It's not fractured after all!!!

HALLELUJAH!! I am soooo happy!! Don't know what the ER Dr was looking at, but the Orthopedic Dr I saw today said there was no fracture and that it is just a soft tissue injury!! I can walk on it, for now with the help of 1 crutch instead of two, and I have to wear this funky astronaut boot (aircast) for a week or so!! The other picture is of my foot on Tuesday after I took the tensor bandage off, you can kind of see how bruised my foot is on the right side of my foot. Two hours after this, the whole top of my foot was purple!!

This is one of the 5 bruises I got from the ER nurses on Friday when I went in. They were trying to give me IV in case I needed surgery (my thought, wait till the X-Ray comes back to give me an IV) Two different nurses tried, 2 times each, until the third one came and was successful (sort of) This is the lovely bruise I got after they took the IV out. Nice eh??

I'm sooo happy that I can do my baking and I can go out and finish some stocking stuff for hubby!! kinda hard to send him for his own gifts ;)

Have a Very Merry Christmas everyone, I know I will be!!!

I don't have time for this....

I broke a bone in my foot.....ya, 2 weeks before Christmas...I don't have time for this right now, you wanna know why? Well I'm going to tell you why, you may or may not care to know, but I feel like if I write it all down, maybe it won't seem so bad??

• I have tons of baking to do: crookies, chocolate covered pretzels, candied pecans, chocolate bark, carmel popcorn, cheeseball, sugar cookies
• I still have a few presents to buy: gift for my mom and dad, a few more things for the kids, stocking stuff for my husband and kids
• cleaning, laundry, Christmas cards, laundry, cleaning, everyday things you have to do when you have 4 kids, school
• Noah has one more hockey skills class and then his outdoor hockey starts this week, Emmalee has one more guitar lesson, Alexa and Breanna have a school trip on Tuesday

So, there it is...and I don't know if it has helped at all, writing it down. Maybe once I get a cast it will be easier?? Using crutches is really uncomfortable!!! I'm off to veg on the couch and watch some TV with the kids!! Cause that's all I can do...

It's beginning to look alot like Christmas

Well, around here it is. We have our tree up, bought it and set it up on the 7th, and decorated it that day as well!! I really like how it turned out this year! We decorated the house with a few other things, so it looks festive over here, mostly. Sorry, I don' t know how to flip pictures from this camera...

The kids had their Christmas play last night, it turned out really well. They all were in it, and they all did well with their parts. Emmalee was an angel, she had 18 lines she said. Noah was a priest, and he had 5 or 6 lines, Alexa was passerby and she had 1 line, and her and Breanna had a line towards the end with all the other angels and choir people.

We've had a few busy days with a school trip, outdoor hockey tryouts, and a earache thrown into the mix of it all. Things are winding down for the year shortly. The kids no longer have Wednesday nights, not till Jan 7th. Emmalee has one guitar lesson left, and Noah has one power skating/hockey skills class left, then he starts outdoor hockey, on Thursday the 18th or Friday the 19th. Breanna's soccer is done till January as well! We have one more school trip for the little girls, and a few other things on the agenda, and then it is Christmas. The kids are excited, of course. They used their own money this year to buy each other gifts, and it was a neat experience going shopping with them. They pretty much knew what they wanted to get each other. To see their excitement when they pulled out their own money to pay, it was something that will be stored in my memory bank for ever! They never even complained once!! Precious little hearts.

Houston, we have a baby!!!

And it's A BOY!!!!! Yeah!! He was born today, December 3rd at 10:12 am, and he weights 7lbs 5oz and is 20.5inches. His name is Boedy Gavin, and he is a cutie!!! It went well, my sister did amazing, and what a true blessing it was to be in that room when it was announced that he was a boy, wow, what emotion!! His mom and dad are thrilled!!! His big sisters adore him and so do his cousins!! That is the first boy in 8 yrs on my side of the family. It has been all girls for the past 7 yrs, 6 girls to be exact. And there is something about the letter A and B, we have 4 A's and 3 B's out of 11 grandchildren on my side.

Here is the proud mommy shortly after giving birth, isn't she beautiful!! She looks pretty good for just going through about 5 hrs of labour! Her water broke at 4am, and she was at the hospital about 5, and she was already 6cm, she got the epidural and reached 10cm in less than 3 hrs. About 3 good pushes and he was out!! The cord was wrapped around his neck pretty tightly, but he is doing well.

Here is the proud daddy and big sister!! Too precious for words!!

Yeah for babies!!!

Still No Baby....

I think she's faking it all ;)

Anyday now...

There is going to be a new member to the family, my little sister is expecting her 3rd baby any day now. Her due date in the 29th, but her first two were early. Soooooo we are expecting this one to come early too!! It might not, but we want it too!! I get to be in the room again, to take pictures and videos. It's such an amazing experience, I'm there when my niece or nephew takes their first breath into this world. It's cool. Thanks Cari for having me in their to share in this miracle!! We made guesses, but I don't know what happened to the paper, I guess boy, Nov 25th. Michael guesses boy too, and two of the 4 kids are with us, but the other 2 think girl. We'll see soon!!! I can't wait!!! Another new baby to hold and snuggle!!


Sadly Alexa has had to stop horse riding lessons. The place we've been dealing with, the people who ride there and keep their horses there, were giving Alexa's trainer some grief. So it was either horse riding or church, cause that was the only time that worked. So, we chose church. Of course. It was sooo sad though, because Alexa was doing sooo well, and loving it so much. We hope to phone some places in the new year, or go back to this place in the spring. We'll see, maybe we can find something to occupy her for the next half of the winter season. Noah is almost done his power skating/hockey skills class. He's done well, and we registered him for outdoor hockey. Breanna has been doing well with soccer, she scored 4 goals her first time playing. Very impressive, since she has never played before. She loves it. And Emmalee is really enjoying guitar!! She is moving along well I think and really enjoys taking lessons from someone she knows!


School is going well too, I've started something new. That's what I love about homeschooling! We are trying to do math, science, geography, social on Tuesdays and Thursdays only and phonics, spelling, art and misc. on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. So far it's going well. I just felt soooo overwhelmed with trying to do EVERYTHING in one day. It was just too much. So I hope this works. I like having structure, and a plan. It makes day to day life a little bit easier! I also have been doing somethings to get house work done too, especially laundry. So far that's about all I've got organized. It happens on Wednesday, Wash Wednesdays! That also means clean sheet day!!!! Love clean sheet day!!


I have to share a photo, if you've made it this far in my novel, humor me ;) I'm hoping this will maybe motivate me to do more...mmmm, maybe this is what I should do Sunday afternoon!!
Doesn't it look mouth watering!?! It's homemade (not a bread machine) multi grain bread!! Yumm-o!!