Careers!

This last week at the kids school was Spirit Week. Each day had a different theme. Monday they had to dress up like their favorite superhero or their real life hero. Tuesday was believe in your country and had to wear red, white, and blue. Thursday was my favorite it was believe you can succeed they had dress up in what they want to be when they grow up. This was fun to find out what the kids wanted to be when they grow up. Megan got to go to school on Thursday so we had to get her something to wear. She wants to be Hannah Montana when she gets older, Jayson wants to be a professional football player but, since we don't have all the equipment for that he went has a basketball player, he didn't care he loves all sports. Sean wants to be a Scout Master, I think he was just being lazy and didn't want to find something when he could just wear his Cub Scout Uniform. Now for Destiny! She has always wanted to be a Fashion Designer. We took scrap fabric and pinned it to her pants, put ribbon around her neck. She also got to wear my 2" heel boots. Matt was worried about her costume not sure if it would turn out. She really did looked like the fashion designers on some of the shows she watches. Of course they might change their minds in a year.

What a BIG GIRL!!!!

This first picture is right before we left to get her stiches out. She is still shy about having others looking at her. We had to make other stops before we went to the doctors office. Every stop she tryed to hide her face.

When the doctor came in to look at her, she didn't want to look at him. He said that her stiches are very clean and healing very well. We still need to put ointment on it. He said that we also need to put sunscreen on it every time she goes out side because if we don't her scare will discolor and will not fade for three years. He asked Megan if she will sit still while the nurse takes the stiches out or if we need extra nursers to hold her down. She said she will sit still. The nurse came back in with her scissors and tweezers and told Megan that the tweezers will lightly touch her skin to take the stiches out. She asked Megan to sit still. I held her hand and told her to close her eyes. That is exactly what she did. She didn't cry or move the whole time. The nurse also asked Megan if she wanted to keep her stiches, Megan answered with a yes which surprised me. So we have a stick with her stiches taped to it.


This pictures is when we got home. You really can't tell she got them out. But there isn't any blue lines going across her face. Right when we got in the van Megan asked if she could go to school because she misses her teachers and friends. After talking to Matt and going over the rules (can't play outside, no runing, etc.) we decide she can go to school. When we told her that she could go to school she started dancing around sing I get to go to school over and over. She is one happy girl.

These pictures are of my very happy little girl. When I was giving her, her medicine. The yellow around the eyes is her bruising. She is growling at the camara.

Pictures

Here are the pictures I promised. This first one is when we got home from the hospital.





This one is from Friday afternoon after we washed her hair and cleaned her up. After I took the picture Megan asked if she could see the picture. When she saw the picture she said "Mom that is a big ouwie"

Today her right eye is now bruised and swollen. They said her whole face will be swollen in a couple of days.

OUCH!!!!

I am going to give you a heads up on the pics below. They are not pretty. On Thursday, November 6th, Megan went to a friends house around 4 pm. A little after 4 pm the neighorbors kids came knocking on our door. When I answered the oldest said that Megan was bleeding. I was thinking that she fell and scrapped her knee. When I got to the neighorbors house I found the mom kneeling over Megan and holding a papertowel on her head. Megan was covered in blood. The mom turned to me and said that she has a cut about 2" on her forehead. She was playing in her friends room on his bunk bed and fell off and hit her head. We don't know what she hit there wasn't any sign of bleeding anywhere in the room. The only blood was coming out of the room. I turned to Destiny (who had followed me over) to run to get my cellphone. I called Matt to see where he was, He said he was in American Fork. I told him to meet me at the doctors office because Megan cut her head open.

We got to the doctors office and they put us in their surgery room. Megan's doctor looked at the cut and said she needs to go to the Emerency Room now and she will need a Plastic Surgeon. When the doctor was looking at her thats the first time I saw the cut. It was 8" long and 2" wide you could see her skull. I even asked to make sure I knew what I was looking at. We got to the Emerency Room with me driving 60 in a 40. When we got there the stupid ER nurse said that they will look at the cut and decide then if Megan needs a Plastic guy. I was mad. They took one look at it and said call the Plastic guy, but before we do anything we need to do a CATSCAN to make sure there isn't any fractures. They did the CATSCAN and there wasn't any fractures but, there is a spot on the back of her head that could be a tumor or nothing but, we need to take her to see a Nuriologist to make sure.

The Plastic guy came in. He looked like they found him on a street corner. I will tell you something he was the best doctor I ever knew. He was kind and he told Matt and I everything he was doing and why. Yes, Matt and I where in the room while he stiched up Megan. They put her to sleep to do the stiches. That is what this picture is. While she was asleep she stuck her tongue out. At one time she had her lips in the kissing form and was making kissing noises. I told Matt she was giving him kisses.

Before the doctor could sew her up he had to cut some of her tissue because the cut was beveled and it needed to be flat and it was jagged and needed to be smooth. It was wierd to see him do that.

