**Update on Michayla**

It is so emotional when your kids get hurt. I have felt so very bad for Sis the past few days, she hasn't been able to eat much. We got her some soup, yogurt, applesauce, ice cream and shakes, she keeps saying how hungry she is, but she's not allowed to solid food for a few more days.

This morning we got up and headed to the Oral Surgeon's office. Once we got in there, they took X-rays of her mouth. From those they decided to pull the baby teeth (which I had already figured them doing), and the Dr. said when they get those out they will decide if she needs braces to hold the permanent teeth in place. So the nurse took her off down the hall, and I wasn't allowed to go with her. I think that might have been the hardest part..

40 gruling minutes later, the nurse finally came to the lobby and said she was out of anesthesia and in recovery. When I went back there she was shivering and crying.. I almost lost it, but the nurse kind of talked both of us out of the crying.. She looked better, her upper lip was pretty swollen, they removed the baby teeth and in doing that the perm teeth were really loose so they decided to put braces on her two front teeth to hold them in place..

I took her to McDonalds where I bought her a vanilla shake, and then headed to the pharmacy to get her pain medicine. About an hour after we got home, the numbness wore off and she started hurting pretty bad.. I rocked her to sleep and she slept for about 2 hours.

So far, she is doing good. A little pain here and there, we did brush her teeth tonight very carefully, after 3 days of not being able to, man did it help.. :)

Thank you to all who thought of her and called about her today, it was really nice of you all. She is eager to go to school tomorrow, don't know how long she will actually stay, I am sure I have a pile of work to get done, so hopefully she will do ok..

Here's her picture, still has a little road rash under her nose, but she's still beautiful as can be!!

Thanks again for your thoughts/prayers..

My poor little girl!!

Well today Sis had an accident. She was riding her scooter down the driveway and was trying to make the corner onto the sidewalk when her scooter fell into the bark and she fell over the front of her scooter. Her teeth must have hit the concrete. I was in the house getting ready to come out and mow the yard when I heard this blood curdling scream and she was running towards me with her mouth dripping of blood. I was totally freaking out. Home alone, Mick was working, I tried mom on her cell, Mick on his and no one was answering me...

I put her in the truck and after a few failed attempts to what I thought was a ER, we ended up at St. Lukes on Eagle Rd. There they determined that her front two permanent teeth are still intact, and the baby teeth beside them will most likely come out. We have an appt with an Oral Specialist on Monday at 9.

We all know how dramatic Michayla is, but this time I was the dramatic one and she was pretty calm. The thing she is the most sad about is that she is going to miss her field trip on Monday.. I'll update after our Dr. visit..

Please keep her in your thoughts.. Thanks..

10 year Anniversary Retreat!!

We've been thinking of someplace to go for our Anniversary. After racking our brains for someplace we haven't been to that will be fun yet romantic, we have decided to go here. We are going for 3 days. We are very excited to have a "get a way" weekend.. Mick is going to experience this for the first time. We get 60 minutes to relax. He hasn't done this before, so it should be a great first.

We have always wanted to go to the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar so we are going to do that on Friday night. For Dinner on Sat night I think we will try this place. I think I have a lot planned for 2 days, but it should be fun for us, the drive will be the longest, there and back, but hopefully we can stop in Idaho Falls on our way home and see our friends that moved their last summer. They had a baby in Feb, so we need to see them.


I am very excited to be going, although the temp says it's only 30 some degrees in Jackson Hole, hopefully in a few weeks the temp will come up.

That's it for now, lots going on, work, school, baseball, 4-H it just never stops!

Crazy busy week..

This week has been quite hectic.. Tuesday Clay had a busy day. He had to weigh in his pig for the fair and had a baseball game too. Mick took off work early to pick up the kids and Shannon at school and headed out to his brother's house to load pigs and get to the fairgrounds in Caldwell to wait in line. Weigh in didn't start until 4:30, and when they got their at 3:30, there was already a long line. Clay's pig "Paul" weighed in at 48 lbs. made weight, as long as they don't weigh oer 65lbs they are fine.

