Thursday, December 29, 2011

Happy Birthday Mom!
Mom celebrating her Birthday the first of January and Lisa had the siblings and families over for a really nice seat down dinner! It was a Great Night with my family and all for our "Reigning Queen"... We love you Mom:) xo

Little America Brunch!

The First of January we met up with Bitters at Little America for Brunch! We haden't exchanged Christmas Gifts with them and thought it would be great to see them! They had made several trips down to the hospital but this time it was alot more enjoyable and relaxing:)


Happy New Year 2011

Happy New Year we got Austin home!
But with bringing him home came stess of me being a NURSE! Troy told them I could do the drainage that he had in his right cheek of his bottom, anyone that knows me I'm totally opposite of Troy and I don't handle blood, needles and want to pass out with the look of it! Troy just looked at me and said you can do it, we don't need a nurse coming with me and you there! So we were draining Austins drain a few times a day and I can honestly say I got use to it, even though I hated doing it because it was painful for him! And I hated hurting him!! It was worth me being a Nurse to bring my Boy home for the New Year! New Years we headed out to Steve and Lisa's for the New Years Eve Party! Our first holiday party we could attend, and it was so FUN to get out and enjoy it! Austin didn't join us and we let him go hang at a good friends house since he needed the out too:) 2010 had alot of blessings in it, we love the season of life we are in watching our children grow and be active! But we are glad to bring on a New Year!






And this Guy is the BEST of them all! He would work long hours at work and doing surgeries and then he would come straight to the hospital and stay with Austin all night so I could get sleep and be there for the dayshift as he called it! Austin especially loved his Dad by his side:)
I had to post this picture of Austin sitting by the window on Christmas Day! We were opening gifts and I looked over to him and grabbed my camera, there was like a glow about him, and if you could of seen him 24 hours before this shot of him when he was so ill! My heart was beating so fast and tears came just knowing I had him back and he had been able to fight that double abcess infection:) lots of prayers answered! We are so Grateful as a family for the Love and Support of our FAMILIES and FRIENDS! We truly feel blessed going into 2011....

Catching Up.....

Its been over a year now since I have blogged, I went into it for the first time tonight and found that draft I had saved and never posted... WOW.... what a year we have had in the Bitters Home. It seems like yesterday we were there! But it was a Christmas I will never forget and will forever be in my heart~ I'm GRATEFUL for the Medical knowledge we have and that we have our Austin back and healthy after this long year! I will be catching us up in the next few weeks and hopefully getting myself back on track with our family journal:) xo

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

"For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace." -Isaiah 9:6
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This was a Christmas the Bitters Family will never forget! When your going through hard times and trials you lean more on the Gospel and the Savior.. We truly had this in our hearts this Christmas Season... At the first of November Troy had mentioned that it would be our first year without "Pinkie" that was our tradition every Christmas Eve and we lost our pinkie in August. Troy really wanted to focus more on Christ with Christmas Eve this year and we talked several times in November/December what we could do to find the perfect lesson for our kids, with going through the Ruptured Appendix and then the infection we were fighting over Christmas we got lost in just the worry of Austin and Christmas seemed to not matter as much to me! I remember the 23rd of December feeling so Down and Discouraged we had watched Austin in so much pain and it was hititng me we wouldn't be home for Christmas! I thought oh I need to get my shopping done but the desire to leave Austin and do it was another story! Once I left all I wanted to do was get back to the Hospital and be there for him! On Christmas Eve I spent the whole day with him, while Troy ran and did all the shopping we had not done! It was quiet and peaceful and Austin was pretty medicated and was in and out! I thought of the month and how before Troy had this desire to have this special 24th of December and here it was that evening. I can't even tell you the warmth I felt at that moment as I knew there were angels (pinkie) surrounding me and letting me know that the special lesson that Troy wanted for our kids was right there in front of us! It was us relying on the Savior and making him the most important part of Christmas, it had come through FAITH that month, PRIESTHOOD BLESSINGS, PRAYERS, FAMILIES, and CHRIST THE CENTER OF OUR LIVES! I wept my heart out and thought will never beat this Christmas again where we had our Heavenly Father right there with us and carrying us through this trial we were facing! My heart was full of GRATITUDE for him and for helping me through the last month! I know without a doubt that he lives and he is there for us, I truly witnessed it over and over the month of December! I'm so Grateful I was raised with this in my life and that my parents taught me correct principles that I have taken on with me and trying to teach my children! Next Year I'm sure Troy will be trying to figure out his new tradition on the 24th of December, but when it comes every year I will always remember the Christmas Eve I sat in the Hospital room 251 and felt the room full of his presence teaching me that priceless lesson:) xo

Monday, December 27, 2010

Merry Christmas from Room 251

Christmas 2010 at American Fork Hospital the kids were troopers! We had to be down there early since they were doing a CT on Austin, my good parents came at 5 am and sat with Austin while Troy ran home for us to get the kids up and be able to give them what Santa couldn't take to the Hospital~ We had a big surprise for McKay of a LIZARD how I agreed to this one I will never know, I'm thinking I must of been receiving some of those drugs to agree to it~But what a happy boy when he got his lizard "Doby"~ We then packed up all of our gifts and headed down to the hospital and worked on Austin getting his contrast down him for the CT~ I couldn't believe how well he looked. They had drained alot of infection on the 24th morning and I was seeing they had success by the way Austin looked:) We had a great Christmas! We were the only patients on the floor so at the end of the hall we had our own Christmas Tree and we gathered around and opened the gifts from Santa and Family~
He got his Harry Potter Wand
A Early Christmas Hug for Grumpy:)
Dad's new Christmas Gift~
Presents for Austin~

Happy with his Wand and her with a Cell Phone!

Heading down to CT to see if they were getting to the INFECTION


Good News it was working the bigger drain~We can go home if he will EAT!

MELT DOWN he has no desire to EAT!
Barrel of Monkeys (Thanks to Ned Chidester) for his decorations!
Wheelchairs to take Christmas down to our car:)
Matt came to cheer up Austin on Christmas!
Our Nurse wanted to take a Picture of our family on Christmas Night, so even though we are tired and we had a hard week, we had our Austin coming back from the infection and we were looking forward to bringing our boy home that was the best gift of the whole day:)