Katelyn just got hurt

About 20 minutes, we heard this horrid scream from outside. I knew instantly it was Katelyn. By the time I got down the stairs to the door, she was there, bloody and scraped up. She was running on the sidewalk, trying to catch up to Mikayla, and her friend Edwin was on his bike. He wasn't watching where he was going and neither was she. He ran right into her, both going full speed (in the same direction). She fell and slid across the concrete. She has a big scrape on the outside of her ankle where his tire hit her, a scrape on the inside of the leg (we think from where his tire hit her second), scrapes on her knuckles and then her face hit. The right of her forehead is scraped, her nose (which might be broken...it's pretty swollen), the top of her lip and under nose. Inside her mouth, the whole top of her lip is scraped (I think that as she hit the concrete, her lip sort of went up towards her nose so the inside scraped on the concrete too). She has a new tooth that has popped through in the last 2 weeks and it was bleeding there too. I'm pretty worried about the tooth so may be making a trip to the dentist Monday or Tuesday. She's probably going to be so swollen tomorrow. She was HYSTERICAL too. At first she said it was on purpose, but she always says that when she gets hurt, but her story and his story are almost identical so I really think it was an accident, although Edwin is pretty crazy and does everything high speed without watching. After she got calmed down, cleaned up and got ice on everything, I snapped a couple pictures. She didn't want me to at first, then wanted me to take one of every single scrape, which I didn't do. This is just a glimpse of it. It's actually pretty bad!!



This one doesn't really show that the scrape is on both sides of her nose.


This scrape is where the bike hit (she had jeans on). It's about 2 inches long in reality


The pic of her mouth doesn't do it justice. The whole inside is purple and bloody. :(

Cousins

Here's a couple pictures of Micah and his cousins from when we were in Michigan this summer. Kelsey wasn't too excited, as you can see.

Also a couple of me and my neice and nephew, just because....

Going to have to keep my eye on him

The other day Jacob got ahold of the remote while I was down the hall. He started pushing buttons and the next thing I knew, I wasn't hearing any sound. I figured he either had managed to turn it off, or get to a channel we didn't have. Sure enough, this is what I found....

Seth's new glasses

Seth has been needing some new glasses for awhile and Tim finally was able to take him in this week and get some. Isn't he looking grown up??
You can't really tell in the pictures, but the frames are more of a copper color instead of black like he had.

Microbiology

I LOVE this class! It's pretty hard, but so much fun! Today in lab we got to 'play' with various strains of streptococcus, staphlococcus and Ecoli! We had these little petri dishes that had all the bacteria growing in them. We had to do all these sterilization techniques, take some of the bacteria from the dish and prepare a slide. Once we fully prepared the slide, we then examined it under the microscope. SO COOL!!!!

Hummingbirds

Last post for today, but I have so many more to post.
For anyone who really knows Tim, he's a bird fanatic. We've had a bird feeder in our yard for awhile and enjoy blue birds and cardinals and all the 'normal' birds. This summer we decided to add a hummingbird feeder as we've seen quite a few hummingbirds around. What a great addition! It's sitting on the back deck and the birds aren't scared at all, so we get quite a lot of bird watching in. Today Tim decided to take some pictures so I thought I'd share them.

Last weekend we went to a community activity called the All American BBQ that our new chiropractor puts on every summer. It's a great outreach to the community and all proceeds to go MUST Ministries, a local charity here in town. The kids had so much fun! They also do xrays for anyone who wants them and a spinal analysis.

The girls with their spray painted hair. (All 4 of the older kids had it done).

Cotton Candy!!! They also had snowcones and popcorn.


Katelyn's kitty face


Seth helping the magician.


Micah on this amazing inflatable waterslide and pool


Tim and Jacob playing with bubbles.

Cutie Pattooties

When we were back in Michigan, we finally got to meet our best friends baby. Olivia was born last December and it's been driving me crazy that I can't see her! Here's a couple pics of her. :) How long until I come back????????????

I'm SURE they were planning their wedding!!!

Blueberry Picking

Today is Tim's birthday and I've been wanting to go blueberry picking and decided today was a good day. It was cooler outside (85* instead of 95) and so we packed up and went. The place we went was only $5 a gallon so we ended up with 2 gallons, and are hoping to go back this next week and get more. The berries were amazing and the bushes were so full! Micah couldn't stop eating them and only ended up with a handful of berries in his bucket. I asked him if we should go and get lunch and he said "No, I want cranberries for lunch" (he couldn't remember 'blueberries'). haha Here's a few pictures of our adventure. :)

The drought is coming to an end

This summer has been much wetter than last summer was, and while the drought is still pretty bad, it's definitely improving and looking like it won't last forever. They haven't lifted water restrictions yet, but they are definitely talking about the improvements. It's also nice to see the grass green! On Tuesday we had a pretty big storm roll through and it brought a TON of rain very fast. I actually got stuck at school because it was too bad outside to go out, and Tim got stuck at the field house (the covering by where the Rugby team practices) and his Rugby practice cancelled. After it was over, I went to pick him up at the field and we decided to brave the last little bit of rain, risk getting wet and go see the waterfall. It was worth every rain drop that hit us! The rushing water was amazing!!! The waterfall has been a small trickle for the past several months and the river actually had a stagnant water smell. Not on this day! The one area usually is about a 6' revene type thing, and that day it was full to the top and almost overflowing. Here are a few pictures. On the way to take them, one of the campus police actually stopped us and asked where we were going. He told us to go quickly and to hurry back and to make sure we stayed far away from the water. I'm also including a picture that was taken in October so you can see the difference!!!

This is the area that is usually a 5-6" ditch type thing. It was full and if you look to the far right, you can see how it was almost to the level of the road!!

Here are the kids and Tim last summer, playing on the rocks.


And here is that same area this week!!!



And here is my dad and the kids last October.




Here is that same area and waterfall this week. Notice the chair! The water was actually right up to the level of where that chair was and was starting to come over the wall!