800

It has been 800 days since my transplant!! That is just an awesome number.. I often think about the loving family that gave me life this time of year! Thank you so very much to who ever you are!!! It is snowing alot.. Very little flaks but it has been snowing ALL day, so it really adds up by the end of the day.. Everything is going good.. Good heart=good health!! All the animals are in good health as well! That is a plus!! We had a very nice thanksgiving! I went and spent time with my dad and grama, then I went and spent time with my mom,sis and Ellis.. It was a quiet nice weekend!! Just wanted to let everyone know that things are still looking up out here in the country!!

Much Love these holidays!!
T

UpDate

The update is that I am doing better.. But not without the moment that I was wondering why I choose this golden road with chips in it here and there.. I left off where they were going to go in and fix my heart on Tuesday.. Well the moved it to Thursday with a good cause. If they were going to do the procedure on that Tuesday they would not have got to me till about 5 in the evening.. Dr Dacerett did not want that cause at that time everyone is tired and ready to go home.. Wednesday I would not have went in till afternoon, so Thursday was the day cause I was going in first thing in the morning.. I was the first case that they were doing and they were going to be very fresh for the morning..

I was all fasted up (not eating).. I was in the surgical room by 9am.. All ready to go.. It really was a strange flashback. I was being wheeled down the hall and placed under the large lights.. All the sudden transplant flashed before me.. Totally weird.. I had to fight back some tears that were filled with memories.. Kinda dumb since this was NO where near the same thing.. So any way the last thing I remembered is they were telling me that this might burn a little..(the sleepy drugs)

Next thing I woke up.. I was told things went well!!! YAY!!! I already felt better with a normal heart rhythm.. I just kinda faded in and out the rest of the day.. I took of the tape that was on my wrist where they had placed a temporary arterial line.. There were 12 holes in my wrist.. It was all black as well. It to still hurts.. I just knew I was on the up hill side of things.. Well I thought I knew..
I was laying there that night and all the sudden leg was hurting like I have never felt in my leg before.. I sat up and looked at the top of my leg and it was immediately blue.. I has a vein that broke open and was letting a large amount of blood loose into my leg.. I called my nurse in BTW:I love the phone system they have now!! So my nurse runs in looks at me leg and says.. "This is gonna hurt but I need to put all my weight in your leg to try and cut off the bleeding".. Okay when she said HURT she very much meant HURT...Holy crap!! She was putting all the pressure on it that she possibly could for 15 minutes straight.. I think at that point I told her that it would feel better if she cut my leg off.. After the 15 minutes was up she went and got a sand bag. I slept with that sand bag all night.. After hours on end and into the next day I lay there with a very sore leg.. It hurt if you even looked at it, no joke!!!
After that was fixed late the next day I felt better right after.. The next day I returned home... That was Saturday and it is now Monday.. My leg still hurts from the surgical site..

I'm just laying on the couch with my boys Bently and Ziggy!! Love them both I'm so glad I have them to make me laugh like 73 times a day.. Sorry there have not been new pics up.. I have a very good reason..Plus I have not been able to clean and keep things Picked up and You can not see my house for what it looks like right now..hehe

sheeeesh

I have had an eventful sunday. Happy Halloween!!

My heart decided to take off and breakthrough the new dosage of the heart meds that I am on... I went to the specialty hospital emergencey.. I told them my symptoms and so they took me straight back.. They took my pulse and it read something like 198.. It was jumping all over the place from 160 up to 210 back down to 190.. It was crazy.. So they started an I.V and pushed in some adenosine which is a drug that will take your breath away, stop and restart the heart back into a normal rythm... We tried that 3 times and every one was a failed attempt...

So then.......

We moved on to the cardioversin attempt.. A cardioversion is a quick procedure where an electrical shock is delivered to the heart to convert an abnormal heart rhythm back to a normal rhythm. Well we thought that was what was supposed to happen... We did this 3 times as well, once again all 3 attempts were a fail.. So off to be tranported to the UofU.. Which is the best lace so I was perfectly okay with that decision..

Now it is Monday night and things are laying low but tomorrow we will fix my heart so it will never do this again.. I will be good to go!!

Wordless Wednesday

From the Halloween party

Bathroom

Here is Tuesday's Picture.. As you can probably guess I do not like white walls in a house.. I need color, it makes it feel more warm.. I do like to accent in white tho. It makes things feel clean.. The bathroom is all new.. The window however is original.. Its a cool window so I thought I would keep it.. I am going to paint it back to white tho.. I don't really like the blue as much as I thought I would..






