We actually found a little diamond in the rough a little late into the summer season. It is a little lake with lots of sand and water for the kids and grass for the adults. Can't wait to spend more time here next summer. All 3 of my boys loved going, but this picture explains how much Crew loved going and getting all sandy and eating lots of treats.
This was my actual first try at really taking my kids pictures with my camera on manual mode. They aren't fabulous, as I was trying to make sure Crew didn't go in the street and get run over by a car while I was trying to take pictures all at the same time. I hope to keep working at it and increase my knowledge about my camera and photoshop.
Colton and Cannon just finished their season of flag football. Cannon absolutely fell in love with flag football this year. I think this might just be his sport. Colton did great and continued to develop his football skills. This is what I get in the picture department since I procrastinated until the last game to take pictures and let me tell you it was 34 degrees when we stepped out of the car to start the game.
Back in March, Greg was playing church basketball and really screwed up his knee. Everyone told him he needed to go to the doctor and he refused daily. His main arguing point of not visiting a doctor was he didn't want to loose a season of waterskiing and he had already booked a fishing trip to Alaska. His knee slowly got better and he carried on with all his summer plans.
A few weeks ago he went to play in his first flag football game of the season and re-injured his knee. It was pretty easy to persuade him to go to the doctor and have it looked at because we had already met our insurance deductible for the year because of the pregnancy. He went to the Orthopedic Surgeon and he confirmed that Greg had torn his ACL and had also injured his MCL. On September 30, Greg went in for surgery. He was pretty nervous about the whole hospital/surgery experience since he had never gone under anesthesia before. It was quite entertaining for me to watch the nurse shave his leg and get him all ready for surgery. After the surgery was over the doctor met with me and told me that his knee was a lot worse than he expected. He said because the ACL had been injured for so long, Greg had over compensated and he had hammered his MCL. Greg stayed the night in the hospital after the surgery and was flat in bed the first week. Crew was his little partner and would lay next to Greg in bed for hours and demand juice and demand to watch HIS show Barney.
Yesterday Greg was able to put on his new brace which he will have to wear for 3 months. He is still moving slow and in quite a bit of pain at the end of the day. He is going to Physical Therapy 3 times and week and trying to get some strength back in his knee.
We are thankful for good insurance and his job that has been so great to him during this time. We hope the recovery continues to go smoothly, however the doctor gave him strict orders yesterday that he is not to do any physical activity (snow skiing, basketball, football, tennis) for 9 months. His first question to the doctor was if he can water ski next summer. July is exactly 9 months away and he was excited to hear that water skiing will be a go come summer 2010.
This is how Greg spent the first week after the surgery
His 2 roommates..while Mom was waiting on all 3 boys.
How he got around the first 2 weeks after the surgery.
His new knee brace 2 weeks out and will be his constant companion for the next 3 months.
Cannon requested pancakes with whip cream for dinner and ice cream at Artic Circle the night of his birthday. He was so excited when he opened his new Donkey Kong Wii game. He had also asked for a suitcase because his suitcase wheel had broken on our trip to Denver. It was a very low key night because it was a school night and both boys had football practice. However, it was nice to enjoy a quiet evening at home as a family and celebrate Cannon being a part of our family.
