Temple Open House

I am a activities days leader for girls age 10 and 11 in my ward. For one of our activities we went to the Oquirrh Mountain Temple Open House. It was beautiful inside. I had a hard time keeping up with the girls, because I stayed back with Triston and his little legs. He behaved really well. He only had a couple of moments; one was when he wanted to go swimming in the baptismal font and another one was when he wanted to touch the sealing bench. He also wanted a drink while we were in the sealing room, which I caved in and gave it to him. At least he wasn't screaming!

Oquirrh Mountain Temple



Our Girls

My activities days Girls!

Future Missionary! I know that I am starting out early!

Rainy Family Vacation

Our Annual Swenson Family Vacation was a bit rainy this year. Chris and I went up to East Canyon on Saturday night. When we started heading up there the weather was over cast, but after about 10 minutes it was pouring. We ended up getting up there about 5 p.m. and after about another 15 minutes the rain decided to take a break. We decided to take a walk around the grounds and low and behold Triston found some water to play in. He was the happiest boy in the world. He loves to splash in water. We went over to the miniature golf course that they had, which was underneath a foot of water. It didn't matter to Triston, he just jumped right in, even though it was freezing.

Dancing in the puddles.

Silly boy!

Shara, Triston and Daxon

We decided it was time to stop after Triston all the sudden sat

down in the freezing water. He was drenched.

Triston and his wet butt!

We didn't do much, it wasn't the best weather, but we had family dinner and played the board game sorry with my 80 year old grandma. We had a blast I came in second and my Grandma won. We brought movies up for Triston to watch. I was worried about him because he likes water so much. They have a river that runs through the condominiums. On Sunday "Fathers day" the weather was a little better. We say blue skies for most of the day. I took Triston, Shara (niece) and Cash (nephew) to the playground. They had so much fun. On the way over, someone asked if they were triplets. I would kill myself if I had triplets. Triston and Cash are 2 and Shara turned 3 that day. Anyways here are some pictures of the play ground.

Mommy's little boy!

My sister was making a Birthday cake for Shara and she had to go to the local store in Morgan to get some icing. So I went with her, we drove around East Canyon Reservoir, it was pretty much full, which I have never seen. It has always been low. It looked really nice. When we got back. We went swimming. Triston had so much fun. He loved jumping off the side to me. He was so happy. We ended up only swimming for an hour then the rain clouds came back. We ended up leaving early because of the rain, and Chris wasn't feeling good the whole time we were there. We had good time for such a short vacation. We better go on another one soon!

Triston's pics

My Friend Kim took pictures of Triston for his 2nd Birthday. She did an awsome job.
Thanks Kim

Make a Smilebox slideshow

What a Funky Rash!

Thursday night I was getting Triston ready for bed and I noticed a rash on his leg. It wasn't to bad. I went to get him some Benadryl, which I thought that it would help. Well the next day his rash got worse x3 all over his legs and arms and it started on his ears (weird huh). I ended up taking him in to the doctors and they stated that it could have been form the Amoxicillin. Chris is allergic to penicillin so he could be allergic. It finally went away by Sunday.

Triston's red swollen feet, it also went up his leg.

His hands were bright red and his rash was all over his left arm.

Rash on right arm.

I also noticed it on the outside portion of his ears. It was very weird.

Turning 30!

I can't believe that I am turning 30! I feel so old. I was thinking about it the other day and I almost had a panic attack. Anyways I ended up working the night before, but we celebrated by eating cheesecake and fruit. It was really nice. When I got home my husband surprised me with rose peddles trail into the bathroom and there was a warm bubble bath and a dozen roses waiting for me. It was very sweet of him. My sister watched Triston for me so I could get some sleep. It was a very nice present. We celebrated that night with dinner at Tsunami sushi restaurant. It was delicious! While we were at the restaurant it started to rain. It was so bad by the time we left there was a pond in the parking lot. It was at least a couple of inches deep at the door of the car. We ended up going to Alex and Amie's house to hang out for the rest of the the night. It was a very relaxing Birthday.

Trail of Rose peddles

My Birthday Surprise from Chris.

My Birthday gift

Discharged

My Dad was finally discharged from the hospital Sunday afternoon. I hope that he is doing OK. My wonderful husband Chris went to pick him up, because I worked the night before. He was a trooper, he said that he waited there for 4 hours because they didn't have him ready to go. The waited for all my Dad's discharge instructions and for all the medications that the pharmacy had to fill for him. Thanks Chris for all the help.

What a relief!

