JENNBABE

Back to TEXAS!!!

2011-04-13T09:00:00.000-07:00

I went to Dr. Grua this morning at 7:30 and was given the OK to go back on the mission witch was good cause my plane was leaving at 9:00. So off to the Airport we went.....When we go there I was Excited and nervous at the same time......Said my Goodbyes and off I went!

Tumor..........................

2011-03-14T14:31:00.000-07:00

So since my last post this is what has been going on in my life. I went to the doctor's to address a female concern and she decided to do some blood test. The blood test came back showing High levels of Prolactin witch indicated I had something wrong with my Pituitary gland. So they sent me to get an MRI done on my head. The results of the MRI showed that I had a tumor on pituitary gland. (for those of you who don't know where that's at it is at the base of your brain just behind your eyes.) I was on cloud 9 when I found this out cause now I finely had an answer to all my pain.So my doctor sent me to a eye doctor, Endocrinologist (Hormone doctor), and a Neurologist.
So the first one we where able to get in to was actually the Neurologist. When we meet with him we where able to see the tumor for the first time and to me and mom it looked big but he was kinda like its not small but its not big either. He said he would send a referral to the U of U cause I would need to be seen by a Neurosurgeon. He also gave me Pills for Migraines cause he thought maybe I had those too.(FYI no help at all) I came out of that appointment feeling like all he was able to do was tell me I had a tumor. Geee thanks man.
The next one was the Eye Doctor. they did all these different test to see if the tumor was affecting my eye sight. In the end they determined it was not affecting my eyes but she said I had chronic dry eye. so she gave me drops to put in my eyes and told me to start taking my Omega 3's. More pills?? suck.
Next the Endocrinologist, this appointment went great, Dr. Grua was so informative he actually cared enough to sit and draw me a picture of what the tumor was doing to my body. He also told me that he thinks my tumor needs to be taken out. (Happy Dance) He also told me my tumor was excreting a growth hormone that causes features on people to be Larger then normal usually in the face . Aw Ha! Doc would this by chance have anything to do with my under-bite? Yes he says it can cause that, He also said after people have surgery their facial features start to soften up after a while and he said he would not be surprised if my jaw wouldn't shift back some. And he also told be that doing Dental work can also irritate it. O my Heck!! So thats why the Orthodontist is not helping....Good to know!

Now on to the Neurologist, Dr. Caldwell at the U of U. To be honest I was kinda happy he was in Salt lake cause then I had a reason to go up there and see all my peeps I never get to see. So my appointment happen to be on the same weekend they were having a benefit for my cousin Jeff who had cancer. They were taking donations for a silent auction and then all the proceeds would go to his family. I wanted to help in some way so after much pondering and experimenting I decided I would donate some flower bouquets. With much Help from my sister Melinda we ended up donating these! (Don't hate we tried)

I can't get the pictures off my phone so you are stuck with this one I stole from Cindy.'s

We went to Cindy's house to put these together and she was making us her famous spinach smoothies. Needless to say they didn't go over so well with me and mom. (blah) But we got to spend some time with Jeff and Cindy before we went to my appointment so that was nice.
Then Off to my appointment we went.

We met with Dr. Caldwell and he told me I needed the tumor out, How they would take it out, and some complications that they may run into depending on what they find up there. Still sounds great to me Doc. Can we do the surgery now? He said no he was to busy but he could do it the following week. So we got it all scheduled before we left. Later that night we went to the benefit for Jeff. They had a good turnout and quit a few things in the auction. We ended up wining 2 baby blankets and mom won her some beads that my cousin Kim later helped her make necklaces and Courtney made her a watch band out of them.

So on march 2nd we headed up to Salt lake to preregister for surgery where they took blood, made me pee in a cup, and put my ID bracelet on. (witch I got to show off as we went shopping and stuff later that day)

Day of surgery!!! I was first on the schedule that day at 7:30 so we had to be there by 6 am. I got signed in and hooked up and I was ready to go. I was not nervous until I got wheeled into the surgical room and they wanted me to move beds. ( I thought to myself How do I do this without them seeing by butt!) Yes I am very shy about showing off my body. Next thing I new I was out.

