FHE in the Emergency Room.

These first two are before the stitches, after the bleeding stopped.


These two were taken when Aaron brought her home. The cut went all the way through! Aaron said that when they cleaned it with a stream of salt-water he could see it spraying through on the inside too. She ended up getting 4 stitches on the outside and one inside. They didn't have to sedate her but they had to put both her arms behind her in a pillow case then lay her on a board and strap across her arms and legs. She got 4 shots inside the wound to numb it. Aaron said she complained a bit but did a good job of keeping her head still. The fourth stitch must have hit a part that wasn't numb because she cried and kept saying "Ow hurt, owie hurt". He said the inside stitch hurt her as well. It took about 5 minutes to stitch her up and we go back in 5 days to have them removed. She's acting normal today and slept great last night. Poor baby!

Jocelyn's trip to the emergency room.

So it's 12:12 am and I'm sitting here waiting for Aaron to call me from the emergency room to tell me what's happening with Jocelyn. She split her face open on the coffee table tonight while we were having family-home-evening. She was just dancing around and tripped. I saw her face bounce off the corner and knew it was going to be bad. The blood was dripping down her neck by the time I got her to the bathroom. Sorry about the graphic details but I'm sure she'll want to know them when she reads this later. She has a huge gaping hole. I've never seen anything so gross before. I can't tell if it goes all the way through to the other side or not though. I just knew she'd have to have stitches. We loaded everyone up in the van then decided to leave the other 3 girls with a neighbor.
First we stopped at the urgent care who informed us that they usually can do stitches but she would need sedation and plastic surgery to repair it. Our second stop was at my parents house for a blessing (they live about 2 blocks from the hospital) then off to the emergency room we went. If you've ever been to an emergency room you already know that it takes FOREVER to actually see a doctor. Good thing the bleeding had stopped already. They just take their sweet time there. Anyway, after about 20 minutes they called us in and got some info and then sent us back out to wait another 25 minutes. We decided that I should come home and get the girls and Aaron would stay with Joci. She cried for me when I left, it was heart breaking. Aaron's cell phone is dead so I can't call him to see what's going on and I'm a worry wart so I can't sleep either. We were told that the doctor at the American Fork hospital would take a look at it then if he didn't feel confident enough then they'd send us up to Salt Lake City to Primary Children's Hospital. I guess it's a pretty serious laceration because it goes from the skin on her face into the lip-color part so they have to be sure to sew it just right so her lip line will still look normal. Poor baby. She didn't cry too much considering the severity and was getting ready to fall asleep at the hospital when I left. She's a trooper. I'm worried about her being sedated. I've never even been "put under" before so it makes me real nervous to think of a 2 year old going through that. I hope everything will be alright and that Aaron will call soon. It's past 12:30 now and still nothing. I'll update as soon as I know.

Triathlon/5K at the U of U on April 26th

Here are a few pics of Aaron's triathlon he did and the 5K I did with my friend Kyra. We had a great time.

Aaron started out with a 300 meter swim.

In this picture he had just finished the swim and was running to get his bike. He saw me and winked, can you see it? That's my man!


Next he did an 8 mile mountain-bike ride in the hills where he got 2 flat tires. He changed them quickly and still finished that strong and fast.

He finished running a 5K (3.1 miles). His over all time was just over an hour. Good job babe! I'm so proud of him, he's an inspiration!

Here's my friend Kyra and me. I hope she doesn't mind me putting a picture on here of her. We ran the 5K together. She recently had knee surgery and still kicked butt!

I ended up running it in 30 min. I was happy with 10 minute miles considering this is the first time I've ran since middle school and only trained for 3 weeks.

Here we are after our races. Aaron and I are looking forward to the next triathlon we're doing together on June 14th. I'm going to attempt it so tune in for more pics then and wish me luck!

My Macey Moo

I went into her room and found that she had fallen asleep hugging her bear.

I gave her a few ramen noodles and she loved them. She'd get a little in her mouth and then suck in the rest. It was so funny.