Tonight is the Barrel racing Halloween costume contest.. I am not in it this year I did not have enough time to get the stuff together for the horse costume.. My sister is in it tho.. I will be sure to take pictures of all the creative costumes.. Hope you all are having at great day!!!
Loves
T

Kitchen

Here is the pic of the day!! It is my kitchen.. Everything is the original except for the flooring. and of coarse the paint. The door to the right of the picture is the door that goes the the laundry room/mud room..



As you all know I am now living in my new place.. Thanks to my Grams, or all this all would have not been possible!! I am posting a new room each day.. Hope you all stay tuned for tomorrows pic of the day!! What room will be next??


So now on the the health part.. I have since been in the the E.R for my heart. My heart rate was 162 not as high as last time but still high.. I have been to Transplant clinic and Cardiology clinic also since my last post. We just changed some dosages around on my heart drugs.. So far so good!!

As far as house life goes I have a roommate.. Cj moved in a few weeks ago.. YAY for me.. However I have a zoo now..LOL I have 2 dogs full time and 3 dogs part time.. Daizy likes to stay at her grama's.. She likes to be the only dog.. She will get excited to come with me run to my car, and realize I am really leaving and run back to the house.. LOL she makes me laugh. So our house has 5 dogs and I am watching 2 dogs for a friend for a week.. So that makes 7 dogs.. Sheesh.. Good thing I have a fenced in yard to put them out.. Well that's about all that happening at the house.. So till tomorrow!! Have a good day/night!!

XOXOXOX
T

Bently

Is the name of the puppy!! He is so much fun and makes me laugh so hard.. I have only had him since Saturday.. He has adapted very well with my other kids and little kitten that I rescued Friday.. My friend was walking and got a kitten that someone threw out the car window.. Her hit is a little messed up and her nose and head is scraped.. But other than that she has come around very good and is starting to run around the house.. She is only about 9 or 10 weeks old.. She liked to play with Bently's' tail.. Its funny!! Bently is a Boxer crossed with Pit Bull.. He has very clumsy feet that he falls over ALOT!! He is 5 months old so he is gonna be a good sized dog!! I LOVE bigger dogs!! That's about all that has happened here at the house.. Oh ya I forgot to get pics of the house.. Ill do that next post!! LOL I know I always say that..

2 Years

Already!!! Phew, that went by quickly.. Yes it has been 2 years since my new lungs.. September 15 was the actual day! I have not been online much cause I have not got the Internet hooked up at my house yet.. Just been to busy. I had clinic in the 13th and I blew an 85!! SA-WEET!!! I'm getting closer to my goal of 90% and you just wait cause I will get there..

As far as the progress on the house I have got the back yard fenced in.. I'm working on getting the whole yard fenced in.. I is an acre so its alot to do.. Pretty much all the decorating is all done.. I have to get batteries for the camera so I can give you a glimpse of this old house..

My new addition to the family is a cat.. I'm not that fond of cats in the house.. But so far she has never had an accident and has never jumped on the counter.. Cause jumping on the counter is not my kind of tea.. She is the animal ruler of the house tho.. Both my dogs are scared of her.. They will walk so much out of there way its ridicules, But funny.. I will get pics of her as well.. Her name is Pyrus.. I think she is older but I rescued her from a lady that was going to take her to the pound because her mother was very allergic to her.. I really hate to see animals go to the pound as I have rescued all my animals that I have ever had.. As soon as I get my whole yard fenced in I am going to get a big dog for security.. Plus I LOVE big dogs, and I do have my own house now and can do what I want!! lol
Well I'm of for home so I will update pics ASAP!!!!!

New

I am into my house.. Finally, and it feels so good!! I just need to figure out how in gonna decorate.. My themes for the house is.. In the living room is a country theme.. The Bathroom is ocean with white accents.. The kitchen is well I'm not sure yet, my kitchen years ago when I lived on my own was Chile peppers.. So I think ill base in on some Chile stuff.. My bedroom is safari also with white accents.. When I'm all done decorating I will post pic's to see what everyone thinks and if anyone has any great ideas please send them my way!! After I get the inside done my goal is to work on the outside until winter hits.. Cause I'm not going to work outside in the freezing cold.. My doge love the new place.. Mostly for the new smells I think.. They came to my mom's house and both of them crawled into their beds here and they are still sleeping.. Moving is tough on a dog!! hehe

Well on to decorating for a while longer today.. Hope everyone had a great Monday!!

