Birthday & Halloween Fun!

Ryan, like all who are kids at heart, wanted his birthday cake to be special this year. He asked if it could be shaped like his paintball gun. I was kind enough, and clever enough, to figure out just how to make it work. I had Ryan draw a picture of it for me so I would have some kind of pattern go on without the possibility of his real one getting frosted in the process. I think it turned out pretty good, it being the first shaped cake I've ever made.We celebrated his Birthday, his dad's, as well as my parents and my sis Elizabeth's birthdays all during October!

Ryan says he is now 20 with 7 years experience. With all those candles, this picture turned out pretty cool .








We celebrated on the day of with rootbeer floats at my parents house, and on the Sunday after at his parents house.


On Halloween we had fun at our ward's Trunk or Treat dressed up as military comando's as we carried around Ryan's airsoft guns! Since this is what we were last year too I think we should do something different next year.

my heart is finally gettin' fixed!

now, if i only had a brain...
As some of you may know ever since I was a little girl there have been times that my heart would race for no apparent reason. My mom remembers me running up to her when I was as young as 2 years old to tell her my heart was beating too fast. Each heart palpitation lasts about 5-10 minutes. It only happened about once every 6 months or so, but it gradually increased to about once every month when I became a teenager. My parents asked doctors about this, but none of them took me very seriously until I was older and able to explain it better. I had an EKG when I was 17, but since I didn't have a heart palpitation during the test they found nothing wrong. Long story short, I have a heart condition called Supra ventricular Tachycardia, or SVT. Basically I was born with an extra electrical passage in my heart that every once in a while makes my heart go crazy. I'm going to have a procedure called an Ablation on Tuesday Nov. 18th to fix it. The doctors are very surprised that I have never passed out, as most people with this condition routinely do. It's not all that uncommon of a condition or a procedure. If any of you readers have questions just follow the link below, or feel free to ask!

http://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/tc/supraventricular-tachycardia-overview