So it only takes me 4 weeks!

So much for being back in the groove! I will try to be better, but I guess Ron and I live boring lives! Well our Halloween came and went without a dress up for either of us. We spent the day at work then went to dinner and rode around Springville and Spanish fork, I cannot believe how some people decorate for this holiday I don't even do that much for Christmas! We got home around 8 in time for the kids to come by, Jennie was Boo off of monster inc, she was so cute!

This weekend was good, Ron worked all day Saturday on the back yard with the rock wall, it is finally starting to come together, only after 3 years! Yay for Ron!!! I'll take some pics so you all can see.

Sunday I was released from the Primary presidency(bitter sweet) And then for the few seconds that I did not have a calling felt wonderful right up until they called me to the 1st counselor in the young woman's! It will be a lot of fun but also a lot of work!

That sums up our week! Now we are back to work and counting down the days until we leave for vacation!

Back in the groove!!!!

Thanks Mandi for tagging me, It was a great excuse to get back into the blogging world!

1. Where did you meet your husband? A blind date, his sister in law that I worked with at the hospital thought we would make great friends, maybe more than friends wink
2. How long did you date before you got married? almost 2 years
3. How long have you been married? will be 3 years in November
4. What does he do that surprises you? He has a way of getting rid of things he always needs later and never getting rid of stuff that he will never use!
5. What is your favorite feature if his. His strong arms
6. What is your favorite quality? He is very loving and attentive I never go with out
7. Does he have a nick name for you? Princess or woman, long story on both of them
8. What is his favorite food? Is Diet Mnt Dew a food?
9. What is his favorite sport. My guy is not a sports guy!
10. When and where did you first kiss. It was May 23rd almost 3 months after we meant because we were just going to be friends, and it was in front of the shop which is in our back yard now.
11. What is your favorite thing to do as a couple? Ride in the car and talk or go camping in the duck with the family
12. Do you have children? we have none together, he has 2 girls Debbie 20 and Marie 17
13. Does he have any hidden talents. He is very talented wood worker, every Christmas he makes me something they have all been very beautiful.
14. How old is he?39
15. Who said I love your first. He did! I was not ready for it so he would say I love you and I would say I like you! He was very patient in waiting for me.
16. What is his favorite music? He likes all things made in the 80's
17. What do you admire most about him? How much he loves my Family.
18. What is his favorite color? Brown, i think
19. Will he read this? Eventually, probably a night I am at work.

Home again Home again jiggidy jig!!!!

Taylor is home and she says it feels so good! Drew stated that she loved being at Grandmas and never got home sick but she was glad that she was going home today! Nolan loved Grandmas but was happy when his Dad picked him up at daycare!

Taylor's new rules are a lot different than she is use to. No school for 3 weeks and then only 2 hours a day for 2 weeks. No horses, bikes, scooters, skate boards, softball, trap, swings, running, jogging etc etc until after Halloween (YIKES!! how will they ever keep her down) She is having a hard time realizing that the inside of her body is still very much hurt because the outside is all but perfect. This pic on today's posting is the second degree burn on her back, practically her only visible battle wound! She wanted it added to the blog so sorry to all those who thinks it is gross!

So for all those who want to entertain Taylor stop by for a board game because that is about all she can do, but within the next 8 weeks I bet none of us will be able to beat her, he he he!

Survey Says.......

Yay Tay got her good news this morning. The Doctor came in and told her she can start getting out of bed to use the restroom, and eating some real food, she called room service and ordered french toast and scrambled eggs. They are going to let her come home tomorrow! YAY!!!! The bad news is that she misses school for 3 weeks (and to a ten year old that loves school and her friends that will be the hardest part) and no active playing on anything until after Halloween! So this means that our family trip in the club wagon to Disneyland has been postponed! It is all worth it because we still have our angel with us!

Our Super Trooper Tay!

Well another good day for beaner! We just got back from spending the afternoon with her and with each visit she gets just a little stronger! When we got there around 2:30 pm and her last pain medication had been at 4 am, which you could see that she was hurting and tired so her nurse Rob talked her into at least a Tylenol. She has refused the hard stuff because she doesn't like the way it makes her feel and makes her sleepy. She is still on a little oxygen in her nose but she hates it because it makes her nose tickle. Still has the IVs in but is tolerating clear liquids. They are hoping that tomorrow she will be able to get out of bed at least to go to the bathroom. Dylan had brought her a stuffed horse and she named it after her nurse Rob and then the Miller girls brought her a cow and she named it after her first nurse Beau. She is so funny because she is so tired but wants to visit with everyone and when anyone leaves she tries to give them a hug, even with IVs in each arm. Same Tay through and through!!! Here is a few pics of the afternoon, uncle Tim brought her a ginormous cookie but she is still unable to eat solid foods so we brought it home to put in the freezer and she can have it when she gets home!