After that they boogied back out to Kuna, and had a game at 6:30p. I am not sure if they won that game or not. It was so cold outside, the wind was blowing like cazy, I ended up leaving at 20 after 8 to get Michayla home and ready for bed. Clay is doing really good this year, I am glad to see as the years pass that he is understanding more about all of the different positions to play and their responsibilities. He has been playing either left or right field, Tuesday night he played shortstop.. Mick is the umpire for our team most games, so he has the unfortunate duty of calling all the shots, good or bad.. It's kind of funny because Mick hates confrontation and he has to be the one saying safe or out and has to deal with the parents who get upset..

Clay has a game on Saturday morning, this weekend is suppose to be rainy which kind of stinks. There is so much to do around my house, inside and out, that I really need the weekends to be nice so that we can get those things done.

I am hoping on Sunday that we can take a drive if the weather isn't bad. I really want to go up to Elk City, I watched a show on Outdoor Idaho about it and it looks really nice.. We'll see..

What I have realized!

What I have realized is that I am who I am! As I am approaching 30 years old, I have always been and probably will continue to always be the exact way I have always been. I don't fluctuate on my beliefs, or my character! I definately won't change myself just because it doesn't suit the way other's might think I should be. I am not perfect, nor is the way I do things the way each and every person should do things, but it works for me. It works the same way for how other's live their lives.

I think that I try to keep my guard up so that I don't allow people to get to me. It's been said that some people can't talk to me because if it's not what I want to hear than I don't want to hear it. I believe in some certain situations that is true, I think we are all like that some time or another.

Here are my thoughts, I am who I am, I have quite a few friends who I believe admire the fact that I am a no B.S. kind of person. I have to say, if some of my characters or ways of being aren't liked, then please do us both a favor and don't bother trying to be part of my life.

I have learned through many trials and tribulations that all I need is the love and support from my husband and kids. And in talking with Mick last night about certain events that have happened this weekend, he loves me and doesn't have a problem talking to me, even if I don't want to hear what he has to say! So in saying that, it doesn't really matter to me what other's who might have a problem with me think. He doesn't judge me, he just accepts me for who I am.

Kind of interesting to know that someone with whom I have been with for 13 years is able to do that but other's whom I have known my whole life can't!!

Guess what??

I found my cord for my camera. Here are a few pictures that I have put together. Not the one's I was talking about from the past, that is still being worked on.. But hope you enjoy a little of what we've been doing..

Approaching 10 years, Part II

Excited and nervous to be getting married, we started making plans. I had enlisted the help of my family and friends to help guide us on a road we were heading down.

Mick was still a Senior in High School. We had decided we would set a date for July. I hadn't been feeling all that well around Dec. Not being a person who really paid attention to "that time of the month." I never thought two seconds about it. It was quite weird when Mick came to me and said that he thought I might be pregnant.. Oh gosh, I thought, I couldn't be. Well after 7 or so tests,:0) it proved him right, and so our lives took yet another jolt!

Very nervous to tell my family, my sister was the first to know, then no doubt it was Cassie. From there it kind of snow balled and everyone found out. Mick had no problem telling his parents, but when it came to mine, I was so nervous. My mom was, I don't know if disapointed is the word, but shocked for sure. I didn't want to tell my dad, for I knew he would be so upset.
Eventually my dad was told and after a while everyone was getting very excited.. I was so, so, so sick being pregnant. Looking back now I can't believe how sick I was with him.

So we had a situation with the wedding. Now that we were going to have a baby, do we move the wedding up, or push it out further?? Here it was January already, and we made a spur of the moment decision and decided to get married on May 2, 1998.
Not having a lot of time, we had to get things rolling. We decided on a little Church in Meridian and the reception at the Locust Grove Grang hall. My sister was my Maid of Honor, and Jackie Thornton was a bridesmaid. Mick had his brother, Jason as his best man, and Josh Tewalt his groomsmen.

We had a great wedding day. It was a nice beautiful Spring day. All of our family and friends came, even people I didn't know I invited.. It was very special. My colors were purple and silver, Matthew (now 16yrs old) pulled little Shannon (now 11 yrs old) down the isle. Our big day came, and just as fast~went! All of that time and effort and it happens so fast. I love looking at my photo album that has all of Mick and I's pictures from our first dance to our wedding day!

