Horses are for the birds!

Okay, I am sooooo DONE! About a month ago one of our horses, Lady, decided to impale herself on a t-stake in the pasture. After hours, Vet visit number one. Maggie gets burned. Doctor visits, too many to count. Then I go on a girls night to dinner and see Eclipse for the second time. I no sooner than walked in the door and Brenden asks if I heard about the emergency vet visit. A, Nope. After hours, vet visit number two. (Why can no one get hurt when it is cheaper during the day!?) Trent decided to take the kids to the posse grounds and let the kids ride. Grace decided to freak out. ( Still don't know what spooked her.) She reared up and came down on the horse trailer and split her chest open about 12 inches between her front legs. Oh so disgusting. In the process, she got a cut above her eye that took a bunch of stitches. FYI, rarely do they stitch a horse, so yes, if anyone loves disgusting, the wound between her legs is left open. If it were up to me, I would be standing in my front yard with a sign that read: " FREE HORSES!" and "Will work for vet bill relief!"

Great news from the burn unit!

Come to find out, Maggie wasn't infected! I love it when Dr's are wrong. The burn unit debreded her and did a little physical therapy. They put her on a new topical antibiotic and she is doing wonderfully. Her legs have beautiful new pink skin along with her stomach and wrist. She still has three spots that are still healing. Hopefully by our next visit to the burn unit, she will be good as new. She can't wait to play in water, other than a shower. If she can't drink it, she can't be in it, is the rule of thumb. She is so strong and patient. What an amazing girl!

Maggie update

Well, we got too excited too fast. She is re-infected and are heading down to the U of U burn center tomorrow. All I know is that they said to drug her up 15 minutes prior to arrival. So not looking forward to this, but she sure is a trooper:)

Maggie is the BRAVEST girl I know!

Saturday, July 10th Maggie had some soup, that had cooked in the microwave for 10 minutes, accidentally spilled in her lap. She suffered first and second degree burns from her belly button down to her thighs and her left hand and wrist. I rushed her up to the ER where they treated her wounds. They were so impressed with how well she handled everything. I faithfully changed her dressings twice a day and Monday took her in to follow up with our family doctor. He gave us the bad news that her 2nd degree burns were now infected and that they were going to need to do a wet to dry dressing to remove the infection. If you don't know, a wet dressing is placed over the wounds and left to dry. I was to take her back today and have the dry dressing removed which, if all went well, the infection would adhere to the dressing and come off with it. Great news! It worked. The doctor and nurse both told me how badly this was going to hurt her and I was sick about it. Our kids have had a lot of crazy medical things in the past, but this one takes the cake. I cried all morning. I had a good friend come over and she cried with me. I doped Maggie up with Lortab left for the procedure. Through many of our prayers and lots of my tears, little miss Maggie didn't even cry! She sat there wide eyed like such a trooper. Our doctor removed the bandages and all the yellow infection was gone and there was beautiful pink skin once again. Our prayers were answered. We are blessed to have such great people around us. Many wonderful friends and family have come by with treats, coloring books, crayons, crafts and tons of popsicles and many concerned phone calls. All the love and support is so appreciated. Thank you each very much!

We have a long road a head, but it is looking much better and brighter.

Lagoon Funny!

So we went to our annual Harmon's Lagoon Days on the 6th and had a great time. ( Pictures to come soon.) I wanted to post this before I forgot it, which doesn't take long these days. It was one of the last rides of the day, The Terror Ride. OOOHHH! So we are standing in line and Maren has this look of big eyed fright and I ask her if she is going to cry. She says, "No, but I might freak out a little bit." Trent and I could not stop laughing.

My girls are funny!

Here is how the conversation went:

McKenna - Mom, do fish sleep?

Mom - Not if they are laying on the bottom of the tank?

McKenna - It's dead?

Mom - It is, we'll have a funeral over the toilet

Maggie and Maren arguing back and forth - I want to flush it!, I want to dump it in! No, I want to flush it, then I'll dump it in!

Sorry fishy, I think they were sad for about 2 seconds and then it was all about your demise.

Lucky for us (not) we still have 8 more fishies to go. Ugh!

Eclipse Premier!

The movie was soooooo good! My friend Dawn called and wanted to know if I wanted a ticket to see it early. Is that a question? Seriously, YES. We got to see it at 8:20pm and were home by 11:30pm and had my book autographed by "Demitri." I had to reassure Trent that Demitri had nothing on him , now Emmitt on the other hand, hmm sorry. I'm back! (Team Emmitt). I have to make Trent watch the movie after it comes on DVD. Pure torture for him, but he indulges me. I swore to him that the third is the best so far. It was AWESOME. Can't wait to see it again!