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The picture below is of my cute sister, Lisa, and her husband, Tyler, and their four boys. Lisa is just a few years younger than me. The reason I'm posting about her is because we almost lost her a few weeks ago. She doesn't like a lot of attention, so she might be mad at me for this post, but I wanted to document her last trial.

Lisa's husband came home from work early and saw Lisa lying in the driveway. He thought she was just joking with him, so he honked a few times. She wasn't joking, she was unconscious. They rushed her to her local hospital and because of a snow storm the power was out and had to rush her to Provo hospital (which normally is only a short drive, but took them three hours that day). She was unconscious for a while and so I got on an airplane and headed to UT. My parents (who have only been out on their mission for a few months) were also on an airplane and heading for UT, along with my youngest sister, Jess. Two other siblings drove in from St. George and my five other siblings live closer and were already at the hospital. We rushed to the hospital and she was finally waking up. But she couldn't remember anything that happened and she kept repeating herself. Each day got better with her memory, but they couldn't find out what happened to her. Her brain is fine, her heart is healthy, but she does have a lot of palpitations with her heart. So after five days of being in ICU they moved her to general and the heart dr did an mri on her heart and couldn't pinpoint the problem. So he said that she needed to get a defibrillator to track her heart and to help the heart beat if it goes below a certain heartrate. He said it was a 1% chance that she made it through this last episode and they odds were lower than that if it happened again, hence the defibrillator.

Now Lisa is home and recovering well. She knows what a blessing it is for her to be home and she has so much support from her friend and ward members. I know that so many people were fasting and praying for her. I was fasting for the dr's, so they would know what needed to be done to help her. All nine brother's and sister's were at the hospital for Lisa. We told her that if she wanted us all together she didn't have to go unconscious for 24 hours! Tyler's family was also at the hospital and they love Lisa just as much as we do. We are so happy she is home and recovering well!! We love you Lisa :)


Hunter earned a few awards at school, including high honor roll (the only one in his class). Do you notice anything different about Hunter? NO GLASSES!! The day before he asked the eye dr if he could finally have contacts (he's been asking for the past few years). He was now old enough and I've never seen him so happy. It's strange to see him without his glasses, they have been a part of him since kindergarten. See his big smile :)


Austin also made high honor roll. He tried hard last semester and came close, but he did it this semester. If you notice Austin's glasses, you'll see he went the totally different direction is his glasses. He lost a lens while he was sledding and so he's been wearing his sport's goggles for the past few weeks. His new ones will be here soon...I think! His eye's look so big in them ;)