What's Scott Doing These Days?

He's not in Wireless anymore!!! Scott was in Wireless Sales Management for 9 years; before we left California he was the Regional Manager for Southern Orange County but he just wasn't getting a whole lot of job satisfaction anymore so we went on the hunt for a new career. His favorite part of his job was Sales Training so he set his sights on that.

Scott interviewed with 3form in August and started with them as their Sales Trainer/Coordinator on August 27th. 3form is such a cool company, they are manufacturers of ecoresin, a co-polyester recycled content product, used to make panels containing textiles, natural objects, and textures for architecture and design. Go to their website, http://www.3-form.com/, to see what they do. Go to the portfolio section to some of their projects. He has been traveling a lot over the last couple of months; Maryland, Seattle a few times, Denver a bunch. In the last week he went to Chicago, Totornto, Minneapolis and in two weeks the Netherlands. He likes the travel but doesn't like being away from his three girls.

Scott has also put time into real estate and buying properties; he currently is building two town homes in Park City, UT nestled in the mountains with a view of Jordanelle reservoir. He would love to move to Park City permanently but we will have to see about that. Scott would like to venture into the Toronto, Canada market and is currently looking for some spaces in a downtown high rise development.

Aspen - The Perfect Miracle

Being my first blog, I feel it necessary to document what I deem the most important event in our lives thus far this year - the birth of Aspen Eve Flygare.

So a bit of history. On October 14th, 2002 I was diagnosed with cancer; T-Cell Lymphoblastic Lymphoma. On October 18th, within 24 hours of the Life Flight from St. George to Salt Lake City, Utah, we were told by my Oncologist that I would be sterile, that we would never be able to have more children. Mercedes was only 9 months old. At that time I didn't and couldn't fully comprehend those words, but as time ticked on and after three years of chemo I could truly look forward into my future, I felt an enormous gaping hole. Was our family complete? I didn't think so. After we moved to California, my oncologist there said even if we did get pregnant, we'd probably have a monster baby. I saw a perinatologist and she said there wasn't even enough research out there to know what would happen, but after discussing my case with my oncologist, they decided we would be safe to start trying for a baby six months post chemo and the only way to know if I was sterile was if we couldn't get pregnant.

My last day of chemo was June 9th, 2005, my 28th birthday. So six months later we started trying for a baby, and in January; a shock, we were pregnant! It was a combination of elation and fear; fear that there would be something wrong with the baby. Something didn't feel right and the pregnancy ended in a miscarriage.

We had to wait another 3 months to try again and once again we were pregnant right away. This time everything felt right to me, and it was. The pregnancy went perfectly and on February 15th, 2007 another great miracle came to our family. Aspen (because we love the name), Eve (in Hebrew it means 'life' and we were celebrating mine and hers) Flygare was born 6 lbs 11 oz in the American Fork, Utah hospital. I've heard of love at first sight, or immediate bonding with a baby, but with Mercedes I was so uptight it took me a while to develop a strong bond; but with Aspen I was in love with her the second I saw her. She is truly a miracle and we have never been so blessed as to have two daughters of God entrusted to us.

Aspen is an exact girly replica of Scott. Their newborn pictures are indistinguishable. Mercedes is my clone, so we have one of each and it's so fun. They hardly look like sisters, but they love each other so much. Mercedes is the best big sister and so helpful to mom. Aspen is calm and goodnatured and I have found my niche at this stage in life.

The other day I looked at Scott with tears in my eyes and said, "I will get to see her learn to crawl, and learn to walk, and that means everything to me." I missed that with Mercedes; and I, and we as a family, have been given another chance. I got to see Mercedes off to her first day of Kindergarten this year. The firsts are wonderful, but it's the everyday moments that I deem sacred because I missed so many of them.