For our 6th Anniversary we went extra special and went to John Howie. Neal and Michelle had been raving about it, so we were excited to try it! The fried bacon was pretty amazing!! It has a special maple syrup spicy sauce that goes on it. Could go there just for the bacon and be happy. 

 Before dinner though Eric and Q had a little golf practice. Eric ordered these golf balls that glow in the dark. They are pretty sweet. At night it is fun to watch Mike and Eric hit the balls from their deck onto the green.

 Q got tired so he decided he wanted to watch. He is so funny where he picks to sit and watch.

 A few days later Q woke up coughing, so we gave him a little more of his breathing treatment, but as the day went on it seemed he kept getting worse. By the time Eric got home from work I knew we had to take him to the ER because he was only breathing if he was crying to grunting. When it comes to struggling to breath they have a scale from 1 - 12. 1 is breathing fine and 12 is really struggling. When we first got there Q was ranked at an 11. So they immediately put him on a nebulizer. Unfortunately nebulizers take a lot longer for Q then most kids. They should only take about an hour from start to finish, but because the medicine makes Q's heart rate increase to really high levels we have to keep stopping to let his heart rate get back down to a lower level. Since he was so high we were really worried that he would have to stay the night. We said a lot of prayers and gave Q a blessing, and luckily when they came back to re rate him, he scored a 3! So we got to go home!

This last week has been SO HOT! My apartment still doesn't have air conditioning and being pregnant it makes the heat unbearable. So we went to a splash pad with a playgroup from church. He had so much fun! 

 Then that night we went to the Lake with Eric and the Bastians. They have an inflatable little boat that we took out. Q thought it was a blast. We may have to buy one!

 Then we went up to Lake Stevens and enjoyed the lake as well. This water was a lot colder then Lake Washington. Q still had a ton of fun playing in it though, and we did bring a little inflatable tube that he thought was amazing. He just like floating around in it. My kind of day at the lake.

We also found a townhome to rent! Eric officially got his job in Bothell so we found a fabulous place near by.  We got the keys on June 1st and will slowly move in once Eric is done with school. We are excited to move to a HUGE townhome... its like 3x the size of our current apartment. We are going to miss all of our friends but luckily we can still come visit anytime we want. 

WARNING: This will be picture overload since I have 5 months of activities to catch up on.

Basically since Christmas I feel like life has gone non stop! We spent Christmas in San Jose at my parents new house. It was awesome, we went on adventerous, exploring this new area that my parents now call home.

First thing we did, was take Q on a  train. As you can see from the picture he was pretty excited.

Q loves his cousin Ellie.

 We then went with Donald, Emma and Ellie to Half Moon Bay. Donald and Eric dreamed about when they could play the course.

Then we had to do a Christmas Train ride. Next year we are going to do the Polar Express. It will be awesome.  Q still loves the train whistle Santa gave him. I tend to hide it.

My Dad got a Ricochet car for Christmas so we went to the church parking lot and  played with it. Q both loved it and feared it. He liked when it would drive away and hit the curb, but if it was coming back at him he had to run away or be held. He loves his Grandpa!

We couldn't make a trip without going to Pebble Beach. It was SO beautiful! We had lunch there and again, the boys dreamed about playing the course.

Another day we all went to Monterey to walk to boardwalk and play in the ocean! It was pretty cold since it was December, but so beautiful! 

After Christmas, Eric and I went on the company cruise I had been planning. There were over 500 people on this cruise that I was in charge of! I had been planning it since August, and was so excited that it was finally here! We went to the West Caribbean, which was tons of fun. The trip included activities every night, like Disco Parties, Formal Night, White Out Party. During the days we went on Zip Lining excursions, Cave Tubing, and just days and the coolest beaches. Writing about it now makes me want to go back!

Don't mind the picture. This was taken just after we watched the Seahawks play to go on to the Super Bowl. There were only 4 people in the entire bar rooting for the Seahawks. It was super intense. While we were celebrating the other 2 people accidentally spilt their beer on me, but since we were late for formal night, I only had time to change my clothes and run to dinner. Oh man, that game was amazing.

We also went to a Seahawks game in January! We are already making plans to go to another one.

 Right before we went on the cruise we found out we were pregnant. Had no clue. I know I'm one of those didn't know I was pregnant annoying people. We decided not to find out what we are having. We figure since the pregnancy itself is a surprise we are going to keep everything about it a surprise.

