Just something to think about...

Many of us create to do lists to remind us of things we want to accomplish. But people rarely have to be lists. Why? To do’s are activities or events that can be checked off the list when done. To be, however, is never done. You can’t earn checkmarks with to be’s. I can take my wife out for a lovely evening this Friday, which is a to do. But being a good husband is not an event; it needs to be part of my nature—my character, or who I am.
Or as a parent, when can I check a child off my list as done? We are never done being good parents. And to be good parents, one of the most important things we can teach our children is how to be more like the Savior
-Lynn G. Robbins of the Seventy

Another cool quote I heard this week-

"When your child comes into the room does your face light up? Do they see in your eyes that you're glad they're there?"
-Some lady on the Oprah Show

One year ago today...

One year ago today was NOT a good day! I was scared to death and it was horrible! It was the worst day of my life hands down. I don't really feel like writing out the whole story but I think you get the picture... And Jamie gave me permission to put up these pictures!! (and yes, I really did ask)



Warning: some are kinda yucky!

                                                             



Just transferred from the ED and in his room in the neuro ICU at John c Lincoln. Laying flat because his T12 vertebre is shattered and a chip of bone is right next to his spinal cord



He's pale because he lost a ton of blood that's dumping into a massive hematoma on his right side- receiving blood transfusion. I'm pale because I feel like I'm about to pass out...



No picture of him after surgery to repair his shattered T12
(After we told him how horrible it was Jamie wanted to see a pic of this and asked why we didn't take a picture... I don't know maybe because you had a tube down your throat and we thought you were gonna die!!)



Morning after getting off the ventilator. He's not Asian, just puffy from getting pumped full of fluids after loosing so much blood during surgery. He was so swollen when he was on the ventilator that he made Derek look small when he was standing by his bed. Jamie's just happy he gets to drink water and watch the Suns game :)



Getting out of bed was NOT fun!!



 Ok, here come some yucky pics!



This makes me hurt :(

The first time I saw the incision site!! I was sooo scared! I had just assumed that it was gonna be some tiny laproscopic scar or something... I was wrong! That little stitch on top is from where the chest tube was!



First shower a couple weeks after being home from the hospital

The red marks on his back are from bruising, the only road rash he got was that tiny little red patch on his right elbow!! 





His souvenir he got to take home from the hospital! No, magnets don't stick to it and he doesn't beep when he goes through metal detectors... boring!!





I am SOO grateful that Jamie is alive and is not laying in a bed paralyzed! Jamie was so strong through the whole thing! You could tell that he was in A LOT of pain but he never complained even once. Believe me, if I had been the one in the hospital bed I would have been screaming, not to mention that if it had been me that I wouldn't be alive after being trown out of a car going 65 on the freeway!! I am also SOO grateful that hard things make us stronger! This brought Jamie and I closer than anything else ever could have a month and a half after getting married! I love my strong husband!