My mom is moving all of her limbs! Just like I could not explain the pain we felt last week I can't explain the joy we have this week. She had her neck fixed last Tuesday and had her jaw fixed yesterday. She will get a trachyotomy put in on Friday as long as her neck has healed enough. She focuses on you when you talk and seems to know who you are. She will also follow commands as long as she is not to drugged. They had to sedate her and tie her arms down today because she was moving so much and trying to rip out her ventilator. We still don't know what the damage to her mentality will be but things look so good right now. It is truly a miracle. One week ago today the doctors gave us almost no hope and we thought that we would be making more permanent decisions. It is amazing the power that prayer and faith have. Thank you all so much for your thoughts, prayers and love. I will continue to keep her progress on the blog it's easier than making phone calls. We love you all!!
PS - I put some new pics of the boys on. I am so grateful that I had them to come home to. It made my days so much better because no matter how I felt they are always happy and smiling. Thank heavens for small blessings.

Karter likes to take the pillows off the couch and make himself a bed under the coffee table. It's pretty funny because the pillows slip on the table everytime he tries to lay on them so he ends up getting super frustrated.

Hudson will be ten weeks old on Friday. Crazy, huh. At his 8 week check up he weighed 13 pounds. He's a chunk!! He is in the 80th percentile for his weight and only in the 20th percentile for his height. Karl calls him stump. He is such a happy baby and so much fun to have around.

My mom made some progress today. HOORAY!! She had to have a filter put in her veins to prevent blood clots from going to her lungs, heart and brain. Her neurosurgeon doesn't want her on blood thinners so this was the alternative. While they were doing the procedure my moms nurse saw some movement under all the sterile drapes. She was like "oh my gosh is that her" and sure enough when they pulled up the drapes my mom was moving her right arm up and down. And while they had the drape up she picked her right leg up completely. We are so excited. Then while I was sitting with my mom the nurse was doing stuff to her IV and she stuck her finger in my moms left hand and my mom squeezed it. I watched her do it and it was amazing. My mom has not moved her left hand at all since the accident so that was a huge surprise. She keeps her eyes open and instead of looking like she is 1000 miles away she only looks like she's maybe 100. She still doesn't look around but she looks at you when you talk to her and she seems to be listening to what you're saying. They are small steps but it is progress. All of our prayers are working. Thank you so much for all of your love and support. We know that we have such a long way to go but the small things that happened today made it feel like we can make it. Keep praying!!

What a long week. My mom's condition has not improved. Her brain swelling subsided and they were able to do an MRI. We had a conference with her doctors on Tuesday to get the results of the MRI. She has what is called shearing which is where your brain twists from the impact and the reaction your body has coming off the impact. They said that the part of her brain that is injured controls all of her motor functions and that she will be paralyzed. To what extent we won't know for a long time. She will also have no short term memory. Short term memory is anything that has happened in the last year. They fixed her neck Tuesday evening and gave her a feeding tube this morning. They are planning on doing surgery on her jaw on Monday and will switch her ventilator from her mouth to her nose. Then after her neurosurgeon feels enough time has passed from her neck surgery and the risk of infection is down they will give her a trachyostomy. They figure it will be about 10-14 days. They have had her completely off her sedation and her pain meds and she does not respond the way they want her to. She opens her eyes but does not track and does not focus on anything. Which they say she should be doing. She was moving her right arm and both her legs but has stopped responding to pain on her arm and responds only a little bit to her feet. The doctors can't explain why her movements decreased, only that the swelling may have been just enough to cause further damage. Right now things don't look good at all. But the doctors say it is to early to tell.
This is such a hard experience. There are so many decisions to be made and you don't know which is the right one. We are all praying and asking Heavenly Father for peace and guidance. I had to go to my moms today to get some of her things and for my little brother to get his stuff. It was hard. My little Karter ran around her house saying "Where's Grandma?"
We were cleaning out her fridge and Sam said "This is so wierd" It is incredibly wierd. The pain is unbelievable but as I sit here writing about it it seems so unreal. No matter what happens our lives are forever changed. I now have a teenage son/brother. I told him he's no longer the youngest he's the oldest.
We are all praying for a miracle to get our mom back. We can't imagine life without her. I keep waiting for her to drive her little clown car into my driveway and for her to open my door and say "Karter Jay!" and he knows that if he digs in her pocket he will find a treat. I know that my family and my faith are going to be the only things that get us through this and I thank my mom so much for instilling those values in us.

