Almost time!!!!

In less than 2 days we will be on the road to Steamboat! The kids are getting excited...uhm, the grown ups too! We had made plans to take the bus this time because we found out there is a place to park it there. Roger went to get it out and drive it last Sunday. We have not driven it in quite sometime due to the high gas prices...and it wouldn't start. So, we don't want to take any chances on it breaking down on us. Chris is flying because he has a class on Saturday and with his classes you cannot miss one....period! If you do you have to start it over. So we were getting a luggage rack added to the Edge and were going to drive it. We took the car in to have them added and asked them to check out the passenger seat and the sun roof. The seat motor recently stopped moving forward or back...it will go up and down and tilt but that is all. And the sun roof has acted like it might not finish closing a couple of times. So they tell us the sun roof is a problem they are aware of and the short version is that we won't have the car back in time for the trip.

Roger makes sure they understand that is unacceptable!!! So, now they are trying to find us a loaner vehicle that we can take on the trip so they can keep the edge. Why can't anything be easy?

Update on Cade

He is home from the hospital now. Apparently he is pretty sore and is keeping pretty regular on taking his pain pills. He has some after pictures on his face book. One of his wounds looks like an arrow once it was stitched up. Thank you all so much for the prayers...he and the other little boy have some work ahead of them to heal and get back to 100%.

Look out world....here comes Cameron!!!

Well, he did it. Cameron is now a permitted student driver. He was a little nervous as we were leaving the DPS office. He was looking around and he turned to me and said "Where did all of these trucks come from? There weren't this many when we came!" Then he said "I think 55 is too fast right now." I bet he gets over that second that one fast!

Now for a story on Kylie...this girl has a way of just cracking us up! When we left the gym on saturday she wanted to go to Target with me and mom. I told her she had to go with Dad and go take a shower because she was getting a bit smelly. She said "You won't get rid of me that easy...you haven't smelled the last of me!!!" Mom and I nearly died laughing. She is a little stinker even when she is all nice and clean and shiny!

Cader Tot!

My nephew Cade was involved in a pretty bad dirt bike accident on Friday. He was on the practice track at a race and a 14 yo kid came around a corner going the wrong way and hit Cade head on. Cade has a broken femur and several deep gashes (to the bone) on his knee. They had to stitch the flesh back together and he had to have so many stitches that the Dr. actually lost count. There is literally layer upon layer of stitches. On Saturday he had surgery to place a nail in the bone. This will be in place for about 1 year and then it will be removed. He actually walked on it today with a walker already. He is pretty sore all over, but he is an incredibily tough kid. He has not cried once since it happened. When my brother approached him after it happened he looked up at him and said "Dad, my leg is broke." I guess this runs in the family...my brother didn't realize he was having an appendix (sp?) attack. He just told mom his side hurt and Cameron gets bad ear infections with no pain or anything. He finds out he has them when we go to the Dr. for something else. He had his first one at age 3! We only went in because he was having trouble hearing! He actually had one a week or so ago and had no clue. We took him in for a bad sore throat and cough and she asked him if his ear hurt. He was like, "No, why?"

The other boy was injured also but I don't know much about him. I heard he had a broken collar bone and some cuts on his face. I had heard originally he was worse off then Cade because he was only wearing shorts and Cade had on all of his safety gear.

They say Cade will be able to go home tomorrow, though I think Chris and Trisha would like him to stay a little longer. We will see... Chris has some pictures of the cuts on his facebook, but if you are weak stomached don't look. They are deep! It is amazing the medical advances that have happened. Years ago, he would have been in traction for weeks or in a complete lower body cast. Please keep Cade and his family in your thoughts and prayers as he heals.

Done with Lesson 2

I finished lesson 2 in my photo editing class today. Lessons 1 and 2 basically teach you 2 different ways to accomplish the same thing. I have attached a cut sheet with the original photo, the edit from Method 1 and the edit from Method 2. Which one do you like best?

Just a tad behind...

Yes, I am just a couple days behind. But give me a break...we can't all be perfect like Liz! So on that note...here is my Weeks 8 & 9 LO. This template was a bit hard to use since I take close up pictures mostly. They were tad hard to fit into these openings. I had to just place them where they worked and not worry about any specific daily order. I did swipe a picture from Liz, but if ya'll don't tell her she will never know. ;)

1st place....

Well they did it...both teams finished the regular basketball season in 1st place in their divisions. Josh's division actually had their first tournament game last weekend and won. Cameron will play his first game this Friday night. And if he wins, then they both play for first on Saturday. They are really eager to play.

I got the basketball page a did for Josh blown up into a 20 x 30 to see how it turns out. I am really please...I was afraid the gym pictures would be to grainy when enlarged.

Do you ever feel like you are busy all day and then at the end of the day you look back and aren't really sure what you got accomplished? I am dealing with that a lot lately! Ugh!