Just Me & My Family: October Salt Lake City Trip

This last year has been a hard one, medically speaking, for Makayla. She has a condition called Vesicoureteral Reflux (I just call it bladder reflux, as I can neither pronounce nor remember the word). In small words it means that her bladder refluxes back up to her kidney. This is scary because she gets bladder infections very easily, and because of the relux the infection can get into her kidney's really easy. Makayla has had about 6 infections in the last 2 months, and last year it landed her a 2 night stay in the hospital hooked up to IV's and eating a straight liquid diet. Our wonderful doctor from Primary Children's Urology Department got us onto a daily antibiotic last January, which helped for the first few months, but in the last 2 months things have seemed to get worse culminating in an ER visit. So, back to Primary Children's we went for some very invasive and painful tests. We found that Makayla is actually growing out of the condition, which is what they thought she would do when we had the tests done last January, but this doesn't explain why she is getting so many infections now :( So as of right now we are still waiting to see what happens and hoping that the new daily antibiotic the doctor prescribed us will help, while hoping she continues to grow out of it -- if not it means surgery (thankfully it's a pretty lowkey surgery -- just an outpatient one). So after that rundown now we can get to the fun of it all. Because we had to go to Salt Lake for the tests, we decided to make it an overnight thing and have some fun too. We bribed (yes sometimes it works - especially when you have to make your daughter go through some pretty nasty tests) Makayla with Chuck E Cheese if she would be good through the tests and it worked (sort of - but those tests are pretty bad).

Of course the horse was the best ride of the day

Suprisingly Emma did not think it was a great ride

This ones for Grandma Hare (she loves all things Halloween)

This was Emma's favorite -- these ponies didn't buck her around :)

James was just James -- always happy
He's in pajamas because he has just thrown up his whole bottle all over his daddy (yes right in the middle of Chuck E Cheese)

After Chuck E Cheese we went to Logan to stay with Richard's brother Matt, and had a blast going to the North Logan Pumpkin Walk. All the scenes are created using pumpkins and guords :)