My Life

My sister-in-law Stacy sent this to me - This is how I feel right now - this frantic ARGH!



By the way Stacy mentioned to me (while I was helping both Michael and Davis with their homework and Shawn was making dinner(Spaghetti, but gratefully he did it!), so if I am wrong you all can forgive me...) that this lady was on a mission with Shawn in South Africa? I'll have to verify that - but somehow she is connected to his mission.

Exciting Morning On the 1st Day Of School

Well Tuesday was our first day of school for everyone. It was pretty eventful. At 7:05 AM, I am standing in my bathroom doing my hair, and Morgan SCREAMS at the top of his lungs "I need help!" Well I rush downstairs (almost falling down the stairs) to find Morgan hysterical in the kitchen. He has fallen on the porch and smacked his leg on the corner of our concrete side porch. He had a triangular shaped hole on the shin of his leg. He is about to go into shock because he thinks that he can see the bone. I am in agreement. (We later found out that it wasn't the bone that we were seeing, just fatty tissue. Did you know that fatty tissue is white?) So I have him lay down on the kitchen floor and I put pressure on it to control the bleeding. Which surprisingly was not that much for as deep a cut as it was... Shawn runs upstairs and finishes putting his clothes on. Morgan is still hysterical so I am trying to calm him down. Shawn takes him to the ER. He got 8 BIG stitches because on the location and size of his laceration. He then went on to school - he planned his arrival for MAXIMUM social impact. (He is my social butterfly.) I have not include a picture of the graphic image, but I will post his scar when it is healed.

By the way this was on my 39th birthday. I didn't even remember it was my birthday until my Mother-in-law called me 10 minutes later to wish me a Happy Birthday. This is the 2nd time I have forgotten my own birthday. So if I forget yours - please don't be upset they just slip out of my memory.

Note: My family ALL remembered it was my birthday after things settled down. I had a wonderful dinner of Steak, Shrimp, and Sea Scallops (my favorite!). They also got me some really cute pieces of jewelry (I helped pick out). All in all a pretty memorable day! Perhaps to overshadow the fact that I am almost 40! YIKES!

Mike at Youth Conference

I thought you all might appreciate some of these silly photos of Mike. Warning- some are pretty silly!

Craziness Begins

I didn't want to leave you all hanging for another week - so I thought that I would post. These last 2 weeks have been really busy. Between Cheerleading, Flag, Band, Seminary preparation, and work we are all hopping. I think that the only pictures that have been taken are Morgan's Lego movies. Shawn started back at work and Mike starts school tomorrow. Dave is the only one that isn't busy, but someone has to watch him all the time. I think that if I can keep all the balls in the air until October then all will be well.

Dolphins at work

Today Shawn and Michael drove the boat through a pod of 6 - 8 dolphins. They didn't have a camera - but they had a cell phone that takes video. It was pretty cool. I was jelous that I wasn't at work today. Sorry the video is so bad! You can't really see it, but a dolphin swam under the boat durng the video. They were both pretty excited. They finally decided to start taking video after 10 minutes and they were still playing near the boat.



Shawn said that he was tempted to jump in, but I think he was too scared beacuse he said - "They are big!" This is from a marine biologist! HEHEHE!