Loves
T

Title goes here

What a busy week, it went by so fast. I have found me a house here in L Town.. But its on my own so that all that matters to me right now.. I get the Independence that I am so craving right now.. I'm pretty sure the Park City job is not going to go through I have not heard back from them.. So on the job hunt I go again.. Man I forgot what a pain in the A this is.. Especially with not that much experience and the experience I did have was a way long time ago.. Shesh the waiting to hear back game is not so fun.. I did find another job though.. It is in Logan working at the center that takes in the disabled people and teaches them things like independent living and such.. I really like this kind of work.. I'm thinking this is what I want to get into.. For a while I wanted to get in to veterinary work.. But this kind of stuff fascinates me alot.. I have a disabled cousin that I love to be around.. Not only do you teach them things but they teach you alot in return.. They way their brain work and the things that they come up with to help them cope with things.. FASCINATING is what it is..

I'm going to be moving in to the house this weekend.. I'm so EXCITED!! It is an older house.. It was built in 1892.. It has been all re-done on the inside.. So no worries of bad things in the air that I will be breathing.. It is on a little more than half an acre so my dogs will have plenty of room to run and play with the neighbor dogs.. It is on the main street in Lewiston so I must keep them in the fence in fear they will get smucked by a car.. I will get pics on here when I move in.. All the paint is custom paint that I picked out..

I went barrel racing for the first time in over a year last Monday.. It was so much fun.. fun enough that I went again Wed night.. I cam to close coming out of the 2nd barrel that I wacked my leg on the barrel.. Now I have a cut in my lower leg to prove that I had alot of fun! LOL

Well now that I have put you to sleep I will get to bed so I can get up and go do my interview in the morning for my hopefully new job.. Keep your fingers crossed!!!

Loves T

Hm

Update on the heart.. I have felt so much better now that I am in rhythm.. It's amazing how you don't realize how much you are affected with something until in is heading in the right direction.. I feel FANTASTIC!!!! YAY!!! I'm hoping things will continue to get better as time goes on.. I'm etching it into my mind that my pft's are going to rock next time I blow.. I think its on the 13, not sure, guess I better look that might be useful information.. hehe

So I took a step up on life these past few days.. I want to start with a new path.. What I mean by that is a new location, which hopefully will be Park City.. A new job.. A new house, and I'm selling my car.. Yes I tell you NEW NEW NEW.. I'm am done with all the BS that goes on here.. I am getting no where still living here.. I feel like I have no ambition any more.. I want that to change.. I LOVE my family but there is nothing holding me here.. I want to be my own person and live my own life for once.. Something that is going to be new to me being sick before transplant and having to rely on so many people.. Now its my turn to do stuff for me!!!

I had an EPIC moment today cause I finally got my skype to work.. LOVE me some skype!!
Now that you have you a quick update I am going to head to bed..LOL more like head over to facebook!!! hahahaha

72

Was the number that I blew today.. Not great, however there is alot of factors that could be playing into this low number.. Well its low for me now days anyways.. So far my heart is still in rhythm from yesterday.. That is a good thing!! YAY!!! I still don't feel as good as I think I should.. So if I don't feel better by Friday then I will go back into transplant clinic after I go to my Cardio clinic.. Other than that I feel Fantastic about life!!! Bring it on!!!

ShOcK...

Well today I had an appointment at the Cardiology clinic.. When I arrived I had to do blood work to make sure things were okay to proceed.. I got to the cardio clinic and got all checked in.. I told them that I could feel my heart racing out of control.. They answered back that they will hook up an EKG to check it out.. I got back to the room that they preformed the procedure in.. He turned on the EKG machine and all he said was.. "UM..WOW" I was thinking..I told you my heart was racing to win 1st place in a marathon..
We were waiting for the lab results so we could continue with everything.. Still no results.. So he went to make a phone call to lab to see what the hold up was.. Come to find out they drew the wrong labs.. No surprise to me that again they had drawn their own made up labs the benefited me in no way.. So we had to wait another hour for the RIGHT results to arrive.. They finally came in and everything was good to continue.. They placed a pad on my chest and a pad on my back.. Those are used to transfer currents through my heart..