A few months before the wedding we rented a duplex in Meridian. (Some of you might be telling yourself, "You've always moved, haven't you?" We stayed there for about 6months then decided we couldn't handle the music from the down stairs neighbor and the dogs behind us that constantly barked, so we found a little house in Nampa and one month before I was due we moved. My sister moved to Nampa as well, it was nice having her close. While I was pregnant she would come over, rub my belly, talk about how she can't wait for the baby to come. We never did find out what we were having, we didn't have that good of insurance and it only allowed for 1 ultra sound and we had to have that early on. We just guessed and assumed that we were having a boy, mainly because that is what we wanted so bad. We had a puppy, and my sister would come over and hold the puppy and pretend that he was the baby. I think at times my sister was more excited than I was to be having this baby, and for those feelings, she and Clay have a great bond with eachother.

I had concluded that having a baby in the summer was pure hell. And before we knew it, I was 9 months pregnant and our little bundle of joy was going to be here. It was the week of the fair, and I was so done being pregnant. I got up at 5 am and started walking then running around our little house. It started things but it took almost 2 more days before we finally met our little Clay.

Wednesday Aug 19th 1998, we finally (after 16 hrs of labor) welcomed our little
7lb. 5oz 21 inch long beautiful baby boy Clayton Samuel Tully into our family!!

When Clay was born it started a whole new chapter in our lives..


**Part III to come.. Get ready for a blast from the past with pictures**

Approaching 10 years, Part I

As my Anniversary with Mick approaches, it makes me want to reflect on the last 10 years together. (Well it's really 13 yrs this December, but 10 married.) A lot of hard times, good times, memorable times and times I don't want to remember have happened in our lives together.

I want to think back to meeting Mick. We have gone to school with one another since Jr. High. I remember in 8th grade I liked a lot of his friends, but never really thought to like him. We rode the bus together and I remember he being offended if I didn't sit with him on the bus..
I remember being at the Fair, I showed sheep and he showed pigs. He use to tease me so much, and I honestly never thought he liked me, I just thought he was being an annoying boy.
I dated a friend of his in Jr. High, and years later we ran into him. Mick told me that he had always told him that he (Mick) would marry me one day.. When we saw this guy, he told Mick that he couldn't believe that we actually married eachother.

Years later, I was a Junior and Mick was a Sophomore at Meridian. We only lived about 2 miles from eachother. A mutual friend of ours, Aaron kept telling me that Mick liked me. I honestly thought Mick was a dork, too skinny and hated his hair. Anyone who knows Mick in H.S. knows he had a mullet.. YES, I said a mullet.. I didn't have an attraction to him for quite a while. Aaron kept asking if I wanted to hang out with them one weekend and for a while I kept putting them off.
Right around the holidays (Thanksgiving & Christmas) we had been hanging out a lot. Going to dinner, movies, drives, shopping. It was fun, I was starting to like him.
I remember at that time I really like Reba McEntire and he gave be her Bio book that she wrote and some shirts for a X-mas gift. (I still have the book)

That started our journey together.

For the most part, Mick and I had a great relationship, of course there was always the "High School Drama" that seemed to always happen. I am mad because you did or didn't do this. I am jealous so don't talk to him/her..
We did break up 4 months into the relationship, and that summer I moved to Emmett to spend the summer with my grandpa. I didn't really talk to Mick a whole lot. He sent a couple letters to me and I sent a few back. That July I saw him at the Canyon County Fair. That night, we realized how much we missed eachother and promised to see eachother again at the Boise fair a month later. Luckily for us both, we never stopped seeing eachother that night..
My Senior year came and went so fast. We had a lot of fun together, camping, going to Idaho City with our friends to the Hot Springs, going to all of the school dances. Before I knew it, I had graduated High School and eager to move out of my parents house.

Mick being 18 as well, we decided that we were going to move in together.
Our first place was a single wide trailer just about 3 miles from his parents. It was exciting for us, we felt grown up and I knew I could see myself married to Mick. Mick still worked on the Dairy and I had just gotten a job at a Vet clinic. After a few months living there, it became infested with mice. While doing the dishes one day I reached in to pull the plug on the sink and touched a mouse who had ran across the counter and fell into the water. I said, we have to move, I won't live like this one more day!! With no where to really go, we both moved back to our parents house.

