Memory Keeper

1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember!
2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you.
Take me on trip down memory lane.

Do you think they are related???

This is Aiden and Brynlee at 6 weeks old. I think it is really cool that they look a lot alike. I am however glad that Brynlee does look like a girl. I don't think that any of my siblings really look this much alike and same goes for Ben and his siblings.

Four Generations

This is four generations of my family. My Grandpa, my dad, me and my kids. I will cherish this forever.

Our first complete family picture

This is the first picture that we have taken since Brynlee joined our family. It's not the best, but it is precious.

All the girls

All of us girls. My sisters, Aimie, Sharae, Allison, Mikayla, Stacy and my brother's friend Jessica. Unfortunately my sister-in-law Irene is missing.

Brother and Sister

I can't believe how big Aiden is getting to be able to hold his little sister so well. She is so excited, can't ya tell!

Most of the grandkids

Here is all of my mom's grandkids, but my brother kev's little boy. Aiden is trying to make Lillie feel better. What a good cousin.

My brother Nate and his family

My brother, Nathan, his wonderful wife Stacy and their baby, Kaity. They are absolutely amazing. Nate and Stace are the best. They do anything for anybody. I love them tons.

My Family

This is the most recent picture of my family. This is all of us except my brother Kevron, his wife Irene and his little boy, Veyron. My brother, Ashton's friend, Jessica is in the middle in the brown shirt. I absoultely love her..I hope one day she is part of our family heehehehe.

Aiden's Birthday Pictures

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Best smiles

These were after much work. Aren't her first smiles so cute.

Brynlee

We had the hardest time trying to get her to smile. We finally just gave up. I don't blame her she just barely learned how.

Aiden and Brynlee

We just got the kid's pictures taken yesterday and this is how they turned out.

My cute niece

My sister, Aimie's baby Lillie and her stuffed puppy. I can't believe she is standing and practically walking at 10 months old.

My sister Aimie and her wonderful family

My sister Aimie and her Husband, Aaron and their 10 month old daughter, Lillie.

Me and my two sisters

Last March (when I was 5 months pregnant) my sisters, Aimie and Sharae and I went and got these pictures taken for my mom for mother's day. Can you tell which one is older?

Aiden and Lillie Cousins to the end

Aiden and Lillie (my sister, Aimie's baby) are the best of buds. She always gives me kisses and attacks him every time she sees him. He just lets her. He is so sweet to her and she is absolutely adorable.

Grateful for the gospel

Brynlee only wakes up once in the night and it is always around 5 am. So she woke up around 5 am on Monday morning, the day after she was blessed (Aug 4) and I fed her and fell asleep with her in my arms. ( I was mostly sitting up) She was laying on my arm on her side facing me. I heard this voice that said "open your eyes!" I opened my eyes and she was completely blueish gray, but her eyes were wide open (which they never are). I yelled at Ben that something is wrong and that she wasn't breathing. I picked her up thinking that would jolt her enough to start breathing and she didn't. Bubbles started coming out of her mouth. I recognized this from working in the NICU when a baby was in respiratory distress. I rubbed her back to try and make her cry, but nothing. Ben took her and was pounding her back to stimulate her so she would take a breath..nothing. I just kept wiping the bubbles away thinking I should call 911, but I just sat there stunned. Ben was yelling her name and hitting her back. I told him to open her jammies so I could see her chest. She was retracting. (that is when the chest in concaved in around the ribs.) Ben finally tipped her upside down and hit her back again and she took a small breath enough to get some color back in her face. She never did take a big breath. She just kept taking small little breaths. I was so freaked out. Both ben and I figured that she had spit up and aspirated it into her lungs. luckily Aiden had his 3 year old checkup that morning so we took her in as well.

The doctor thought that it was because she had acid reflux and that is what caused the severe apnea spell. He wanted to put her in the hospital that day. I was for it except for ben said that we should try the medicine first (zantac). i was afraid that she would have another episode and I wouldn't be around. The doctor said that if it didn't get better in a couple days to let him know. He told us not to let her out of our sight. So we took shifts sleeping. The next day I went to Ogden to my mom's. She had 6 small episodes that day. My mom had to stimulate her twice because I was freaking out and couldn't get her to breathe by myself. I had reached my breaking point by then. I should have called the doctor that day, but I didn't. On Wednesday, she had another small episode while I was changing her diaper. I had ben call the doctor's office. It was our doctor's day off so we had them leave him a message. An hour or so later the doctor called our house himself and talked to ben and then he called my cell phone to talk to me because I had ran to the store to get some shampoo. He said he wanted to admit her that day and he debated on whether to admit her on Monday. So she was admitted to Logan Hospital and tortured as they always are. He ran every test to see if she had an infection or something. He did a chest x-ray to make sure the aspiration episode didn't cause pneumonia. He even did a urinalysis on her urine with a catheter and of course a bunch of blood work. Everything was okay except she had a de-stating episode right in front of the doctor.. so he actually saw her stats drop when she refluxed. I am glad he saw what I was talking about.