Below is my what is supposed to be a heart rhythm before the sent the electrical currents through.. I was told that my heart rate was 195..


This is right when the electricity was sent through..


This is the rhythm right after the shock was sent


And this beautiful pic is of the rhythm after the heart was back into "normal" beats at the rate of 77..


Man do I feel tons better after that.. It makes me feel like I can finally rest without my heart trying to jump out of my body.. I do have what looks and feels like a sun burn where the patches were.. But I will take the burn over feeling like I am going to explode..

Tomorrow I have transplant clinic.. I am hoping to blow a 90!! We will see i guess!!

185

Is what I clocked my heart rate right before I left to go to the E.R last night.. It is a 20 minute drive to the CV Specialty hospital here in the valley.. I got checked in and they got me straight back to a room.. By the time that I got there my heart had decreased to 177.. So the placed an I.V very quickly.. They missed the first time thinking that had picked out an ok vein.. Not to my surprise the vein rolled and would not allow that needle anywhere close to it.. I held up my arm and showed them the vein that is a little bit allowing to be poked.. BAM she slid the I.V right in place, with a tiny bit of stress.. The Fluids were rolling in making me very hydrated.. The got the Denisine all ready to inject..( Denisine is a drug that brings your heart to a pause and then it restarts to what is supposed to be back to a normal heart rate.. We got the same effect as the last time the I was given this drug.. It only will hold a positive effect for about 3 to 5 sec then my heart gets really mad and goes back up to a high rate..
So I was admitted to the joint for an overnight stay to monitor my heart and make sure once they got it calmed down that it would not jump back into the crazy numbers..
I had a very cool nurse.. We joked the whole night up.. I did not get very much sleep.. My vitals went off every 30 min.. So by 7am I was starving so I ate some breakfast.. I layed down to watch some t.v while I waited for the Dr to come in at 8:30 to give me the word to go home.. All was said and done at 9:30 and I had my i.v pulled and papers ready to sign.. I sat up to get out of the bed and I started to throw up.. I was more nauseous more that I had been in quite along time.. I just wanted to crawl back into bed and stay if that meant I would not feel like that.. So we called the dr and he came in and gave me some nausea meds tha helped a ton.. So he continued with the ok for me to go.. On my way home my mom stoped to get me the nausea pills that he prescribed to me.. I got into the store and I had to turn around and go outside back to the car.. I was going to throw up again.. So my mom went and go them.. I took a pill Right away.. I made it home and took a nap..

So tomorrow I go in for some tests.. Not sure what they are called I just to know that they are real invasive.. I will be put to sleep is what I have been told.. So I may not wright back tomorrow, just depending on how I feel afterwards..

I hope everyone had a good Monday!!
Loves
T

Templton

This is my new baby boy Templton... I have 4 baby's but they are very energetic and its kinda hard to get a picture of them... I have Love, Spike, Sparky and of coarse Templton..

FuN!!

I woke up this morning to a Hawk talking away right outside of my window.. I had to go out on the balcony to make sure what I thought I was hearing.. Sure enough there were 4 of them.. Come to find out why they were making all that noise is because of the aftermath of last nights storm.. We had a ton of rain and some strong wind.. Well It had knocked out one of their nests and killed their baby chick.. It really upset them.. It was sad.. But that is the part of living out in nature.. Every time they made their loud shriek Ziggy turned his head and was wondering what that noise was... He is so cute.. I just Love my babies...






Stay tuned I have another addition I added to the family... I had these things as a kid and loved them... Both my mom and I are very entertained with them and their personality's.. My step dad on the other hand HATES them... But hey that should be the least of his worries right now.. So he can deal!!! Any guesses and what I got????

Zoo fun!!!

Here are some pictures of out adventure to the Zoo.. My sister and I went a few days ago.. It was a great day! I thought I would share some of our favorite animals.. We had many more favorite ones but the glare of the sun was hard to get along with trying to capture a photo through glass.. Ya that don't work very good either.. Enjoy!!!

