Mom's Obituary

Here's a link to Mom's Obituary. We wanted to share it with everyone but we're sorry if there's any spelling errors. Are minds are everywhere getting thing ready for Mom's funeral.

Mom's Funeral Plans

Here are the funeral plans for Mom:

Viewing-
Date: Thursday, Dec. 30th
Time: 6 - 8pm
Location: Walker Mortuary
187 S Main Street, Spanish Fork, Utah

Funeral-
Date: Friday, Dec. 31st
Location: Spanish Fork Canyon View Stake Center
989 South 2550 E, Spanish Fork Utah

Schedule:
- Viewing - 9:30 - 10:40 am
- Funeral Service - 11 am
- Interment at Spanish Fork Cemetery - Immediately Following the Service

Updates on Mom

We figured the easiest way to update everyone on Mom's condition was to just post updates on the blog. As we have updates, we will post them here. We appreciate everyone's love and prayers as we wait and hope for her recovery.

Dec. 26 - 12:45 pm
We said are goodbyes to Mom earlier this morning and she offically passed on at 12:45 pm today. The test that was run this morning confirmed that there was no blood flow to brain due to swelling. We want to thank everyone for their prayers and support. We will post information regarding the funeral on the blog as we finalize the plans.

Dec. 26 - 8:30 am
They've run the test. We're just waiting for the Doctors to review the results. They will be talking to us around noon. Mom is still holding stable with machines and meds.

Dec. 25 - 9 pm
The status is unchanged at this point. The machines and medicine are what are keeping her alive. Tomorrow morning a test is scheduled to determine the extent of any brain damage that has occured. We will update her condition again sometime mid morning. Thank you all for your prayers and support, we trully feel the love and support and it is a great comfort to us.

Dec. 25 - 5 pm
Mom just took a turn for the worse. The swelling is increasing and her blood pressure has dropped. They are working hard right now to get her blood pressure up high enough to continue getting her brain enough blood. Things are very critical at this point. We are all gathered around her bedside and probably will be for a while.

Dec. 25 - 9:30 am
Mom is still holding stable this morning. All her vitals are good and the pressure has come down just a little bit. They monitor her Inner Cranial Pressure(ICP) and yesterday it was up to around 28-29, now it is down to around 24-26. This is a slight improvement, so we are hoping that maybe the swelling has peaked, but we will not know till they check the ICP throughout the day. The doctors and nurses are satisfied with the progress, but continue to remind us that it could take a while. At this point, as long as things progress as they have been the last day or so, we will just post updates 3 times a day. Once in the morning, once in the late afternoon and then once at night. If there are any other changes outside of just the basic status update, we will post as soon as possible. We hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas morning.

Dec. 24 - 10 pm
Mom had another catscan around 7pm tonight to check on the condition of the swelling. The catscan was very similar to the one they took early this morning. This means that the swelling seems to have stopped getting worse, at least for now. All her vitals are still stable. Thanks for all your prayers and support. May you all have a Merry Christmas tomorrow as we celebrate the birth of the Savior. What a comfort it is to know that He lives and that He has made it possible for us to live again together as families. May we all take time tomorrow to ponder the many blessings that are afforded each of us because the Savior was born and sacraficed so much for us.

Dec. 24 -
We have been warned by Mom's kidney doctor that we need to be able to tell them Mom's favorite Christmas song tomorrow. So we wanted to let all of you have input on this. So what is Elaine's favorite Christmas song? Let us know what you think by either posting a comment to the blog or send us an email at mthompson@broadweave.net.

Dec.24--5pm
Sorry that we were delayed in posting additional information since 9am this morning. We know alot of you have been checking the blog on a regular basis(every 2-3 hrs) for updates. We appreciate all your continued prayers and support.

Nothing much has changed since this morning. She is still experiencing the swelling, and the ICU staff is monitoring that closely. They have scheduled another CAT scan for 7pm this evening, so we hope to have results by 9pm (MST). We did learn today that sometimes it takes up to 4-5 days after surgery for the swelling to peak. Until the swelling goes down, she will remain in the state she is currently in.

