Decorating Cookies/ Yummy!!!

Thanksgiving.

We went to Provo this year for Thanksgiving. We had a great time. It was good to see everyone.

The kids had alot of fun with their cousins.

Halloween Fun.....

Grandpa ,Grandma and Aunt Jennifer gave us a Haunted House to Decorate. It was so much FUN!!!! Here is some pictures,

UEA FUN!!!

We went to Blanding to visit Jeff's mom and dad.We had a great time seeing Dena and Gary.Dena was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's Disease and she doesn't talk much and sometimes when she does it is hard to understand her. It was nice to see them.We had a good time with Dave. Candice,Brett, Ryan, Meagan, and Nicole. Anika really had alot of fun with her cousin Meagan. It was cute. They spent alot of time at the park that has been built by grandpa and grandma Eberhards house. They had a great time

We also went to Needles Overlook...

Then we went to geocaching(Look for Treasures). People leave hidden containers in remote places and then share the gps location on line for other people to find.If you leave something then you can trade it with something that is in the container. It was alot of fun.

On our way home we stopped at Wilson Arch.It was a hard hike. We all made it up there.We were happy to make it up there and then be able to get back down.

Also Chad Juile,Marie,Kari Daniel and Angie came down to Blanding on Friday. Jim,Rebecca,Keith,Katelyn,Sara,Emily and Jared came down to Blanding on Saturday.We got to go to JJ,Tammy,Jaden,Spencer and Shaylyn's house and the kids played RockBand. They had alot of fun...

Utah Jazz Scrimmage Game!!!

Jeff took the kids downtown Salt Lake. They were so excited about riding the trax (Anika loves riding the "train") and going to see the Jazz play a game against each other. It was real fun to be so close(lower bowl). They had a great time. Zach thought it was cool that boozer and williams took off their shoes and threw them into the crowd. Boozer even signed his. but unfortunately we didn't catch them. Bummer. Maybe next time........

Jeffrey is getting better!

Just thought i better update everyone about Jeffrey. He went to the dr about 2 weeks ago and had another CT Scan. It showed that his brain is healing really good. there is some bruising but it wasn't as bad as the Dr thought it would be so that was a great blessing. He is still taking the seizure medicine until the first of November and then we will need to gradually take him off of it. We are so happy about that.

He still needs to be careful but he can at least play some basketball without me(mom) freaking out. We are so happy that he is doing so well. It was really scary. but it has brought us closer as a family. We love you Jeffrey!!!! You are a awesome person I hope you know that.

STUDENT OF THE WEEK!!!!!!

Anika was picked in her class to be "The Student Of The Week" She was so excited!!!! She wanted to bring Skittles and dum dum suckers to share with her class. Her class was really cute with Anika.

Here is the poster that she helped me make at home. and here is anika in her class......

Labor Day get away!!!!!

We went to Mesquite over Labor Day Weekend. My Parents have a condo there so we stayed there. It was really nice to get away. It has been a crazy couple of weeks so we enjoyed ourselves. Steve,Jen Brynlee and Jaden decided to come to Mesquite and stayed at the Oasis Hotel. So we met up with them and hung out at the pool. We had a great time.

Zach and Jaden doing a handstand in the pool

1st day of School for Anika and Zach

Today is the 1st day of school for Zach and Anika. Zach is in 6th Grade and Anika is in 2nd Grade. I can't believe how fast they grew up. They were so excited to go back to school.

Jeffrey still has a week left to be out of school because of his brain injury. He was actually sad. He wanted to see his friends that he hasn't seen all summer. He is doing quite well especially for how he was on Tuesday. He is just really sensitive to noise. He has a few Doctor appointments so we will see what happens

Trauma Unit

Tuesday morning I woke Jeffrey up to take him to get registered for school. As we were waiting in line to get registered I was filling out forms and asked Jeffrey what his school number was. He answered with a "ok, yeah". I asked again and got the same answer. After that he wouldn't response to any of my questions. I was very scared that he was acting strange and not answering. I dragged him to the car and went to the bishops house and talked to the bishops wife. By that time he was really not being responsive, drooling, staring into space, and so I called 911. The paramedics came and took him to Primary Children's. I called Jeff at work and told him that the paramedics were taking him to the hospital and to meet us there. When I got there he was in a different world...he acted like one feels sometimes when they have a high fever and reality is sort of a blur. He didn't really recognize me or Jeff and wasn't responding to any questions.


Let me back up now a few days. Last week Jeffrey went to scout camp at Bear Lake. One day after lunch the boys were back at camp and got into some kind of disagreement. At one point a scout threw a stick and Jeffrey's head got in the way. As far as we know he never lost conciousness. The bishop was there and Jeffrey was complaining about not being able to hear. The bishop was very concerned and so decided to have him checked out and took him to the clinic in town. He said jeffrey was tired on the way to the clinic but wouldn't let him fall asleep and threatened to start singing if Jeffrey started falling asleep. The clinic checked him out, the ear was fine. He wasn't vomiting or showing any severe signs. They called it a mild concussion and told him to take some ibuprofin and not go swimming that night. He seemed to be ok. He participated in the activities for Friday and then came home on Saturday. Through the weekend he seemed fine. He occasionally said he was having to think before talking and that it was bugging him a little. He seemed to have been really well behaved and fine. Monday August 18th I took the kids school shopping and he seemed fine. Monday night he was arguing with us (I don't remember what about) and Jeff remarked to me that he it was pretty obvious that nothing was wrong with him because he wasn't have a hard time arguing like normal.


Back to Tuesday....after ruling out anything he had taken or drank and hearing about his injury they decided to take a CT scan. The CT scan showed that he had blood (bruise/contusion) in the brain in his left temporal lob. That part of the brain may affect your speech, comprehension, etc. While in the emergency room he was very confused and couldn't really speak much. He was agitated at times and kept taking off the monitors and couldn't understand why he needed the blood pressure cuff on his arm. The nurse would remove it to reposition it and he would say thanks and then react frustrated when she put it back on. He didn't know what anyone's name was or where he was or who he was. Trauma doctors and neurosurgeons came to see him. While in the emergency room when he would settle down he would go to sleep. When going to sleep it seemed like he forget to breath. So every once in a while his oxygen number would go do and we would need to wake him up a little so he would take a breath. Because of that and because it is a brain injury they sent him to the ICU. The doctors were surprised that there is so much blood in the brain without the skull being fractured. They kept him in the ICU overnight and then the next day they did a MRI. The MRI showed that the bleeding wasn't caused by any other condition other then the hit to the head with the stick. Right now they tell us it will just take time for the injury to heal. They don't know if it will take days, weeks, months. During the day he did come more around and understanding more and more. At times he could talk but couldn't really find the correct word for what he wanted to say. He eventually came around to knowing me and Jeff. He kept pleading with us to take him to "that place", meaning home. "There's nothing wrong with me. I shouldn't be here..." He got to the point that he knew his full name, what day it was, what school he goes to, where he was at (hospital). By Wednesday night that had moved us out of the ICU and into a regular room.


Thursday we wanted to leave as soon as we could but there were a lot of doctors that wanted to see us and one thing after another. We didn't get home until 7:30. From here he is going to get some speech therapy (really therapy for cognitive skills) and we will take him back in a month to get another CT scan to make sure the brain has healed good. He doesn't get to go to school for the first week and then half a day after that for a while. Believe it or not he is sad that he doesn't get to go back to school; only because he wants to see his friends.

When we got home friends from the neighborhood had put the above sign on the garage door that we moved into our living room. It has been awesome the love and concern that so many people have shared with us during the last few days. TY and JEN, Thanks for helping us out with Zach and Anika