yummy

Me: "What are you silly kids doing?!"

Taylie: "We are being breakfast burritos, mom!"

Luke: "yep"

I nearly peed my pants I was laughing so hard! Really?! Breakfast Burritos?!

Who would have thought :)

Thanks Aunt Meg!

We inherited some scooters that were left abandoned at Auntie Meg's park. They were there for SEVERAL months so I do not feel too guilty and if the owners ever came looking for them, I would give them back. :)

We have had so much fun "scootering" as Taylie calls it.

Thanks for the fun toys Megan!

(Jacob has some fun too)

growing up so fast...

Luke: "bye ma" (puckers up for a kiss and smacks his lips together)

(I give him a kiss)

Me: "where are you going?"

Luke: "Work. Bye-bye. See? Hat like dad...go work."

:) Work sometimes changes places with school depending what day it is.

Why are the little ones in such a hurry to grow up?

school days

I have changed my blog back round to commemorate Jacob finishing his 3rd term in college, Me finishing Human Anatomy/Lab without giving into the urge to run out into traffic (my final is next Saturday), and my little Taylie is starting preschool 1 month from today.

Hope y'all dig it.

good riddance...

Dear J.S. Blake,

Let me begin by telling you that I HATE your book. It is pretty much the most boring book I have ever read through-out my college career (and it has been quite a lengthy one at that). It is far too long and has quite a bit of pointless information that I doubt I will ever need to recall for my chosen profession.

On a positive note, it has helped put me to sleep in record time many a nights, so for that I should thank you.

I would say thank you, except that now I am stuck with a book that is not worth the $137 I paid for it and I cannot get rid of it fast enough. Little does UVU know, that I would pay them to take the book off my hands. Seeing as how they are willing to pay me so they can re-acquire it and sell it for more money than they gave me (jerks.), I will let them.

Good riddance and may we never come into contact again!

Malisa

I was so desperate to get rid of this class and book that I put myself through borderline torture to finish the class this weekend. I did it! Just a final and I am 1 class closer to a completed semester :)

2 days

10 1/2 chapters

11 chapter quizzes (ave. score 100%)

3 unit exams(ave. score 91%)

13 unit assignments (ave. score TBD, so far: 100%)

BOOM BABY!

because I am just that cool....

I walked into a wall. That is the whole story. I took 1/2 a step too far to the left and smashed up half of my foot.

The x-rays didn't show any obvious breaks, but if I am still in pain after 2 weeks it is more likley than not that I broke something. The doctor told me to come back to get x-rayed again, I asked her what they would do if it had been broken and she said "well, there is nothing we really can do." I laughed and "well why would I come back then?" She didn't really have a good answer. :)

I just have a whole lot of soft tissue damage in my foot and have to wear the stupid shoe thing, which I am calling "stinky boot", for 10 days (this happened a week ago, so I am down to 5 days now).

It is just another case of how well my ballerina like grecefullness serves me oh-so-well!

Love this woman!

This is my best aunt-friend ever! She came to visit and I got to see her bunches, but it is still never enough. I miss her and can't wait for the next visit :)

Love you Gretty!

a personal note from yours truly

Maybe personal note isn't quite the appropriate term, but oh well get over it. As a matter of fact, that is the best title for this. This is an announcement to anybody who is expecting anything more from me than a return phone call (several days late), a favor (unless you give me substantial notice), an email responded to with more than 1-2 lines and anybody who expects to get hold of me at a moments notice by stopping by the house or is waiting for me to religiously update this blog. My message to you is: let go of that dream!

I failed to make this public information before these circumstances went into effect. Oh well, better late than never. If you would like to complain, feel free to leave me a voice message and I will address your concerns in about 5 weeks time. If you are offended by this, I don't care :) I still love you, but I don't care.

See, this is the deal: I am in school full time now. That is very do-able, except that I was careless enough to pair human anatomy( the hardest course in the state, nonetheless) with not 1, but 2 other classes. Because of this scheduling stupidity that is fully my fault, unless your name is Taylie, Lucas, or Jacob please expect to be neglected until the 3rd week in August. This class now basically constitutes an almost full time job between lecture time, lab time, and study hall (homework for other classes is still TBD). The only "free"time I have is on Saturday and that is spent making sure that my family will have clean clothes to wear for the next week and that they can find them when they need them, other than that, Jacob is picking up almost all other responsibilities (and hasn't complained once, btw!). Any other time that my nose doesn't have to be buried in a book or when I am elbows deep in a cadaver, I spend with the kids doing whatever they want to do. This leaves time for almost nothing else, and I am fine with that. You may not be, but I am and that is all that matters.

