PLAYING IN UTAH

After driving home from California on Sunday, we were only home for about an hour when the kids and I loaded back up and headed to Parowan.  After being so far away from Jenn while she was going through such a hard, life changing ordeal, all I wanted to do was be by her side.  We were lucky enough to spend two and a half weeks in Utah, just playing.     

 Grandma Coache had plans to go paragliding and zip-lining in Slat Lake so we decided to go watch her.   

 Rylan thought the zip-ling looked so fun, he decided to join grandma!  

JAGGER

Jagger Robert James Garduno

While we were in California last week we received a phone call to let us know Jennifer, Jordan's sister was delivering her baby 2 months early.  Being so far away was so hard for Jordan and I.  We were both by our phones waiting for news on how mom and baby were doing.  Jagger was born very early Wednesday, June 12th at 12:08am. He weighed 4lbs, 7oz and was 14 1/2 inches.  We was flown up to Children's Hospital were he was going to go straight into surgery.  We were all very hopeful that baby Jagger would be okay.  It wasn't until about 2pm that afternoon that we got the most horrible news, he wasn't going to make it.   His organs had flipped while in utero and because of that it had cut off the blood supply. His whole small intestine was gone and about 90% of his large intestine.  Being in California was so horrible, I felt so helpless.  Jordan caught a flight up to Salt Lake early the next morning so that he could be there when they gave Jagger his blessing before he passed.  Thank goodness for modern technology, I was able to FaceTime with Jordan so that I would be able to watch Jagger's blessing and just see his sweet face.  Jagger only lived 44 hours, but changed my life for ever.        

Jennifer asked each of us to write something we wanted Jagger to remember us by.  These were what Rylan & Paislee wrote:

 Paislee: Remember me by my singing and dancing.  I will always be with you Jagger.

 Rylan: Remember me by birds and animals and friends.  Your big brother and I will always be watching over you Jagger.

A WEEK ON THE BEACH

We had such a wonderful week playing on the beach.  My kids are turning into beach bums!  They would have been on the beach sun up to sun down if I would have let them, and most days they were! We were lucky to have Dad with us most of the week.

We took a trip to the local Children's Museum.  I'm not sure who had more fun the kids or the adults!

 This year we went to the Wild Animal Park