When I was Kinda conscious again all I new is that my nose hurt and I was thirsty so they shot me with pain killers and mom helped me drink and back to sleep I went. I was in and out for A while but later that day I woke up and I wanted to eat something so they gave me chocolate pudding witch I ate about half of then I needed a break. Thats when mom and aunt Carylee showed up and I was chatting with them. my stomach was hurting a little but not bad and then all of a sudden I turned to mom and said I need to throw up! she grabbed something fast and handed it to aunt Carylee and it was just in time. I spewed My pudding !!!! mom ran and Carylee held my dish. After that my stomach felt better. Mom and Carylee took that as there Que to leave. that was ok cause I was ready to sleep some more. I spent the rest of the night in and out of sleep asking for more drugs and water, they would give them to me so that was nice.

when I woke up in the morning I was finely coherent enough to realize my headaches were GONE! this is what I and many other people have been praying for for 2 years. Then the cute little tag team nurses that were assigned to me asked me what I wanted to eat for breakfast, after they named a few things I decided on a PB&J. It was so good!! Mom came and they had me walk around and then then mom took Pictures to send to dad why we waited to be moved out of the Niccu.

They shot me one more time with pain killers to move me and that was the lats time I had them. Cause I was doing and feeling so good. My room was nice but the TV could have been bigger. We spent the next three days walking around some and watching movies. Aunt Carylee and Kim came to visit me in the hospital and that was really nice! Kim brought me a present from her and Cindy, It was a stuffed Elephant that smells. I LOVE IT!! And I got flowers from Aunt Carm and the Mortensons and phone calls, text, pictures, and a shake form Melinda. I had really nice nurses but man they would not let me sleep they would wake me up every 2 hours to take my vitals and there was beeping in the hallway all night so come Sunday I was freaking ready to get out of there. We went to stay at Aunt Carylee's for the rest of Sunday and then we planed to go home Monday morning. The ride from the hospital was eye opening I didn't hurt every time we hit a bump in the road. It was amazing the change in my health so fast after surgery.
Monday morning we got up and we talked to my dad and he said the storm has already hit Enterprise and the roads were nasty so he thought we should wait one more day to come home. I thought yes! now we can go see Cindy before we go home. So I text her and asked if we could come see her and she said we could but she warned us she might be coming down with something ....Crap! I wanted to see her but I did not want to get sick after just having surgery but then she told me Jeff was not doing well so If I wanted to see him I should come. Well then I was coming! She even had a mask for me to wear to help keep germs away. So we went and visited for a few hours, I like to overstay my welcome :) And Cindy informed us it would be a matter of weeks before Jeff would be gone. What? What? this can't be happening! I didn't want to except this so I still had hope for him to pull out of this. I told mom I felt bad that I was getting better now and Jeff was getting worse......But I couldn't change it, it was in gods hands.

When we got home Tuesday we had Taryne to watch for a few days why Melinda and Curtis were on a cruise and she was sick so I had to wear that AWESOME mask Cindy gave me still. She was easy to watch when she is sick cause she just wants to chill and watch TV so that made it easy for me to watch her so mom could go to work. We only had Issues with me not being able to lift her cause the doctor told me I could not lift over ten pounds for a month. But in the mean time I have kinda broke that rule by lifting Grayson.

That Saturday We received a phone call that Jeff had past away :(...... I was so sad to hear this, How could we loose such an amazing man? and why so early? This is going to leave A huge hole in our family. but I was happy he was out of pain. His Funeral was the following Wednesday. It was A really nice funeral. One of my favorite parts was when I got to wright on a balloon and then on the count of 3 we all released our balloons in the air. ( I know I am such a kid)

Since then I have been home recovering and feeling great! ready to take life by the horns again. I just recently I had a follow up with Dr. Grua and he says I am looking good and he thinks I will be ready to go back on the mission in about another month. We see Dr. Caldwell on April 4th for his follow up appointment and I have a feeling I will pass with flying colors.

Since I Have been Home

2010-12-30T22:31:00.000-08:00

So when I got home we jumped right into getting me into Doctor's

I had Doctor's keep telling me its stress so they would give me drugs

that would make me sleepy but the pain was still there.

My mom is the only one who seemed to really listen to me so she said she wanted

to take me to the Orthodontist to see what he had to say. we went and after about

2 min. looking at me he said your bite is off!.......K now what? He said He would make me a "Splint" that should teach my jaw where to go and relive my pain. Relive my pain? I could kiss you! I asked what would make my jaw do this? He said it could be late Jaw growth.....Hummm who would of thought that. so he makes my splint and puts it in and said my pain should start to decrees in about 2-4 weeks. well lets just say it didn't. So after about 2 months I was in for a check up/check on and I told him I was in pain still and to cut a long story short......I cried so he made me a new splint to try and gave me a prescription for a Muscle relaxer to take at night. The muscle relaxers are not strong enough in my opinion and this second splint is causing me more pain so I am guessing Surgery is the answer even though the orthodontist was trying to keep me from going there. Witch I was on board with till lately now I am thinking.........BRING IT ON!