Tulip Festival at Thanksgiving Point

A friend of mine invited me to Thanksgiving Point last week. I in turn invited April who invited my mom. We had so much fun and took a LOT of pictures. See for yourself...

Tagged Again...

I guess it's a good thing I'm such an interesting person. lol
Thanks to my good friend Lisa you all get to learn a little bit more about me.

How long have you been together? It will be 7 years this September. Yeah-Lucky number 7!
How long did you date? Before we were engaged or married? We dated 1 1/2 months, got engaged then got married 1 1/2 months after that. It was 3 months total-to the day! June 8th to Sept. 8th
How old is he? 28 although I wish he were older so my kids would stop making fun of me. "You're older than dad!" they keep reminding me.
Who said ‘I love you’ first? Aaron did. I think I said "thanks". My "I love you" wasn't far behind though.
Who is taller? Aaron, by a foot.
Who is smarter? I'd have to say he is because he married me! :) He probably really is smarter than me, he graduated from college and I didn't. Not yet anyway. He's very smart at figuring things out like sudoku. He likes math and I like english.
Who does the laundry? Me, although once in a blue moon (every 4 years or so) Aaron will throw a load in. Especially if I haven't done whites for a while!
Who does the dishes? Me again but occasionally he'll load the dishwasher. He does rinse his cereal bowl out every morning though.
Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? Depends, if you're at the foot of the bed looking at it then it's Aaron. However if you're actually in the bed then it's me.
Who pays the bills? I used to until we bought a ton of houses, now he does it all. Ever since our second year of marriage I think he's done it.
Who mows the lawn? Well, when we happen to live in a house that actually has a lawn then Aaron does. I think I mowed it twice in Ogden. As a side note- Don't mow in cream colored pants!!
Who cooks dinner? Me most of the time. However he's been cooking this amazing lemon/garlic chicken on the grill lately and I'd love to let him just have that job.
Who is more stubborn? Neither one of us really. It just depends on what. We pretty much agree on just about everything so it's easy.
Who kissed who first? Aaron FINALLY kissed me. Just kidding babe. I don't remember the day but I do remember I was right in the middle of a sentence. I was talking about cavemen dragging their women around by their hair. (Don't ask me why) It was a sunday and we were watching 'A Walk in the Clouds' obviously we weren't paying attention to it though.
Who asked who out? Aaron asked me out (he didn't know my name or number and put in a lot of effort to find me. That's a whole other story.)
Who proposed? He did at Bear Lake in front of his whole family. It wasn't a planned thing. He didn't have the ring or anything. He just felt like he should do it and Ryan helped with encouragement. (Thanks again Ry- I still think I should've name a kid after you!) The ring came a couple of weeks later when we went to the temple together. I think that's when I finally SAID yes too. The first time he only got two thumbs up- I was too emotional to talk.
Who is more sensitive? Actually I'm gonna have to say Aaron is. He's real sentimental and romantic and I'm not, usually. If he forgot my birthday or our anniversary I don't think it'd even phase me. I don't get bent out of shape over things like that.

So now I tag Gabrielle, Alyson, Jessica, Staci, Heather and Jane Ellen. Have fun!

Let's go fly a kite...

Last night my family came over for a 'family home evening'. It was a blast. We ate yummy food and flew pretty kites on the golf course and then went swimming down at the pool here. Aaron's 'canon-ball' was similar to a tsunami and my mom's backflip off the diving board can't go unmentioned either. I took the camera to the pool but left it in the van. Oops. I only got a few pictures of the kites and a few kids. I was too busy having fun with my family to take pictures. It seems like when I spend the whole time taking pictures I miss out on all the fun family togetherness so I let it go this time-but now I regret not having pictures of the whole thing. Aaron spent almost the entire night in the garage trying to fix our waverunner with the help of my dad. It still won't work and now he wants to "sink it to the bottom of Lake Powell!" The girls and I had a blast flying kites off the green. Macey loved just crawling around on the soft grass. It was so warm yesterday, it was just perfect. Today the weather has turned cold again so I'm really glad we got out yesterday and enjoyed the first really warm day of the year. I can't wait for more!