October 23, 1997 Mick asked me to marry him. He did a great job at suprising me. I was at my parents house, getting ready thinking that I had him figured out and that he would be asking me possibly that night to marry him, I wanted to look pretty and be prepared. I get a phone call and Mick said that my dog at the time Gus was missing and they couldn't find him. So I hurried and got over to his house, by now it's dark and I hear his dad calling for Gus out in the field and his mom was calling around the front of the house. I pull in there and start asking what happened, and Mick says, maybe my dad accidentally locked him in the barn. Running in there Mick fiddles with the lights, walks through this gate, turns around all of our friends pop out from behind some hay bails and Mick gets on one knee and asks me to marry him. I see my dog is in there with everyone, and I am shocked that he pulled that over on me.. I said yes, and was very excited!

Before we knew it, life was about to take a drastic change for both of our families!!

**Stay tune for Part II**

What Disney Princess are you??

It's kind of funny when you do a little survey and it hits your character right on the head with the type of person you are. I don't think that I can argue with my Princess character. Take the test so I can see what you are??


You Are Pocahantas!

Free-spirited and wise. You have a strong passionate spirit that touches and changes all who know you. The wisdom and common sense that you have is really what guides you through life. Even so, you also have a very playful side that loves adventure and excitement.

Which Disney Princess Are You?

You're it..

1. Were you named after anyone? Well I am not sure of my first name but my middle name is after my Grandma Tuning.

2. When was the last time you cried? Not sure..

3.Do you like your handwriting? Sometimes. When I'm in a hurry it gets a little sloppy.

4. What is your favorite lunch meat? Turkey

5. Do you have kids? Yes, Clay almost 10! And Michayla 7 yrs.

6. If you where another person would you be friends with you? Yes

7.Do you use sarcasm a lot? Probably too much.

8.Do you still have your tonsils? No.

9. Would you bungee jump? Yes, I hope to for my B-day this year!

10. What is your favorite cereal? Raisin Nut Bran

11. Do you untie your shoes when you take them off? Don't wear shoes, just boots

12. Do you think you are strong? Sometimes too much

13. What is your favorite ice cream? Vanilla.

14. What is the first thing you notice about people? Teeth

15. Red or Pink? Pink.

16. What is the thing you like least about yourself? We don't have time for all of those details.. :)

17. Who do you miss the most? My grandpa.

18. What color pants and shoes are you wearing? Blue jeans, blue Fat Baby boots.

19.Have you ever re-gifted? Yes.

20. What are you listening to right now? WOW Country radio on the internet.

21.If you were a crayon what color would you be? Blue.

22. Favorite smell? A lot of Scentsy scents, too many to list.

23. Who was the last person you talked to on the phone? Clay this morning

24.Do you like the person who sent this to you? She's my best friend!

25. Favorite sports to watch? PBR.

26. Favorite Food? Mexican.

27. Scary movies or happy endings? Both.

28. Last movie I watched? I can't remember the name, something with Jamie Fox in it about the Saudi people.

29. What color shirt? White.

30. Summer or winter? Summer, camping.

31. Hugs or kisses? Hugs.

32. Favorite dessert? Ice cream.

33. What book are you reading now? Not reading currently.

34. What did you watch on TV last night? The Hills.

35. Favorite sound? Laughter.

37. What's the furthest you've ever been from home? Hawaii

38. Do you have a special talent? Don't think so.

39.Where were you born? Douglas, Wyoming

Now I tag Cassie.

Garage Sale and Taking one for the team.

We had a very busy weekend. Sat started early with my garage sale. I had so much stuff to get rid of, Mick and I got up early Sat morning to get everything out on the driveway. Luckily the weather was pretty decent. I had advertised on Craigslist and Mick put up signs, so I was sure I would get a lot of garage salers.. We sold quite a bit of stuff, but around 11:30am I got a phone call (which when you aren't there to see it, freaks you out) but Mick called to say that Clay had gotten hit in the face by a baseball at his game and that his nose might be broken!!! AHH, I instantly wanted to get over to him but had this darn garage sale in my way. I tried to see if my sister would come over and watch the sale but she had Abigail's T-Ball pictures, so after not really having anyone stop by for about a half hour, I shoved it all back into the garage and headed to the game.

