Oil burn

 Two weeks ago I was browning some pork and I burned my arm pretty good with the oil.  I was trying to put the meat into the hot oil and it all stuck together and slammed down into the oil and so the oil splashed up onto my arm.  I immediately put my arm under cold water.  As long as it was under water, it didn't hurt.  Within minutes of taking my arm out of the water, it hurt.  I had to keep doing the water thing for about 3 hours.  The 1st two pictures were taken the day after it happened.  The blister got bigger the next day but for some reason, I didn't get a picture of it.  It was so much fun to freak people out by showing them the blister.  It was filled with fluid and was wiggly like a waterbed.  Everyone said it looked like something different.  I think it looks like a big leaf with a cocoon on it. 

 Two days after I burned it, the blister popped.  Jaxon and I were messing around and he barely scraped my arm and it popped.  The fluid went all over him, the counter and the floor.  We talked to a doctor who told us that once it pops, we had to get all the burned skin off of it so that it wouldn't get infected.  So that's what Dale is doing in this picture.  He cut off all the skin.  It was pretty tender so I kept it wrapped up with neosporin on it.  Once again, no picture.

 This is how it looked two days after the blister popped after Dale was able to get ALL the burned skin off.

This is how it looks today, two weeks after it happened.  I'm glad it's finally almost better!

A little mud never hurt anyone!

Jadon and I waiting for the race to start

Kyson was in the "little mudder" race
which started after ours.

 Yesterday Jadon, Kyson and I got to run in a mud race with some of our friends.  It was such a blast!  It was held at a motorcross track so there were small hills we had to run up and down and then complete lots of different obstacles in an  obstacle coarse.  It was a 5k so we had to go around the coarse 3 times to complete it.

Amy, Kara, Me and Carolynn just before the race.

We're off!  Not much mud yet.

 When I found out that there was going to be monkey bars in the race, I tried to go across some at my friends house a week before the race.  I only made it across a few bars.  I was so disappointed because I thought I was stronger than that.  So, I made a goal for myself to get across the monkey bars during the race.  I did it!!! I was so excited when I got across.  The 2nd time around, my hands were so tired and I dropped into the mud in the middle.  I didn't care, I conquered my goal!

 This is me crossing this rope climbing thing.  It's actually higher off the ground than it looks.  We had to climb up a wall of tires to get on the ropes, then cross the ropes.  It was awesome!

 This was one of my favorite parts.  We started out walking through this little mud stream but eventually crawled/swam through it because that was more fun!

            We had to get a running start to get up the muddy hills or we would slide back down.  Sometimes we had to try several times before we made it up.

 We all stayed together throughout the run and crossed the finish line together.

 The 2nd time around was really fun because we knew the coarse and got muddier.  We got in lots of mud fights and had a great time laughing and getting dirty together!

 Jadon and I after the race

 Jadon went around with Kyson for his race but I was getting cleaned up so I didn't get to go and take pictures.  Kyson said it was super fun!  This is Jadon and Kyson getting cleaned up in the muddy swimming pool.

They also had some super powerful hoses to clean off with but they were also super cold.  It was so funny to watch him and Jadon get washed off.  I definately want to go back next year and do this again.  This time I want to take my whole family!

Happy 4th of July!

We had a great 4th of July this year!  At the last minute, I decided that I wanted to go to the traditional Brighton parade.  We joined Lisa's family and Sandy's family.  The kids had a great time, like always, catching the candy.  After the parade, we spent a few hours visiting at the cabin.  It was so nice to be in the cool mountains with my family.  Later in the afternoon, we went to Lisa's house to go on the super duper slip-n-slide.  The kids had a blast!  I took a lot of fun pictures with Lisa's camera but I haven't been able to get them on my computer yet so I couldn't post them.  By the time we were all done with the slip-n-slide and dinner, we were too tired to go see any fireworks so we just went home.  We did get to see some fireworks on the way home.  We had a great day.  It was so much fun to spend the day together to celebrate the 4th of July!

Jadon at EFY

Jadon and Andrew waiting in line to check in

Yesterday Jadon got home from his week at EFY.  He went with his friend, Andrew to Utah State.  Dale and I took him up there on Monday morning.  It always brings back so many great memories when I go to Logan.  It was hard for me to leave him there.  I went to EFY when I was his age and LOVED it!  I wanted to be a kid again and stay there with him and have all the fun that I knew he was going to have.

I was so happy that he would text me every night and tell me some of the things that he did that day.  It's hard to write a post about something that I didn't get to particpate in.  He said he made a lot of new friends and his favorite thing about EFY were the dances.  We made him pay half of the money that it cost to go there.  He worked hard being an umpire for baseball games to get the money.  He told me it was worth it so that made me happy.  I'm glad that he could have such a wonderful  oppurtunity!


Jadon with his group (they call it a company) at EFY

All-star pre-tournament

Today was the last day of Jaxon's all-star pre-tournament.  It was so much fun!  I have to admit that his team did way better than I thought they would.  They lost their first game but won their next 3 which put them in the first seed.  They played this morning and won the game again.  Then they played for the championship this afternoon.  They played well but ended up losing by 3.  They took 2nd place.  They will now play in the championship next weekend!

It's hard to get good pictures of Jaxon at bat because the fence is always in my way.  His coaches kept making him bunt.  He did well but I wanted him to really have a good hard hit.

 If Jaxon wasn't pitching, he was playing first base.  He did great!  His head is always in the game.  He had an awesome play where he threw the ball from 1st to 3rd and got the runner out!  Jaxon is the closing pitcher.  He usually does great under pressure and most the time, the other team doesn't score any runs while he is the mound.  When he pitches, I am always too nervous to take pictures so I don't have any of him pitching.

Here's his team with their trophies.  Even though they didn't get first place, they were pretty excited!

Jaxon has some pretty great coaches.  They really care about the boys and spend a lot of time teaching them how to play baseball!

Field of Dreams

Last week we had the oppurtunity to go to a Bees game with Jaxon's Orioles team.  We went to the Field of Dreams.  It's a really neat experience.  The team gets to go on a tour of the players headquarters and then they get to go out on the field with the Bees player.  Each kid gets to go out and stand with the Bees player that plays their same position.

The Orioles went out on the field first and waited for the Bees players to join them.  It was pretty cool to see Jaxon out on the pitcher's mound on that huge field.  There was a baseball out there on the mound and I know he was dieing to pick it up and throw the first pitch.  It would be awesome if he got to play on a field like that someday!

When the pitcher came out to stand with Jaxon he talked to him for a minute and then they stood together while the National Anthem was sung.  It was pretty cool.  It was a perfect night for a baseball game.  Jadon came with us and we all had a great time!  Jaxon got on the jumbo tron and the Bees ended up winning by 1 in the 9th inning.