Here are a few of Dianne's kids flying their kites. Adam, Brigham and Mariah.

This is Olivia's kite. Super pink and girly of course. I actually flew it later on and it went so high I ran out of string. She took a nose dive and got caught on the neighbor's roof. We had to cut it down.

Olivia fighting against the wind.

Brigham helping Jocelyn down from the green.

My parents got these kites when they went to China years ago. We've been trying to get together to fly them for a long time and tonight we finally did. Too bad my dad and Aaron were stuck in the garage and didn't get to see them in flight. These eagles were the coolest, especially how my mom took the picture just as they crossed paths and were next to the moon. Great picture mom! Let's do it again sometime!

Serenity

This is kind of a random post. It had just started raining on the other side of the lake. I loved how the water turned this beautiful green color and then just blended into the rain. It was one of those still, quiet moments that you get to enjoy every once in a while and look at the beautiful world we have. It looked like a water color painting of the lake. It was much better in person, but you get the idea.

Utah Lake in March pictures.

Here are some pictures of our first boat trip of the year that I wrote about in my last post. Notice the snow on the mountains behind Aaron. He's crazy!

More boat pictures.

It was cold enough that we needed blankets, but that doesn't stop Aaron.

Here he is getting ready to get in. Brrrrrrrrrrrr!

Kell sitting on the back of the boat.

Macey has to sit in a jumper attached to the wakeboard tower or she'd crawl right out or fall over when we stop or go. It works so well. Aaron thinks it makes our boat look "ghetto". But it works so....
I love the in-your-face look on her face it's like she's saying, "Bring It!"

Nice 'rooster tail' Aaron. See the snow? The water was freezing. He was red everywhere the wet suit didn't cover.
Have you noticed that I am the photographer, driver, and babysitter-all at the same time? It's a good thing we were the only ones on the lake. But seriously who else would even contemplate going out to ski yet? The lake only thawed a few weeks ago!

Aaron has this funny habit. When he gets ready to do a big jump or cuts really hard he unconsciously holds his breath and puffs his cheeks out. If you click on this picture to make it bigger you can see his cheeks. It cracks me up.

Water, Agua, H2O... however you say it, it still spells F-U-N!

I haven't been on here for a while. Time for a new post, although I hate to write anything after that last one- man it was a good one wasn't it? My favorite so far.
So Aaron took a day off from the grind yesterday so I could get my visiting teaching done. We went to IHOP. Tell you what, you hop in but roll back out. Gluttony was the big winner! Yeah gluttony!
When I got back we took the girls down to the pool. Makell is learning how to swim without her floaty swimsuit. She's doing pretty well. That being said, there will always be lifejackets on in the boat (besides the fact it's the law) and at Lake Powell. Olivia was excited because we let her play hooky and miss school because some of her friends were at the pool too. After being in the warm water for so long I think Aaron had wishful thinking for the water in the lake to be warm too. So we took the boat out for her first voyage of the year. The girls and I were all huddled under blankets and Aaron was in a wet suit. He's crazy. He skied first then we cruised around for a while so he could warm up then he got back in the icy water to wake board. It didn't last long as the wind promptly picked up. For those of you who know Utah Lake you know how the water can get as soon as the wind blows. For those of you who don't, just try to imagine big waves slamming into your boat. It's seriously insane how quickly it can change. We decided to call it a day and came in. We all got a little burned. Everyone else's will turn into a tan. I however will peel and be just as white. At the end of the year last year Makell said, "Daddy's brown, Olivia's brown, I'm brown, Jocelyn is brown but Mommy is white." Pathetic. I can thank my own mom for my pasty whiteness. Yeah, thanks. :)
Today I've got cub scouts. I'm trying to find a sitter because Aaron is staying the night down at Yuba Lake again. He's been building some cabins for Uncle Gary down there and has decided to sleep over a couple of times because of the cost of gas. Last time (monday) he woke up at 1AM freezing so this time he took two sleeping bags, warm socks, a big blanket, his hoodie, and I think gloves too. I hope he stays warm. He starts his fire with the blow torch at night to cook dinner on and warm up a bit before bed. Such a good little boy scout. Who needs lighter fluid when you've got a blow torch? We've been watching a show on the Discovery channel called "I Shouldn't Be Alive". It's awesome, I highly recommend it, however now I've become very paranoid about him being alone in the middle of nowhere. Not to mention being in the middle of Utah Lake with 4 little girls, freezing water and big waves. I know I'm just a worry wart but I don't think I'd be a real mom if I wasn't always worrying about something.

