Mission Reunion!

I love all of this!

Seriously tons of fun.
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Jayson and Neha

Over Thanksgiving weekend we headed down to warm Arizona to celebrate the wedding of these two.

Jayson and Neha got married on Nov 26, 2011. It was beautiful

Oh how I love the Messenger boys. Aren't they so cute. Every time we get together with Jayson I am baffled by the similarities between him and Justin. They not only look alike, sound alike, but have a lot of the same little mannerisms.

I went a bit early with Justin so I followed the photographer around with the boys. Such handsome men.

Here are ready to start with the parents coming in. This is Hugo ( Cecilia's brother) and Cecilia.

Jayson anxiously awaiting his Bride.

Jyana and Jayson's friend Cory. They were walking into the sun so pardon their closed eyes but they are still cute.

The Best Man and the Maid of Honor. Justin and Neha's sister Reya.

The cute little flower girls On the left is Justin's cousin Isabella and on the right is Neha's cousin Sana.

Here comes the Bride! Neha looked so beautiful. Her dress was amazing with this beaded long train. Check out her bouquet! Isn't it amazing!

The Ceremony. It was really nice, the pastor that was performing the ceremony had some really good things to say about marriage. He kept referring to it as a covenant between each other and God. It reminded me of our sealing. 

The Kiss! Now they are official  let the Party begin!

The wedding party. This is me once again tagging along behind the photographer. hehe. I love the color combination of purple, yellow and gray. It looked really classy. The gray tux'es were way nice. I am thinking that Justin needs a gray suit now. 

All the original Michilena's. From left to right. Hugo, Maria, Grandpa, Grandma, Cecilia and Micheal.

Almost all of the Michilena cousins. I think that we were missing only a few of them. Aren't they all so gorgeous. 

Just us. 

Michilena's with spouses. Lourdes in the black and Ali in the silver. They are such a fun family and I love when we get to spend time together. 

About this time my camera was dying. =( But I got a sweet shot of their first dance. They danced to How Sweet it is by James Taylor. It was really cute. Along with the other wedding festivities Justin gave an amazing best man speech. It made me a little teary, and it was very heartfelt and thoughtful. I sure do love him. Then there was some crazy dancing. 

Last but not least my henna tattoo that I got in celebration of the Indian side of the wedding. Neha's parents are from India so there was some fun traditional Indian activities and Indian food. Which I am getting used to, some of the dishes are really good and others are just a bit too spicy for me. 

We are so glad that Jayson and Neha are married. It has taken them a long time to make it happen. We wish them all the best and all the blessings and happiness that comes with marriage. 

No-Shave November

It's that time again. Time for all the college aged men to see how much facial hair they can grow in a month. Have you ever heard of No-Shave November? I only heard about it in college but Justin has decided to do that this time around. I think last year he forgot until it was already halfway done. But he has been dutifully NOT shaving all month long and at halfway this is what he's got.

His hair pattern is really funny. Where you see it is where it goes. That is no shaping or tweaking. I especially love the part on his chin, nothing is growing right there. =) It is mostly on his neck which we lovingly call  " his neard."

I do however make him shave his mustache. It just get way to pokey to kiss and it doesn't connect to the rest so it just looks funny. By now the rest of his facial hair is long enough that it's soft so I don't mind it. I think it makes him look manly. =)

I jokingly said that I would join and not shave my legs for the month of November. That however you don't get a picture of, cause that's just gross. hehe =)

He's so cute. 

Bittersweet

So I have been thinking about this all night at work. My newest patient is now on Hospice care. For those who don't know what that is, it basically is care to die at home. My patient is 7 months old. To give a little background on my patient. During or right before birth the mom had I think her placenta abrupt. That is a VERY bad thing to have happen. Not only did my patient suffer injuries from that but the cord was also looped around a couple of times.

So the results of this unfortunate accident was that my patient has no gag or swallow reflex, so that meant either a tube down the nose or implanted in the stomach to get food. That also meant that the normal saliva that builds up in our months just sits there and either drains back down into lungs or gets suctioned out. My patient also has very spastic and tight muscles and is very developmentally delayed.

As you can see the prognosis for this patient was not very good from the beginning. My first look at my patient and I knew that they would need care all their life. My patient has been in and out of the hospital with respiratory problems and having too much junk in the lungs. I guess last week my patient had a really bad seizure and was life flighted to Primary Children's. At this time they decided to sign a DNR ( DO not Resuscitate).

Now I cannot begin to imagine the sorrow that they are feeling that the death of their child is of their own doing. I so desperately wanted to share a comforting message of the Plan of Salvation but knew that I would get into major trouble at work.  I know that each culture handles death differently ( thank you nursing school), and you can see that for some of the family that was there they understood and were ok and others kept hoping for a miracle.