He had to start from the inside out. He gave her one row of stitches and another until he got to the outer surface. Megan has three rows of stitches. When he was done he told us that he doesn't like to count his stitches like most doctors but, if you count the outer ones there is about 2x to 3x that on the inside. After they cleaned her up Matt looked and said that there is about 60-70 stitches on the outside. We are thinking there might be a total of 200 or more.

This picture is when he finished up. Destiny said she looks dead in this picture. Then we waited for her to wake up and made sure she was ok and then brought her home. Friday she spent all day in bed with us in/out of sleep. Today, Saturday she seems to be back to her old self. What amazes Matt and I is how strong she is being through this whole thing. She didn't really cry and she didn't throw a fit like I thought she would.

There are more pictures. I have them on my camera but, for some reason I can't find the thing that lets me hook it up to my computer. As soon as I find it I will post them. I know you all are busy but, if you could take about 5 mins. of your time and send her a note or card she would love it.

A Young Women

Sorry this is a couple of days late or a day late. We have had a busy two days here. Destiny turned 12 on Thursday Oct. 23rd. The picture above is of a poster the Young Women from our church made for Destiny. They surprised her by putting it up while she was at school.

Destiny's friends from school decorated her desk for her birthday. Some even gave her gifts. This just shows us (Matt & Kristie) that we made a good decision to move our kids to Lincoln Academy the students are so nice to each other and the classes are small so everyone can get to know each other. On Friday Oct. 24th we had Destiny's Birthday Party. She invited 14 girls, 12 came. It started at 7 pm and ended at 11 pm. They had a fun time playing Dance Dance Revelotion on the XBOX. Mom even gave it a try. Eating a lot of junk food. Destiny even made up a game she called Commericals. Destiny collected a lot of different items from around the house then the girls got in groups and came up with a commerical for the items they choice. It was so funny. We recorded it on the camcorder. When they where done we played it so everyone can see how funny they where. After that Destiny opened her gifts, had some popsicles, cake and watch a movie to help calm them down. When the movie was over there was more Dance Dance Revelotion and then jumping on the trapoline. To sum it up it was a long fun night. Mom didn't get to bed until 12 am after cleaning. Dad fell asleep at 9:30 or so with Megan.

Ansielgh Mikesell & Destiny

Look at Megan. She did awesome

Emily Guilott & Morgan de Hoyos

Flag Football & Cheerleading

For the last 6 weeks we had the chance to experience Flag Football with Jayson and Cheerleading with Destiny. Tonight was the last game for both and boy was it cold. Jayson loves football unfortunately he had a very bad coach. Most of the time Jayson just made jokes with is mom but, he made the most out of it and had fun. The only position Jayson ever played was blocker, he knows that position very well now. We hope next year he gets a better coach. This is the sport he wants to continue through Junior High and High School.

Now for Destiny! Her mom hopes she will continue cheering also. Tonight she was the caption of the squad. She did a very good job no matter how cold she was she kept cheering. All the other girls on the squad complained about the cold not Destiny she kept cheering. One thing is for sure she's got the voice for it. It must run in the family.

Life in the FAST LANE!!!!!

Matt was working on a car dealership in Bountiful back in August. Every Thursday they had a safety meeting and a raffle for prizes. This peticular week they had a raffle to drive the owner's personal collection of muscle cars. Matt WON!

He drove this Dodge Viper V10

This is Elenor from Gone in 60 seconds. Matt thinks it was more like 30 seconds!

This set is 1 of 1.

This Toyota Supra was the quickest especially when the turbo kicked in.

This was a COOL engine! There aren't many like this. There was over 700 horsepower.

What am I doing??

Ok! Since Matt and I have a lot of family outside the state of Utah I thought maybe I should set up a blog spot so our extended family can read what is going on in our day to day life. To be honest with you I have no idea what I am doing and how I do this. I sure hope I am doing this right and get the hang of it really quick.

So here is just a little update that has happened in our family. Destiny will be turning 12 on Thursday the 23rd. So today at Church she was reconized for her achievements she has done in church. Matt and I are so proud of her and how much she has grown into an young lady. It surprises us that she is getting so big. We both feel that she is still this little princess. One thing Matt and I have always know about Destiny is that she is very mature for her age and independent. It scares us to think that she is four years from driving, six years from being an adult, six years from college and give or take seven years from being married. I have been told once the oldest is out the rest will follow faster then you thought. That scares me since Sean and Jayson are only 10 months apart I will have two leaving my home together. I was asked today at church from our bishop if I was happy that Destiny will be out of Primary and in Young Women's? I told him no, this means she is growning up and I am not ready for that. She is such a great help to us and we learn so much from her and to know that she is not our little girl is scary. I think is has to do with her being the oldest.

Just a quick note I am not a very good speller so if you see a word missed spelled please forgive me now. Matt always laughes at me when ever I text him because I always miss spell something.

Well I hope I did a great job with our first blog.