After Thanksgiving in California

 Our Thanksgiving this year was spent with some friends from the ward. We had a nice dinner with them, but forgot to take pictures. Instead, I thought I would share what we did on the day after Thanksgiving when it was 80 degrees here in sunny California.

We went to the park and played on the jungle gym. Bridgette is getting very daring now and loves to go on the slide and climb the steps on her own. She is getting older so fast now.

 Every time she goes down, she turns right back around and wants to climb back up the slide instead of go up the steps.

 Every morning, Bridgette begs Mom for her cereal, and Rebe usually give in and gives her the box. Here she is caught red handed.

 On the day after Thanksgiving, we also went to the beach. It was a little cool, so we didn't get in the water, but Bridgette had the whole beach to herself and was not afraid to crawl very far from Mom and Dad.

 Dad then decided to show her how to did a big hole. Tyler met the family after rounding in the morning and played in the sand with Bridgette.

 She loved it! Dad didn't like the sand in his face though.

 Happy Daddy and Daughter.

Hospital Scare

Early Sunday morning Tyler woke up with intense abdominal pain and cramping.  He threw up a couple times and we thought he just had a stomach bug.  A few hours later, the pain got worse, more throwing up- this time because of pain, and he was shaking and hyperventilating.  He decided it wasn't just the flu and that he needed some major pain drugs and to see a doctor.
We drove the 20 minutes up to UCI, since Tyler works there and knows the people.  It was pretty hilarious listening to him give his medical history since he knows what they want to hear and used all his professional terminology. 
This is after huge doses of pain meds.  It took a lot to get him to calm down! 

 

His electrolytes were all out of whack and had some other strange labs.  They pumped him full of fluids trying to get his lactic acid down.  Two CT scans and an ultrasound later, the only finding was a partially obstructed small intestine.  They aren't sure what caused the intense pain or what would have caused the obstruction.  They decided to admit him to monitor him overnight.

At this point, poor Bridgette was falling apart.  She had been sitting on my lap or was held for the whole time we'd been in the ED.  I decided to head home to let her nap.

Tyler was finally transferred at 6 pm.  I was able to leave Bridgette sleeping at home while an awesome girl in our ward sat at our apartment, so I could go up to visit Tyler.  Nothing eventful happened overnight, and his pain was mostly gone.  He was discharged at 11am the next day and is doing fine now.  We are relieved it turned out to be nothing major but it sure gave us a scare!  I have never seen Tyler in so much pain.  We are hoping it isn't something that will occur again in the future.