Them's the breaks.....

So, life just seems to want to keep me on my toes and on Monday, Sarah and I took a quick trip down the stairs. I really don't know how it happened since it happened so fast, but one second I was going down the stairs, and the next I was on my back at the bottom. I had Sarah on my hip at the time, so her right leg was behind me, and therefore under me at the time. I was really hoping that there would be nothing wrong and that it was just bruised, but Sarah cried for over an hour and wouldn't move her leg, so I figured something was wrong. I was babysitting two little girls and didn't have enough car seats so I couldn't even go anywhere. But, my sister Rachel came to the rescue (she is very good at that!) and came and watched the girls while I took Sarah to the hospital. They moved her through pretty quickly and we were in and out with a cast on her leg in just over 2 hours. I was able to take a look at the x-rays they did and I didn't see anything obvious, but I am apparently NOT a radiologist, and he saw a very minor "buckle" just below her right knee. He told me that if her leg was a pop can it would be like a little dent. It did not involve any growth plates and I was told it should heal in 2 weeks. So for the next couple of weeks, Sarah gets to try and move around with a cast on from ankle to mid thigh! It is scheduled to be off on her birthday - February 9th. Happy Birthday little one!!





The girls all knew what to do and immediately wanted a marker so they could write their names on her cast. 2 broken bones in just less than a year is more than I expected to say the least!!

Snow Day!!

The weather was quite "balmy" this week at +10 degrees, so we bundled everybody up and had a snow day outside!! I got out a little sled and pulled the girls up and down the driveway and around the backyard, we built a little snowman (the snow didn't stick together very well!), and we had fun on the swings and our playhouse! It was so nice to be outside and enjoying our winter rather than being cooped up inside and hoping for nicer weather. Maybe we can make it through this winter after all!!

It's a keeper!

I don't know whether this is truly blog worthy or not, but I was pretty impressed. On Saturday I took my watch off so I could give my girls a bath and later that evening I went looking for it and it was nowhere to be found. I asked all the kids if they had seen it, but nobody was confessing, so I figured it was in the bottom of a toy box somewhere and I would find it eventually. I wear my watch everyday and I was quite lost without it for the last couple of days. As I was doing my laundry today - - yes, yes, more laundry (10 loads to be exact!!) - - I was switching loads and lo and behold, there in the bottom of the washing machine is my watch! I must have put it in my pocket during bath time. I actually am learning - normally if I leave my watch on the bathroom counter it does end up in the bottom of a toy box!! So I guess my next lesson would be remembering what I actually do with it! Anyway - I was quite surprised to see that my watch was still ticking away and it had the right time too!! Not too shabby for a watch I have had for about 5 years and only cost $10!! It's a keeper!!

Goodbye 2008...... Hello 2009

Well, I guess I can't start a new year without finishing out the last one, so I thought I would add some pictures from Christmas! We had a great time with all our family both here and in Mountain View. Matt's mom and siblings came over to our house on the 21st and we had our Christmas dinner and shared presents with the kids.

Then we went to my mom and dad's on the 24th and spent 5 days with them. It was such a blast having everybody home for Christmas - 26 people for Christmas morning was CRAZY, but so so so much fun!! We were able to see a lot of extended family at a dinner on the 27th and also at church the next day.

We were "fortunate" to have a major snow storm hit while we were in church and we were forced to stay an extra night.

It was hard to leave knowing the festivities of the new year were going on without us. We survived though and went to a friends home and played games to bring in the new year. The one downside to our holidays was that we had to spend some time with Grace in the ER in the Cardston Hospital on Christmas day because her ear drum had burst! We were able to get some antibiotics and painkillers and she was on the mend. Then Rebecca said her ear hurt, so I did what doctors tell you never to do, and started her on Grace's medicine too. Then Anna came down with a fever and a cough, and then lo and behold, so did Sarah. I took them all to see our doctor on Tuesday this week and they ALL have ear infections! My doctor didn't seem to think that Rebecca needed any medication because she didn't have a fever at the time like Anna and Sarah did, but I just neglected to tell her that she was doing better because she had been taking medication! Anyway, two more bottles of Amoxil later, and hopefully next week we can see some improvements!!

All in all, it was a very awesome Christmas and the only thing that would have made it better would have been having it last longer. I wonder what kind of adventures 2009 will bring.......