Hug Point

This weekend, Andrew surprised us by ordering us into the car and took us to the beach. Very spontaneous of him. We had a great time, the weather couldn't be more perfect and was very un stressful. We just played in the sand and it was warm enough for the kids to be in the water. Gavin spent his day running up and down the beach and making sand castles. He loved it.

Kayakers

We spend lots of our summer at my Aunt and Uncles house on the lake. It is the best "vacation" and my kids get to have lots of fun learning to wake board, tube, kayak and improve on their swimming skills. Gavin even gets in on the fun.

Wanted.... Dead or Alive

Gavin is becoming a rock star, thanks to the game Rock Band.

Stress

(Andrew's Kanye impersonation)

The last month has been pretty stressful. Having 3 callings doesn't help. But the stress came to a head this weekend. Andrew came down with a sore throat yesterday which turned into chills and fever and by the afternoon, he was miserable. He said that it was the sickest he had ever felt. He would shake uncontrollably and shiver and sweat. He said the every joint hurt. Well today as he was resting on the couch, he woke up with chest pains. He said it felt like he had been punched in the sternum. The pain was so bad, on a scale of 1 through 10 he said it was an 8. He had the pain for about 20 minutes when he finally told me about it and asked me to take him to the hospital. Once we got there, I was impressed at how fast they saw him. I guess you should always say chest pain, you get in right away! They ran a bunch of tests and made him take nitroglisserin which made the pain go away. Once all the tests were ran, they could not rule out if he had had a heart attack. We do know that he has strep throat, his tonsils were covered in puss, but we have no idea if his heart is acting up. They talked about admitting him over night, but our regular doctor let us go home and wants to see us at 8:30 tomorrow morning. I hope once the doctor can look at his old test results and compare them, they can get down to the bottom of the problem. Andrew still feels like crap and is medicated. I hope he gets better soon. Keep us in your prayers.

My Fan Base

The other day I got an email in Facebook from a fan. Read below...

Are you the actress from "Wee sing together"???
Are you Critina, Betsy??
Yestreday i found at home the movie i have been looking for many years.
It was my favourite one when i was little!

I would like to know about you! Are you still an actress?

Hope you're well!
Your biggest fan from Argentina!


Isn't that hilarious? I just giggled after reading that. I mean, how did she found me? How did she know I was Christina? Did she watch the credits and memorize my name? So funny. I'm famous.

Sore Throat

On Friday Gavin had surgery to remove his tonsils and adenoids. The surgery went really well, but after, when the doctor came to talk to us she said she wanted Gavin to stay in the hospital overnight for observation. I was a bit surprised, since we've gone through this surgery 2 other time and never stayed overnight. But since he is under 3, they say it is standard. So up to short stay we went. Immediately the baby starts climbing up and down the crib. He started eating like crazy, even taking Andrew's onion rings, which is a no no since he was only allowed liquids. The nurse could tell we wanted to go home, so she called the doc to tell her how good he was doing, but the doc was adamant that we stay the night. So we grabbed one of their wagons and wheeled him all over the hospital. Over and over again. We've seen every corner of the hospital. After the long night of nurses waking him every 4 hours, they finally discharged us at 10 the next morning. He was doing such a good job that I thought recovery was a breeze. Then day 3 came. Gavin woke up with a low grade fever, really shaking and refused medicine and anything to drink. He was miserable. Sometimes I can force the medicine down him and we have a good 4 hours, but the last 2 days have been rough. We've given him blessings and really watched over him, but I think we just have to ride this out, medicine or no medicine. As long as he gets enough fluids, the doctor says he will be fine. Hopefully he'll turn the corner soon.

Survivor

Last Thursday our ward had Enrichment night, and since I'm the EnrichmentLleader, I put on Survivor, Preparedness style. I was so great.
The women arrived and were led to the Primary room. Once they were there, the Presidency welcomed them while my board and I made a mad dash throwing a "fire" up in the breeze way (it was dry ice and celophane flames, and making a mud slide down the hall with falling fake ficus trees and boulders made of garbage bags and lunch sacks. Once that was done, I signaled the okay and all the lights went out in the primary room and thunder and lightning sounded. Then the radio came on with the Emergency Broadcast Message, recorded by Barry from our ward. It was great and told the women there was a disaster of Biblical proportions and they needed to evacuate the building immediately. The women grabbed flashlights and tried to find the nearest exit. They first headed for the closest exit, but that had our fire, then the tried for the west exit, but that darn mudslide blocked their path. So on to the east exit. On the way there we obsticles in the way, fallen chairs, more boulders, a tipped over couch and lots of caution tape. When they finally made it outside, I welcomed them to Survivor and had them draw their team color out of a bag. Once in teams we headed into the gym to start the team challanges. The challanges consisted of making shelter. This was who could put up and take down a tent the fastest. Then first aid where they had a victim they had to take care of. The team to do it the fastest and correctly won for that round. Then to the water station where they answered tough questions related to water purification. Then to 72 hour kits where they did a word scramble to figure out what items to place in their backpacks. And the last challenge was food. The women had to decide what item had the beans. There were 5 desserts, and the same desserts made with beans. Surprisingly, the bean desserts weren't so bad.
Now that the challenges were over, we headed to the Relief Society room for tribal council where the Bishop gave us a great talk on spiritual preparedness. Then we awarded our Ultimate Survivor team and had food storage desserts.
It was a fabulous evening and I think the women loved it. It was a lot of work, and I wish more had showed up, we had about 20, but it was still great.