Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas! We hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year!
The Orens!
God Bless!!

It's Been 2 Long!!!

This is just some of things I have missed blogging about. Being to busy is an understatement for the last couple of weeks. We put up our Christmas tree right before Thanksgiving so everyone could enjoy it. It also helped since we were in the middle of moving to get it up and clean the mess up all at once. Thanksgiving was fun! Mom never fails at having interesting food and fun conversation at the table. We missed Kris, Tammy and Shelby very much at Thanksgiving this year! Kris was very sick over Thanksgiving, but is feeling much better now.

Well, here it is, the dressing. This is always a topic of conversation. What is mom going to do to the stuffing this year? This has a nice burnt, I mean crisp, crunchy top. Other than that it was really good. This picture is for Kris so he could see what stuffing he missed this year.

This is Tiffany's new kitten we brought with us from the farm house. Tiffany named her Reese. This has added lots of fun to the house. Tristan picked out an orange cat from the farm as his cat. He has named him Leo. I don't have any pictures of Leo yet. I will have to start taking pictures of him and Tristan together.
This is Jamie Barton she is a missionary from Jamaica. We all loved having her stay with us! We didn't want her to leave. She was a blessing to our family. She really helped Tegan keep his mind off his head/stitches that were really bothering him.

This is our family spending time together. Ronn had just gotten back from Haiti.(I mean literally, he was home maybe an hour or less before we started to make cookies.) Ronn was in Haiti for a week. So the kids wanted to bake and frost sugar cookies. It was a lot of fun and a mess at the same time! Ronn being gone has helped me appreciate all he does for us. We all really missed him this past week.

My little man just turned 2!!! We are so blessed to have this little guy in our lives. To think of all that he has been through. He is feeling really good, now that the stitches have fallen out. I was truly amazed at how good he acted during his Birthday. The surgery has helped him so much.

Thank you everyone for coming to Tegan's Birthday party! He loves all of his gifts!

Happy Birthday Tegan! I love you very much!!!

So that is a little taste of what has happened here. I also last Monday started my new part time job. I have my old job back at Tabernacle Christian church as the children's director. I was fortunate that Tab had my job still open. I love working with the kids.

Pictures From Last Week

We took a better picture of Tegan's scar. This is Sunday the 16th the night we got him home. I will update the blog as he heals. Here are some of our visitors. Tegan loves Jaden! It really made his day to see her.

Grandpa Sorensen visiting with the family.

Grandpa Oren visiting. Thanks Grandpa for feeding the dog and cats while we are away.
Aunt Janet visiting. Thanks for coming over and cheering us up!
The Barr family visited Tegan too. Thanks everyone for showing Tegan how much you care for him!

Grandma spent the week with us while Ronn was gone. She helped entertain the kids. Stephen our neighbor boy was over a lot visiting too. Grandma is blowing bubbles for the kids.
Here Tegan is this morning. He is feeling really good. He has not needed to take Tylenol yet today. Yeah! We are Grandpa and Grandma's house while I get some computer work done. He loves spending time here!

I am at work with Ronn today. I really enjoy helping out in the office. I have some down time so I thought I'd update you. I am kicking myself, I forgot my camera at home. I will try hard to get some pictures up soon.
It has been over a week now from Tegan's surgery. If he didn't have he scar on the back of his head you would never know he had any surgery. Praise God!! After his surgery I thought we where in for a long recovery. He is still very clingy, but is getting better.
Tiffany was invited to a birthday party this weekend by a boy in her class. I was the only parent to stay.:) She is a little clingy too. She had a really good time. I am so thankful they invited her. Tiffany is feeling better about school now. The dropping off and picking her up is still very scary for her.
Tristan woke up this morning crying, not wanting to go to school. We worked it out though. He is a spy today and is going to find the real problems at school. I know! Hey, I think it worked.:) I talked with his teacher on the phone today and she had no idea he was so unhappy. She is moving him to a different seat and trying to find him a buddy. The teacher was very nice about the whole thing. I hope my spy comes home wanting to stay in his class.
Ronn had an awesome week. I hope he is able to blog about it. He was with the missionaries from CSI this past week. They all met in Florida and had workshops and a lot of free time to get to know each other better.
For me I had an incredibly stressed out week. Even though Tegan is better, there are times he screams and cries a lot. I hated to see my kids go to a new school scared and having bad days. We got through it though. I would have lost the other half of my mind if my Mom and Dad weren't there to help out. Thanks Mom and Dad!!! I knew it was going to be stressful due to all the odd circumstances. So with that my time is up and I have to go back to work. Hoping that this week is a better one. :)

Thank You!!!

Thank you to everyone for your prayers!! Tegan is doing so well! He is eating and sleeping great! This morning when he woke up you could tell he was in little pain. It has been a stressful, but good recovery since we have been home. It truly is amazing how little ones recover so quickly.
I am sorry not to update. We have no Internet at the house yet and I have not been able to get away to update anyone.
God is good! Thank you again for your prayers.
Tristan and Tiffany starting a new school has also been stressful on us this week. Tristan is having a hard time with the kids in his class. Tristan has a lot of naughty kids in his class.
Tiffany has anxiety at the beginning of class. The students are very nice in her class so this has helped a lot. I would really appreciate it if you would hold Tristan and Tiffany in your prayers.
!!!THANK YOU!!!

Tegan Update #3

Last night Tegan's morphine med's made him to relaxed and he had to have oxygen last night. He is starting to become spunky. Every couple of hours he would wake up and start to take out his oxygen and take off all his wires. He would do this quietly, not fast so I wouldn't come right over.

I really appreciate all your prayers! Yesterday at 3:30pm he was playing and eating.

I thought maybe he had gone down hill when the oxygen went on last night. I was wrong. Tegan ate some breakfast and has been drinking well. Today he really wanted to be held. As I was holding him his Ivy started bleeding. So the nurse called the Dr. and they said since he was eating and drinking the nurse could keep it out. He now is taking all his med's orally.

The Dr came in a little bit ago. Since he is taking all his med's orally she said if we like we can take him home today. We have to make sure he eats before 4:00pm. If he eats and drinks well he will be discharged. He will still be really tired, but as long as we keep up what we have been doing here in the hospital she thinks it will be okay. It is also a plus that we now live 30min from the hospital. He is not eating all that great of a lunch. He fell a sleep. So keep praying he keeps eating so we can tend to him at home.

His stitches look really good. The Dr did an awesome job! So we have 3 hours before we know if he can go home. Tegan is in a good sleep. I think he is catching up on sleep since he has the ivy out. I hope he wakes up soon and eats. I will keep ya posted.

Eating his crackers yesterday

This is a picture taken from today. He is sitting up and eating gold fish. He had Daddy helping him. Notice his bandage is gone! :)

Here is Tegan' s scar.

Tegan update #2

The Dr just stopped in the room. He is in a lot of pain still so he will spend the night in the ICU again tonight. The hope is then tomorrow that he will then get a regular room. He is needing to drink more. So if you are reading this, the new request for prayer is that he feels well enough to start drinking more fluids.
Mom and Dad are here now to give give me a lunch break.