Talking to her beloved fans on the phone! The orange tape on her chest is some foam band aids where she got a few scrapes. She also has a baton to the side of her that she twirls in bed, by this afternoon she said she was bored of that, but she is getting pretty good at it!

Baby Steps to coming home!

Mark another milestone of the calender. Tay was moved from ICU to the trauma floor today. Ron and I did not go and see her today being she needs the time to sleep. They offered her a Slush (because they have their own Slush machine how cool is that!), sprite and Utah's favorite jello. She is working hard on deep breathing to get her little bruised lungs to function again. They are keeping her laying in the bed so that her laceration on her liver can heal. We now just sit back with our arms folded and wait for Taylor's body to heal. They have told Ryan and Mandi that it could be a little as 2-3 days before are little beaner is on her way home.

We are BLESSED!!!!!

We are so Blessed, our little Taylor is one of the strongest little 10 year olds that I know! Ron and I spent the day at the hospital, both of us not being able to concentrate at work. We felt like we were needed at the hospital close to Taylor. This little sweet angel is ventilator free, nasal gastric tube free, awake and talking! The Doctors at Primaries is in awww at this little girl they have no explanation of why she is doing so well. We arrived at the hospital around noon. We were able to go right in to see her, her nurse for the day Beau, had just turned off the medication that was keeping her deep sedated and was turning on a Morphine drip. We sat with her until she woke up which was only around ten minutes. I was holding her hand and her eyes opened wide and she looked and me and smiled. She knew where she was and why she was there and was in no pain. The first thing she did was kicked off the blankets on her feet. Ever since she was a new born baby she has hated blankets and always kicked them off so I was not surprised by this at all. She went through all of today mostly awake, communicating on her dry erase board because she was unable to talk with the ventilator still intact. She started to breathe on her own around 1 pm and around 6:30 pm the ventilator was completely removed. The air pockets around her esophagus that they had seen this morning have disappeared. When they did a scan around 5 pm there was no sign of a tear there. Her labs have stayed normal all day so no active bleeding at this time. I told Ron that I could have not done what she is doing. If I woke up on a vent I would asked to be sedated. Not Tay she decided to watch a movie and be with her family! So the pic of her is before she woke up and I was so excited when they took the tube out that I forgot to take a pic but I'll get one tomorrow. We are hoping that tomorrow morning she will be moved out of ICU and onto the floor and then be home in a couple of days! YAY!!!! Thanks for all your prayers I think we have witnessed a miracle.

Pray For Taylor!

Well family and friends we had some bad luck last night. Our sweet Taylor was in an accident on a 4-wheeler. She was flown by life flight to Primary Children's Hospital last night around 7:00 pm. At this time she is stable. She is on a ventilator that is breathing for her, both lungs were severely bruised. She has a couple cracked ribs, a laceration on her liver, x-rays this morning has shown air pockets around her esophagus and around both lungs. They may end up putting a chest tube in to alleviated the air in her lungs. They have un-sedated her to check the neuro part and her head appears to not have a scratch on it, thank goodness for helmet's. When she was awake she was able to move her legs and arms. And being our beaner when they rolled her on her side she tried to do it herself. She is scared and doesn't remember what happened but just needs time and prayers. I will try to keep this updated the best that I can. Thanks to all those who have called and is praying for Taylor.

We are still alive!

Wow how fast summer has gone. I just remembered today to put out my July decorations and when I got thinking about it July is all but over. When growing up summer was always over when the Stampede was over because it was filled with school shopping, the 24th, and the fair and then back to school night. Now with being done with school I think the time goes even faster! Well enough about that. Things in our lives have not changed all that much. Just being busy at work and trying not to melt. I will try to take some pics of our flowers and put them on they are growing like weeds (we even finally have a front lawn that is green), it just is proof that last years hard work has paid off!

See you later MELANOMA!!!!

Well here is the remains of where Mr. Bad Ugly Melanoma laid! I was surprised at how much the Dr ended up cutting out, but better safe than sorry. When I took the dressing off 24 hours after it was done, I noticed that he hadn't put any sutures in the one end so I put the steri strips there just in case. Ron said well if I knew he was going to do a neck lift I would have wanted it in the front to take the gobbler away and not the back of my neck. The Dr did end up taking another mole off his back and we go back in 10 days to have it all looked at. Then he will go back in 3 months and if all clears then 6 months, then every year for the rest of his life! Thanks for all your prayers and concerns! We have the best family there is!

Mom's 50!

So this was on Sunday Mom turned the big 50! We all gathered at the Mona park (even Mike made it) and had a BBQ, well the kernel cooked the meat aka KFC. Then some batting practice went down! We had so much fun. The pics in the slide show are from this day. I love family so much and the little ones are growing so fast. My little chubbly wubbbly Miller is sitting up and wanting to crawl!

Good and Bad News!