If you need me, texting or email is your best bet because my phone is as attached to me as if it is another limb of my body because that is my lifeline to my family now. I get email and texts all day long on my phone. Feel free to attempt to contact me that way. You will get the quickest response time, I promise.

I am sure that not many of you will be offended by this because I have a totally awesome family (immediate and in-laws) and my friends are pretty great too. There are always those few that will be bugged, and I don't care. I don't have time to care. I still love you, but I am sure you will get over it. :)

Until I re-surface again after the weeks to come.

Love,

Malisa

....really, again?!

You know those punch cards that some businesses give out that reward you if you buy 9 of something you get the 10th one free and other such deals??? I think that the E.R. should begin to offer those to us, because at the rate Luke is going I am pretty sure that I would hit the jackpot eventually. Whether it be a free cast or x-ray somewhere down the line or maybe after the 10th suture I get 1/2 off, it would eventually add up to significant savings.

We had to make yet another trip to the emergency room with Lucas. Right before we walked out the door to go to a BBQ and swimming, Luke thought it would be SO funny to drop all of his dead weight when Jacob picked him up. Well, Jacob didn't have a good grip and Luke fell backwards and smashed the back of his head on my cedar chest. *sigh* It started giving me flashbacks: weekend/holiday, no after hours, no medical personnel available by phone, and so on and so on.

I cleaned what blood I could away to realize that it wasn't bleeding that bad for a head wound. No gushing blood or staining clothes this time. I tried my hardest to be brave and not cry while Luke did the same and told myself that I would see how he was after the BBQ. I figured it may clot up because it was bleeding very slow. At my mom's house about an hour later I looked at it and it was still oozing blood, so I went through another inner monologue while I silently panicked about taking him to the hospital vs. letting it go till the end of the BBQ. I compromised and said I would check on it in an hour. An hour later (about 3pm): still bleeding. I freaked out a little more and asked Auntie Meg if she could track down their wonderful doctor friend to ask his advice before I was too tempted to call 911 to haul him away (...not really, but tempting when you see your kid bleeding). She couldn't get hold of him. I told myself another hour.

(This story lasts for several hours of the same thing so I will spare you the details and if you are really curious just re-read the previous paragraph 3 more times and you will be up to speed.)

On the way home, I told Jacob to stop by Instacare so we can get it looked at. I thought it was a good compromise to make with myself, trading the E.R. for Instacare....

Instacare had a 45 minutes wait at best so that was the excuse I needed to run over to the hospital seeing as how I had exhusted all other options.

We went to Orem Community Hospital and there was nobody there! We walked right in, checked in, got right back and we left in about 20 minutes from start to finish. The doctor came in and told me that they usually use staples on head wounds (my eyes literally about popped out of my head, because I didn't think it was THAT bad) but then he confirmed my hunch and said it was not that deep and that the skin didn't "open" but it was more of a divot taken out of his head and it left a big dent. So they busted out the super glue, stuck him back together and called it a day.

Lucas hated it !!! Not that I expected anything less from my screamer of a child, but he was brave. Taylie was diligently bossing the doctor and nurse around telling them "not to hurt her Lukie because he has a bonk on his head and he was sad so they better not hurt him and that his head hurt because he hit it and that his name was Luke and he was little and he was crying when they touched it so they better not touch it....." (her talking went on and on and on and on......) She made sure that they were nice to him and tried to make him feel better and she didn't stop telling them what to do until we left. She even told them that "Lukie wants to leave now, so we are gonna go. thanks so much! bye." She was hilarious.

So all is done and he is almost healed. The glue is still there and will come off eventually but to my relief, the bleeding stopped. :)

Hopefully, this will fill our quota for the year.

Here is a picture of the war wound. It already has the glue on it so that is why it looks funny and you can't see it very well, but you can see about how big it is.

two peas in a pod

These 2 kids are such good buddies. I am not sure if it is this way for all siblings this close together, but Tay and Luke just love doing everything together. They miss each other when the other is gone and Taylie tries to make sure that everyone is nice to her Lukie. Luke is far kinder to Tay than she deserves sometimes. Quite often, when Taylie is in time out due to an infraction against her brother, he will go and sit with her while he hugs her and he usually tries to sneak her out early by telling her that he is "better" and that "iz otay". I just love them, they make being a mom so easy.

These are some of my newest pictures of the gruesome twosome...

(eating ice cream in my room)

(both of them wearing their "say cheese!" face)

(this is how I originally found them in my room. Almost identical postures...eating ice cream)

(Most days, at some point in the afternoon, Taylie will go to her bed to read books and Luke will come and join her and bring a book he wants her to "read" to her. She is always willing to have him come and keep her company.)

(watching morning cartoons together. Luke has recently started asking Taylie to hold him so they can cuddle together.)

Love these 2!