100th Post

Wow! 100 posts really? Considering how long they usually are too, I could have 300 if I made smaller ones. Here's another long update for your viewing pleasure.

First off-- what a roller-coaster of a week!!! My niece, Vittoria, had her scheduled open-heart surgery and no one expected anything but for her to sail right through it . She's had 15 previous surgeries and has done better than expected every time. This one however didn't go so well. There were a lot of complications and her heart was not functioning well enough on it's own so they have kept her on a ECHMO machine-- heart/lung machine, to give her body a rest and allow it to heal quicker. There has continued to be more complications and things that have gone wrong since then. Every morning around 6:30 we get an update text from James, my brother, and then throughout the day whenever they recieve new information or something happens. One time it's good news, the next it's not, the next time it's better, the next time it's not. My heart sinks every time I get one because I'm afraid of what it's going to say. We have faith that she's in the Lord's hands and if it's His will she'll pull through this. But it is still dificult to watch.

We went down to see her on Wednesday and that was a very emotional experience. I have never been more humbled than I was walking through the Pediatric ICU to see Vittoria. It was literally heart breaking to see her in there with tubes and wires over her entire body. We love her so much and it's just so hard to see her and her parents go through something like this.

Thursday after Luke got off work we headed back down to visit. We were blessed to be able to stay with my best friend, Janelle, that night so we could go back on Friday again. Friday we headed down after a good visit at the hospital to Luke's family in Castle Dale. Sunday we were ale to go back and all of my family, minus Joy, and most of the grandkids were able to be there. There is so much power in family! We had a family prayer for her and then the Priesthood holders gave James, Val, and Vittoria a blessing and it was a wonderful experience.

They have had such an outpouring of love. It's been completley amazing to see how many people have visited them and how many people we've heard of that are praying and fasting for her.
If you are one of those people, THANK YOU! You have no idea how much it helps knowing that.

Some pictures we have of our angel-niece/cousin
Mother's Day 2008-- Vittoria and Tianna loved dressing up together!

She is so good with babies-- you should see how well she takes care of her baby brother, Jacomo
In Dec 2008 at the cabin doing the Christmas Story Vittoria was the angel--- she certainly didn't have to practice that! She is always an angel!
This is from when we were still dating- Luke fell in love with Vittoria instantly!
And Tianna absolutely loves her! For the longest time she couldn't pronounce her name, but she talked about "Tradda" all the time. Now she calls her "Torya."

It's hard on Tianna not being able to see Vittoria. She knows we are at the hosptial to see her, but keeps asking where she is and why she can't see her. I can't wait until she can!
Thankfully we stopped by their house the weekend before the surgery to wish her well. We had been to the Oqquirh Mountain Temple and could stop by. It made Tianna's day to see cousin Vittoria.


For an update on what else we've been doing-- as you can tell, we haven't been home much. The 18th we attended the O.M. temple open house so we stayed the night at my Aunt's house to be there early. Later that day we had a Frandsen Reunion in Salt Lake. It was really fun! We got to swim and then visit with a lot of relatives we never get to see. And we got to show off this little beauty!


Then this past weekend we enjoyed more driving... bleh. Like I said, we went down to Salt Lake and then on to Luke's families house. We had a fun barbeque with them and watched an amazing firework display on Friday night. Saturday we were quite busy. We started out by visiting some grandparents and then went swimming in the new pool. It's quite impressive!
After swimming we went over to Price and ate at the new Wingers. We sent Aden and Tianna with Luke's mom to the Dino Mine Adventure Park and then back home while Monica and Chris and Luke and I (and Adelia) went on a date to see Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. We just finished listening to the book on CD a few days earlier--- with all our traveling it's been a lifesavor!

Now we are home for a few days before we have another crazy weekend... Our niece, Pyper is being blessed so we'll be attending that and then if all goes okay with Vittoria, Luke and my dad and some brothers are going to the Uintah's and I'm hanging out in Price for the week. At the end of the week we'll be back up here to Logan to bless Adelia. Anyone interested in attending
It is 9 Am at the Logan Stake Center--- you are more than welcome to campout in the back yard since it's so early.... and of course, hang out for food after the blessing! The trip was scheduled for this week so it would have worked out better with the blessings... but that's what happens in life. So it's going to be a marathon........... but in light of all that has happened, the inconvenience of things seems way to trivial to even worry about.



Pictures of the 24th weekend




This girl knows how to be a beach bum! She had her suit on but slept through the entire pool event!




ALSO Adelia turned 6 weeks old on the 25th and is growing and developing well! I took Tianna in to the dr. today because her eye was all puffy and continuing to grow-- come to find out, it's a mosquito bite. Weird.
That picture actually makes it look better than it really does... she can't hardly open her eye sometimes.

Tianna has also discovered one of the many joys of sisterhood-SHARING CLOTHES! Yes you may be asking, isn't she almost 3 and Adelia is only a month and a half? The answer is yes, but she somehow fit into a pair of newborn pants so now I ask you

WHO WEARS IT BETTER?




She's such a funny girl and Adelia is such a sweet little snuggler. I love my girls so much and thank Heavenly Father for them. They are both healthy and wonderful and I realize now more than ever what a blessing that is.