We're home! Pics of her last hospital visit.

Hallie's stash of things-- there wasn't even room for her in the wagon! And I had taken a load to Grammy's the day before! She collected quite a few things while we were there!

Hallie in the car, leaving the hospital. She is so funny. After she hasn't ridden in a car for awhile, it really freaks her out to be in one again. She wasn't sure this was fun at all, but at least we were out of the hospital!

Granny Annie and Hallie. Pop Pop passed away 2 days after Hallie's surgery so Gram was otherwise occupied, but she came to visit her a few times in the hospital and then again right before we left. We sure love you Gram!

On our first airplane trip back to Reno. It was a hard trip for her to make because she was still hurting quite a bit!

Hallie in her wheel chair at the airport. Boy did we get a lot of funny looks having her in there! Don't let it bother you that the most she had walked up to that point was 50-60 yards!

Tucker and Daddy sitting by Hallie's bed. They told me to call Derrick- we were being taken by plane to Salt Lake and to give him 20 minutes to pack a bag for us and be on his way-- 6 hours later we were still waiting for weather to clear so that we could fly out!

She wasn't too sure about being loaded onto the gurney. And she wasn't too sure that she wanted to head back to Salt Lake. Although once she got there, she acted like the children's hospital was her long lost best friend and was glad to be back there.

Hallie being loaded onto the ambulance at St. Mary's here in Reno. She is such a back seat driver. She kept telling the driver that he was going to hit into the wall or was going too fast!

Hallie and her own personal flight team, waiting to board the airplane.

Hallie's own personal Emergency Air Flight plane. My family is taking bets on how much the transfer is going to cost us--anyone else care to guess? Keep in mind that we have to pay for the airplane itself, the Emergency Air flight crew consisting of a nurse and paramedic that accompanied us from hospital to hospital, plus the two ambulances that took us to and from the hospitals. Derrick offered to take vacation and go with her. I might have let him if it wasn't for the fact that I am completely responsible for her care for the most part and if people start asking Derrick too many questions about her history, he refers them to me! I think he was just really jealous that we got to go up in the plane and he didn't!

Hallie's self portrait. She really likes to take pictures and kept grabbing my camera to take random pics. This one turned out fairly well!

Hallie and I on the plane. There was a gurney behind us, but they thought she might be more comfortable and less apprehensive if she was sitting next to me. She ended up on my lap and was pretty happy about it. Sorry Derrick-- I was doing good to take care of her and take the few pictures I did of her that I didn't think to take pictures of what the whole inside of the plane looked like!

By this point, Hallie was so tired of sitting in her bed. She was feeling well enough to not want to be confined anymore, but not well enough to really be up and about. She wasn't eating and was pretty weak, so this was her favorite place to be that was out of bed, but didn't really require much energy.

Cass and Hallie making crafts. They have 2 crafts a day for kids to do-- this was decorating Easter eggs.

The hospital has a huge playroom donated by Steve Young called the Forever Young Zone. In all of Hallie's 13 hospitalizations, this is the first time that she herself has gotten to use the playroom. She was in love! She would have spent all day there if they would have let her and used all her persuasion powers to convince anyone, even her nurses to take her here.

"Cleaning" the playroom-- why is it that you can't get your kids to clean at home but they will pretend clean all day!

Poppy and Grammy taking Hallie for a walk. They came up and spent a few hours with us Sunday. Hallie really enjoyed the distraction, especially since she couldn't eat or drink anything at that point.

Hallie getting her vitals taken. She had to have them taken every 4 hours and got to a point where she stuck out the arm she wanted to get the "hug" (blood pressure) from and what finger to put the light on (oxygen levels in the blood). Then as soon as it was done, she would take them all off herself. The nurses joked that she was in training to take their job.

Hallie had to have an enteroclysis done-- they stuck a tube down her nose into her intestines and injected contrast to follow it through. She had this done a few weeks before and was terrified the minute she walked into the room. They ended up giving her Versed which really relaxes her. She was so funny during it! She would look up at me and smile this goofy grin, then tell me she really liked the tube--it tickled her throat. Afterwards EVERYONE gave her a present-- her nurse gave her the blanket, her radiology tech gave her the stuffed moose, the sedation nurse gave her the doll, among several other small prizes. The doll was porcelain and we decided it would be better to give it to an little bit older girl who wouldn't break it. Hallie was so cute! She walked into this 7 year old's room and gave her the doll and was so proud of herself. I was pretty proud of her too!

One of Hallie's prizes after an x-ray. They give her tokens after procedures and she can put it into a vending machine and get a prize. We have had so many procedures the last month that she has gotten pretty much one of everything, and multiples of many of them. This was a new prize and she was so thrilled with it!

Grandma Munro and Dustin Robert flew out to help Derrick with the boys. They planned a layover in Salt Lake and got to spend about an hour visiting with Hallie, before they had to leave again. She sure loved having them play with her!

This cow was in a waiting room down the hall from her first room. After surgery, we made it her goal to walk to the cow and back. She was to weak and sore to ride on it, but she loved walking to it. One morning on this last hospitalization, I was on the phone with the insurance company and her tech took her for a walk. They came back with a male nurse toting the cow and put it in her room. What a child! Only Hallie could convince them to move a toy out of a waiting room meant for everyone into her own personal room!

Wagons are hard to come by at the children's hospital. They use them to transport small patients a lot, so if you come up with one, it is usually repossessed as soon as you are done with it. Hallie REALLY liked this wagon. It had seats, a door, and cup holders-- what could be better. I took her for a walk in it and when we got back, we left it outside of her door. She was so worried that someone would take it that she went out to the hall and sat in it--just so people would know it was in use. Her nurse finally moved it into her room so she wouldn't be as concerned about it and Hallie still just sat in it, watching tv or whatever. She just didn't want anyone to take it!

Leaving the hospital-- again! Somehow her wagon isn't nearly as full as the last go round! There is actually room for her in it this time!

Hallie anxiously awaiting our plane at the airport-- she was so excited she was literally shaking. She kept squealing with excitement on the airport. It is really fun to see what small little things she has missed and what she gets excited for-- she really missed her brothers and could hardly wait to see them!