Christmas Memories

David's Mom Janine, made all of the girls and two of the granddaughter matching aprons for Christmas. They are so adorable. We had such a wonderful Christmas. It was a wonderful day we spent with both families. We love the memories made at Christmas. The feeling at Christmas is something we treasure. We love our families so much and are so grateful for all they do for us. We especially are grateful for the reason for Christmas--that of the Savior's birth. We remember Him and Love Him. We want the Spirit of Christmas or the Spirit of Christ to last with us all through the year.

We are big BYU fans. Juliann's Dad gave Max, a grandson, a total BYU football uniform with the pads and all. He was so excited to wear it. He did not want to take off the helmet.

Every year The Uncle David Club does something for it's members. This year we made shirts for all the members that said "Proud Member of the Uncle David Club". We had a fun time getting our pictures taken with the members of The Uncle David Club. We adore each member and were sad we weren't able to see Scott, Tyler, and Kira who live in California.

David's Family

Juliann's Family

Family Pictures

The Christmas season is a wonderful time a year. It is such a fun time of year when we get together with our families. We had a fun...interesting day getting family pictures. Oh how we love our families!!

David and Juliann

Juliann's Family

Grandpa Stanley with all the grandkids

Members of the Uncle David Club

We Love You All!!

Update

My surgery went well and I am starting to feel much better. In fact, I believe there was a small miracle in all of it. When I went in for my six month check up, it was very obvious in the ultrasound that I still had a significant hole in my heart. The doctor could see it and I could see it. The hole was as significant as it was before my first surgery in April. It was determined that I needed to have another surgery to repair the leak. I was very nervous about the surgery because it was a very real possibility that the surgery would have to be open heart surgery. I went into the surgery fearing the worst and hoping for the best. They made two incisions in my groin and went up into my heart through a catheter. When the doctor was in there he could not find any hole. He did several extensive tests in my heart and lungs with the catheter to make sure there wasn't a leak somewhere else. He could not find anything, anywhere. It was all completely healed and normal. So the doctor did nothing. He could not explain what happened only the fact that it was all normal. I believe it is a miracle. There is no other explanation. I am grateful for the prayers in my behalf as I know they were heard. I feel blessed for this small miracle in my life.

Halloween Fun

We had a fun Halloween here are a few fun moments...

David and I dressed up for the occasion

David and I went on a Halloween Cruise down the Provo River. It was really neat. You can't see very well in the picture but we are on a boat floating down the river. It was a lot of fun..they told ghost stories as we floated down the river.

Halloween fun with our Nieces and Nephews

Labor Day Weekend

It has been many years since David and I have been to Yellowstone. We have been planning the trip for a while and were so excited to go!! On the way up to Yellowstone we went through Idaho Falls. We were able to see the Idaho Falls Temple. It is such a beautiful temple with the river right by it.



Trip Blunder: While we were in Idaho Falls we stopped to get something to eat and take a "romantic" walk along the Idaho Falls River. Well while we were walking under a few trees admiring the beautiful river a bird decided to "lay an egg"--if you know what I mean-- right on me. It went all down my hair and onto my pants...well needless to say our romantic walk didn't last too long.


Then we went to Rexburg, Idaho. Neither one of us have been to Rexburg. We really liked Rexburg. It is such a cute little college town. We were able to go inside the Rexburg temple. It was so amazing and very beautiful.

Then on to Yellowstone. We camped in the park at the Canyon's Campground. It was such a nice place. It is hard to describe Yellowstone other than---amazing. We really liked Old Faithful, the gysers, and the falls.

Old Faithful

We hiked down a ways to the brink of Lower Falls. It was a spactacular view.

Here we are on the opposite side of the canyon looking at the falls we had just hiked to.

On the way home we went throught the Teton Mountains--wow what an amazing sight!! They are beautiful.

We enjoyed so many sights it is hard to say which one was our favorite.

Summer Fun

In June was our nine year wedding anniversary. David came home from work and decorated the car. He attached pop cans to the back and we went out to dinner. I felt like we were newly weds again...what do you mean we are still newly weds!!

I was able to go to girls camp. We went to our stake camp which is Camp Cobblecreek. It is up Ogden Canyon above Pine View Reservoir. We had a lot of fun. There was a moose scare, which really scared all of us. At the end of camp we were told that the moose sounds/sightings were all made up and that it was a joke. I'm not sure it was all a joke as I took this picture of moose tracks. I'm not sure you can fabricate that but who knows. Whatever the case the joke...well...not so funny or was it???

We were able to participate in the temple sealing of Shaela. She is Juliann's niece who was adopted in January and her adoption was finalized the first part of July. She was sealed to Juliann's Brother and Sister in law in the Mt Timpanogas Temple. We are so grateful she is in the family.

David's parents took all the family on a wonderful family vacation to Sacramento California. We stayed at this house in The Lake of the Pines. It was beautiful. They have this lake that is just picture perfect. We spent a lot of time at the beach playing in the water and soaking up some sun. David tried learning to walk the tight rope. We were also able to raft down the American River which is near Sacramento. So much fun! Thank you Glen and Janine!

We went to St. George for a McMillan Reunion. While we were there we went to Tuacahn and saw the plays Tarzan and Cats. They were both really good plays. We especially liked Tarzan. Here is us with Deuteronomy the Cat in the play Cats.

Update

Update on my heart...I am doing well. The recovery has been a little harder than I expected. Just a week or so ago I started to have symptoms of a stroke. My whole left side of my body went numb. I could not feel my foot or my arm and I started to lose vision in my left eye. This greatly alarmed me. I went into the doctor and they did a few tests and discovered that I am asprin resistant. They have me on a lot of blood thinners so I won't get blood clots. Well I guess the medicine is not working as well as it should so the doctor changed some medicine and now I have to have shots in my stomach twice a day of blood thinners. This I guess is to prevent clots from forming around the device in my heart which causes these symptoms of a stoke. The blood thinner is making me bruise really easily. It has helped with not having as much numbness which I am very grateful. Hopefully this won't last long. The doctor said that it might take up to a whole year to fully heal before I won't have these symptoms--yippy. Actually it is very scarey to not be able to feel my arm and leg and to lose my vision. I am grateful it wasn't a stoke and the medicine seems to be helping.

We are excited that the "Uncle David Club" is growing and becoming such a big club. We are proud to announce that in the last 3 months that we have four new additions to the club. Kira McMillan born March 20, Lily Stevens born April 22, and just recently we welcomed twins Abigail and Jane Boyer into the familiy on June 3. We now have 15 exclusive club memebers. We love them all!!

Fun "Uncle David Club" Moments

The first time we met Abigail and Jane. They are very small. Abigail weighed 4 lbs 8 oz and Jane weighed 3 lbs 8 oz. They will be in the NICU for a while. We are grateful they are doing good. They are just really little.
Uncle David and Aunt Juliann with Kira on her Baby blessing day.

Uncle David and Aunt Juliann with Lily. It was the first time we met her.

Aunt Juliann reading with Savannah and Owen

Uncle David playing with Owen, Ellie, Shaela and Savannah

Uncle David watching a movie with Ellie, Savannah, Owen and Max

Scott and Tyler with Uncle David riding bikes
Jade and Brigham with Uncle David

Siena With Uncle David