Busted Face for Spring Break!

Warning: These are gross pictures.

The first day of Spring Break started off with some sadness. Mark was riding bikes with Archer and Talon and wrecked on the road. He was on the big hill by the mailboxes. He was pulling a wheelie at a fast speed and as he landed, the bike went out from under him. I was at the house and Talon came running in saying Mark was hurt. Mark was walking up the street, holding his torso very still. I had ordered pizza and threw my credit card to Jack and said, "Pick up the pizza! I'm taking Mark to get checked out!"

I took Mark to the urgent clinic but they sent me to the E.R. to get him checked out. Oh! He was hurting. 😭 

It was Friday night in the E.R. I really dislike the E.R. We had to wait for 1 1/2 hours to get back. He was just sitting by me and bleeding and crying. 😩 When we finally got back, they gave him some morphine and he was able to calm down. His chin looks bad but he was road rashed all over his upper body. They took xrays of his wrist, elbow, shoulder, chest, and hand. They took a CT of his jaw.

Then he fell asleep because it was around 10 p.m. Poor thing.

I'm glad he could finally rest for a minute. While he was sleeping, the E.R. doc had looked at the CT scan and could see a jaw fracture. He thought he might need his jaw wired shut. 😳 A maxillofacial surgeon still needed to look at the CT and he would say for sure.

Then they woke him up and stitched him up. Three stitches on the inside, ten on the outside. 

The E.R. doc said the maxillofacial surgeon said that it was fractured but not all the way through. He would not need his jaw wired shut but couldn't chew for 3 weeks. 😵 Smoothies, yogurt, ice cream, applesauce, etc.

We got him home and got him to bed. He had pain meds over the next 3 days and needed help eating and moving around. His whole torso hurt.

It was also hard for him to close his mouth. I'm guessing it made the stitches pull. Such a bummer way to start Spring Break. 

I'm glad he didn't break anything else, they took so many xrays! I'm glad he had friends around to go get help. I'm grateful for morphine! We follow up with the maxillofacial surgeon in a few weeks. 

Sometimes I Have No Title 😂

Maxine was at a service project and found a lizard I think? Look at all the citrus fruits in the background! 😍 Miss my girl!

Merril and snow biking 💕

Rhino Rally 2022

Wade, Silver, Merril, and Jack rode in the Rhino Rally. Ryan Rosenberg was on a team with Jamis but I don't have a picture of him. 

Mark really wants to ride it. Wade, Merril, and Jack both finished. Silver was a DNF. Wade's time: 3:25:51, Jack's time was 3:39:23, and Merril's time was 3:44:35. Jack said it was super hard to ride for that long. 

We were the spectators! Merril thinks Mark with ride in the kiddo class next year. 

St. George Temple Legos!

I failed to mention that Merril got me this St. George Temple Lego set! I've told him that they are so cute at Deseret Book but they are like $80. I just don't feel like splurging that much on knock-off Legos. The kids and I put it together and it's so cuteeeee!

It came with a little married couple. It also came with instructions to send away for a set of missionaries. So we ordered those as well.

They came a week later and we put Maxine and Sister Maughan on the temple grounds!

I intend to switch out the hair color so it matches the sister with whom Maxine is serving.

Oh, and Maxine found a killer place to get ice cream. It's called Bruster's and she's saying that we have to try it!

Conscientiousness Award for Mark

Awards are given out at Coral Canyon every quarter. This quarter, Mark received the Conscientiousness Award from his teacher.

Mark's teacher said he's always polite and helpful. That makes a Mama heart happy!

 

Pie and Hiking for my Birthday!

I just wanted to hike and eat pie for my birthday!

We hiked to the Snow Canyon Overlook trail. It was a little cold and windy, not gonna lie. I was glad some friends were able to come! As we were talking, Tiffany, said that she'd never been camping. 🤯 I couldn't believe it! 

Later we had pie! Yay! Merril was singing some tunes.

42 feels just like last year. Feeling good! 

More Eye Trauma

Mark's had a rough time with his eyes. He was riding his bicycle and came home and complained of something in his eye. I tried to flush it out with saline solution but it wouldn't come. We had another follow up scheduled for his dart to the eye so we just went to the same doctor. He did the follow up and used a tiny set of tweezers to remove the foreign object from his eye.

The doctor said it was like a piece of a nut shell, something concave. It suctioned to his eye. He held very still while the doctor was using the tweezers. He said that most adults aren't as brave as Mark. He did great!

Valentine's Day!

Daddy's still riding home from Cabo but I got home a lot faster. Delicious Valentine's Day dinner. But let's just be honest, everyone just wants the fondue.

Because it's so dang good!

It hasn't been a tradition for that long but I feel like if I stopped doing it now, people would be sad.

Cabo Adventure

We planned an adventure with Merril, Darryl Zitting, and Darryl's father in law, John Davis and their wives. The guys were going to ride motorcycles down to Cabo and the wives were going to fly down together. Two days before we were to fly, John Davis' wife became sick with a cold. She tested negative for covid but she was afraid she would test positive at some point in the trip and not be able to get home. Shauna decided to stay back. I decided to fly down by myself. Merril picked me up from the airport and away we went.

