Sun Valley, Idaho

 We took a trip to Sun Valley, Idaho for Mark's 39th birthday.  We rented a condo in the Sun Valley resort.  We had a blast and would love to make this a tradition.  

 Walking through the village where all the shops and restaurants are.  It was the off season and everyone was preparing for the upcoming ski season so there weren't many vacationers there.  

 Here are a few pictures of the condo before the family came in and gave it that lived in look.  

 It was so fun and cozy relaxing in the condo as the snow was falling outside. 

 Warming up by the fire.

 Dinner in the condo.

 The next morning we woke up and gave Mark his birthday cards. 

 Happy 39th Birthday Mark!

 Silas loved the snow....he was all bundled up and couldn't move much but he still had fun.

 The Sun Valley opera house all closed up for the winter.

 Mark didn't know what the picture was....he looked after I took the picture. 

 We spent some time at Dollar Mountain playing in the snow.  

 Ketchum, ID is right down the road from the Sun Valley resort and has one of the pretties Starbucks I have ever been in.  

Everyone tired to make a snow angel.

Six Months Post Op

Six months ago today Silas had open heart surgery to correct his VSD (hole in his heart), remove a sub-aortic membrane (a ridge attached to his aortic valve blocking blood flow).  He also had double chamber right ventricle.  When they got in and actually saw his heart they saw that his tricuspid valve was blocking half of the hole they needed to patch so they ended up flapping back his tricuspid valve and then reattaching it in order to patch the hole correctly. 

Silas was 12 months old at the time of his open heart surgery.  For the first year of his life he was in heart failure.   He's a miracle because we didn't find out about his heart condition until he was 10.5 months old when he got pneumonia and was in the hospital for 6 days.  After healing for 6 weeks we were off to Seattle for his open heart surgery.  

You can watch a video of his time in Seattle HERE. 

Click on the links below to read about his surgery.

Diagnosis  Preparing for Surgery  Day of Surgery  CICU  Hospital Stay  Post Op Visit