So along with this process and current family situations I have been thinking a lot about families and the plan of salvation. I am so grateful for it. I know that losing anybody is heartbreaking but the knowledge that you may be able to see them again seems to lessen the blow a little bit. I was also thinking just how ingenious the whole plan is. Who do you love the most? Family, parents, spouse, children, siblings. They truly are the most important relationships here on this earth. What a comfort it is to me to know that I can and will be with my family forever! Not only my siblings whom I love so dearly but the family that Justin and I will have. It makes my heart just burst with happiness. =)

My little patient might not have much longer but I know that they are Child of God and that they came here for a purpose. If anything to teach me to love my patients more and be attentive to their needs.

Halloween Happenings

We've been having some fun Halloween activities this year. We went to our ward Trunk or Treat to see the kids in our Primary. That was fun, they had some cute costumes and kept trying to come back for more candy. Then we carved pumpkins with the Messengers. It was actually a lot of fun because we had really good tools. I even got a little drill tool for Justin. He gets excited about the funniest things. 

Jinni made a big ole' hole that just about fit our heads. =)

Justin hard at work with his drill. 

My Vampire face is actually working! I can never get my pumpkins to look this good. I am totally sold on the tools we got.

Jinni's final carving.

Jyana working on her flower pumpkin. It was a perfect shape for a flower.

Ben's Jack King of the Pumpkins from The Nightmare Before Christmas.

He is so skilled he just looked at the picture and drew it out. I needed a stencil. =)

Justin's Hulk on the left and my Vampire on the right.

Jyana's flower on the left and Ben's Jack on the right. They look even cooler all lit up.

Cecilia's carved by Justin( hehe) on the left and Jinni's Ghosts on the right.

Grandma and Grandpa wanted a picture.

Then it was time to celebrate this lovely lady's birthday. She is so old, 17! What she was most excited for was Dinosaur fabric to make blanket or pajama pants. She loves Dinosaurs.

And, She's just cute. Love that chubbers 

Yum....that is some delicious cake. 

Happy Halloween!

The Maze Runner series

Have you guys heard of this series? It's called the Maze Runner by James Dashner and it's pretty good. I have had to be on the waiting list at the library for the first and second one for a good while before I got them. They are that popular.  I THOUGHT that the newest and final book wasn't going to come out till December. I thought "oh that's okay by the time I get the second one it will be close to that time." Come to find out that it came out last week! and I just finished the second one. I am wanting it but am unfortunately hold #150 out of 268. So I may not even get it till December anyways. =)

So these books are actually pretty cool. They are a little bit like Hunger Games in the sense that's it's this futuristic type scenario and it's a bit gory at places. But you end up being a little more sad about the deaths because you grow to like the people more, and they aren't "supposed" to die like in the Hunger Games.

In the first one it starts with a guy named Thomas coming into the Glade as they call it with all boys and  his memory wiped with  no idea about anything. They teach him the ways of the Glade and he tries to understand it. Then the next day a GIRL comes and brings a message " The end is coming." Everyone freaks out because a girl has never come before and the adventure begins.

This is the second one in the series and honestly a bit more scary then the first. The first is more of a mystery while this one was just creepy. These people have this disease called the "Flare" That supposedly turns you slowly insane. Let's just say I didn't read this one alone at work. You learn more about the trials and what is going on. I read this one super fast, I had to know how it was going to end.

Now the last one. Once I found out that it was already out I had to go and check it out online. After work I came home and read the first 3 chapters from the online excerpt that they had. It's going to be madness! The mysteries and anger that you feel for the WICKED people is all coming to surface now and all our questions will be answered. 

So if you liked Hunger Games you might like this series. One thing that was slightly annoying was that they had  made up slang words but they were very close to the real slang/swear words so sometimes my brain would just read the other words, whoops. But it is a bunch of teenager boys so there ya go.

If you like mystery, action and some drama check it out. For more information go to: www.jamesdashner.com

Booties, Beanies, and Babies.

There have been a lot of people I know who have either had their baby or are going to have one soon. It has been fun trying out different beanie and little bootie patterns. 

Go BYU! or Aggie's, whichever.

This one I think is my favorite. It was so soft and the colors look so nice.

These turned out super cute. It's kind of hard to see but near the top it gets all lacy. This pattern would be super cute for some blessing booties.

I made some pretty sweet boy looking booties but I can't find their pictures. They were tan with some leather ties, you can't have ribbon on boy's booties. =) 

Now almost all the babies are here and I am out of projects again. Anybody know of any babies that need a hat or booties?