4th of July Fun & Bear Lake, Again

 

  

 

 

    

 

 

We celebrated the 4th on the 3rd at Honeyville Park---the kids had so much fun!  Then on the 5th we went to Brigham City fireworks. 

Trevor’s Grandparents have a condo timeshare and every year they go to Bear Lake and let family take turns when they can come.  Since Trevor has water and is in the middle of being busy on the farm, we thought that since we went and stayed a night already with his mom, that that would be it for Bear Lake this year.  For him yes, for me and the kids no.  Michelle decided to go this past Tuesday and Wednesday night and we tagged along.  We spent most of the time in the pools and played on the beach before coming home.  We spent Wednesday on a sail boat with friends of Michelle's and Broxton and Macie had a blast!  Gunnar spent the whole time in the cabin (me with him) with an earache, that went away when it was time to go swimming later that night :)

 

 

 

 

Carp at the marina dock that followed you from your boat to this spot by the little cafe.

 

 

They ate everything we would throw to them…including our toes as we stuck them in!

 

 

 

 

 

It was a fun little vacation!

Brinnlie update:

The Tuesday before last I had the opportunity to go to SLC after the kids swimming lessons to visit a good friend Tina and see her son Noah who we met at University way back when---he was born at 25 weeks, 2 months before Brinnlie, and has had a very similar road as Brinnlie…he’s such a cutie and is doing great.  They were at PCMC for an appointment for her oldest son and asked if we could have a ‘chance encounter’.  She visited for a bit and held Brinnlie and we got to talk.  It was fun to get together and catch up and to meet her oldest and her husband---they are a great family and we will always stay in touch!  Thanks Tina, it was fun and we will definitely do it again; and thanks again for the gift!

As for today, Brinnlie has steadily increased her bottle feeds and seems to be getting it more and more.  She just likes to be social and watch what everyone is doing instead of concentrating on eating…she’s slow, and it’s frustrating because it seems like the nurses just give up on her and don’t take time.  I wish everyday that I could just be there and do it, so, we are in the process of working things out so that I can be there more---because the times I’ve fed her, I haven’t had any problems getting her to take the whole bottle.  We’ll see what we can do.  She still has a bit of time even if she were to take all her feeds.  Her eyes are still not fully vascularized and she can’t come home until they are.  They are getting better and we received a report that the ophthalmologist gave her a great outlook for the future and thinks that they will heal very nicely, giving Brinnlie a prognosis of most likely having glasses as she gets older.  She’s still on very little oxygen, staying on room air most of the time with about .4 liter flow per hour---needing increases sometimes when eating.  They say she will most likely come home on a little bit.  Home, when?  I don’t know.

We’ll keep you posted.

*She also had her MRI and it showed she had “a normal infant brain”!  Amazing!*