We came out to El Arco. It's a cool little arch that's only accessible by boat. 

Poor Darryl and John didn't have their wives with them but Merril and I had a great time.

We stayed at this nice place! It was like condos but someone had theirs rented out through airbnb.

Tacos!

The rest of the biker gang.

And then I flew home by myself and the motorcycle gang rode home. It was also the first time that I've boarded a plane from the tarmac and not in a jetway. That made it fun!

There's was plenty of room on the plane and that made it pleasant! 

Home again to regular life!

 

Mikayla's 10th Birthday!

Yay! Double digits for Mikayla! 

Double digits means you can finally get your ears pierced! You can tell she's nervous.

She did great though! Jesslynn came to watch.

This isn't birthday related but isn't this eye makeup amazing! Juliet pulls off the coolest looks sometimes. Not that she wears it to school or ever out of the house, but she's got skills!

 

My Spleen!

Merril wrecked his dirt bike going up a hill. He says he doesn't really know what happened but that his side hurts. Maybe a handle bar kicked him in the gut? He got an ultrasound and the doc said he bruised his spleen. Spleen? Sounds made up. lol. We had to look up what is the function of a spleen? It fights invading germs in the blood (the spleen contains infection-fighting white blood cells) it controls the level of blood cells (white blood cells, red blood cells and platelets) it filters the blood and removes any old or damaged red blood cells.

So there you have it. The doc said it should heal on its own but if he starts peeing or vomiting blood, to come back in. 😲 Stellar advice. Hopefully he can take it easy for a bit. That's not really his style but here's hoping! 🤞 I'm glad he's not more hurt.

Kids Are Funny

Kids are silly. I don't really have anything else to say. Whether at home or out and about, they're cracking me up.

Most of the time. 💞

 

A New Record!

This is not a great record to be setting. A new throwing up record! 18 times from 12:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m! He was running to the toilet every 10 minutes for two hours. I think he ate something funny and his body was like, "NOPE!" 

After being up all night, we slept a little in the morning. By afternoon he was holding down food and water and laughing. 😝😅 I'm not gonna lie, that was rough.

 

Eating MREs

Merril received a bunch of MREs from Steve Christian (fire marshal Steve) and we decided to try them out for fun. They cooked themselves in the bag.

Time to taste!

They were...okay. I could eat them if I was starving but they gave me the tummy rumblies. 

There was some hesitation from the kids about the meals and they thought they were going to be so gross! But the general consensus was that they could do it. Maybe they wouldn't choose to but they could. Good job trying something new kids!

Mikayla in Lego League!

I chopped my hair! I wanted to get enough for a donation and so it's a little short for a ponytail. But Juliet curled it all cute and it's fun! I like to shake it up every now and then!

Mikayla has been attending lego league after school a few days a week. They build Lego robots and now it's time for competition at Dixie State! Hailey Martin and Rebekah Vick were there from Maxine's robotics team as helpers.

I'm kind of glad it's over because now I don't have to drive to pick her up.😂

 

A Little Tidbit From Maxine...er...Sister Campbell

Maxine's really good about sending awesome emails every week. Wade Beatty likened them to conference talk level! I've started her own blog just so I have a place where they are all together and I can print them into a book later. http://sistercampbellmission.blogspot.com

It was hard for her this week because everyone has Covid right now and basically a bunch of people cancelled because they were sick. Boo.

Elder Wyness' face just always cracks me up. Sister Maughan is her trainer. I don't know if I said that before. Probably? But I'm going backwards today and I can't remember what I've talked about before. Maxine is still hanging in there. Part of me wonders if she'll come home early, because of anxiety. But she seems to be doing okay. 

 

Warm Day, a King Cake, and COVID

It was a beautiful day! No wind and highs in the 50s. Mark and Mikayla decided is was warm enough for swim suits. Now I don't agree but I admire their enthusiasm. They got the trampoline wet and played with water balloons. Awesome!

It was also the day for Epiphany! I've stuffed so many babies in the King Cake that everyone finds one. Juliet is the only one I took a picture of. 

I make the king cake a little different this year. I used crescent dough and filled it with sweetened cream cheese and strawberry jam. It was good!

And Merril tested positive for COVID this morning. He developed a fever and chills in the middle of the night. We isolated him to the spare bedroom and I brought him a pitcher of water, so he could stay hydrated. Hopefully, no one else catches it. I've had a sore throat for 2 days but I tested negative this morning. I'm hoping that my vaccine helps a little. The kids will have to stay home for 5 days and then go to school with a mask if they feel fine. Juliet is vaccinated so she can attend school like normal.

Update: Merril had a fever, chills and aches for 36 hours. After that he felt pretty okay. He got tested again on Saturday and tested negative. He feels a tiny bit weak but other than that, no other symptoms. I'm glad he had an easy go of it! Covid is so weird, I'm glad he was one of the lucky ones!

Sty

Mikayla developed a sty in her eye. We soaked it and it's getting better. It made her eye a little puffy but not too bad. It really doesn't look like that much in the picture. lol

My Favs 💕

I love finding random gems on people's phones. I think Julie took this. It's real and it's genuine. I love my kids and I love hanging out with them. 💕