Jan 17- March 9 2017

Somehow life went on :). We took everything a day at a time and enjoyed the happy times and got through the sad times.  My body recovered quickly which was a big blessing and these two girls kept us busy and going.

How is she sleeping like that haha!

 You can see the redness and bags under my eyes but it's good to see I was still happy and blessed with my babies.

 I forgot... but Lainey went through a goggle and sunglasses stage!  She wanted to wear them all the time!  LOL love her

A sweet dance mom friend had this picture made for us.  I absolutely love it.  It is perfection.  And so funny how this happened to be our favorite family picture that she chose randomly from my Facebook account.  Heavenly Father truly sends earthly angels to be His hand to get you what you need.

 My Dad had this temporary headstone made at his work for us while his headstone was being made.   I just glued it to a tile and it was perfect.

I took a couple weeks off of the salon and LuLaRoe, but for me, it was good to get back into it.  Going again.  Focusing on something productive.

I took my LuLa team to dinner before Carrie moved to Arizona

 So weird doing this post a year later!  They grow SOOO fast!

 We went to see Moana at the theaters with the girls!  This was their first time in a big theater I think! They loved it.  It was a staple in our home most of the year!

 Random photo dump!

 I loved loved loved serving in the Young Women's!

 Trev and Koleman stopped by for a visit!

 Documented Tom wearing LuLaRoe leggings!

 Cute girls with their Valentine cookies!! (Jade dressed herself haha)

 We kept our Magelby's Valentine's tradition.  We love it.  I love him.

We always lean on each other but I remember during this time especially.

 one of my favorite pictures of this princess!

 one of my favorite sights!

 Jade went through a Rapunzel stage!  She would use anything and everything for hair.  I think this was her best yet!

 She is TOOO cute at her dance recital dress rehearsal!

 Sweet Stacy had a beautiful baby shower

 Family date night to the Trolley

 Sunday ladies!

 Jazz/ game night!

 The big Dance Recital!  Gammy and Gampy came to watch!  Man it was cute!

 Lainey stole the show! (not really in a good way haha!) It was hilarious though!  She totally knew the gist of the dance but when it was show time, she just did her own thing!  She was being so silly, running around, tipping out of her tub etc.  The video is priceless.  Love her!

 Jade did fantastic!  She had 2 dances . A jazz and a tap!  She is a natural on stage!

Jade played soccer her first year and did great when she felt like it haha.  Sometimes she would beg not to go to the games and complain she was tired etc.  She was very young for this league.  We loved watching her play and were such proud sideline parents even when she so much as kicked it!  We took the Fall and Spring off, and will give it another go in the Fall :)

 Walks were a daily thing if the weather would allow it.  Walks are good for my soul!

Christmas 2016 - Daxon's birth Jan. 10, 2017

This may seem like an impossible feat... but I'm going to try to get caught up!! Yes.... almost a year has past!!  The thought of writing down my feelings throughout the year seemed easier just avoided.  We've also just been so busy that time and life just keep flying by.  But I don't want 2017 to have no record!  I print these out every year as our family scrapbook.  It was an increbily hard year but also an incredibly amazing year!  We did amazing things, had amazing experiences, and made amazing memories that I don't want to forget.  So I'm just going to do a post/2017 month and hope by keeping them simple, it will not be such a daunting task haha.

This way 2 days after we found out something was wrong with Daxon, but we didn't know what.  The doctor suspected Trisomy 18 but wasn't certain.  We did the amniocentesis and were painfully waiting to find out.  We were told we would have the results by Christmas Eve.... which we didn't.  But that's probably for the best.  The timing of all this now seems to make sense.  We were able to stay busy, be around family, and focus on the Savior.
We stuck with our plans to go down to Oak City to visit family.

Cute little princesses!!

We had a good Christmas Eve with the girls.
Festival of Lights....

Candy Cane hide and seek...

Christmas bingo...

Feeding the reindeer...

Cookies for Santa...

Christmas Jammies...

Christmas morning magic...

Sledding...

That afternoon we went down to Delta to spend time with the Miller side...

Cute little cousins...

Played games...

Lainey is a big fan of the snow haha...

Sledding in Gammy's back yard...

24 weeks pregnant...

That weekend we went to Luke's 4th Birthday party...

We had our friends over for a New Year's Eve party...

It was the strangest Holidays.  At moments you feel normal, happy!  And the next second you want to break into a million pieces.  We had no idea exactly what our future held.  Would he go till full term?  Live for a little while??  Be gone in the next minute??  It was awful.  But we had soooo much support from family and friends.   We had many people praying for us.  And I truly felt the Savior by my side throughout.

I remember this day vividly... Tom had the day off after the Holiday and we wanted to take a family day.  We took the girls to The Natural Curiosity Museum.  It was so fun!  They loved it!

That afternoon when we got home, I got a call from Dr. Ludlow saying they had the rest of the results... and that our baby boy had Trisomy 9.  He didn't know much about it because it is so rare, but knew it's severity is worse of the Trisomy's and that babies with it don't usually live past the first trimester.  He wanted to meet with me the next day.
So of course we spent the whole night googling to try to learn as much as we could.  It was probably the worst we've ever felt... just sick.
The next day I went to my appointment and the Dr. basically wanted to let me know my options.. A) Do nothing and let natures take it's course... likely resulting in a stillborn.  B) Schedule a C-section around 27 weeks for the chance at meeting him alive.  We didn't want either option obviously... and although I would've loved to hold a living baby, even briefly, I couldn't come to peace with essentially  deciding when to end his life.  It was awful.  Tom and I taked in circles about it.  Thankfully Heavenly Father knew best and we didn't have to make that decision.

I think part of Tom's coping mechanism throughout this time was the guitar.  He taught himself the basics and played constantly.  He hasn't really played since haha

For some reason... it looks like we had cake for breakfast? haha lucky girls!

We had some good snow that week!

The girl's "cooking dinner"

And you know the rest... Jan 9th there was no heartbeat.  Our sweet boy had passed.  We went in to deliver that afternoon.  The girls wanted a picture while I was in labor so we put on our best smiles to send to them.
2:10 am January 10th, 2017 we got to meet our little angel.