27

Well I have made another year successfully.. Great health and alot of happiness involved in this wonderful year.. Getting closer to a number that I was told that I would never see.. Well that's me..showing everyone that I can do it.. hehe
A couple days after my birthday I was headed down to Salt Lake to redo my PFT's.. I had had my grams come with me this time.. Which she never comes with me anymore cause I usually zip down and zip back home in no time.. Well Luckily I had made a change to my routine this time around.. I was driving and I got to Centerville and all of the sudden I felt dizzy and I was seeing stars.. I could feel my heart trying to pump out of my chest.. Oh man did i freak.. Driving down the freeway going 65, ya not a good combination.. So I pulled over the the next exit and I made grams drive the rest of the way.. I called Clinic and got ahold of Kelly and told her what was happening.. So a few min later I got to clinic.. They sent me back to a room and took my pulse, it read something like 201.. Um ya I knew it was racing but come on really, 200.. So the challenge begun.. I tried holding my breath and pushing against it as hard as I could.. pushing pushing... No luck it jumped back into the funky rhythm.. We tried that a couple of times with no success.. So after taking my labs some of my levels were low.. Tauna brought in this salt lick of a drink in for me to drink.. I had to drink it fast or else I knew that it would be hard for me to get down.. BAD idea.. It made me VERY nauseous.. I just knew that I was going to throw up.. Good on my part I kept it all down after going into my happy place several times.. PHEW glad that got over remotely fast.. The next step was to give me this I.V stuff that like almost stops your heart and restarts it back into a normal beat.. Well that was the plan anyway.. That plan did not go over well.. We tried that twice with maybe a little good out of it. I think my heart got down to 175.. Whopty doo right.. Better than in the 200"s though.. After some more time just laying there it finally came back down the earth rate.. I already was feeling better, tired, but better... So I got to stay in the hospital over night just to make sure thing really were calmed down.. Yes things went very smooth that overnight stay.. That was a good feeling.. Now I am back on a 30 heart event monitor in case anything happens it will be recorded.. Other than that nothing else eventful has happened..

I'm going to start looking in to some classes.. That is exciting.. I'm ready for some more collage.. It's been 8 years since I was living the college life.. I'm pumped and ready for more!!

Jakes dad needs prayers sent his way.. Jeff is very sick and any positive thought or prayers send his way would be great.. Thanks everyone!!

Loves!!!!
T

Hmmmm...

Wow what a hard few days it has been for the whole town of Lewiston... How something can be so sudden and so permanent.. It's just like yesterday we were putting in the irrigation system for ours and Dennis's crops... Today he is still gone.. It still seems so unreal.. When it is your time to go there is no getting out of it... But Dennis went doing what he loved and that was riding his horses and getting them ready for the track.. In fact today was the day of the race that his 2 horses qualified for.. It was held in Pocatello.. I think the whole crowd was there to watch his horses run.. It was the most amazing thing ever... Both his horses were in the same race and they got 1st and 2nd place.. I could feel Dennis watching them run.. Those horses ran for him.. It was a very emotional moment for everyone especially for the Family.. For the win picture they had both horses in it.. Usually they just put the 1st place winner in.. But in this special case they made special arrangements... I was very glad that I was there to see it all happen... What a way to train those horses Dennis!!!!!

Okay I have to stop making my eyes water so I will talk about me.. As for my heart it is still randomly being tachacardia (spelling) like.. That's pretty much all that is happening with me.. I hope I will someday have something to writs about again... I'm pretty boring now days!!!! Until next time have a safe weekend!!

88

So it was a great day at clinic today!! Everything went very well.. Yes I blew an 88!! whoop whoop!! can you believe that.. I barley can... On a lower note my heart has been beating off track every now and then in a very fast rate.. I have been placed on a 24 hour 30 day monitor to record any off rhythm beats.. It is a very cool little device really....

On an even lower note.. I just got word that we have lost a friend that was our neighbor and a partner in the horse racing business... Dennis.. He was up at the track exercising his horses and he had a sever accident that took his life.. He will be missed...

So there you have it... Great day turned into a sad day....

Be safe everyone and have a great week..

Loves T

You Know When.......

You know you’re a lung transplant patient when:

You have pills, masks and antibacterial hand gel in your pocket or purse

Your signature looks like you used an Etch-A-Sketch to sign, because of drug induced tremors ..
<---I have 2 different signatures my tremor signature and my non-tremor signature lol.

You know your creatinine, lung function, white cell count, and prograf level intimately.