My Wife is Amazzzzing!!

As many of you know, I married way above myself. Bonnie has changed my life so much since we were married. I say changed as a good thing. I fall in love with her more each and everyday. I sometimes sit back and watch her and wonder why she choose me. She is very good to me and a great mother of our four children. She does an amazing job of teaching them the gospel. It does help that we were blessed with great children. I think that with the trials we are going through, unlike others, our marriage has been strengthened. She never gets short with me and we talk about what needs to happen next. We draw strength from one another in an amazing way. I am so happy that we were married in the temple for time and eternity. She is truly my best friend.

RE-TAGGED

I was already tagged once, however a friend of mine re-tagged me so here are 6 more silly, strange and slightly-interesting secrets or facts about me...
1. I loathe laundry. I grew up running a family business Bed & Breakfast and my job was to wash, dry, hang, and fold all the laundry. Needless to say it scarred me for life!
2. I love to sing the hymns at church. I don't know why I love it so much but I do. Maybe it's because I feel that it's almost like my personal time when I can be in my own little world. Because of that it really drives me crazy when my kids try to talk to me during the hymns. Of course I will talk to them but then I feel like I've missed out on one of my favorite parts of church.
3. This goes along with number 2. I'm an alto. I'm not a great alto, but I do pretty good. I believe that altos make sopranos sound good. You sopranos may get to sing the melody but you don't sound half as great without us altos backing you up. You're welcome!
4. I have done the math and during the 6 1/2 years that we've been married, I have been pregnant for 3 of those years and nursing for 3 years and 8 months of those 6 1/2. I realize that adds up to 6 years and 8 months, how could that be you ask? Because I was pregnant AND nursing for 6 of those months. (Not fun and I don't recommend it.) That means that I have been my normal self for approximately 3 months of my entire marriage! One was the first month we were married and the other two were between the time I stopped nursing Makell and got pregnant with Jocelyn. I need a break!! And Aaron would probably like to know who he really married, I bet he doesn't even remember since we only knew each other 3 months when we got married!
5. Following along the same lines as number 2 and 3--I love to hear Aaron sing the hymns. He has a fabulous voice and varies between a tenor and bass. We sound great together (when I hit the notes). I really miss sitting next to him in church. Now that we have 4 little girls in between us (and talking during the hymns) it's hard to hear him.
6. This isn't necessarily a silly, strange or unknown secret or fact about me, but I adore my husband. Every ounce of him. He is what I refer to as Mr. Right and Mr. Perfect. We are 100% compatible and compliment one another perfectly. His hardware is compatible with my software. It's like we are a computer and program without viruses. I KNOW that we were made for each other. I used to say that there wasn't just one right person out there for any given person. Sure, I used to say that. But that was before I knew Aaron. We were meant to find one another and live happily ever after. I don't understand when people say "The first year was hard". We just never went through it. We have other trials, but marriage just doesn't happen to be one of them. When we were dating he said the most beautiful thing to me that I will never forget. It was August. We were standing next to his car. The air was warmly blowing and the stars were shining down on us. We were holding each other not wanting to say goodnight. He looked down at me and said, "I've been waiting my whole life to fall in love with you."
It still makes me cry. I love you Aaron.