Her vitals signs all remain good and stable. She also reacts (moves)to the stress tests whenever they pinch her fingers and toes on both hands and feet. At this time we ask that you specifically ask that the swelling will subside when offering prayers on her behalf.

Dec. 24 - 9 am
We didn't receive any phone calls through the night, so things stayed stable. There is no real change in the swelling. They are planning on increasing the dosage of medicine to help with the swelling from every 8 hours to every 4. We are awaiting a visit from the doctor this morning for more details on her condition. She is still really unresponsive with just occasional movement in her arms.

Dec. 23 - 11:30 pm
Mom is stable and resting. We are all at our homes now to get some rest. Dad is spending the night here at our place in Provo, which is just 10 blocks from the hospital. We are all sleeping with our cell phones next to our pillows. The nurse said as we left the hospital tonight that "no news is good news". We are hoping that will be the case tonight.

Dec. 23 - 10 pm
The results from the 9 pm catscan showed just a small increase in swelling, but nothing abnormal. All her vital signs are still very stable, we just have to continue to wait for the swelling to go down. This could potential be a day or so before it finally goes down.

Dec. 23 - 7 pm
They have stabalized Mom's swelling at this point but she now has a fever. She is scheduled for another catscan at 9 pm. Things at this point are still very critical. She has not fully awaken since surgery and the doctors are still watching her very closely to keep her stable. Some additional information that we have learned is that this morning when the bleeding got worse, she had actually stopped breathing for a little bit. Her heart never stopped during that time, but her breathing stopped until she was hooked up to the ventilation machine. We are still very faithful that all will be well, but she is still in critical condition. Her movement is off and on at this point.

Dec. 23 - 3:30 pm
Additional Information about the 3:30 post - When the nurses tried to wake her they were able to get her to open her eyes and hold up two fingers and wiggle her feet. She then when back to sleep. The key right now is getting the swelling to go down so she can progress with recovery.

We had left the hospital to get lunch and relax for a little bit. Got a call from the hospital from the nurses saying that they had tried to awake her. In the process they noticed that one of her pupils was larger than the other. They took her down for another catscan, but the catscan looked similar to the one right after surgery. They did determine that there was some swelling occuring and that her blood pressure was elevated again. They believe the sweilling is what is causing her to not be able to awake as quickly. They have given her meds to help with the swelling.

Dec. 23 - 1:20 pm
Just wanted to check in with everyone. There are no real changes to report. She is still asleep.

Dec. 23 - 9:43 am
Post Surgery catscan looked good. The doctor said there is slight bruising of the brain. Still waiting for her to wake from surgery. She is breathing on her own, but they still have the ventilator in just in case.

Dec. 23 - 9 am
The surgery is over. Everything went as well as it could. They were able to succesfully clip the Anuerysm. There wasn't much swelling so that lessend the risks of the surgery. They are going to run some more scans to check everything out. It is now a waiting game to see what type of damage has been done to the brain from the bleeding. All vital signs are still good.

Dec. 23 - 8 am
Just got an update from the nurse. All she said is that there is at a minimum 1 plus hour to go. All her vital signs are stable.

Dec. 23 - 4:30 am
We received a call from the hospital that Mom had gotten worse and that they were preping her for surgery. Matt, Laura and Leanna were able to make it to the hospital before they took her in for surgery. When they got there the doctors explained that she had been getting progressively harder to wakeup throughout the night. They moved up the presurgery catscan and found that the bleeding had gotten worse. They were then planning on putting a drain in prior to the actual surgery of clipping the anuersym. They took her into the operating room at about 5:10 am. Michael, Julie, Dad and Elise all arrived at the hospital shortly after she had gone into surgery. We are just hoping and praying that the doctors will be able to succesfully complete the things they need to do.

Dec. 22 - 4:30 pm
We all saw mom shortly before 5 pm and were able to communicate with her. She was heavily sedated so she was only able to really acknowledge our presence. Dad came back after 7 pm and stayed with her for a little bit, but she was still very sedated and out of it.

