I've Been Tagged!!!

Well, this is the first time I've been tagged. Kind of exciting! So I am supposed to say 6 things that are weird about me. That should be easy!!


1. I find it physically, mentally, and emotionally impossible to watch a movie at the movie theatre without movie popcorn. Wes usually wants to go to dinner first and I don't cause I am going to have to get popcorn!

2. I am a dipper!! I love to dip pb&j or chocolate chip cookies in milk. My kids do it too and some of their friends have picked it up (much to the dismay of their mothers!).

3. I feel like I have an emotional/spiritual connection with the ocean and I think if I don't go there soon I might freak out....or worse!!!

4. I'm not a neat freak. Most of my friends are, so that is kinda weird.

5. I have very few close friends. (Maybe cause I'm not a neat freak! jk!) I just feel like there are not many people I can be myself around.

6. I am addicted to caffeine! There, I said it!!! I can't go a day without a Pepsi or a Dr. Pepper!

Whew!! That was harder than I thought! I tag Ericka and Kristi!

Boden's Close Call

Last Thursday was a very long day! We were at a football game watching Makenzie cheer when Gwen came rnning up the bleechers yelling that Boden was hurt. Come to find out, some big kids were playing with some big tractor tires, flipping them over, and boden got in the way. He was crushed between a 250 pound tire and a steel railing. He really didn't look like he was hurt too badly, but he was struggling to breathe and a there happened to be a nurse there who said he needed to go to the ER. Within 2 hours Boden and I were on a Life Flight helicopter to Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake. He had a bruised kidney, bruised and punctured lung, and the most serious was a lacerated liver. When he arrived his liver laceration was classified as a grade 5, which is the most damage your liver can handle and you still survive. We feel so blessed that it was not worse than it was. He is such a trooper and was so good in the Hospital. He spent two nights in the ICU and four more in the Trauma Unit. He had a tube that went up his nose, down the back of his throat and into his stomach. He wasn't able to eat for 2 1/2 days which was a very hard thing because he was hungry. Imagine your 3 year old telling you he is hungry and begging for food and you can't give him anything. It was awful!! Anyway, he is doing so good now. We are home and just trying to keep him from being too crazy. He is not supposed to do anything for the next 12 weeks that could raise the chance of a fall, crash, bump or bang. So, no bikes, scooters, tramps, jumping, running, or leaping off the couch while doing a flip(his favorite!) Here are some pics of his time in the hospital. Above: first day in ICU

Below: second day in ICU

Above: Day 3, moved to Trauma Unit (Wes, finally getting some sleep!)

Below: He finally gets to eat jello and broth!! Even after he didn't want anymore he wouldn't let me move the tray away from him!

Below: On Sunday a Harley Davidson group came and brought toys to all the kids in the Trauma Unit! It was so cool to see these big rough men being so kind and loving.