone or are changing.

It was incredible to see.

When I met with Dr. Arata, he just sat and listened as I joyfully explained every detail of how I have felt the last 24 hours. He sat with a smile on his face and just listened as I happily erupted all my excitement as fast as I could. I apoligized for being so excited, as anyone that knows me it was a very animated moment. But he just chuckled and told me he was thrilled for me. We discussed further about blood thinners and other details and then told me he would like updates regularly for as long as is convenient for me.

So we then felt it was a good time to go celebrate and go to In and Out.



When we go to Disneyland we always stay at the Candy Cane Inn.
I HIGHLY recommend it.

Clean (and I am freaky about that)-Great Great Price-Free shuttle-Free Big Breakfast-Nice Pool-Clean (it deserves being said twice)-Close, one block from Disney Main Enterance-and so Gosh Darn Cute!
...it has a beautiful cobblestone road, gorgeous flowers and ivy climbing up the walls...my favorite.

Our room was right behind this cascading ivy...love it.
So it made hanging out really nice.

My Disney Day

Ahh..Today was just wonderful.

Two days post vein surgery

and I feel like I am 19 years old and

full of energy.

And here at Disneyland I feel full of childlike excitment...
I just want to keep pinching myself because I can't believe how amazing I feel.

How different I feel.
What better place to share this awesome new energy!

Matt was amazing making it the

happiest day for me.

We ate at all the fancy restaurants I have always wanted to eat at.

We strolled through the shops, again and again.

We rode the rides a couple times in a row sometimes.

(which we learned was a little ambitious as I was SORE

afterward and it brought on a serious headache)

It was just so fun to laugh,

smile until our cheeks hurt and just spend the day hand in hand.

And just celebrate this day of amazing miracles.

It was just a really great day.