Dec. 22 - Early Afternoon
The doctors confirmed that there was an Anuersym and that mom would need to undergo surgery to stop the bleeding. At this point the doctors where 90% confident that all would go well without any lasting side effects.

Dec. 22 - Morning
They ran a catscan and found that their was bleeding on the brain. They later ran more tests to determine where the bleeding was and how bad it was.

Dec. 22 - 6 am
Mom was admitted to the ER and quickly hooked up to monitors to find out what was causing the severe headaches. Dad took her in and Matt wasn't far behind to assit in a blessing.

Dec. 22 - 5:30 am
Matt went to pick Mom, Dad and Laura up at the train station in Provo. When he arrived Mom was in severe pain and was vomiting. They quickly got in the car and went to our house.

Adventures of Evan

Last Friday we took Evan and Alex to the Salt Lake Temple. Evan's been wanting to go for the longest time and since Matt and I had family names we decided to take the opportunity to do the ordinances there. We took my sister Ericka with us so she could watch the boys while Matt and I were in the Temple. Matt was finished before me so he went to go look for the boys. Sister Missionaries asked Matt if he was looking for someone and he said, "yeah I'm looking for my boys that are with my sister in law." These Sisters were from Korea and one of them said "Evean?". Matt said "yeah, Evan!" and the Sisters said "Oh your two boys are so cute!" The boys were downstairs in the North Visitor Center playing with the toys where we left them. On our way back up and out of the building we saw a few sets of different Sister Missionaries and every single one of them said "Goodbye Evan!". Matt and I couldn't help but laugh at this. At dinner Matt told him the importance of not flirting with Sister Missionaries.
This video shows Evan as the worlds biggest 3 year old Cougar fan. Go Cougars!

Goldie & Ivory

Goldie and Ivory are Evan's fishes that he got for his brithday from his Aunt Laura. He takes care of them really well. They never go hungry and he loves having them on the table next to his spot so he can watch them while he eats. This morning he fed them all by himself :).


If you guys can't tell what's all over the table and in the tank, it's food.

Alex is 6 Months!

Last week Alex also had his half birthday. We obviously didn't do much but go to the doctors.

Apart from the stuffy/runny nose, cough and dry skin, Alex still can be a very happy boy

Weight: 16.14 lb 26%
Length: 27.5 inches 85%
Head Circumference: 17 inches 35%

Evan at that age

Weight: 14.3 lb 2%
Length: 26.1 inches 32%
Head Circumference: 41cm ?%

Today was the boys well check ups but since they were both sick it was more of a follow up appointment for Alex. He didn't get his shots today because he's still pretty sick. Evan is all caught up with his so no pokes for him but since he had a steroid shot last Thursday he wasn't allowed to get the flu shot.

Evan's 3 year stats:
Weight: 28.44 17%
Length: 37.2 45%
BMI (Fat): 14.45 7%
I still have a very skinny boy but very healthy. He had fun today from what it looked like. They checked his eyes so he had to tell them shapes from a distance. He had to cover his one eye on each. He thought that was weird but he can see! My side of the family has bad eyes even at a young age so it's a very good thing. We still need to go get them checked with my cousin sometime.
Since Alex's blood test came back normal I was asked to do a few things for his skin. I need to stop giving him a bath everyday and put Vaseline over the desonide cream on the bad spots. Dr. Later thinks he's been sick this long because of his skin. I have to call him in a week to give him an update on his skin, cough and congestion. If it's still bad then he needs to be seen again. Who would have known bad eczema can cause lots of sickness.

He's 3 and a First!!

Due to events that happened afterwards, I'm late getting this out.
Evan turned three on November 9th!! We had a fun party for him on his birthday. I wanted to do it on a weekend but so glad we did it when we did. I didn't get a lot of pictures but what we have, we will treasure.
Matt and I were getting him excited for his birthday since he's old enough to understand. Times like these make it fun to be a parent. Evan wanted to be three so bad so he would tell everyone that he was three before his birthday actually came. We kept telling him it wasn't till Tuesday so eventually he started saying he will be three on Tuesday.
On the day of his birthday he woke up to Balloons everywhere. He saw them and he would say, "it's my birthday!!" I could hear him sing Happy Birthday to himself throughout the day. It was making me get really excited about his party but the first thing I had to do was get him to take a nap. I didn't want him to be cranky. I told him he must take a nap and afterwards we'll head to Grandma Thompson's for his Birthday Party. Luckily he did.
When I heard him wake up I opened his door and he had the biggest smile on his face. He knew it was time to party!
We had a Cars party for him.

