An Update

I realized I should post a quick update about Brady's progress. He had a Dr. appt last Friday and things went well. The doc said that Brady was improving dramatically, the blood was draining really well from his eye and that he was happy with the improvements. But, this was the first time that he had been able since the accident to get a really good picture of Brady's retina. Unfortuantly it showed that there is a dent there that will almost certainly be permanent and affect Brady's vision. Right now he is seeing about 20/70 which is an incredible improvement from the 20/200 that he was seeing the day after it happened. We were told that it should continue to improve but will probably not return to perfect - he sees 20/10 in his other eye. He has been able to return to work but it is difficult for him due to the fact that his vision is still impaired. Although he was told he could return to normal activities, it is still delicate and he is taking it a little easy. The other thing is his pupil. After the accident we were given drops to put in that paralyzed the muscles in his eye and cause his pupil to react to light. His pupil is still big and the doc said the effects of the drop can last up to a month! and that his pupil will go down a little but will be bigger than his other one permanently because the muscles were damaged. So, overall he is doing much much better but it's taking some time and that is taking a little toll on him. We appreciate everyone's continued love, prayers and support. Thank you, it has made a world of difference.

Balls

Tennisballs. Eyeballs. Proceed with caution and never mix the two together. It has seemed inappropriate until now to blog at a time like this but I feel ready now. In case you haven't heard what happened, Ill give a little recap. Brady was playing a friendly game of tennis last Wednesday night when he was suddenly caught of gaurd inbetween matches and took a tennis ball straight in the eye. Not above, not below, directly in his eye. From that second on our night went something like this. Brady: "I can't see anything" (hand covering eye). Ok, well, let's get you some ice and it's time to leave. Ice. Driving home, (ring, ring) Me: "Katherine (Jenkins), Umm Brady got hit pretty hard in the eye, should we just keep ice on it or what?" Katherine "Is it bleeding, look at it" Me: (pulling over, looking at Brady's eye for the first time) "UMMMMM OH MY GOSH CAN WE COME OVER...." If you didn't know, Bradys has the most beautiful green eyes. I fell in love with them almost instantly when we met. But Wednesday night, when I looked at his right eye it was completly brown. The white of his eye was red. It was scary to say the least. We rushed over the Katherine's and she looked at it. Flashlight checking his eyes. Katherine after examining: "Um you need to go to the ER right now, your pupil is fixed, and uh it should NEVER do that.." Since I was a shaking disaster by this time, Katherine was gracious enough to drive us to the ER at 11:30 at night. We got there, they got us in and started to examine Brady further. On top of everything, while they were checking the pressure in his eye, he blacked out. It was then a big rush of the dr. trying to bring Brady back, calling for help, me freaking out cause I don't know what's going on, and them wheeling him away to hook him up to monitor his vital signs. For the next 2 hours I proceeded to stay by his side trying to keep the poor guy awake while we waited for the results and the doctor's diagnosis. Finally he came back and explained the the color change was due to Hyphema, bleeding in the eye. That was also the cause of a lot of the blurriness that Brady was experiencing. The passing out was a combo of the pain, the pushing on his eye and the stress of the situation. Finally, he also had some corneal abrasions. They made an emergency appt with the opthomologist for the next morning, gave us some drops to put in his eye and sent us home. The next day Brady received a blessing and we went in to see the doc. He does a much more thorough anaylsis of Brady and concludes that the impact was strong enough to have caused some damage to his retina. This was very scary for us because your retina, there's basically no fixin it, unless your body says yea, we can fix this. At that point, the doc was fairly optamistic about the whole situation but couldn't give us any concrete answers. He said there was still inflamation of the retina and blood in the eye, we would have to give it a few days, see you on Monday. We were very concerned. But luckily we are blessed with wonderful friends and family that are very supportive. A lot of praying and fasting later we began to feel much better about the situation. When we went in on Monday the doctor said that there was no bad news. The cloudiness in Brady's retina seemed to have gone and that the general condition of his eye seemed to be improving. The blurriness he was still experiencing was due to the blood still in his eye. That just takes time to go away. So even with that positive news, we are still praying for everything to go smoothly from here on out in relation to his eye and his recovery. There is still a chance that thing's could not work out as hoped but we feel really optimistic about the situation. Brady has been wonderful through this whole thing, I just can't even imagine how scary it must have been for him and still is to have something as delicate and important as your eye be put in jeopardy. I want to say thank you to everyone for all the continuing love and support and prayers and faith we have received though this scary time. We go in again on Friday morning for another doctor appt. Until then, we just have faith things will continue to move forward and his eye will continue to heal.

and the verdict is......

It's a girl!!!! Still. Haha, we went at 16 weeks to see if we could find out early what we were having and they said it was a girl then. So we have been tentatively telling people it is a girl but we didn't tell the ultrasound tech just to see if she made the same diagnosis. A test of sorts. So I'm 21 weeks now and yes, still a girl :) That is great we are soo soo excited, especially Brady, go figure! These are pics of my 16 week ultrasound cause they are much much better than the ones we got today.

So crazy, I can't believe that's in me. It was so funny when we were there having the ultrasound cause she was freakin out in my belly, even the tech was like, ummmm she certainly is a big stretcher and woah! she's having a party in there and so on. So, if that's any sign of what we have coming, we are in for trouble! Im pretty sure it was all the Mountain Dew I drank last night/this morning trying to stay awake through the entire Dark Knight.....ooops sorry baby.

20 Weeks!

This week I am 20 weeks. Halfway through is what everyone keeps telling me. (only halfway?!! just kidding) We are going in on the 18th to find out for sure what we are having. I went in at 16 weeks and they said we were having a girl so we will see! I've been feeling better, which has been nice. I think everyone would agree that a little less throw up is always good! Other than that and the almost regular headache things are going well. No real cravings yet.....haha. Here is my 20 week belly shot.....
Getting there!

and the obvious decision is.....

