We made it through August!!!!

Well, as most of you know, the last two years August has not treated us very kindly.  I'm not usually superstitious but come on, we have had some major trials come to us in August and why Heavenly Father chose to place them both in the month of August, I don't know. The first was August 10, 2008. It was one of the best days of our lives but also brought with it the hardest thing either Zach or I had ever experienced. Dakota was born on this wonderful day but it didn't all go as easily as we had thoguht it would be. He was born with a heart condition that made his heart beat way too fast. Instead of taking our precious new baby home, we had to leave him in the NICU for two LONG weeks not knowing what was going to happen.

NICU @ Primary Children's Hospital

Now isn't that heartbraking!!! We spent every day for two weeks in the hospital just to be with him and hold him. It was so hard to see him like that all the time. Every day seemed to last forever. Thank goodness it is behind us now and we have a happy and healthy little boy that brings us SOOO much joy!!

What a stud!!!

Well, after that major trial we thought we had gotten our fair share of tough times and that we were free. What else could go wrong. (This is probably why this next trial come our way)

August 2, 2009 is when Zach began noticing that his vision in his only good eye was starting to blur a little bit on the outside edge. We immediately went straight to the eye doctor (since Zach had lost vision in his left eye at 15) we knew we didn't have any time to waste. Well after many doctor visits and 3 LONG weeks of being in the hospital, in the end there was nothing that the doctors could do to save the vision that Zach lost over the course of a month. The whole experience makes me sick just thinking about it right now. That was, and still has been the hardest experience Zach and I have ever experienced. We are still learning and trying to understand it all but we are coping with it the best we can and with the help of our loving Heavenly Father.

Dakota was the only thing that could make him smile during that time!

He is such a cute dad!

So here we are now, with the end of August, 2010. Now I would be lying if I didn't say that I was a little nervous when August came around. In fact a friend asked me in July, are you nervous for August??? At that time I hadn't really had time to think about it so my answer was not really. During August was a whole other story. Everything made me nervous, it was silly. Dakota and I went for a ride on Snowflake (horse) one day and we took her up on the canal road in Willard. Well Snowflake was a little nervous because she had never been up there and she was acting a little jumpy. Now if I was by myself, I wouldn't have been nervous at all, but holding my precious little boy up there was completely different. Then thinking that it was August completely freaked me out and we had to turn around and go back immediately. I know that sounds ridiculous but it really was nerve racking.

But we can now celebrate because it is September 1st, August is over, and we survived without a single mishap!!!! WOO HOO!