This is how I spend most of my days now.

My Massager.............. good Friend

Ya I look like CRAP all the time.

My First set of teeth.............Splint

My Second set of teeth.................splint two

A Double Edged Sword

2010-12-30T21:58:00.000-08:00

I met with my mission President (President Jones)

We talked about how I was doing Health wise and I broke

Down into tears. I told him I hurt so much, It was Hard to focus on

the people we where teaching when have my brain is trying to teach by

the Spirit and the other Half is Focused on the pain. After more Talking......

President said He was sending me home. My hart sunk, I didn't want to go home

It felt like I was giving up, What would people think? Would I get to come back?....

President Said Sister Jones would you rather stay here and continue in Pain or go home get it fixed and come back and have the mission you wanted? I pick the second one!

President then offered a prayer on my behalf and I felt the spirit comfort me. sending me home is the right thing to do. So A week later I was on a plane Home........

2010-12-30T21:20:00.000-08:00

(Sister)

Reas, Latimer, Hill, Jones

My companion went on a 4 day training so I was

in a three sum with Reas and Latimer and I got sick

and they took such good care of me. I think you learn

to love everyone on your mission. Some easier then others.

2010-12-30T21:07:00.000-08:00

Connie and her animals She loves the a lot

(I just heard the black puppy died)

Laura is so cool she has a great sense of humor

My Burn!!! I got in a fight with the Iron

2010-12-30T20:55:00.000-08:00

The Knoebles I love them

They did everything for us, Fed us all the time took us everywhere,

even took us fishing on P-Day

They Loved me so much here they even named a raod after me.

Out in the Field

2010-12-30T20:41:00.001-08:00

Sister Snow was my companion for about 2 days.

She is an Amazing persone

All the sisters in the Texas San Antonio Mission

me and my companion (Sister Hill)

She is from Orem UT
Two Utards serving togeather

2010-12-30T20:29:00.000-08:00

I'm so Thursty!!

Elderly Love

The three of us went to Texas Togeather

(Elder Potrie) (Elder Evans)

MTC

2010-12-30T19:55:00.000-08:00

This is where I slept for three weeks.

So Happy to recive my name tage

(now in hine sight you can already tell my mouth is not functioning properly)

This was my district in the MTC

I enjoyed all the different Personalities!

Us 4 shared A room togeather
(Sister) Bentley,Woodmansee,Jones, Belnap

Me and my Companion

Texas Here I Come!!!!!

2010-05-27T17:54:00.000-07:00

I know I know you are all shocked. It has been a matter of a lot of fasting and praying to decide to take this great opportunity to go and serve the Lord for the next 18 months. I am EXCITED and a little nervous but going forward in Faith.I have been called to serve my mission in San Antonio, Texas. It is English speaking and I leave for the MTC on July 14 2010.

Water Park

2010-05-27T17:11:00.000-07:00

So Melinda and Curtis had EMT classes and asked me to watch the kids. so on Thursday I had just Taryne for the day so I took her to work with me and she was a great little help. First we had breakfast at the Marriott cause Aunt Jenn had no food in the house, Then we went into the kitchen and made cookies and brownies ( she tasted both) then we helped the staff put away food and I gave her the chore of filling the pecan bowl up.(she tasted those a few times) we swept the floor, then why Uncle wade moped the floor we read Doctor Sus to by boss :) (He loved it) we then went to the park with Rikki and her daughter to the park till it got to hot and it was time for lunch and a nap.

Then Friday I had all 3 Kids so we went to the water park in the middle of town. They loved that till it got busy and so I was always telling them to stop running and slow down. So I Called my good friend Nicole and asked to swim at the Marriott and she said yes, so we headed over there and swam in the pool, well us girls did why Austin hung out in the HOT tub. The two youngest started getting hungry and tired so I let Austin choose where to eat and he said McDonald's but I talked them into going home and changing clothes first. BAD IDEA!!! Everything went down hill from there. Lets just say everyone ended it tears( except for Taryne) and I CAN wait to have kids.

ROAD TRIP!!!

2010-05-27T16:43:00.000-07:00

Back in December Sammy and I took A little road trip up to my Bosses cabin to go sledding down this big hill that his cabin sets on. We drove up there in the morning went sledding for a few hours and then headed home before it got dark so we were not hitting icy road's. When we hit cedar we went to KFC for dinner. I had a great time with just me and her we really had some bonding time.

