Wound Care, Gold Medals, Interview, Family Fun, Try Outs, Dance, Welding, Runs, Memorial Day, Summer

Another two weeks have passed. Things haven’t slowed down very much. Here’s what we have been up to.  

Sarah and Noah had their last day of school. I always try to take a first day and last day of school pictures and compare them at the end of school to see how they have changed throughout the year.  Here is their pictures. The top row was the first day the bottom row was the last day.  The last day of school I actually had to work and Sarah was not awake by the time I left. I snapped of picture of her still in bed, but she absolutely refused to let me use it so here is the last day of school pictures take two--haha!  She had Noah take the picture of her after she woke up and got ready for the day.

Sarah’s dance team have had a few performances at some care centers these past weeks. Here is one pictures from a short performance at one:

Sarah’s dance studio had dance team tryouts two Saturdays ago.  Here’s my cute dance before tryouts started:

Good luck hugs:

Two weekends ago it was Memorial Day. We stopped by Grandpa T’s grave with some flowers.

Grandma T was out of town over Memorial Day so we took her flowers to add to his grave in addition to ours.

We do miss him.

Since it was Memorial Day Weekend we did do some fun family things on Saturday since Josh was scheduled to work Monday. We went bowling:

Then we went out to lunch at Cafe Rio. I had been saving up my reward points so we had enough points to pay for everyone’s lunch. That was awesome!! 

Monday Josh had to be at work by 6am and work the whole day.  Later that morning we had a time reserved to play some Top Golf for the rest of us including Matthew. Right as we were leaving to go down there, Josh called and said it was really slow at work and that he wasn’t needed for the rest of his shift. He got to drive down and meet us there so we could all play together. That was awesome!

Everyone taking a turn:

It was a fun day!

Tuesday Sarah had a study visit down at the U of U for three hours. Afterward we stopped by and split a yummy Philly cheesesteak sandwich lunch at Moochie’s.

Noah has decided to try out Cross Country this summer. It doesn’t start until next week, but Josh has been running with Noah. They have run a few trail runs and even a 7.5 mile run.  Here’s a few pictures from their running adventures from past the Syracuse Temple to the Indian Trail. I don’t know why Josh is pulling a dorky face, but he said they had fun:

They both also love sushi and try to go when they get a chance:

One of Noah’s Young Men leaders works as a welding teacher tat the local technical college. Every year he lets the boys come to the shop to hear about welding and then lets them make something. This year Noah made a dice cube.  This thing was quite substantial. It is 5 inches cubed and is HEAVY!  It was pretty cool to know that Noah made it, though.

Well Aaron’s Karma has gotten a bit more complicated.  If you want to read about the original story you can see it here https://themancilfamily1.blogspot.com/2025/05/concerts-good-news-excellence.html.  The short version is that Aaron was dorking off and slipped at Costco a few weeks ago. He ended up doing the splits (OUCH) and his front leg slipped under the shopping cart and got gouged on his shin pretty bed as well as giving him a pretty big goose egg.  Unfortunately, the wound has not healed and has been steadily getting worse.  I made him go in to the Instant Care Wednesday afternoon. The doctor looked at it and said he needed to debride/clean the wound and cut the eschar/dead tissue out and culture it. Thankfully he numbed it up before he did all that work. Afterward he started Aaron on an oral AND topical antibiotic and put in a referral for Aaron to go and see the wound clinic for follow up. Aaron was supposed to cleanse and redress the wound at least twice a day. That was not a fun way to spend an afternoon, but what can you do?! Here he is before he got any work done:

Sarah had another performance at a care center later that evening. It was fun to watch:

Noah has been applying for a summer job. He even did an online Food Handler’s Course and got his Food Handler’s Permit. He had his first interview last week.  Unfortunately, it was on a day I had to work so Aaron was able to take him to his interview.  Aaron snapped a picture from his seat in the car of Noah’s outside interview. Aaron waited in the car while Noah interviewed. Unfortunately, Noah just wanted a summer job and the potential employer wanted a year round worker so it didn’t work out. I am just glad he got a chance to fill out an application, put a resume together and a chance to interview in person.  Wahoo! 

Matthew got to go down to Cedar City last Thursday through Saturday for Special Olympics.  He has been so excited! I was not able to go down to watch him since I had to work all day Thursday and Friday, but his house manager Allison sent us pictures of the event.   Matthew got to help carry a flag along with the police at the beginning of the athlete’s parade.  Did I mention that he was SO EXCITED?!

His house manager and a few other staff took 4 of Matthew’s housemates down there from Thursday through Saturday. They stayed in the dorms and those staff members must be super patient--haha!

Matthew participated in the mile run, half mile run and he did shot put. 

He got a gold medal in the mile and half mile races.  Here’s his podium stand moment. Wahoo!!

