Happy Birthday Intermountain Healing Hearts

IHH, the heart support group we belong to, celebrated their 2nd birthday at The Red Barn. We got to go on a wagon ride and pick out a pumpkin, then we went back to the barn for sider, doughnuts and info. It was a really fun time to see some heart friends and have a fun fall activity!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Teagan & his Becca

This is Teagan and his Early Interventionest Becca! We love her, she does a great job with Teagan and never pushes him too hard. She has been a blessing in our lives, I fear we won't be needing her much longer just like all of our other wonderful therapists, but I wanted to grab a picture before I forgot and she was gone.

My Special Birthday Gift

For my birthday this past August, my sister-in-law Jodi gave me Teagan's blog in a book! It was so thoughtful of her and she put so much work into it, not to mention the money. It is his whole first year from when we started the blog to his first birthday party, she even cut and pasted all the comments from you guys! It is a priceless gift to me, even though it cost a lot to make, thanks Jodi!

18 Months Old

At 18 months old Teagan is a whole new guy, you won't believe me if I tell you, but I will tell you anyway...HE EATS! It has been an absolute miracle! Teagan has finally started to eat and swallow and eat some more all day every day, it's nothing too healthy or wholesome, but it's food and it is going and staying in! He hasn't had a puke or gag since our rough patch back in July, it has been absolutely wonderful and do you want to know what made all the difference....WALKING! His core is finally strong enough to hold every thing UP and DOWN (if you know what I mean). He loves to crawl up the stairs and scoot down the stairs. He walks from Mommy to Daddy and loves to see how long he can stand in place or just fall straight back thinking someone will catch him. He has had a few spills and has the bruises to prove it. His new found independence makes it very hard to keep him away from all the germs, but I just try my best to keep things clean around him and wash his hands as much as I do mine. Mason started preschool and with that comes a whole new set of germs, I think I remind Mason to wash and sanitize his hands so much I forget to tell him to have fun too. We have truly tried to jam pack our summer full of fun as we don't know what next summer will bring, so here is what we've been packing it with:

This is the Ryno, to say Teagan loves it is an understatement, he goes absolutely nuts waiting for daddy to get home so he can go for a ride. He even has his own sign for it and then taps his head signing HELMET, it's even special enough to say, "VROOM, VROOM!" We just had a back seat put in and harnesses for everyone, including the car seat. We just got back from Moab with it, did I mention how much Teagan loves it?

These are T's favorite PJ'S, he points at Elmo and then shrugs his shoulders because he doesn't understand why Elmo is allover him!
Teagan helps me drive Mason and his friend Garett to preschool!

Teagan loves ice cream...don't even try to take it away, not even when my chin turns red from the cold, no sir!

The IHH Heart Walk

We got to participate in the IHH Heart Walk this year! It was fun to gather our extended family and walk for HEART! We had about 20 family members there to represent Teagan DASH. We all wore our special Incredibles shirts. We want to thank everyone who took time from their busy Saturday to support us and our group. Some family couldn't be there, but still wore their shirt or donated money, my Mom even made heart shaped Rice Krispy treats to have a little piece of her heart there, we appreciate it all. Just the four of us stayed for the angel ceremony, it was very beautiful and touching, a group I pray I never have to join, but in the back of my mind realize I might. They released butterflies up to their angels and Mason asked if they were going up to Heavenly Father, so precious. It was a beautiful morning and I'm glad we were there.

Some of us met for breakfast, at Uncle Carl's (family joke)

Our INCREDIBLE league of Supers

Notice Mason's shoes, they are Vans with hearts with wings on them, so cute!
T, Me, Amy, & Jack

Gathering the troups

And their off...

Teagan is going to do some walking himself!

A few of the Heart Hero's with their #1 fans, MOM!

CHEERS...to HEART HERO'S

Exhausted on the drive home!

Celebrating Daxton's 1 year since Heart Transplant

On September 10th we got to celebrate Paul receiving a new heart, after waiting for over a year. We also got to celebrate Daxton's one since getting his new heart! Cook's put on a really fun carnival to celebrate! It was so fun to get to see some of the people we spent last summer with inside PCMC, out of PCMC in such a fun SANITIZED environment! They had such yummy treats: cotton candy, snow cones, and fun things to do: balloon animals, and face painting! Daxton looks great, doesn't he:

Ryan & Ryan with the two HEART HERO'SThese are two of the ladies I spent last summer with
(a few were missing, but not forgotten, I think about you often)

Mason got his face painted...guess what it is? A green dragon, duh!

Thanks Cooks for including us in such a fun event!

Heart Camp

We went to the first IHH heat camp, we had a really good time. It was pretty wet and rainy, but we stuck it out and we're glad we did. We loved the outdoor movie, especially all the yummy treats! We spent the night in our tent, just the four of us, it was great! Mason and Ryan witnessed the one major accident at camp, a little boy feel off a swing and hit his head and there was quite a bit of blood to a 4 year old. He was fine and our wonderful camp doc took good care of him, but Mason was quite concerned, he asked us if he could pray for him in our family prayer, it was so sweet. I'm so thankful for his tender heart, being the big brother to a heart kid is a big job, the siblings are exposed to it all. On that note I was really grateful for the activities they had planed for all the kids! Mason had a blast and loved all the prizes! While Mason was off doing that Ryan, I and T got to hear about the future of the cath lab and other interesting heart stuff from Dr. Gray and two other research docs, it was all very interesting...I got a little teary eyed a few times. Over all I think it was a big success and something we all need to donate to so they can keep it going!
So I know you want to see all the cute pictures I took...well that's a long story, but the short version is, Ryan and I went on a little get-away for our 7th anniversary and my camera got stolen with the pictures from heart camp and some other irreplaceable occasions.:( So no pictures, I've learned my lesson though: download after every event!