OOPS! Where have I been?

2010-05-27T16:33:00.000-07:00

O it been a long time since I have blogged and I don't even have an excuse for it except that I was LAZY :) so some of these next Post will be old but I don't care you will all have to SUFFER!

SHINEDOWN Concert

2009-09-28T16:44:00.000-07:00

On Septeber 26th I went to the SHINEDOWN concert with heather and trav.

I had a really Good time but I did learn one thing that night do NOT wear flip flops to a concert I lost mine three times I'm just glad they didn't get lost forever!

Heather Offerd me a thousand dollars to make out

with the lead singer. After I saw him in real life I said NO THANKS :)

(Heather waiting for the concert to start)

Trav and Heather

2009-09-28T16:29:00.000-07:00

The happy couple!

My sister melinda made this cake

Travis and Heather's Wedding

2009-09-28T15:56:00.000-07:00

In July I had one of the hardest weeks in my life!!! (so Far)

But from it came many blessings (an AWESOME sister in- law)

and many many learning experinces.

so trav and heather asked me to do the food for thier wedding at the marriott witch I was so happy they asked me but as time went on it was becoming a big task.

My boss was going on vacation that week witch was not a big deal until Everyone in the world wanted convention's that week and then the hotel booked another wedding on the same day as trav's. Two wedding's on the same day is hard when one is your brother's.

The hotel staff was great though everyone pitched in and made everything run smoothly

even my mom became part of the kitchen staff for all day friday and some an saturday but I do owe a big thank's to Kerrie and Lesa for pulling so many string's to make this a great wedding.

This is the Buffet!

St. George Courtyard is the BOMB!!!!!

2009-03-09T14:31:00.000-07:00

Russ(GM) went to an awards Banquet over the weekend and brought home 4 awards.

the first one we got was the "GSS Giant " for being top preformers in four categories: Cleanliness, Well Maintained, Least Problems Experienced, and intent to recommend.

The second one Russ won for being "GM of the year"!

The third one Russ won for " Dimond GM"

We are all so very HAPPY for him because he really deserves them both. He is such and awesome Manager, He cares about everyone and helps us all succeed at what we do.

The forth one we one was "Dimond" for the Hotel.

Look at those Puppies Shine! :)

Good Old Tav!

(he likes his picture taken)

Sammy Jo's day with me

2009-03-09T14:19:00.000-07:00

Saturday me and sammy jo spent the day togeather while the rest went to wrestling.

We played games, Made Strawberry Cookies, went on a bike ride and boy was that cold, and we also went to the cemetery. wierd I know but it was her idea.

( These are the games we Played)

Sammy licking the beater

Sammy putting the cookies on the cooling rack.
she dropped two on the floor so i tlod her they were her's
and she ate them :)

Don't they look so yummy?

Taryne Makes me SMILE

2009-03-09T14:10:00.000-07:00

My mom put these glasses on Taryne to show me and to take a picture.

I went to take a picture and she pulled them off! so I spent over an hour trying to get a good picture of her and she would only hold still for two seconds. So these were the best ones i got.

Sorry! it's kinda blury

SYSCO Food Show

2009-03-09T13:41:00.000-07:00

So a few weeks ago me, my boss (Eric),and Kerrie(the one in the picture below)

Went to the food show in Vegas. we went down tuesday afternoon and checked in to the hotel then went out to dinner. After dinner Eric took us to fremont street to see the light show.

we were a little early so we were checking out some booths we found this one were they do paintings right there and they are done with spray paint! I really thought that was cool. Then we were passing the chippendales booth and one of the guys pulled kerrie over and put her hands on his chest and did the chest pump thing but i guess he could tell she wasn't that impresssed so he took her face and pressed it up aginst his chest and that really didn't impress her so she said to him you just rubbed my face off and he said I will take more then that off. Then she decided she had enough and she got out of there! The next day we went to the food show and it was fun to see all the new ideas they were comming up with and to tast al the food O man was there a lot of food! But just before we headed home kerrie took me to the M&M store. It was really cool and i bought me a pound of M&M's. some Black some Purple and the rest penunt butter! mmmmmmm

( Kerrie)

( ME)

Kerrie's fan club

Saturday with Jenn

2009-02-11T12:22:00.000-08:00

So Austin, Taryne and me spent a saturday together why curtis and melinda went to softball games.