He was pretty excited to even help the staff pump gas when they needed to make a fuel stop on the way.

Here’s his medals--2 gold and 1 bronze:

After I got home from work Friday evening Aaron and I decided to walk down to the Farmer’s Market by our house.  It was such a beautiful evening.  We got there 30 minutes before they closed down, but it was fun to see all the things they had.

Saturday morning was Josh’s turn to volunteer with his YSA ward/stake at the Syracuse Temple. Josh got asked to be part of the medical team. The medical people were supposed to walk around checking in on all parts of the temple to make sure everyone was doing okay. Josh thought that was awesome because he got to see almost all the rooms of the entire temple. He sent us this picture while he was there:

Unfortunately, Aaron ended up in the Urgent Care again Saturday morning. His wound looked even more terrible than before and was incredibly painful. The wound’s redness and swelling was markedly increased from the previous Wednesday and it was concerning. Aaron also felt pretty crummy. That was terrible timing since it was his birthday as well. That is NOT the way you want to spend your birthday. BOO!  The doctor took a look at the wound and recultured the wound since the original culture didn’t grow anything. There obviously was some kind of infection going on, but the original culture didn’t capture anything. The doctor also ordered a bunch of bloodwork. The poor medical assistant tried to draw his blood, but really struggled. It took her 4 tries to get all the blood they needed. She still wasn’t able to get everything. The nurse came in and did another stick to get the blood. The doctor started Aaron on another oral antibiotic in addition to the one he was already on. By the time we left Urgent Care poor Aaron looked like a pin cushion. They did clean up and redress the wound. Good thing they had some BYU blue coban/tape--it almost made things okay. The crazy thing is that after we had left Urgent Care--we got a call 20 minutes later saying that one of the blood samples had clotted and he needed to come back in to get stuck AGAIN for another blood draw.  Thankfully, they sent this order to the hospital outpatient lab so a regular phlebotomist drew it without any issues. He was SO DONE with blood draws at the end of all that--the poor guy!  Anyway, he has an appointment tomorrow morning with wound care to see what they say about his wound. Wish him luck!! Those Costco carts must have some nasty bugs growing on them--YUCK!!

We were at the Urgent Care all morning into the afternoon. When we left I came home and made one of Aaron’s favorite dinners--chicken Alfredo. 

The next day since we would be having Matthew and Grandma T to celebrate Aaron’s birthday we had homemade beef stew and some cheesecake for his birthday cake. 40+ candles burn pretty bright--haha!

He got some fun stuff as presents. I am thankful for him and was glad to celebrate his birthday.

This past Monday Matthew got to go to Camp K for a week of residential camp. Aaron had to take him to drop him off that morning since I had to work. Matthew was pretty excited. Aaron grabbed this picture before he had to head into work afterward. 

Josh also started another week of Assistant Area Coordinator/ FSY counselor training this week. He left Sunday afternoon and will be back Friday evening. He did send these pictures of what he has been up to:

Sarah hung out with friends over the weekend. She lost a game that they played and this was the punishment. Her friends did some crazy makeup on her and took pictures. Sarah was supposed to post them on social media, but they took pity on her and ultimately didn’t make her post the pictures. She said they were okay to post here, though.

Sarah signed up to do a CNA (Certified Nursing Assistant) course over June. She had her first day yesterday. She got to wear her scrubs for the first time today. She let me grab a picture before she left for school this morning.

Yesterday I had the day off from work. It was only Noah and me at home so we decided to go down and play a round of Top Golf. It was pretty fun.

I got my highest score ever on a game so I grabbed a picture of it. Wahoo. I don’t usually play very well, but I was on fire yesterday and I had to show proof--haha!

Daniel’s P-day got moved this week from Monday to Tuesday so we got to talk to him last night. We invited Katie over to join us as well. It was fun chatting with him. He will be transferred to South Dakota for the next two transfers most likely. That is crazy since his mission is Omaha, NE, but Sioux Falls South Dakota sounds like an interesting place. Here’s Daniel saying goodbye:

Goodbye to Elkhorn, NE:

His last P-day in Elkhorn:

Like I said, Katie joined us for Daniel’s P-day Call. Josh also got to join us as well on the call even though he was down in Orem. Technology is pretty awesome! Daniel is excited for the change and can’t wait to see what the next area will be like.

CNS closed the Clearfield Walk-in Clinic back in December. That means I have not gotten to see my coworkers very much since then. We were able to get together for a lunch today which was really fun. It was great to catch up with everyone over a long lunch. There was Donna, Jana, me, Becky W. Becky R. Maryann, and Talea. We miss working with everyone, but hopefully will get a chance to see everyone at some point during the upcoming immunization clinics and/or the flu vaccination season that will start in September.