Now anyone who knows Clay knows he isn't a sissy about getting hurt, I think I make a bigger deal of it than he does for sure. I got there and he had blood all over his pants and face. His nose was really swollen and he didn't look good at all. BUT, he didn't want to be babied!! He sat out an inning and then got right back in the game. When he was up to bat, he was hit in the shoulder by the ball.. I am thinking, oh my goodness, what else can happen to him today.. He shook it off and walked to 1st base.. They ended the day winning their game 14 to 11. Good thing Clay really likes Baseball, I think most kids it would have scarred and they might not want to play again, but not my little trooper, he just gets right back out there.. I just love the little guy.
Sunday he woke up and his eye is swollen and getting the bruise going on, his nose is still swollen and he is breathing out of his mouth (which drives me crazy).. Today, Monday his eye is looking a little worse, and his nose is still swollen, but he isn't complaining about anything. I don't know if it's broken, it's too swollen to tell right now, there isn't a bump on it, it's just really wide on his face. I haven't taken him to the Dr. and I am not sure if I will. I called and there really isn' much they can do until the swelling goes down, so we'll see how it's looking the middle of the week.

Sunday was spent shopping for kids clothes with my sister. My kids have out grown all of their clothes, and I was trying to wait until Spring/Summer before I bought them new stuff. We went and found 5-6 outfits for both of them, Michayla was so excited to wear her new clothes today! It's kind of funny, but she really loves Hannah Montana and since getting her hair permed she wants to dress just like her and the wierd thing is, she kind of looks like she could be her younger sister.. Too funny!!
We went to dinner at Cook's with our friends and then home to finish the laundry. It was a good weekend, but went by so fast..

**Still wishing I could find my camera cord to download pictures*** Sorry, a few more boxes to go through hopefully it's around somewhere..

Come out, come out where ever you are!!!

Ok, so I have been looking for my camera cord to attach to the computer. I have the pictures all on the camera, I just need the cord to down load them.. So it's kind of like the saying goes after you are done playing hide and seek, "Come out, come out where ever you are!" I am starting to lose my patience.. So I am sorry my posts are so dull, I will go through a few more boxes to see if I can find it. I thought I put all of the office stuff in just a few boxes, I have already looked through them all.. Hope I find it soon, I have some great photos to share..

Gettin' your Boss good on April Fool's Day...

When I interviewed for this job, my Boss Denise and the other Admin Assist. Nicole had said that they had hired 3 people within the last month and none of them could handle the responsibilities.. So being as today is April Fool's, what better way to get my Boss then to tell her I quit!
Recently we have changed our software and it has been really hard to learn and kind of stressfull at times, so we have all said a time or two that we just want to quit.

When I got here this morning, Denise wasn't here, I told Nicole to pretend like she hadn't heard from me this morning. I moved my Tahoe from where I usually park so that when Denise came in to work she wouldn't see it. She pulled up and I ran into the shop. Nicole asked Denise if she had heard from me. I called from my cell phone and asked to talk to Denise. I told her that I just couldn't handle all of the changes and it was just making me stressed out, and that I had to quit. She asked if this was a April Fool's joke and I sternly told her no. I told her I would be in later to bring back my phone and get my things from my desk. You could here that she was shocked and a little pissed. She just said ok and hung up.. I was laughing so hard.. I knew I had her good!!

I quietly came in through the shop into the office, she was sitting by Nicole's desk and I could see them both through a picture. I heard Denise say, "I guess we'll have to start looking for someone else to replace her." And then Nicole said, (without laughing) "Just last week she was saying that she loved this job, I can't believe it." At that time I walked around the corner and Denise almost died!!

It was so funny, both Nicole and I were dying of laughter, and I thought Denise was going to cry.. We got her so good, she is still commenting about it. She says she is going to get us back, but I just don't see how she can.. I love April Fool's when someone actually believes the joke!!!