My brother Tyler

Let me just tell you a little bit about my brother Tyler..
He lives in Ogden with his wife Beth and has 2 beautiful girls KD and Kambre and a little handsome boy Kohen.
He has been going to school since he came home from his mission so probably about 8 years not all 8 years has been full time. But he has been working his tail off to become an Anesthesiologist. He first went and got his LPN here at the USU extension, he was selected to be the valedictorian for his graduating class. Then him and my sister in law Beth moved to Ogden so he could further his education out there and graduated in 2007 with his Bachelors in nursing.
And since he has graduated he has been working in the ICU at McKay Dee Hospital in Ogden while he has been taking his tests and putting in applications for anesthesiology program. He just got accepted into the Anesthesiology program for grad school in Beaumont Michigan. He could have just taken the easy road and went to school here in Utah at Westminster which isn't a bad program just not the program for him. He decided that he wanted to go to one of the best schools and get the best schooling there was to offer for anesthesiology.

He is one of the hardest working guys I know, he took on such a hard field to pursue in and doesn't just slide on by in it either. He has been an outstanding student and has gotten outstanding grades! I don't think I have ever heard him complain about work over-load or just being stressed out. With him working at McKay Dee Hospital he works nights there so after he works nights he comes home and gets a few hours of sleep and is back at it again! And for him not to complain is outstanding! Because everyone knows how much I would be complaining! And Beth is the same with not complaining, with Tyler being gone so much at nights she just goes on like nothing! They are such an amazing family! I am proud to call them my own!

I am so proud of my brother for pursuing his passion. He loves to help people and I know he will be a great anesthesiologist! I am going to miss them like crazy but this just means that i will have to visit alot!

We caught the "BUG"

Well I haven't blogged lately mainly because we have been so sick. I haven't been sick for 2 years and when i get sick I GET SICK!
It all started that Slade started having a runny nose which isn't out of the norm for him since he has allergies and all the sudden here came this horrible cough. Then Zoey caught it and not soon after i caught it. I wasn't too worried about it until zoey started coughing so hard that she would make herself sick. So we went to the urgent care on Monday night, I don't usually like going places like this because you usually catch something else while you are there. But since Slade has had pneumonia 3 times now I thought I better jump on it before it gets any worse. Well it ended up that Slade was on the verge of pneumonia again so they started him on nebulizor treatments. Zoey had a really bad viral bug, and I had the same bug just a bit more advanced.
So they sent us home with some prescriptions and by Wednesday Zoey was alot worse than all of us. He at first thought that she was the best out of all of us since we caught hers before it moved to her lungs. Well it eventually went to her lungs and she started a fever and it peaked out at 104 so he started her on an antibiotic and nebulizor treatments as well. She has since been getting gradually better and so has Slade. We all still have the cough but we don't really feel to sick anymore. It has been one heck of a week! We honestly haven't gone ANYWHERE for over a week.
But we are feeling much better and hopefully we are on the outs of this sickness!

Cancer

"When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful." ~Barbara Bloom

We lost a GREAT friend on Wednesday, she was such an inspiration to many and will greatly be missed.

When I first met MarShel i was so jealous of the relationship her and my husband shared. They were so close and I often thought that maybe they were meant to be together. I then got to know MarShel more and more and fell in love with her as well. She was one of the funniest people I know. She had that contagious laughter then when she laughed everyone else was laughing. She had the funniest jokes as well. I remember we were house sitting her sister Nicki's house while they were out of town. And MarShel, Brigham, me, and her then husband Joe busted out rockband and sat there and jammed/laughed for hours. She is such a great woman and fough a couragous battle.

Brigham and Marshel were like brother and sister, they grew up together and eventually Brighams sister Roxanna married Marshel's brother Leif. There has always been that bond between the four of them that is indesrcibable. I am so greatful that I go to know such an amazing person.

This is my letter to Marshel..
Marshel-
When I first met you I was so scared of the connection you shared with Brigham, I often wondered if it was you two that were meant to be together. I then learned this connection was love that you had for each other because you were like brother and sister. Then my love for you grew and grew to where you were like family also.
You are such an incrediable woman, and such an inspiration to us all.
Your smile was my favorite! It was so contagious everytime you would smile you would light up the whole room. Im going to miss that smile and your laughter.
Im so glad we got to see you last week, you looked so amazing! It was great to just sit there for awhile and reminice about the trouble you, brigham, aaron, and ryan used to cause. My favortie was trying to sell them Basil and told them it was marijuana. That was you though hilarious! You were such a great friend to Brigham, he adores you so much! Thank you so much for being there for him. We love you so much and are going to miss you greatly. But it brings us peace knowing that you are up in heaven watching over us and dancing your arse off!!!
We love you Marshel! And will miss you deeply!
Always and forever!!