For my Birthday Eric got me an overnight stay at Salish Lodge with a massage. It was amazing! Eric's parents watched the little monster for us.

 

 For Erics Birthday, his dad dropped the cake on him, and I got him tickets to the US Open Golf tournament in June. He is going to have so much fun!

The rest of the time has just been going to Mariner Games with Neal and Wilson. They are the cutest buddies.

 Playing with Trains

Trips to the Zoo

 Trips to St. George to visit cousins and attend baby Showers. St. George was SO much fun! We played in the pool and went to the park. Also went to the Sand Dunes!

Playing in Lake Washington! 

 First trip to the ER for 2015. Glad it took till April to happen!

 Playing with Legos

Like I said it has been CRAZY! I think we have gone on a trip every month so far!! O how I love to travel!

I must be a true Seattle ite because I am SOOO over summer. A very large part of that could be that I dont have air conditioning and my huge windows face the sun all afternoon. For the last 2 months my house has had an average temperature of 78 degrees. INSIDE, there have been a few days when it has gotten up to 82. SO so so hot. I am ready for long pants and sweatshirts. 

We have gone to A LOT of sporting events lately. Some times I have opted out and just let the boys go. Since the Mariners like to make you believe they are good, and give you false hope that "this could be the year" we have gone to their games. Q seems to love it, especially if he gets his own seat. I love going to football games. I prefer them to baseball and basketball. We have season tickets to the Huskies so we go to all the home games. Sometimes Eric gets lucky and gets extra tickets. So we can bring friends! Last game we brought Donald and Emma. We sat in the shade, cause you know in the middle of September it was 80 degrees. We had a lot of fun though!

A post wouldn't be the same if I didnt include our monthly trip to the ER right? 

The first trip was croup. We went to play at a friends, and within 5 minutes he couldn't breath. He didn't have any symptoms before, so I had to call the doctor to find out what was wrong. Apparently that happens. Completely healthy kid one minute, struggling to breath from croup the next.

 

The next trip to the ER was super scary are required us to stay for 6 plus hours. After we had dinner one night Q started crying uncontrollably. We did everything we could think of to calm him, but nothing worked. He was also having a really hard time breathing. We rushed him to the ER right away, cause we knew he was having a severe allergic reaction. I have never given him an Epi Pen and as long as I live 3 minutes away, I dont plan on it. As soon as we walked in the doors they could tell he was in severe distress so gave him the epi pen, started an IV, and started a breathing treatment. They kept us there for 6 hours to make sure once the medicines wore off he wouldn't go into shock again.  Luckily Q was pretty tired from the treatments, and from crying so hard. I'm sure he was also really scared. So he let us lay with him and watch some movies while we waited.  Luckily he didn't go back into shock, so they sent us home. That doesn't mean I slept good. I'm pretty sure I woke up to check him every hour. We dont know what caused it, but afterwards I deep cleaned my entire house, and wanted to throw everything away. 

Happier things also happened in August! Eric's grandparents came into town so they had lunch with us and took us to the Pacific Science Center. You would think I would take pictures but no. I was having too much fun. Q did NOT like the dinosaurs. He kept jumping from one person to the other trying to get them to save him. He eventually warmed up to the butterflies but not enough to get down on the ground himself. Before we went we played at the park by us. Grandpa Dolder pushed Q around in 'his" car. Q was on cloud 9.

 He thinks he owns this car. If I had a bigger yard/house he might be getting one for his birthday. Sadly he will have to borrow the one at the playground.

 This is how Q shops. If he isn't covering Eric's eyes, then he is grabbing his ears. Its pretty funny.

 

Now we just have to wait till Baby Hermione gets here! Q made sure her carseat worked and was comfortable for her.

Let me start with the most exciting news of all!! My little brother Andrew got his mission call to

Called to Serve in the Guatemala Quetzaltenango Mission!! I cant believe he is old enough to go on a mission! He got his papers on Friday, and immediately invited his friends over to open it with them. He got a little emotional as he started reading, but since he had his friends over he worked through it. :) Afterwards his friends stuck around and were asking a TON of questions. He only had 4 friends over that were LDS, so it was an awesome missionary experience. We (his family) left and let these boys share with their friends what a mission was, why they do it. Eric and I were both really impressed by their answers to the questions for their friends. They even called and facetimed their friends that weren't able to go. They are all really excited for Andrew. He is going to be an awesome missionary!

