Introducing "The Dynamic Trio"!

So here we go, we have finally joined the world of blogging! I can thank my beautiful cousin Aly for that! Here's a little bit about our "Dynamic Trio" ... Seth is going to school full time as a Pre-Professional Biology major and also working 50 hour weeks for UPS as an Account Manager for Las Vegas to put him through school. He is going to school to become an Oral Surgeon. Seth has a love for Dentistry that is hard to describe. We watch the discovery health channel every saturday, and he loves to watch these "dental conferences" on this boring channel...i have no understanding of his passion for dentistry. BUT i do know he will be the best darn Oral Surgeon around someday! As of now, we only have 12 more years of school to go thru! Yea! He has 2 more years of undergrad, 4 years of Dental school, 3 years of specializing, and 3 more years for Surgery! He is hardly ever home, but Nicci and I cherish the time that he can spend with us. When daddy is home we LOVE to make brownies, and cookie dough and watch Dora the Explorer as a family. Nicci loves to sing the "Backback" song and boogie to the music! When she was 4 months old Seth taught her how to "shake her booty" and to this day she boogies (and shakes her little booty!) with her daddy to EVERY song she hears! :) Every Sunday we go on a family walk which has become our favorite part of every week. Nicci loves to point to the trees and say, "TEES!" It's music to our ears!

I am a full time wife and mother which is the hardest and yet most rewarding job i've ever had. In fact there is NOTHING i would rather do than serve my dear husband and take care of our little Nicci-D. I work part time (when i can) as a nanny for the 4 and 5 star hotels which i LOVE, and which i have MANY amazing stories about. My true passion is cleaning, and i absolutely love to do laundry. There is something about the smell of Tide and Downey that puts a smile on my face! When nicci is taking her GLORIOUS afternoon nap, i dive into Harry Potter (while cuddled up in my Harry Potter blanket) and read as long as time will permit! I'm a Harry nerd, end of story.

And last but definitely NOT least our dear Nicole Debra. Wow, where to begin? She is our miracle baby. When Nicci was born she had Craniosynostosis, specifically Metopic Synostosis. We took her to Dr.s here in Vegas because we knew something was wrong because her head was shaped like a football. :( but after tests and CT Scans they simply diagnosed her wrong and said she was fine, and sent us on our way. So we ignored the Dr.s and took her to Primary Children's Hospital in SLC to see the Dr.s there. After seeing the CT scans the previous Dr.'s had taken they performed immediate surgery. Sure enough she had what we thought, Metopic Synostosis and if we would have waited another year she would have been blind and suffered brain damage. It was the scariest thing we had ever been through. They cut her from ear to ear and reconstructed the entire front of her skull and then reconstructed her eye sockets AND her eyebrow ridges. She had 4 blood transfusions and was in the intensive care unit for a week. It took a while for her to recover but the swelling has gone down and she is starting to look so good! My parents were with us every step of the way, from Dr.s apts, to surgery, and all through recovery, they were there loving, supporting, and helping to build our little family into an indestructible unit! We learned and grew so much closer during this difficult and frightening time. She has since had surgery on her eyes and is recovering very well from that as well. She should only have 1 more surgery when she is 3 or 4 and then she should be done! If they would have caught it at age 3 months it would have been SUCH AN EASY procedure with minimal scaring and NO follow up surgeries. (Darn the dumb dr.s here...grrr) But she is AMAZING, and SUCH a strong little girl, even when her eyes were swollen shut she would point in the direction of laughter or talking, and jabber along with everyone doing the same. We all learned first hand how true the often used phrase, "what doesn't kill you will only make you stronger", is.

The meaning and knowledge of how essential and sacred prayer is has blessed our little family beyond comprehension. We love our Savior Jesus Christ so much and we feel so inadequate for the many blessings we have received. We can not wait for that sacred and special time when we can all walk hand-in-hand into His presence and look into His eyes and feel His arms embrace us into eternity.

~SLIDESHOWS of NICCI-D's SURGERY~

The first time we got to hold our Nicci since the surgery. After almost 8 hours of waiting, we can not explain the feeling of our little family being united again.