He loved his cake and couldn't wait to eat it. We had delicious food, soups and salads. We had The Cars movies playing on the projector. The little kids loved it while the adults could talk.
After we all got our fill on food we got to watch the kids play with the Pinata. We didn't break it the traditional way since we had a group of pretty young kids. There were a number of strings hanging from it and one of them would open the bottom door. They were too quick for me so I didn't get a picture of them pulling on them. Daxton got it on the second attempt after Evan tried.

Candy!!

Evan likes the fact that he gets to keep Lightening McQueen.
We then opened up his mountain of presents. We have no idea what we will get him for Christmas now.

Toy cars were the hot item.

He couldn't get enough of this Cars Birthday Card. It plays "Life is a Highway". He would open it between each gift.

Last but not least, cake and ice cream!


Here are a few more pictures from the party that I think are cute.







Do you guys notice that Evan isn't really smiling in any of the pictures? As much as Evan was so excited about his party, I couldn't help but notice that Evan wasn't all there. The card brought out the smile in him but nothing much did. After we sang Happy Birthday to him he had a few licks of the icing on his cake and then he went into the living room and crashed!

This is very odd behavior if he had a nap and I knew he did because I checked in on him. He slept, maybe 30 mins before he was accidently woken up. He wasn't happy and he was slightly warm. After he was given a blessing and everything was gathered, we headed home. He slept in his own bed for a few hours but ended up in our bed. Matt and I didn't get much sleep that night. Alex was also having troubles sleeping unless he was with us. Matt was close to taking Evan to the ER but he would calm down and fall back asleep. By next morning Evan was his usual self. Since he wasn't all there while opening his presents he noticed all his toys. He was in heaven from the looks of it so I didn't think it was necessary to take him to the Doctors. Thursday was the same till he was put down for a nap. He woke up an hour or so later screaming like he did on his Birthday, but with a barky cough. He was slightly warm again but not much of a fever. I kept debating on if I should get him seen because his cough wasn't as bad after a while. In the end I made an appointment for a few hours later. Before going I checked Evan's temp again and it was only 98 something. We waited forever since they were down one doctor. He spiked a fever during that time to 101.4. You could tell he was sick at that point. I felt so helpless. It wasn't much of a mystrey that he has croup. He was given a steroid shot so his air passage ways would open up more for him so he barely had a voice. He also has a sore throat. He was tested for strep but it came back negative. I've never seen Evan sick like this. I guess there's always a first. Since Alex was with me he was also seen. This made his 4th appointment. Since he's been 4 months he been very congested off and on and his skin has rashes everywhere that will clear up with steroid cream but will come back just as bad. His ears aren't draining but they weren't infected this time around, all though I'm sure they are now. The pedi ordered blood work to see if he's allergic to anything that I'm eating. We got those done right away at the UV Hospital. He hated it! I hated it too. Nothings worse than seeing your kid being held down against his will and being poked. That night was better than before but we still didn't get a lot of sleep. Friday was even worse than Tuesday night. Alex started throwing up what he ate because he would cough so hard. Saturday was a struggle to get him to eat anything and once he did, it came back up. I ended up calling his pediatrician to see if he needed to be seen but I just needed to watch for his breathing and if he didn't pee within a 12 hour period. We're doing all we can for both our boys. During that phone call I got to hear the test results for Alex. He was tested for egg yolk, egg whites, milk, wheat, nuts and protein. All came back normal so no diet changes for me :). Tuesday is their 3rd year and 6 month well check ups so we'll see how everything is going for both. Evan is getting better so I'm not worried about him anymore. Alex is the same so I hope we can pin point what’s going on with him.