Poor Triston has had a cough for a couple of weeks now. So I finally decided to take him in. I mentioned to his pediatrician that he choked on a chicken nugget a couple of weeks ago and she was very concerned that he might have a piece of food stuck in his lungs. So She called the radiologist up at Primary Children's and had us go up there to get chest x-rays and soft tissue x-rays of his neck to make sure there wasn't anything there. She also mentioned that his right ear drum was red. She decided to place him on amoxicillin for ten days. To my relief his chest x-ray and his throat x-ray were normal so he doesn't have to be stuck in a hospital. I wish that he sounded better. It seems that his cough is getting worse, but at least he is on some antibiotics. Poor baby, I hate when he is sick.

Baby Triston "Freezing" waiting for the X-ray techs to tell us if the X-rays were

visable enough before we put his shirt back on. Doesn't he look sad!

Dad Update

My Dad was diagnoses with:

1. Ventricular Tachycardia (fast heart rhythm)
2. Dilated Cardiomyopathy (heart becomes weaken and enlarged and cannot pump blood efficiently)
3. Atrial Flutter (abnormal heart rhythm)
4. Left Atrial Thrombus (blood clot)
5. Congestive Heart Failure (the heart can't pump enough blood to the body's other organs)

He had a Angiogram (an X-ray that uses special dye and a camera to take pictures of the blood flow in an artery or vein) on Thursday. They said that his arteries of his heart were clear. They decided to place a ICD (Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator). The ICD cans sense when your heart rhythm becomes dangerously fast. The ICD will either send electrical impulses to override the fast rhythm and bring it back to normal, or it will interrupt the fast rhythm by briefly shocking the heart. After this shock, the heart rhythm usually returns to normal. Sounds really serious. His ICD was place Friday evening. He did very well in the placement of the device. He should be going home on Saturday or Sunday.

Dad after the ICD placement.

Happy Birthday Chris!

So on Tuesday it was my hubby's 32nd Birthday. Unfortunately he ended up working all day, but we celebrated it together that evening. We went to Market street Grill and had a relaxing tasty dinner. I forgot to take pictures of our food, so I will just tell you what we had. For appetizers we had the best crab cakes in the world! It was yummy! We both had their famous clam chowder, it was soooo delicious. For our main course I had a 8 oz Filet Mignon with green been and french fries also with a large crab leg, it was so tasty. It made my tummy very happy. Chris had Halibut with vegetables and a large crab leg. We had so much food that we took our time eating it, (sorry Richard) we didn't get home very Early. We didn't have enough room in our belly's to eat dessert so we took them to go. Chris had a fresh fruit tart and also Florida Key lime pie, I ended up having the midnight chocolate cake. It was a very Delicious breakfast. Happy Birthday Hun! I Love you!

Chris and I at Market Street Grill
Me and the Birthday Boy!


Chris and his giant Crab leg!

Dad Update

My dad has been diagnosed with atrial Flutter (abnormal wave form and contraction in the right atrium). Since this abnormal heart beat the right atrium in not properly squeezing all the blood out of the right atrium to the right ventricle. In order to change this irregular rhythm they need to do one of two this; shock his heart (cardiovert) inorder to the heart to get back in to a regular rythm or use medication to help him convert back to his regular rhythm. My dad had a Transesophageal Echocardiogram which a transducer is place down the throat to take a better look at the heart. With the echo they notice a large blood clot (probably due to the pooling of the blood) in his right atrium. They were going to shock his heart to try to put him back into normal sinus rhythm, but after they found this clot they decided not to. They reason that they don't want to shock the heart at this time is becauses they don't want to dislodge the clot and cause it to go to the lungs. So the doctors told him that he needs to stay in the hospital to be put on blood thinner and to make sure the clot doesn't dislodge for the next 5 days. He is pretty much on strick bedrest. He can only get up to take a shower or to use the restroom. Poor dad it would drive me crazy if I had to stay in bed all the time. He said that he is doing better, but he is just really tired all the time. I hope that he gets better soon. I will keep everyone posted.

My Sick Dad

Boy is nothing boring in my life right now. Well my Dad hasn't been feeling good within the last couple of days. So he had a doctors appointment last night and they noticed that his pulse rate was 145 beats per minute (average heart rate 60-80 beats per minute). His doctor told him to go to the ER at St Marks Hospital to get looked at. To see why his heart rate was so high. Also he has noticed that he has been taking on some water in his legs, so it is a good thing that he went to get checked out. He was in ER for a while, they gave him a drug to decrease his heart rate, but it didn't work well. They also gave him Lasix (water pill) to take some of the water off his legs. I hope that they figure out what is wrong with him. I am stuck here in the hospital, so I guess I will see him in the morning and find out more. I love you Dad!