Yesterday we finally found out what has been growing on Ron's neck. After many phone tags with the Doctors office the results say it is (here is the bad news) Melanoma the really bad scary cancer, but (this is the good news) it is at a stage 0. Melanoma comes in different stages from 0-4. Stage 0-1 is 99.9% cured with wide excisions (which means cutting out a chunk of the bad tissue) and closing it with stitches and then testing the tissue to make sure all the surrounding skin is cancer free. Ron will be having this done on Wednesday. He also will be getting checked all over to make sure nothing else looks silly. When the Doctor called me he said that in the 13 years working in this office he has only see one other spot like Ron's being melanoma he thought for sure it was basal cell cancer because it was not black. It just went to prove to us that we can never be to cautious. I think of how fast the spot changed in just two weeks. What if we had not done anything about it? What could have it done in another 2 weeks, scary! Get checked family and friends, better safe than sorry! Thanks for all your prayers and words of concern for us, we don't know what we would do with out all of you!

I was told this weekend that the purpose of having a blog was to keep it updated. So, so sorry I was unaware of this, he he he!

This last weekend Ron and I braved it with Ryan's family and Mom and Harlo and went camping for the long weekend. For the most part we had pretty good weather. This pic ended up being one of my favorites. It is Ron and Nolan around the fire (that is where most of there time was spent.) Ron was not very far that Nolan was finding him asking "what doin Ron? why?" It is so nice to spend time with family. Sometimes you learn new talents one happened to be sewer hands (you know who you are and I hope you are smiling!)

Today Ron and I went through something that I think puts life into perspective. I will start at the first with this story, about a month ago when we were able to see some actual sun Ron was out working in the yard and was sunburned. When he came in that day I had noticed how sunburned he had got his neck. Now from the last 5 years that I have been with Ron he has always had a light colored birthmark looking mark on the back of his neck, but now this same mark after being in the sun appeared to have small blisters around the one side. I just had thought to myself that he had gotten a little to much sun with not enough sunscreen. Well the last couple weeks I have watched this spot grow and get more bumps and more colors. Last night when he got out of the shower I noticed it again and the little nurse that hides a way in the pit of my stomach told me that something was wrong! Ron got a mirror out and looked at it for the first time, and said Holy Crap I had know idea that was even there! Well so with lots of scenarios going on in my head I knew I needed to get him in to be seen. When I went to work this morning I asked around to see who we should see and made some calls and it just so happened that they had a cancellation and he could be seen today rather than the middle of June. So as we sat in the Doctors office I said to him, man I wish I would have taken a pic of it so I could put it on our blog, he didn't find it all that funny! So the Doctor walked in and asked why we were there we told him the history of the mark, he had Ron leave forward so he could see and no kidding these were his exact words "HOLY MOLY!!!, HMMMMM, I think I am going to go and get someone else to look at this." So after a exit and a wait another Doctor comes and in says "WOW, this does not look good!" Mean while Ron and I are relaxed and cool as a cucumber, NOT! They both came to the agreence that it needs to come off and be sent to pathology. So Doctor # 1 says I am going to shave a piece or so and we can see what we are dealing with. So a few needle shots, scalpel, cyro gun and cauttery later Ron's mystery alien is half gone. I asked Doc # 1 what he felt it was. He said well could be a little Basal Cell growth (Mild but easy treated cancer) or could be the big bad guy Melanoma (Bad Cancer) but said he was leaning more to the mild type. We will know by Monday what we are dealing with either way he will go back and have the rest taken out. I will keep you all updated.

It is sad that it takes events in our own and loved ones lives to put our own perspectives back in place. I take so much for granted and need humbling experiences daily. I just want to tell all my loved ones that are reading this is to wear your sunscreen! If any weird moles, discolored skin or anything that is not normal please get it looked at. I think we got lucky on this one because it was so superficial on the skin and not bedding in deep but if we had ignored it who's to say what it could have grown into be. I love you all! Machelle

Our First Blog

Well here it goes, It seems that everyone we know, well almost everyone, is doing a blog page so we decided not to be the only ones looking in from the outside. I guess we will just start off with today's events since those of you that are reading this probably already know the history, if not that can be another posting when we get that hang of this.

Well this morning I (Machelle) went golfing with a group from work to Spanish Oaks Golf course in Spanish Fork. My team actually won with shooting 5 under par, surprising all of us with this being the first time out of the year. My back is telling me so! And I think I only lost 5 balls, broke a nail, got a headache and hit OB twice but not bad for 18 holes.

Ron had the pleasure of helping with an eagle project with one of the scouts in the ward this morning. He went to a local park and placed bark around the trees. Fun for all that was present!

This afternoon we had a surprise visit with Marie, Trevor, Frank and Jenny (our granddaughter). Trevor and Frank had a fierce round of Mario Kart on the Wii while Jenny emptied and loaded the toy drawer. It was fun to have them in our home.

Well I think I'll call this a night and close it here. It is time to get ready for tomorrow, a day to celebrate Mom's!