So this is where the day took a turn. We all thought it was going to be a great weekend, General Conference was on and we could all listen and relax. Go out for my Birthday dinner. Sadly none of that happened. Dad started complaining about chest pain Friday after Andrew opened his papers. He went to bed hoping it would all work itself out in the morning. Unfortunately once they listened to Elder Hollands talk Saturday morning they knew he needed to go to the ER, because something wasn't right. He was immediately admitted for Blood Clots in both of his lungs. They put him on medicine to help his pain and also to try and thin his blood so the blood clots would go away. He stayed 2 nights in the hospital and is still is in a lot of pain. Mom and Dad spent the weekend at Swedish Hospital. Dad was released this afternoon and is still tired and in some pain but on the up and up.

Only smile all morning

Q took his turn for the worse on Saturday night. Q had a runny nose and a cough for a few days, but Saturday night he was up coughing and struggling to breathe most of the night. I only got an hour of sleep because he was so upset and tired. Mom was an angel and helped, even though she had spent the entire day in the hospital with Dad. In the morning she gave him a bottle and he started coughing and threw it all up. He also was visiably trying to breath and was grunting, and making wierd noises to try and breathe. We took him to the same hospital my dad was at, that way once he was treated we could go visit my Dad. They took a XRay and listened to him and said it was just congestion and sent us on our way. He was still upset breathing and coughing. Both Eric and I didn't feel comfortable with that diagnosis but didn't know what else to do. So we took him home to try and get him to rest. He wouldn't take a nap and was awful. Around 5 we were going to head back to our place so i called our Primary Doctor to make an appointment for Monday or to see if their urgent care was open on Sunday. The doctor listened to Q through the phone and told us to take him to the ER. So we left and headed to Children's hospital since it is like 2 minutes away from our apartment.

Breathing Treatment

Once we got to Children's the nurse got us in immediately, and told us that on a score from 1 to 12 Q's breathing was at an 11. Which meant REALLY bad. So they got him started on breathing treatments, and said we would be here for a few hours waiting to see if the treatment worked, if not, which they suspected, we would do another round of treatments. The first breathing treatment got him down to a 7 which was great, so they gave the 2nd round of breathing treatments. That's when the problems started. About 30 minutes after the treatment was done Q's heart rate was at like 290. We thought it was wrong, because his cords kept falling off because he kept moving and playing. We tried to get them back on, but it was still super high, so we got the nurse to come in and fix it. She thought the monitor was wrong as well, but after getting it fixed and then listening to his heart she knew it was correct. She called the Doctor right away and 2 minutes later we had at least 10 people huddled outside his door watching the monitor and running around. Then all of a sudden they all came into the room and the craziness started. I was holding Q as they tried to put an IV in him, and then put Ice on his face to see if they could natuarally lower his heart rate. At this point his heart is going 310 beats per minute. They tried it twice and it didn't work, so they prepped a shot and injected it into his IV. As soon as the shot went in his heart was down to 180. They kept monitoring him but felt this episode was over. They had hooked his heart up to an EKG so they could monitor his heart before, during and after the entire process. After everyone left, Q was fast asleep. I think his fast heart beat was keeping him awake. A few minutes later the head ER Doctor came in and told us what happened. Q had SVT which is Supra Ventricular Tachycardia, meaning that part of his heart was telling his entire heart to beat faster then it should. They were calling the Cardiologist to look at his EKG, but in the meantime they were going to switch his meds and then admit us to the Cardiology floor.

EKG minus all the cords.

This was at midnight. We had a different breathing treatment that wasn't supposed to have the same effect of raising heartbeats. We finally got to our room at 2 am. His next treatment was at 4 am. He hates the breathing treatments and screams bloody murder. No much sleeping was happening.

In the morning they came in and said the cardiologists were monitoring his heart and if he gave the thumbs up we were able to go home. They said his breathing looked good, but that would need to keep giving him breathing treatments. We were finally released at 4 PM. Mike and Sue met us at our apartment and took us to Dinner. We hadn't eaten since breakfast on Sunday.

The Doctors think his SVT was a one time problem, and it was induced by Albuterol. So they have added that to his list of allergies. They gave us a stethoscope so we can monitor his heartbeat from home. If it gets past 200 we are supposed to call our Primary Doctor or take him to the ER. If that happens they will do a full workup on his heart and find out whats going on. We are all praying this was a one time thing. We are now just taking it easy at home and waiting for his chest cold to go away. We appreciate all our friends and family that have been praying for us this weekend!