Labor Day Late

Trying to catch up - We had a fun picnic with Todd's parents at Castlewood Canyon for Labor Day and then went to the pool for the last time of the season. Had smores that weekend too.

Brandon Repelling

Brandon and his Scout group went repelling today at Castlewood Canyon. They had a great time!! Brandon even went down "Aussie" style which means he went down face down - see bottom middle picture. Glad everyone was safe!! It was a beautiful day.

Trevor Our New Running Machine

Trevor has started Cross Country at ACS. He has really taken to it more that we even imagined. It has been great for him and the month or so that he has been practicing he has greatly improved!! He is very serious about it. He said that yesterday at his meet another kid kept trying to pick him off and so Trevor had a strategy. He saw a pile of horse poo coming up and so Trev jumped over it and the other kid jumped right into it!! lol !

Just this morning he ran in the Stk 5 k and got first place for his age group with a time of 27 min 44 sec. To celebrated he puked right afterwards several times! Everyone was impressed that he did so well (running) and beat many adults including his dad. Our bishop, also a runner, saw him finish and said, "Holly Cow we have a puker!" I cant say much because I was still asleep!

Great job Trevor! We are proud of you! Run Trevor Run! Go Trevor Go!

Christen Gets Her Cast

This was a week or so ago. She was so excited - and also to get the custom blue/pink option. Of course mom was the first to sign. It has started healing and now she will have more freedom - but will still have to be careful. She will get it off Oct 8th hopefully. Thanks for all your concern!!

Sunflowers

I love sunflowers. They make me happy. I just bought a small grouping at Safeway today and then added some from around our neighborhood.

The Rock Climb

This is pre- Christen drama described below. Todd and the boys and scouts went caving a few weekends ago so Christen and I had fun together taking the dogs up Castle Rock and having lunch at Sonic. Then we painted toenails. Great Day!

Poor Christen

Last Thursday- a normal morning, getting lunches made backpacks ready the works. Even Christen looking especially cute as she went outside to wait for the school carpool. Two minutes later - not normal - as Christen comes in screaming bloody murder - "Im not going to school today!" I looked at her pretty little face as I get an icecube for her mouth and start cleaning the scrapes on her face. I calmly told Trevor to go with the carpool and that I would bring Christen in a bit tardy. I was sure that she would be fine in a few minutes after I calmed her down and got her cleaned up.

Then, I glanced down at her arm.

"Oh! I guess you arent going to school today!" Totally broken - wrist. She is still SCREAMING.

She had been scootering - a normal thing - and hit a divot in the sidewalk.

Trevor got picked up and I got dressed quickly. We went to the drs office first. They have now seen all three of my kids for one reason or another in the past 2 weeks. Should have gone staight to the ER. I had called the nurse and she said that they can cast there - what does she know?

Anyhow, they were great at the ER and got to her quickly. It took about 4 hrs before we got home. They gave her some really strong medicine to make her "zombie out" is what I called it. Her eyes were wide open but she couldn't see, hear, remember, or feel anything as they had a specialist do a closed reduction. I left the room for a moment.

We were hoping that she would have a hard cast by now, but that will be next week. She has to be super careful until then. (she is in a soft cast and sling) Poor thing - no PE, or regular recess.

So, today as I was waiting with them for the carpool, Christen had figured out how to hula hoop holding up her sling as Trevor insisted on doing tricks with the very scooter she fell off of.- notice Trevor in the back of the one picture. I didnt have the camera in the ER and didnt have the heart to capture her when she was screaming in pain!! The other pictures in the drs office was Monday when we thought that they would hard cast her arm. She was SO disappointed! It just had not healed enough to mess with it yet.

The day after she stayed home and we enjoyed the Red Robin free kids meal card that the nurse gave us. That and a trip to the dollar store brought a smile on her face. The first day was rough because the perscription medicine was too strong on her stomach so we switched to Motrin.