I am finally getting this done! Thanks again to our neighbor Eric, that helped us set this up, and even coming here to figure it out for us!

It makes me sad to even have to create this blog, but I know that it is helpful to all our families and friends to get an update from us this way.

Last Saturday, July 3rd, we had an accident involving our beautiful boy, Jake. We were having a good time with family and had just finished eating, when Jake came to give me his plate, telling me he was done and that he had spilled. I told him that that was ok, we would clean it up later. After a few minutes, Derick said: "Where is Jake?" We all started looking for him and my heart was beating faster. I walked over towards the pool, and there he was, floating face down. I hurried and pulled him out, put him on the ground and panicked! Derick started screaming for someone to call 911 and to help us. Then he began performing cpr, but he hadn't even done that very long when the doctor that lives next door came rushing to help us out. What a blessing that he was home and not gone for the 4th of July weekend, or working, or somewhere else. We are so thankful that Dr.Berg was there and hurried over to help us out.

Whithin minutes after calling 911, all the emergency vehicles arrived, and they were all working on him. He was airlifted to Primary Children's Hospital here in Salt Lake City, and this is where we have been since.

The doctor's worked on him for a long time before we were allowed to see him, and those 2 hours were even worse then the hour it took us driving here. We are so thankful for our brother in law, Mike, that drove us down here, cause there is no way we would have been able to do it ourselves.

I know that this is getting to be very long and detailed, but we have family and friends in a lot of different places around the world that don't know everything that happened that day, so I just want them to have a chance to know what we are talking about.

There have been a lot of ups and downs since last Saturday, and a lot of tests and talks with lots of different doctors, and all they can really tell us is that it's a waiting game. We know for sure that his brain has been damaged, there is just no way to tell how damaged until he wakes up and we can see what he does. He has had a set back, unfortunately. Yesterday morning his blood pressure and heart rate went up really fast, and they didn't know why, so they did a cat scan to see if his brain had swelled more. It hadn't, which was good, but then they were wondering if he had had a seizure. They had already scheduled to do an mri on him, and so they did later that morning. The mri confirmed that he did indeed have a stroke, but it was small, which was good they said... So, instead of taking him off the medicines tonight, they are going to wait a couple more days, just so that he can rest and the swelling in his brain can go down more. There might have been another reason, but I just can't keep track of all the things they tell us, and we have probably asked the same questions over and over again just because we forget all the info they give us.

Today they told us that his left lung had collapsed, which is not uncommon in this situation, but as his parents it's just another thing for us to worry about! It actually seems like an awful way for them to fix it, they shake him and force air in him and push down or do something hard on his chest. I can't watch them when they do it, it's just too brutal, but the one nurse that we had earlier today said that the way the doctors do it may seem worse. I don't know if she said that to make herself feel better, or what, but awful it is regardless.

We are so thankful to everyone in our families, friends, neighbors and ward that are helping us out. It's so nice that we don't have to worry about what to do with our 2 older boys. Being here in the hospital with our little guy is all we want to do right now, so all the love and support you all show us is just amazing! Even people we don't know are asking about Jake, and we are grateful for everyones thoughts and prayers on his behalf.

Thanks again all of you amazing people, and please continue praying for him, he still has some challenges ahead of him.

I'll try and update some more tomorrow, but we really don't expect anything for a few days.