Jenn gets baptized!

My sister-in-law Jenn (Lee's brother Jesse's wife) got baptized on Saturday! She started going to church after Neil had passed away, and after going through the steps and getting taught by the missionaries she was baptized by Jesse.

Last couple weeks

Zoë and Dreyton are in two classes right now together. They are in swimming lessons with art/gym time at the end, the other is crafts/gym time at the YMCA. It's been SO nice having that time to myself. They get very excited to go, and I have a great time doing errands/groceries/or just reading a magazine in the library ALONE.

In one class they made igloos by gluing(iciing) marshmallows on a cup. They didn't get to finish during class, so they came home and finished their projects after.

Last weekend we decided to go to the cabin with my parents for Lee's birthday. I was able to do a bit of shopping/relaxing/going in the hot tub etc.

Dreyton and Daddy going for a ski doo ride




Daddy and Zoë making a snowman

as much fun we had at the cabin, getting out was a BIG issue. It had rained all night the day we were heading out, and it was just below freezing to make the roads a skating rink. It was supposed to be a 15 minute trip which ended up being close to 2 hours to get out. It was very scary not making a hill and having to hit the small snowbanks on the sides while sliding down sideways to try turn around and get down without sliding and hitting a bank too hard on the bottom, as there were steep cliffs on the sides of the road. We weren't able to get out the normal way we usually take to get out so we had to go on a road that we had never travelled before to go the back way, which ended up being way worse. Even the roads that were straight were made slanted so we would slide into the snowbanks then as well.

This is after my parents did a 180 and then proceeded to slide down the rest of the way with 4 wheel drive...

Next time we will definetely be getting chains for our tires!

Gallbladder Attack

Last night at like 7:30pm I was talking on the phone and started to feel cramping in my stomach, within a few minutes it was getting extremely painful. I got off the phone and tried walking around, sitting, laying trying to get comfortable but nothing was working.

Lee had just finished putting the kids to bed and came downstairs with me and went to go get tylenol to see if that would help. This had come on so fast and so quick I started to have a hard time breathing, so I told Lee to call 911.

While we were waiting for the ambulance I was having a hard time breathing, my fingers and toes were going all tingly and my mouth was extremely dry, and I was in huge amounts of pain in my upper stomach area.

When the paramedics had gotten here they asked a million questions which I was getting irritated with since I just wanted some pain medication. They explained the reason I was having a hard time breathing, and feeling all tingly was because I was hyperventilating and I had to slow down my breathing. I was getting so bad that my hands and feet were numb and my hands started to look like this picture (Carpopedal spasm )

and I was going in and out of consciousness. With help I got my shoes, coat on and they helped me in the ambulance. I started to watch my breathing and was able to calm the hyperventilating down and the pain had started to subside just a tiny bit. They hooked me in an IV and took me to a urgent care center downtown (supposedly it was going to be alot quicker to get in there then to go to Peter Lougheed Hospital). By the time I got there I was doing alot better, the pain was almost gone so I had to sit in the waiting room for awhile...

Lee had beat the ambulance to the hospital while my parents took the kids to their house for a sleepover. After about 45 minutes waiting (9:45 pm) the pain had come back and I was once again in huge amounts of pain. I was extremely thirsty and they wouldn't let me even have an ice chip since they weren't sure what the abdominal pain was from, and the doctor would have to see me first. After about another hour (10:45pm) in huge amounts of pain in the waiting room I was called in and got a bed in urgent care. I kept asking for pain medication and they said I would just have to wait till the doctor saw me. They took blood and urine samples and sent them off to the lab. I had to get 4 different veins poked because each time they would start filling up a vial my blood would just stop flowing, so they would have to try different veins. After many hours of tossing, turning, moaning in pain it had started to subside around 2:00am. The doctor was able to come see me at 2:30am after I was feeling alot better, besides being tired. She said that my liver enzyme levels were off and that's a big indication of gallstones, and my symptoms were textbook symptoms for gallstones. She sent me home with a fasting ultrasound booked for the next day and that if I had another attack during the night to come back. Lee and I got back home around 3:30am this morning.

I won't get the ultrasound results for another couple days, so i'll have to see if I should be getting the gallbladder removed or not. I have had a gallstone attack when Zoë was about 6 months old as well. Reading on the internet I figured out some pills I have been taking could have been a partial factor in my gallstone attack as well.

The Calgary health care system is SO horrible. I can't believe they couldn't have sped up the process while I was in huge amounts of pain, or at least give me pain medication. In Edmonton, the first time I had my gallstone attack I was on morphine within 5 minutes of being there and was able to skip the huge waiting room lineup and that time I didn't have an ambulance drive me.

Zoë Ice Skating

Zoë has been having lots of fun learning ice skating, she uses the walker to support herself.

My big boy

It's been a huge week for Dreyton, he's already very independent but he had a few milestones that made him much more grown up.

He just moved up to Sunbeams in church, he did really good and was smiling at us when Lee and I would peek in.

We just took him off pullups at nights, he's been really good for a couple months staying dry, but we took Zoë off a little too early so we decided to not rush it this time.

He just started a couple classes WITHOUT mommy. At the YMCA they have a swimming/variety class that he is in with Zoë. They do a swim lesson seperately, then after they do snack time/craft/and gym time. He did amazing the first 1/2 of the swim lesson, then he just seemed to breakdown when he couldn't find where I was sitting and pouted the rest of the class. Luckily, he had Zoë after swim class to take care of him and hold his hand and he loved that and had a lot of fun.

New Years Eve

We threw a very short notice New Years Eve get together this year, we had a fondue and the guys and girls split up and played some different video games. It was really fun, we had my brother Ryan and Katya, brother-in-law Jesse and Jenn, and Andrea come over.

The kids had fun trying on Grandma and Papa's New Years Eve hats the next day.

The 5 Sefcik cousins together, Anya wasn't too happy

Niece Anya's Baby Blessing

Anya got blessed the day before they left back home to Arizona. It was short and sweet, and she did really good during the blessing.

Christmas Morning

The kids were so excited for Christmas morning, as they had been waiting for a long time for it to come. Dreyton wasn't feeling great but still had a good time opening presents.



Dreyton got a train set from Grandma and Papa


Nana got the kids a really nice trampoline that they cannot wait to set up in Spring

Zoë got a dollhouse from Grandma and Papa as well

they are sure spoiled as they got many others as well. Zoë and Dreyton have been having a great time playing with them all, I don't think there is a toy they don't love and play constantly.

I let them have the train table and dollhouse in their rooms which has been a huge luxury as they have not been able to have any toys until now in them.