Twins Update

Little Gracey
Gracey
Little Gabe
Gabe


These pics were taken today. The doctors keeps telling us that it looks worse than it is.
Gabe-Is fighting an infection of some kind which they believe is causing his respitory distress. He is on a ventilator to help him breathe easier while he heals. He also has an IV in the top of his head to give him the antibiotics. He has an NG tube in his nose to feed him and the rest of the wires are for monitoring. They put both him and Gracey on the lights for very low levels of jaundice. He has about five more days of antibiotics and hopefully he will show a huge improvement and be taken of the ventilators and start to nurse. They both have to be eating on their own and breathing on their own before coming home (hopefully we see no more than 2 weeks total in the NICU) but only time will tell.
Gracey-is doing much better than her brother. She was only on the ventilator for the first 12 hours and has been off ever since. She is on O2 and has a couple of days left of antibiotics. She just needs to keep he O2 levels up and start to eat and she would beat her brother home
Me-I tested positive to Strep Throat this afternoon and have to stay away from the NICU for at least 48 hours after starting the antibiotics. This is the worst timing and I am overwhelmingly heart broken about not seeing my babies everyday. Hopefully timing will be on our side and they will be able to try nursing when I am able to see them again. So Jared continues to go to the hospital for us both and my mom came tonight and was able to hold Gracey for the first time.
It has been an emotional few days and til our babies our home we will toss and turn at night, but we know that everything will be fine it's just a matter of when.
Thank you for everyone who has wished us well, included us in their prayers, came to visit, fed us, and helped with babysitting. We are very blessed. I will continue to keep everyone posted as best as I can.

Gabriel and Gracey

Gabriel Jared Bradshaw
Gabriel
Gracey Lynn Bradshaw
Gracey

Britny is still in the hospital so I am trying to Blog. Gracey was born first on Aug 23 at 1:30 weighing in at 5lbs 12oz. Gabriel was six min later weighing 6lbs 3oz. They are both in the NICU right now. Gracey is improving rapidly. Gabe has been put back on the ventilater(sound it out if it doesn't make sence). So keep Gabe in your prayers. Britny is doing well and will be released monday. Thank you for all of the visits and help from friends and families. The triangle flavored cheese cake was great. We hope to have all of our family home together soon.

Lil Buck-a-roo Rodeo

Joshua first "lil buck-a-roo" rodeo

Jared signed up Josh for the Lil Buck-a-roo Rodeo in Coalville to ride the sheep the other night and we all had a blast! Joshua, of course, had to look the part so we did the boots, hat and flannel shirt he was so cute. After I watch the first round I didn't want Josh to have anything to do with it. Kids were being tossed around all over the place and scared and crying when they were through! Josh still was all for it (thanks to his dad's encouragement) He tried three times the first two he was bucked off right away and the third he wouldn't let go for anything and went half way down the areana before falling off (only a hand full of kids went that far) He was such a trooper and had a ball. All three times he got up, brushed himself off and was ready for another go.

Finally a new camera and some new pics!!

No, Will does not have a black eye-he decided to put
on some of my mascara

Joshua currently plays Jr. Jazz and loves it!
My little ninja

Just some random pictures while trying to learn how to work the camera.

Jessica and Royce King Wedding Pictures (Finally!)

Since my camera is totally broken I thought I'd share some older pics.

These are from Jessica's wedding in January. The talented Angie took all these while on Video duty. I finally figured out how to download them to my computer so they could finally be posted! She was the most beautiful Bride!!

A Family Picture from Jessica's wedding

So lately I have been lousy at updating this thing. I think it is the heat combined with this darn pregnancy that makes me feel a little less motivated this to do anything extra. We have been busy. Josh has been involved with a "Summer Fun" program that is six weeks long Mon-Thurs 9:00-12:00 he loves it and it is a nice break for me. This week we started swim lessons which both the boys are loving and it seems like we are some water park a couple times a week to survive our particularly hot weather. Jared is done in Wyoming for a little while and spends his days in SLC which means I get him home at night-every night!! This is his first week home which ended up being such a blessing because last night I had to go to the hosptial because of my contractions were only minutes apart. They ran all the tests and stopped the contractions I meet with the doc tomorrow to see what is going on til then nothing but rest so we will see what happens. I'm only 28 weeks so way to early for this kind of drama!! So that is a quick update.
Now I need your help-I'm taking a name pole, we can't agree on baby names so let me know which ones you like best

Maxwell and Madilyn (Max and Madi)
Austin and Audry
Ashton and Adilyn
Gabriel and Gracey (Gabe and Grace)

I do like the first names having the same letter as cheesy as it may seem