Mackey Family

Well I just need to say thank you to everyone that has responded and the out pouring of love that I have felt from so many. I feel lucky to have such great family & friends. I will get through the trials ahead and I know that is because of the great support that I have. Thanks!!

So this post has taken me a long time to write. I never thought I was the kind of person that kept things inside, and didn't know how to express my feelings. Usually I confront things before they become an issue, but over the past 2 weeks I haven't known how to express my feelings on a particular situation. So since I think of the whole blogging thing as a form of Journal I thought no better way to get a few things off my mind. In November of 2007 I had a miscarriage, when I was 10 weeks pregnant. I didn't want anyone to know that I had a miscarriage so I just kept it inside. (I told family of course) Since then I have been unsuccessful in getting pregnant, so two weeks ago I finally went to talk to my Dr. When I was there he did the routine yearly exam and felt that I had a lump (Nodule) on my thyroid. He informed me that this could have been the cause of the miscarriage & why I haven't been able to get pregnant. He suggested that I go the hospital to have a ultr...

My baby girl is in preschool. It seems like just yesterday Hannah was born now she's 3 years old and just started preschool this week. She is in a neighborhood preschool with 3 other kids (all 3yr olds) and the mom's all take turns teaching. Hannah & Parker ready for school. Hannah showing off her princess backpack. The kids all have little chairs that they bring to school. Hannah's is all decorated with princess and my little pony stickers. Hannah with her bestest little friend Amber. Getting ready for class to begin. Well the first week of preschool went well. Every night Hannah says she has homework and gets out some paper and writes the letter "H" over and over. I've tried explaining that her name has other letters, but she insists that her name is just the letter "H."

Well I know this is late but over Labor Day weekend we went up to Pocatello ID to spend time with the Mackey Family. We stayed at Travis's brother Robert's house. It was fun to spend time with the Mackey's since it's a rare occasion that everyone gets together. Everyone was there except for Travis's brother Curtis & his wife. On Saturday we all went bowling. I forgot my camera so here's a few pics I took on my phone. Had to get a pic of us for proof that we were there. Mandy, Andrew & Audra Amanda, Melinda & Robert (to the right) Andrew, Audra & Charlie Gina & Dennis John & Grandma Mackey Aaron & Hannah Parker after he got a spare, he was so excited!! This is my favorite pic, Parker teaching Hannah how to bowl. They were so cute.

Well last night at our combined YM/YW activity we had the opportunity to listen to the Nye family speaking about choices and warning of the dangers of power lines. Here's the link to their story. http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=148&sid=1980753 I just want to take the opportunity to say how grateful I am for the gospel in my life and for the knowledge I have of the plan of salvation. I know that I will be with my family for eternity. That is the greatest blessing. Listening to their story, seeing their pain, but also their hope for the day they will be with their son again was very touching. I don't think there was a dry eye in the room. The spirit was so strong and even though the youth were quieter than usual there's no doubt that they too felt the amazing spirit that was there last night. I am so thankful for the opportunity to work with the youth. Sure there are times that I think why me, & I've even left a few activities in tears. I'm glad that I am ab...

Monday was the first day of school (sort of). The kindergarten class came to school for 1 hr with their parents to see the class room & officially meet the teacher(whom I love!!) and get acquainted with the school. Then they have state testing that will happen this week and school will officially start on Tuesday Sept. 2. Here is Parker sitting at his cute little desk. He would not look at the camera. Parker with his buddy Brigham. Outside his classroom. He was getting sick of all the picture taking, and said, "mom stop it let's go." So tonight we were talking to him and preparing him for his testing tomorrow and he said that he was scared to talk to his teacher and he told Travis that he needed a blessing so that he wouldn't be scared at school. Why didn't we think about that? So before we put him to bed tonight Travis gave him a blessing. I just love the faith of a child, once the blessing was over Parker said now I won't be scared to talk to Mrs...

Well everyone that knows us knows that Parker has worn hearing aids from the time he was about 3 months old. He's done rather well with them, well let me restate that, from the time he was 3yrs old he has done really well with keeping them on all waking hours. So this last year in preschool Parker went to a combo class which had 5 kids with hearing loss and 8 regular preschool kids. All the girls that had hearing aids all had colorful earmolds. You need to understand that earmolds have to be replaced once the ear grows which when he was younger was quite frequent (about every 2-3 months). Since he's gotten older the earmolds have lasted longer about 5-6 months. So about 6 months ago we went to get new earmolds and Parker noticed that the audiologist had a picture on the wall of all the different colors you could get. Until this point I had always ordered clear less noticeable earmolds, but this time Parker decided that he wanted GREEN earmolds. I was hesitant but since he was ...