Halloween 2010

Halloween was a lot of fun this year even though it stormed. We had a family party at the Thompson. We trick-r-treated, had yummy food and candy, had a doughnut eating contest, bobbed for apples and watched a scary movie.

Alex's first Halloween :) We have some funny video's of us bobbing for apples and Evan cleaning out his pumpkin but blogger wont load them. It makes me sad. Anyways, funny facts about bobbing for apples is that Matt took 3 mins and 46 seconds to get his, I took 44 seconds (first time) and Matt's mom took 8 seconds. Evan was trying to get an apple with Matt so that did take some time but we still got ours before him. Evan loved it and stayed there for a while after. Evan also loved the doughnut eating contest.

Backyard!

We finally have a backyard! It's not exactly where I want it to be at so I didn't want to blog about it yet, but we can't do anything about it till spring. This has been a long time coming so Matt and I couldn't wait any longer. It was just dirt when we moved in with some junk because the previous owners had three big dogs. We've been working on it for almost 3 years. We would work on it for a little bit and then we would do other projects. Everything would just get dumped back there so it was a real mess at one point. I'm so glad it's done! We were about to give up on getting it done this year but we had a lot of help from family and friends. Thanks guys!!!
This is was it almost looked like when we first moved in. We just added those mounds of dirt when we re-did the front and side yard. Other stuff was back there from replacing things inside the house. Matt took off the barrel around the lamp post before I took the pictures.



We needed to put a parking spot back there so we could have a legal basement apartment. All we did was add more concrete to what was already there but before we could, we had to remove the lamp post, brick wall and over hang. They were all ugly anyways so no loss there :).


We wanted this done before Alex was born but with Matt's busy schedule it just couldn't happen but we got what we really wanted in before snow.Automatic sprinklers and Grass!!


Next spring we'll work on the flower beds, more clean up, put up toys and a swing and possibly put up another over hang.

Gasp!

I have the cutest kids in the world!! I maybe bias but it's true! I love my boys! I was having fun with Alex in the tub. I would blow on him and he would gasp for air. It was so funny! Maybe he was telling me I had bad breath;).

1-10

When Matt is home to help put Evan to bed he aways asks Evan to count to 10 in German. Matt loves the German language so he's teaching Evan.
Evan goes...
Eins
Zwei
Drei
Vier
Funf!!
Sechs!
Sieben
Acht
Neun
Zehn!!
I had to google the numbers because I don't even know them but I wanted to document what he did next. I asked him to count to 10 in English. I would normally say count to 10 or 20 and he will recite what I tell him too. Instead of saying One, Two, Three
He goes...
One english
Two english
Three english
Four english
Five english
Six english
Seven english
Eight english
Nine english
Ten english
He had us laughing!

So Proud!

Evan has become a very mature boy for his age. The choices he's making are just awesome! He's learning that when Mommy or Daddy tell him something, they mean it, and he obey's. Makes it nice for when we're out and we're not running around after him. His safty is so important, especially these days.
Thats a huge plus but the best thing is that he loves the scriptures. The first thing he loves to do after waking up is reading/watching the scriptures. I put in his choice of DVD and he takes his book and follows along. He's gotten through the Childrens Book of Mormon three times now. We're really proud of him.

Alex is 4 Months!

Alex turned 4 months on the 11th!

He had his 4 month check up this morning.
Weight: 14.46 LB 40th Percentile
Length: 25.85 Inches 81st Percentile
Head Circumference: 16 Inch 13th Percentile

Evan at that age

Weight: 13lb 2oz - 12th Percentile
Length: 25.40" - 66th Percentile
Head Circumference: 41.5 cm - 25th Percentile

Alex had his first taste of Baby Cereal. He' not a fan but he eats it.

He no longer needs to be swaddled :). Now we just need to get rid of his binky.

Alex loves playing with his older brother and Evan doesn't mind it either.


Alex can roll from his back to tummy like a champ. He can roll from tummy to back as well but not as often. These pictures were taken as he did it for the first time.




Evan loves Alex! I catch him often holding his hand while in the car.

He's such a happy little guy!

I love him so much!