We Played the Wii

Austin played vido games all day!

Taryne Waitung for her turn to play.

Its her turn! (so she thinks)

2009-02-11T12:21:00.000-08:00

When the rain stopped me and taryne needed some outside time

She kept trying to get in wade's car

Stepping in the mud just because it was there

Playing with the rocks,

it was so cute she made sure that all the rocks on the drive way were put back were they belong

And of couse playing in the puddles

(her mom is going to kill me)

Secial Times

2009-02-11T12:09:00.000-08:00

I don't know if any of you can tell what this says but sammy jo wrote I Love Jenn in the snow. I was so touched I hade to take a picture.
I love Austin for his randomnouse!

He made me send this one to trav!

Gingerbread House

2008-12-21T20:26:00.000-08:00

Samantha, Austin, and I decorated a gingerbread house for a bonding moment.

This was Sammy's side of the house.....
This was Austin's side of the house....

And we all did the front. Taryne started to eat the candy's off my tree she

had four of them eatin bfore i caught her but luckly we still had candy left so i put more back on.

I thoght the kids did a great job on it.

The BURN!

2008-12-21T19:58:00.000-08:00

on december 13th we were catering the breakfast with santa.

We were serving Pancakes, French Toast, friut, the whole shabang even hot chocolate.

Some of the staff even dressed like elves!

Well it was near the end of our serving time and they asked me to make

some HOT chocolate, so I went to the back and got a coffee pot that was labled

HOT WATER! cause its one of the main ingredients for hot chocolate. I thought I had

a smart idea to pour the water into i big bowl to mix in the chocolate.....Well it was actually a VERY! Stupid idea.........................................................I

ended up burning my fingers. Work told me to go to instacare and its a good thing I did cause they smothered my fingers in a cream and wraped them up and gave me Drugs for the Pain....Thank heavens for that cause it was so very painfull!

Fun times at work....

2008-12-21T19:46:00.000-08:00

This is our holiday dessert for the month of december.

I did so many of theese I lost count after 1500!!

This is a friut platter i did at work and I just think it lookes COOL.

And when I get hungry at work I get this for breakfast:)

You cant belive what wade finds to do at work!

Twilight

2008-12-21T19:21:00.000-08:00

I have not updated my blog in a very long time!

So a lot of this is old news and I'm sorry about that.

Shar , David and me went to vegas for a trip out of town that was well needed trip.

We went to the mall and shopped for a little while and when we got hungry we went to the Cheesecake Factory for dinner. It was good food but my piece of cheesecake was not that good so I kept "tasting" Shar's. then we were standing in line for twilight and i took these....

I Was Taged!

2008-10-24T15:12:00.000-07:00

I was tagged by melinda to post the forth picture of my forth folder.This is in my old apartment. Austin and me had a morning to play playdough, I think Melinda was Pregnant with Taryne and had a doctors appointment.

My Favorite Soccor Player's

2008-10-09T12:08:00.000-07:00

I went and watched sammy and austin play soccor on saturday......

It was so cold and rainy but worth watching and cheering them on.

I Loved how Austin was such a go getter!

Labor Day Weekend

2008-09-21T12:15:00.000-07:00

I went camping with my family on laborday weekend.

we road four wheelers, my dad took us G Cashing to a couple spots, and we all meet a new friend.

MEET MY NEW LITTLE FRIEND!!!(don't judge)
Me and Taryne

she loves the dirt!

This is my best side! can't you tell

SMORES!!!!!

2008-09-04T08:15:00.000-07:00

I think when we told them NO HANDS! they thought we ment HOLD HANDS!
Thats some talant right there
Shar and leesa catching some air(or maybe just leesa)

2008-09-04T07:44:00.000-07:00

Talk about a close up!
Ian could not stay on the tube! We even locked arms to try and keep him on but he just ended up pulling me in the water too.
Chris showing off! (maybe he thinks he is a serfer)
Chris, Me, Ian
GET HIM DONE!!!

DSC 8th Ward

2008-09-03T14:27:00.001-07:00

Trav took my college ward boating for one of our ward activity's we had lots of fun!!! Thanks trav for doing that. your the BEST!

This is Shar and Leesa
Look how brave they are

PULL!! Shar PULL!
You don't know how AMAZING this momont is I'm been trying to get Shar to go with me for years. I'ts amazing what some girls will do to epress guys.

My New Toy!!!

2008-08-28T09:11:00.000-07:00

Trav is teaching me to buy big people toys.