Many Thanks

I want to thank everyone who commented on my last post. It is great to know that I have such supportive family members and friends and people that were touched by my experience. I hope that through the sharing of my testimony that others will grow from it. It states in my Patriarchal blessing to share my testimony with others because someone somewhere will need to hear it. Through the benefits of the internet many people can now hear my testimony and not just those people who sit in my ward at church. How wonderful is that!




I start my new job tomorrow and I am excited. Today was Lexi's first day of school and I was so relieved and happy to know that I would be at home and be available all the time if she ever needed anything during the day. I will post more about Lexi's first day tomorrow since I need to download pictures off of my camera.




I wanted to write a little something about my Grandma Nell. My mom wrote a wonderful tribute to her but I wanted to put in a little something. I am actually named after my grandma. Not my first name, but my middle name: Nell. It is my grandma's name, my mom's middle name and my middle name. I have never been embarassed by my middle name but it is not a common name. I always like to tell people who ask about it that it is my grandma's name and her name was actually Nellie Ann Olsen, just like Little House on the Prairie.



I was only 1 year old when my grandma died, but I have heard many stories about her and her legacy still lives on and I have taught my kids about her as well. (how can I not I am named after her!) My grandma loved to crochet and do handwork and she passed that on to my mom and my Aunt Linda and they do such a wonderful job in their work. My mom in turn taught me. I love to crochet and I have done some handwork. I would like to do more, but right now is not the time for me to cross-stitch. I think as Koy slowly gets older I will be able to do a little more. I have a few things of Grandma Nell's that were passed onto me... I was honored to be given her cedar chest, I have a recipe box that has her collection of recipes and they are all hand written in her beautiful hand writing, and I was given one of my grandma's temple dresses. I know that I will never wear her temple dress not because I am taller than her and it would be short on me, but to have something that she wore in the Lord's house to perform the sacred ceremonies there is something that I will treasure. I also am proud to say that I attended LDS Business College and so did my grandma.



One special story that I don't think a lot of people know about. After Kayden had his transplant and was taken to the PICU at Primary Children's we were able to go in and see him before we left to go to bed. He was hooked up to all the monitors, he had a tube coming out of his mouth, the nurses were flying around the room, I was being asked questions as to what meds he was on and then the nephrologist telling me that he won't be on any of those meds anymore and that he will be on new ones, the Life Flight nurse was talking to Lexi and telling us what was going on. It was crazy in there and very overwhelming. Kayden looked great but I could tell that it was a little overwhelming for Lexi to see her brother there like that and her mom and dad crying. Well, after Lexi left with my mom and dad my dad called to tell me that Lexi was o.k. but that she said that she knew that Kayden was going to be o.k. She had told my mom and dad that Kayden will be alright because Grandma and Grandpa Labrum were there with him and so was Grandma Nell and that they were going to watch over him. The faith of a child is wonderful. They can see beyond the veil when others are overwhelmed with everything that is going on.



My mom posted this picture of my grandma on her blog. I saw this picture years ago. It was the first time I had ever saw a picture of my grandma when she was young. She was gorgeous. This picture is her Graduation Picture from Senior High and if I remember right she is only 17 years old in this picture.