NOT HIM! EWE Jesse
C'mon give me a break!!! If the looks alone aren't obvious enough who to choose (I know that sounds shallow but...) if you watched the show you would have seen what an incredible guy Jason was!!
Yay Jason
Or even better yet, can you believe she got rid of THIS guy?! I think that they drugged her so their ratings would go up. There is NO other explanation for this kind of horror.

Crib and Changing Table!

I should have posted about what a great time I had in NY but for some reason completly lacked the motivation to do so so here is a new post. Even before we were pregnant I would look on KSL for cribs and changing tables. If you know me you know that I get like everything we own on KSL. I love love love it! So anyway, I've been looking forever knowing that you usually only get one shot if you find what you want and then you have to jump on it when you find it cause they usually go fast. So a few days ago I found this matching crib/changing table set that I just loved! The only thing was that it was a little more expensive than I had originally intended to spend so I basically declared that I loved it to myself then wrote it off because of the price. 2 days later I was talking to Brady and he said, that's fine! If he will negotiate that would be nice but if not then it's fine. Needless to say the guy wouldn't negotiate. Even though I had the go-ahead from Brady I still felt that it was too expensive so I told the guy we didnt want it and told myself that if it was still there in 2 more days than we would get it. 2 days is a long time in the life of a KSL ad and I was fully expecting it to have been eaten by wolves and for my search to continue. Well, it was still there! and after almost a week of debating with myself I took it as a sign and we picked it up this morning :) Plus as a serious bonus, they are unassembled and BRAND NEW in the box!! Here they are.

Vegas!

Okay so I know I'm such a slow poster. Brace yourself, this is a looong one. We went to Vegas last Thursday and Friday and it was soo fun! We went down with Katie and Stephenson and unfortunatly if you want to see any pics of the 4 of us together you should check out her blog cause picture taking is not my forte....anyway, here are some pics!

After laying out at the pool for a bit, we went in a got ready to go out. Thursday night we walked all around the strip. We went in this mall full of stores we couldn't afford

Even the toy store was too expensive! Haha I wish I had gotten a pic of the 500 dollar stuffed Rhino they had. But, we did have fun on the keyboard..

Also, Brady was fortunate enough to make friends with this nice lego man.....

awwww give him a hug!.......

Oooops! Looks like the lego man had to take it a little too far.......

Poor Brady has to hide his face now from the scary lego man....

After that we went and walked around some of the casinos and ate at this delicious mexican resturant inside the Venitian. It was right on the water where they do the gondola rides. We went in a little early that night because we were all tired from the trip. But, no complaints here cause our hotel room was SOOO nice. I wish I could've picked it up and implanted it in our house. Oh we were loving it. Friday was basically a non stop party. First we all ate breakfast at this little resturant in the casino which had french toast to DIE for! Then Brady and I played tennis while Katie and Stephenson went to their friends sealing. Then we went to the pool and laid out and waited for them to get back. When we were sufficiently full of second hand smoke, nasty girls in tiny bikinis and drunk guys who think taking their cell phones in the pool won't hurt them, we went in to get ready for the night life! We started by going to the Shark Reef which was really cool.

We were pretty sure this baby was DEAD unitl we bothered it and bothered it and poked and tapped and pretty much anything else you can think of until it finally moved its eye.

Here are just some more fish pictues, the underbelly of something weird, a giant fish, little shark....

and here is the winner of the dumbest looking fish award. Brady and I got one look at this monster and could not stop laughing. It just floats around with no purpose and practically swims right into things, it was hilarious.

Then we both got to pet this sting ray, it was slimy.

After the Shark Reef we went to Tournament of the Kings! WOOO HOOO!

We sat in the Russian section and has the sexiest/NASTIEST czar we had to cheer for. Oh boy I wish we could've gotten a pic of him. What a catch...not. It was a little dirty there but I would have to say that overall it gets rousing HAZAAA! (with both hands in the air). Haha. They served us these dinners

With no utensils. But, the BEST part was that the waitress would come out with these things STACKED on top of each other, like 10 in one arm and then just kinda slap them down in front of you. It was hilarious.

If you think the night was over, you would be wrong.

After that.....we went over the the Wynn and walked around some more, looking for a good gelato place cause it is our new guilty pleasure. We found one and got some. We were there for a little while. On our way there though, we were driving down the strip and all of the sudden we got this ingenious idea to roll down our windows and bother the people on the sidewalk. We would shout and duck, throw ice, try to high five the bikers. A little immature I suppose but oh sooo much fun. I guess the Tournament of the Kings just got us all riled up. So finally after a very fun filled night we decided to retire to our wonderful hotel rooms. Brady and I were just getting ready to relax when I went looking in my purse for my Blackberry. Mind you I have only had this sexy little thing for maybe 2 weeks. I love it. I had to put it in my purse cause my dress had no pockets. So Im searching for it, slowly at first then frantically dumping out my purse and it is NOWHERE to be found! I couldn't believe it. I could only remember bringing it out once that night, but could remember thousands of places it could have fallen out. I was hysterical. Asking Brady if he had seen it, where was it, he's looking. The next thing I know I'm alone in the room. I look for a few minutes more and then decide to go down and find Brady. I get in the elevator and go to the lobby and as the doors open Brady is standing there, Blackberry in hand. LUCKY LUCKY me, of all the places it could have been, it had fallen out in Katie and Stephenson's car.....unbelieveable. We were so relieved. Sorry this was so long, but Vegas wasn't even the end of our fun filled weekend. We then headed up to St. George on Saturday morning and met up with 3 more couples. That is a whole other post. This one has taken so long that it might take me few days to recover and post about that.....