Last Week's photos.....

First, a little about today. I know people kept telling us that no one expected us to go to church, and we had a "get out of church free" card, but, call it my upbringing, I just couldn't go just because I didn't want to face people, so we went!! It was kind of hard, and I understand people wanting to give us their condolences, so it wasn't too bad, but I was mentally exhausted after sacrament meeting, so Tyler and I went home and we let the kids go to Primary and our fantastic friend brought them home. I was hoping to be a bit more spiritually uplifted, but I just couldn't pay attention! It was pretty weird. I know the adversary is working really hard on us, since we had so many spiritual experiences in the hospital and at the funeral, and I don't want to lose those feelings, but I definitely didn't feel great afterwards today. I'm sure it will get better, and I'm sure, eventually, we will get back to church.

Last week I posted that the day was "fun." And, it truly was. We had lots of visitors all day long, which is exactly what I wanted. I think I knew that Jake wouldn't be here much longer, and no matter how puffy he looked, or how scary the ECMO machine was, I wanted the whole world to get to meet him. We had lots of visitors all day from close friends and family from both mine and Tyler's sides. It was GREAT!! In fact, we ended up having so many from my family that we had to go into the waiting room because we were getting a bit too loud!! Here is a photo of most of my family.

After this photo, we had a family prayer offered by my Dad. It was really sweet and simple, but perfect for what we all needed to hear. The spirit was so strong!!

My brother, Aaron, and his wife, Rachelle came to visit and stayed for about 4 hours! We loved it! Aaron loved holding Jake's hand. It was so sweet!! This photo shows quite a bit of what Jake looked like that last day.

This is my amazing friend, Donelle, who flew in from Texas to spend the weekend with me. I still can't believe she showed up at my hospital door!! I loved having her here, and am so glad she got to meet Jake!!

Here is a chart with his meds. This doesn't include the lipids, TPN, blood/platelettes or antibiotics!! It was a LOT of meds!!


Here is his "About Me" chart. They would fill it out almost everyday! It was pretty cute.

It's crazy to me that this was all just one week ago! It feels like it was MONTHS, if not YEARS ago!! It all still seems like a blur. Anyways, those are some of the photos I had wanted to post from last week that I never got around to!