I felt at ease to know that she was hooked up to monitors. The tests started coming back weird. little things started showing up. There was a spot on her lung on the chest x-ray, but the doctor thought it might be because she didn't take a deep enough breath, so he redid that test. Then the urinalysis showed leukocytes, so he cultured that. The normal blood work came back okay. He was going to discharge us on Thursday, but the nurse came in and said that an infection was growing in the blood culture and we had to stay. The doctor wasn't sure if the lab had contaminated the blood or not so he wanted to be safe. It didn't make any sense to him because she didn't show any signs of an infection. No fever nothing. So the next morning I asked him what bacteria was growing and he said strep. I was really concerned because I know that if strep is found in your blood then that is serious. He said that he wanted to redo that test as well. This time when they drew her blood she did not even move or cry. we both had had it.

Needless to say, we find out Monday what the culture grew this time. I have such a strong testimony of the holy ghost. If I had not listened to that voice, I would not have my baby here. She probably would have died. That really is the first time that type of inspiration has happened to me. I am so grateful for it. I can't tell you enough how much I love this gospel and everything that it does for us in our lives. I really feel that things happen for a reason. I feel that this happened to us to strengthen my testimony of the holy ghost. I never have received a prompting like that in my life, nor have I received any little promptings that I can think of, so my testimony of the holy ghost has not been very strong. It is interesting how the lord works sometimes. If the lord wanted to take my baby, he would have and the holy ghost would not have told me to open my eyes that morning. I don't think I could have survived if I hadn't listened to that prompting to open my eyes. I would die if I lost my kids. They are here to teach me so much just as I am here to teach them.

She has had small reflux episodes that make her do the same thing the doctor saw, but she has not turned blue...she just gasps and takes a huge scary breath. I have been paranoid and nervous because Ben has worked doubles all weekend, which means he is gone all night until 7 am. I want to have her on a home monitor just to ease my mind again. I am glad that nothing worse happened and I feel that everything will be okay. We just have to get the situation under control.

Blessing Day

Brynlee Jane Hatch was blessed on August 3rd 2008 by her father Ben. It was a wonderful day. She shared this wonderful day with her brother, Aiden's 3rd birthday. We are so lucky to have both of them a part of our family. Ben's grandma Snow and my grandma Rees. My mom and dad and me all holding our little girl.

Aiden's 3rd Birthday

Aiden had a Thomas the tank Engine themed birthday party. Ben and I made him a pineata and Ben did an excellent job on a Thomas Cake (to be shown later). He was spoiled of course and got tons of toys from his family. He had so much fun...now the fun starts for mom and dad.

Bath time

Brynlee chill'in in the bath. She loves to get a bath. She never cries.

How sentimental

Here is Brynlee in her blessing dress. The dress was made by my mom. She made it out of left over fabric from my wedding dress. The beads on the dress also came from my dress. She did such a good job. I absolutely love it.

Precious love

Ben took these pictures of the kids that same Sunday. We were having a photo shoot with the kids. I love these. Aiden was so good to hold the baby by himself. She was slippery.

Sweet Rose Petals

Pearls

I took these one Sunday afternoon. Brynlee is 3 weeks old. I played with the pictures that are black and white with selected color. I absolutely love them

Daddy and Brynlee

Daddy and Brynlee chill'in on the couch on a Sunday afternoon. Brynlee is 3 weeks old.

First bike ride

Aiden finally learned how to pedal his bike. He is doing so good for being 2 and a half years old.

Swimming

Aiden and Ben swimming at the Aquatic Center in Roy at a family reunion. This is Aiden's second time swimming in a big pool, but he was too little to remember the first time. He absolutely loved it.

Brynlee 1 week old

Here is Brynlee on her week birthday. She weighs 5 pounds 2 ounces. She is a little thing.

Squirt me daddy

During Ben's time off, after the baby was born, him and Aiden had an amazing water fight in the back yard. That is Aiden's pool. Guess who won???

Just like her mom

She sucks her thumb the same way I did when I was a baby. She however, doesn't suck her thumb all the time. She now prefers the bink and her hand..thank goodness.

First night home

Her first night home was wonderful. I had to wake her up to eat because she was so sleepy. She definitely made up for Aiden who was up all night the first night home.

Own hospital picture

We didn't get a hospital picture because she was born on a Friday and we went home on a Sunday. So we kind of took our own. Precious.

So little

Ben was so afraid of holding Brynlee. Because she was so small, he was afraid he would break her. What a wonderful dad.