My Brother's Miracle

Last week my brother Todd, was in a very serious motorcross accident. He was thrown from his bike, while doing a 120 foot jump, when he landed he broke all of his ribs on his left side, and 7 on his right, he broke his left arm in 2 places, and crushed his wrist, on top of all of that he punctured both his lungs, his left completley filled with blood, and his right was 3/4 of the way filled with blood. He was life flighted to the hospital, where they stablized him, and did an exam on his bladly hurt arm. After 6 hours of surgery he know has a brand new left arm. A rod that goes from is shoulder to his elbow, and 17 pins, and plates in his wrist. They told him he would have a full recovery with his arm. A couple of days past and they started to worry about his heart. They found that it was enlarged, and had fluid on it. They did another x-ray and found that his heart and been torn from his cardiovascular sack, and was sitting to the left of where it is suppossed to be. The doctors told him, that he was a miracle. They had never seen anyone live through what had happened to his heart. They told him he is the 36th person in the worls, to have that happen to them and live. Today is his surgery to move it back to where it belongs, he does not have to have open heart surgery, just a small incision in his pectorial muscle, and they will move it back to where it belongs. I am so grateful for my brother and his courage and faith that he has had through this horrific week. I am grateful for Heavenly Father, and letting us have our brother, Dad, son, and uncle with us today. I am grateful for his precious miracles that he places in our lives everyday to make us stronger, and for his trials that brings a family together with love, patience, and faith that all will be well. I am so grateful for Todd, and that he is still here today.

Happy Birthday Love!

Yesterday was Brian's 27th Birthday. He is growing up so fast. I wanted to let everyone know how much I love, and appreciate him for how hard he works, and how caring and thoughtful he is. I love you! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Summer Travels

Brian and I have done a lot so far this summer. My cute nephew Bo gratuated from High school, and it was my first nephew to graduate. I will admit it made me feel a little old. On June 24th, we celebrated our 3rd wedding anniversary. We can't believe it has already been 3 years. We decided to et away on a short little outing to Viva Las Vegas. It was so hot, but so nice at the same time. We just hung out at the pool all day, went to the strip, went to the temple, and my favorite part was going to the M&M store. That store makes you want to be a kid again. I loved it, and it was so nice to get away for a couple of days and just relax.

Then in July we went to the Barnum Famly reunion in Eastern Washington. It was really pretty where we went, and the weather was perfect. All though this wasn't one of the bigger reunions, (about only 80 people came instead of the usuall count of over 100) we still had a great time spending time with family that we don't ever get to see except at reunions. I did get to gut my first fish, and I have to admit that although it was a big thing for me to do, I didn't really think that it was a very pleasant experience. Anyone that knows me knows that I do not do well with those sorts of things.After the reunion we headed over to Vancouver, WA to Brian's mom's house to help her do some remodeling in her house. It was a lot of fun, and we got a lot done for her, and her house looks great. Here is Brian and his brother Garrett installing the new dishwasher. Here are some of us touching up the paint with q-tips. We really love Mom B. a lot. On our way to Vancouver we were able to stop at Mutnomah Falls. It was beautiful, I can honestly say that I can honestly say I have never seen a waterful up close before that was so pretty.

Baby Phaelen

Here he is, our newest nephew Phaelen Robert Johnson. You pronounce it (fay-lynn). He came here on August 13th at 1:13 a.m. He is very healthy, and has a lot of hair as you can see in the picture. My sister-in-law Johanna did a great job, and she did it alnatural...she is very brave. we are so excited that he is here, and we love him, and are very happy for Johanna, Jeff, and Calder to have this new precious baby in their family. Congrats!

Just Waiting

Well it is 10:15 on a Tuesday night, and I have not blogged in almost a month in a half. Brian and I are at our sister's house watching our nephew Calder while Johanna and Jeff are off having their 2nd baby boy. We are just waiting for them to have him, and all though there is a lot more I need to tell you all about, I do not have any pictures with me to update you with because I am not at home. My last day of work is on Friday, and I will be on full update blogging mode. I promise!

Happy Future Fathers' Day

Since Brian and I are not parents yet, and offically shouldn't really being celebrating mothers' day or fathers' day, we like to celebrate future mothers' and fathers' day. We figure that since we are not able to have kids right at this very moment, but are ready and willing, we should and do celebrate these very important dates. Since it is fathers' day, I of course honored Brian on this very special day. I made him one of his favorite breakfast's.....homemade waffles, bacon, eggs, and juice. He then got to open his gifts.....a new pair of board shorts, flip flops, and a gift certificate to Home Depot(he really likes that place), then we went to my parents to celebrate fathers' day over thetr with the rest of the family. We had a wonderful time honoring my dad, and my brother who has 3 boys. I want to wish everyone a happy Fathers' Day, and say how grateful I am for my own dad, and all the love and support he has given to me over these many years. But I especially want to say Happy Future Fathers' Day to my own husband Brian, who I love and adore and I know will be a great dad to our kids one day. I love you!