Emily Turns 20 Weeks

Our sweet little Emily is growing so fast. I swear if it wasn't for the constant updates from parentscenter.com, I would forget her weekly age. You can tell from the pictures that she is starting to chunk up. Check out her thighs! The last week and a half has been a little brutal around our house. It all started with the stomach flu which lasted several days, all except Emily thank goodness. Then on Monday night Dan's lower back went out. He has three herniated disks and they tend to go out about every six months. He has usually been able to keep working through the pain and within a few days it goes away and he goes on with life, but this time has been a lot worse. He was in bed for four days (couldn't walk, sit or stand) and he is barely moving around now. He went to physical therapy last week and his doctor called in some strong steroids and pain pills, but nothing seems to be working. He is such a trooper, he reactivated a sister in our ward and she went through the temple on Friday night to get her endowments, so we went with her and my poor husband was a sight for sore eyes. The funniest part of the evening (to me anyway), was when we were in the chapel waiting to go into the session. His back was hurting really bad, so he decided to go lay on one of the back row benches, within two minutes five temple workers were rushing to his side to see if he was alright. One even asked if he had a heart condition and needed assistance! Of course everyone from our ward new what was going on and we were laughing, he was laughing as well :o) We are hoping to get him started on two new procedures for herniated disks. One is called compression and the other is cold laser. I'm really hoping these work for him.

We are headed to San Antonio this week. We will be leaving on Wednesday morning. Dan has a conference there with his work and the kids and I are tagging along. Mike and Amy moved there about a month ago, I will be hanging out with them during the days and hanging at the hotel with Dan during the nights (if his meetings and dinner parties are over). We are so excited to see them and their new place!! Ethan will only miss two days of school, there is a teachers conference on Friday and a holiday on Monday. We are planning on hitting Sea World hopefully on Saturday. Ethan and Adam love Sea World! They would go everyday if it were possible.