You talk to your health care providers like they are family!! Love you Kelly, Tauna, Barb (aka Dr Cahill)

Your cough-sniffle radar is on high alert in public places and you run away in hysterical paranoia when someone sneezes or coughs near you

Your diabetes is a piece of cake compared to everything else you’ve been through

Any day above ground is a good day <----True You honor and appreciate your donor family with all your heart (or lungs)

You freak out with any fever, wheeze, phlegm, shortness of breath, or pain in your lungs

You are terrified of children because of their germs

Your insurance company hates you.

You have an excuse to weasel out of the dirty housework and gardening.

You love the wrinkles you see on your face and welcome every birthday.

You keep your hospital in business. <---You better believe it!

You can drive to your hospital with your eyes closed <----Anytime lol.

The Gang

Here are all my crazy cousins!!
Shawna, Me, Magan, Kori... I love them all very much!! MUAH Ladies!!!

Easter!!

Happy Easter!!!! May this day be blessed with FAITH!!!!



My cousin Shawna and I spent the day hanging out with one another.. It was a great day!! We went to aunt Donna's for Easter dinner.. It was so good!!!! Yummy!!!! Then Donna gave is some jelly beans that were so good when we got home we had to go buy some more.. Family is so great even if they are not blood family.. Family is family to me blood or no blood relation..

Shawna and I have been watching alot of Paranormal State on A&E.. That show is so cool!! I truly believe in that stuff.. If you had to live in my moms house you would as well.. No joke!! But there is nothing wrong with that to me anyway.. That kind of stuff fascinate me... I am very sensitive to that stuff and has had many experiences with it.. All good though!! FEEWWWW!!!



Shawna and I made dinner for just us the cousins we have never got together with just us.. It has always been us with all the parents.. But this time the parents were gone.. wink wink!! No we are good kids no worries.. Well on camera anyway!! Kori had a few drink and she was full of stories.. Very finny mind you! We did nothing but laugh our butts off.. It took us an hour to eat our dinner cause we were laughing so much and so hard.. We were all crying!! Our family is blessed with dirty minds so you can imagine the things we were talking about.. It all started with my bottle of enzymes and ended with explosive diarrhea.. Oh man it was the best time ever.. My date Lulu had an awesome time too.. She was shy going into the party and not shy even a little bit leaving the party.. We broke her in well!!! There is no way someone could leave still being shy!! And if you are then you probably should not end up in the family.. LOL

Myself and Shawna before the party
You can see how hard we were laughing
This is Shawna and her poor boyfriend. Can you see the look on his face.. Like Someone please call me and give me an escape rout out of here.. He was the only guy.. All of us cousins are girls... Like I said poor guy...

So my uncle has this knife display and he has this HUGE pocket knife.. It is so funny cause it's so big..

Kori with the pocket knife in her pocket.. Trying to be casual.. Not working so great tho..

Finally..... This is the steak that I cooked.. Yes it is that big.. So big that it looked fake.. Boy was it good though.. We ate so much that we were sick.. Put that and laughing together... no it don't mesh that well!!! Ziggy sure liked the bones off of it... I had to cut them out before we cooked them cause you know that you cant give dogs cooked bones cause the will sliver in their belly and can be fatal..

This is the best night I have ever had in my whole life with my family.... We will be getting together again SOON... Before I leave for sure!!!

No Sleep...

I can not sleep so I though I would just go ahead and do the 2nd installment of the catching up on my life.. So i took a little road trip to New Mexico for a short while.. I took some pictures on the way just to get a glimpse of the weather difference in the states.. Some are not that great cause of coarse I forgot my real camera.. So I had to resort to my phone..

This is going through Price Canyon.. It is always a pretty canyon to drive through..
This is Moab.. I love that place!!

The Famous Arch.. Cant go wrong there... right??!!

This is Durango Colorado.. I love Colorado.. I could easily live there...

I went over to my cousins house and discovered she also has her boyfriends dogs.. This dog right below he is giving away.. ya just giving her away.. I would love to have her.. She is a fawn Pitt.. She is so beautiful ans so sweet.. she will crawl right in your lap and lick you to death.. They just don't like her i guess but I LOVE her.. If there was a way to take her I would... You all know what happens when I have my heart set on something.. I don't give up that easily.. LOL Her name is Isis.. you say it like iceis

This is Blade.. I really like him.... but so do they!!! He is also beautiful!!

His poor little nose got sunburned... So on goes the doggy sunscreen..

Happy Spring!!

