Christmas Tree Jubilee!!

Dear friends and family,

Each year we try to do something at Christmas time to 'give back' in honor of Libbi, our Supergirl. This year we have teamed up with our friend, Hunter Schenck, to decorate a tree for the Christmas Tree Jubilee! This event is to help the Weber County early intervention program, for children who have special education needs. Hunter is a dear friend and neighbor who attends the Weber County early intervention preschool. He is 3 1/2, exactly 1 year older than Libbi. He attends the speech therapy program. What a better way to give back than in our own community! We have had 2 cousins in this program, Jordan Rizley and Ben Dixon. We have a family friend, Tad Grange, who receives help from this program as well. We have seen what a great program this is, and want to support it. We are asking for any donation to help us make this a FABULOUS tree! We want to create a beautiful, amazing, traditional tree. We must also provide a tree skirt or blanket, and decor for underneath the tree. This event is held Nov 23 and Nov 25, the day before and the day after Thanksgiving, at the Ogden Eccles Conference Center. You can ‘like’ their page on Facebook or go to http://foundation.weber.k12.ut.us for more information!

You can donate by:

*sending a check to Mindi Dixon

2088 E 6650 S Ogden Ut 84405

* by clicking the DONATE button on Libbis blog @ libbisblog.blogspot.com

Thank you and have a SAFE and HAPPY HOLIDAY SEASON!!

The Dixon Family

SUPERGIRL!!

Enough said .. :)

Breakfast with the Witches!

I took my girls to the Gardners Witchfest on Friday and boy was Libbi a delight! She was having the time of her life!! She danced and played and had such a fun time.

If you look closely, she is standing on the stairs dressed in black. She stood there for most the show.

After a while of watching the witches on stage she decided to JOIN them! I ran up to get her, but they said no no let her dance with us. I love that she is not afraid of ANYTHING! Including creepy witches!!

Getting her moves on again, this time with all the kids :)

This was Disco DIE-anna. Libbis favorite witch, and the feelings were mutual! This witch was in LOVE with her. It was such a fun time!

Shots for LIBBERS!

We did it! We all braved the SHOT for LIBBERS!! Yes, even MOM! Dad is still trying to get out of it. I'm working on him ;)

The secret.. Check your kids out of school. They didn't even care we were going to get SHOTS, they were just so excited to be checked out! LOL!

Whats going on with LIbbi???

Libbi has been doing well. She has had a cough for a couple months now. We've gone on singulair as well as zyrtec thinking its allergies. It still could be. She coughs mostly at night. She keeps getting colds as well. I finally took her in this last weekend to insta care. They had her sats at 95 (for those paying attention, that was clearly wrong!) so i took her to our friends house, Gracelyn, and there she was high 70s low 80s. I still felt off. I said a prayer that i would know what to do. I felt like she was lower than that, she has been really short of breath lately. She can't walk up the stairs, and won't walk for long without asking to be carried. I finally made the decision to run her up to the ER (it was a Sunday, and her ped was out of town) In the waiting area of the ER she was hovering at 75. We decided to check her in and see the Dr. We sat with the monitor on her for a couple hours, she stayed between 74-77 the whole time. I'm not sure what the discrepancy was in the o2 monitors, but the Dr there suggested we put her on oxygen at nights, worried that she drops even more when she sleeps. We have been doing that and she sleeps much better. (I must note that the air has cleared up too, so the sleeping better could be the allergy thing..) I talked with Dr Menon later in the week and he wants us to see a pulmonologist to see if the cough is maybe asthma related. He doesn't think it's heart related. So back to the low sats. He wants me to watch where shes at when she gets over her cold and then he will decide what to do on Dec 7. We have an echo and appt scheduled but he mentioned MAYBE doing a cath to help her sats go up a bit until Fontan. She weighs 28lbs and will be 3 in March. He keeps saying spring for Fontan. I just hope we can make it through winter. I worry that everytime she get a little cold she will drop. Then when she sleeps, moves or cries/screams (which is A LOT!) they will go down even more. Should i worry about this or not? I am so uneducated on the matter its ridiculous. I need to take some classes. People ask me detailed questions about her condition and i can't even answer them. Its embarrassing. Anyway, if any of you read through this whole post and feel like you have any input or education on this PLEASE let me know your thoughts! You can post a comment or email me at mindidixon@msn.com I would really appreciate some insight! Thanks friends :)

These pictures were taken at a football game. She played in the mud. And i let her. She is 1 spoiled little girl!!

Who needs punkins..

...when you can have Libbi in your boxes!

JET!

Just what Libbi needed.. a puppy to pretend to be a baby!! Oooo poor dog!

This is Jet, the newest member of our family!! We've had him 3 weeks now. O boy. What was I thinking?? He is sooo cute and furry and fun but can be sooo naughty! He's a puppy, they nip, they chew etc etc. He's really pretty good other than the nipping!!