My sweet momma was in a car accident on Thursday morning. She was not wearing her seat belt and was ejected. She was life flighted to the hospital in Idaho Falls. She has a brain injury, a fractured neck and back a broken jaw, cheek and sinus. Plus 7-8 fractured ribs. They put her on a ventilator because she was not breathing enough on her own. The doctors have kept her unconscious since the wreck because her brain is swelling and they are trying to keep her ICP (intercranial pressure) down. It has to stay under 20 or it is causing more brain damage. She had a bad night Friday night where it climbed above twenty and they had to use a medication to lower it. When she is moved it gets high but goes right back down after they are done messing with her. They did let her try and wake up Friday morning but she was extremely upset. She ripped our her IV and tried to rip out her ventilator and her ICP shot up to 75 so they put her back to sleep.
Her fractured neck will require surgery to stabilize it. It is at risk of paralyzing her so they are keeping her in a brace until her brain stabilizes enough to do surgery. Her jaw will also need surgery to wire it shut and if she still needs a ventilator when they do that than they will have to give her a trachyotomy.
We won't know the extent of her problems until they can do an MRI and see what kind of brain damage there is and what other damage there is to her neck. The brain injury is on her frontal lobe which controls her movement, personality, memory and emotions. The doctors said that her brain swelling should peek around 5 -6 days. We are at day 3.
This has been an extremely trying time for me. I cry most of the day. I had just talked to my mom 30 minutes before her accident. It is so wierd how life changes in the blink of an eye. We are all staying hopeful for the best. We say lots of prayers. My mom is the strongest woman I know. If anyone can recover from this it will be her. Don't take anyone for granted. We don't know what is going to happen. I would give anything to be able to hear my moms voice right now and to see her smile.

We blessed Hudson Sunday. It was nice. Sy and Marrissa were able to make it up from Salt Lake for it and Shane even went to church. And the church is still standing. It's such a special moment to see Karl and our loved ones hold our little baby and give him a blessing from our Heavenly Father. I am so appreciative of the blessings that the gospel has given me in my life. We missed Dad, Patty and Seth and our little Madi of course.

Ahh...my little munchkin. Doesn't he look just like Karl!

Karter is changing his babies stinky diaper. He toted that doll around all morning. I have no idea how he got it because it was in his crib. I probably don't want to know. He put it in Hudson's car seat and than made me get Hudson out of the swing so he could put his baby in it. This is all while he is telling the baby "sshh sshh" and patting its back. He even had a burp rag over his shoulder. Funny kid!!

My mom and I spent Tuesday canning peaches and making peach jam. It was quite the day. I don't know how many jars we did but I swear it was atleast 30 maybe even 40. The boys were super good so that helped a ton.

I got out some of the more interactive baby toys today. Of course Karter loved them. I laid both the boys under one and Karter had a blast playing with it while Hudson starred(sp) at him.

Hudson has found his fists. He is not really into his pacifier but loves to suck on his hands. I don't want him to be a thumb sucker though so I try to get him to take a pacifier. It's easier to take that away. Not that I would know anything about that since it is still Karter's best friend.

Karter getting a breathing treatment. If you ever want to see a wrestling match between a 26 year old and an almost two year old I know of a great one.

Geez...I haven't been on here in a while. I guess all the loads of laundry and the diaper changes are taking up quite a bit of time. I need a maid. Or two washers and dryers. Hudson is getting stinkin' cute. He smiles all the time and coos. I love this stage. I forgot how cute they are when they do that. He has a lot of new hair growing in and it's dark. His little head is so fuzzy. Karter is my little monster. He gets so worried when Hudson is crying (which he does quite a bit) he says "baby sa" and if we aren't watching him he will try and go remedy the problem. Which usually ends up with Hudson crying harder because Karter hasn't learned that he can't lean on Hudson's body to get to his face to kiss him better. Potty training went great for a week and than all of the sudden Karter had no interest in it and would scream when I would take him to the bathroom. So we put it on hold for a few months. Karl is still busy making a living. Rates are great but the government has made so many new rules that it is hard to get people approved. Even if they have money in the bank and great credit. It makes his life stressful. Which makes my life stressful because I am worried about him. Vicious circle. We're doin' good though. I will get some new pics posted soon.