Well let do a little catching up in the life of T.. Well to start things off I am not moving just yet to Clearfield.. I'm not sure I really want to go anymore.. It's funny how people can reel you in and show you a side that is not real.. Gawd I cant stand FAKE people.. Anywho if anyone including my girlfriends have in their mind that they are going to tell me what to do....how to do it...and who I can hang out with... umm no thanks... I will be my own person... For one I am the most faithful person ever.. I would give my world to the right person... Some day I will come across that one person... I cant let anyone bring me down to their level.. I am a positive person who knows what I want in life.. I like to be around positive people who enjoy life... I'm okay with things as I was with the ending of the last relationship.... I really will miss those kids though.. They really snuck into my heart.. The good thing is that Mandy and I are going to be friends.. I just don't have it to be in a controlling relationship like she wants.. So I do get to play with the kids some times..

Well now that the bad news things are out of the way..... We celebrated my sister Brooks' B-day on the 22nd.. She is a whole 11 years old now.. Cute little girl she is.. She is my world and I am hers.. We are the best of friends and will forever be.. It's funny she has a little best friend that just moved form Wyoming.. Come to find out they both share the same b-day.. yup exact same day!! Cool huh??!!! They both are so cute and fun to be around.. Her besties' parents have a pizza place in Logan so we took them to the fun park and then to the pizza place.. Rachel's parents made alot of pizza for everyone.. What a great day it was.. Below are the pictures of the party..

Myself, Mom, Brook(my sister HATES to SMILE in pics.LOL)
Brook and all of her friends
Brook is in the blue and Rachel her bestie is in the orange

Sunday we decided to go to the Cutter Races in Ogden.. It was a great little get-a-way for the day.. We have alot of friends that were running.. This was the finals.. People from all over come and race.. This is the teams heading to the gates.. What a nice day it was for some races too.. I think it would be fun to have a team like my step dad did in the past.. But I don't really much like working them EVERY day in the dead of winter when it can get -30.. Not exactly my cup of tea!! I will stick to my riding in the spring summer and fall and gladly skip the winter..

Aunt Jo I hope I made your day by updating my blog!!! hahaha love ya!! This will be the first installment of my catching up.. The rest will be tomorrow... PROMISE!!!!

Otis

Here is the promised picture of the new addition!!

A little piece of HOPE!

This week, we gained important new ground in our work to advance the development of new cystic fibrosis treatments. VX-809, a potential CF drug developed by Vertex Pharmaceuticals, showed encouraging results in a preliminary Phase 2a clinical trial.

VX-809 is one of the first investigational drugs aimed at treating the underlying causes of CF.The oral therapy was tested in patient volunteers who have the most common cystic fibrosis mutation, Delta F508.Results from the trial showed VX-809 was well-tolerated and, in a subset of CF patients, reduced sweat chloride levels — a key indicator of CF.

VX-809 is the direct result of one of the Foundation’s largest investments in drug development. This gives us confidence that our innovative approach to science leads to progress.

We ALL know money buys science and science buys HOPE!!!!


Thanks Somer for his great info!!

PINK..OH MY!!

Not much has been going on here in my world! Although it has warmed up enough to wash my car.. Yea it look brand new again.. That's what I don't like about living in the snow, the road salt is so hard on cars.. But that's why we have car washes I guess..

So I have decided to change up my look a bit.. Yup I went back to my blonde.. Very blonde I must say.. But I love it!! I had many friends tell me that it would look pretty sweet if I added a couple of streaks of wild color.. Well I took their advise and put in Pink and Blue.. LOL.. When my CF benefit rolls around I think I'm going to put in purple and green!! Purple for CF and green for transplant!! What ya think?? To night I am going to go down to SL and see some friends that I have not seen in a long time! We are all going to the moon.. They are putting on a fundraiser for the mom of the owner of the bar.. This last Christmas she had to get emergency surgery.. She is doing fine now.. Thank goodness!!

I have almost finished the 2nd season of Dexter!! Yes I know I'm kinda behind times.. LOL If you like crime shows I highly recommend watching Dexter.. I wont ruin it in case you have not seen it before and want to watch it.. But dang I am ADDICTED!!


What do you think??

I have decided to change up Ziggy's life a little.. LOL I gave him a mo-hawk.. he he he just like his momma.. He is so damn cute.. I just love my kids!! He pushed the covers and blankets on my bed to make his own bed in my bed.. Good thing I always give him baths!!!