Mishaps, Injuries, and Merry Christmas

Well, the Merry Christmas is first because once again I don't put the pictures in order. We put our Christmas tree up and this is my two cuties in front of it. They love each other and already love being with each other and hate being with each other sometimes.

Here is our Christmas tree. It may not be the prettiest or the funnest or the best theme, but it is ours and we love it.

These next pictures I get to brag about because they are what we call special ornaments. We do a tradition my family has always done and you choose an ornament for that year of something significant that happened in the family or that you do together as a family (i.e. family vacation) Anyways, I have been a little slow on making a couple of them. I get to brag about them because I did very little on them. My wonderful mom did most of the work, hence they are so dang cute. They would have been very plain and boring had I done them by myself. The bears and heart if you couldn't tell are for Colby and I's first year. Obviously the big event that year was us getting married.

Then we have Jackson and Berklee. The other ones are mine and Colby's graduations, a trip around southeastern utah where we went to the 4 corners and a disneyland trip. We bought ornaments for those ones. I love my mom and am so glad she made these ornaments so much better than I would have. She is so crafty and good at this. Thanks Mom~!

This would be the mishap I was talking about. It actually happened in October. Colby had gotten bitten by something so I was getting some hydrocortisone cream. It wasn't coming out so I squeezed a little bit. As you can see more than a little bit came out. Needless to say, it was not my day. After I got cleaned up from that I was feeding Berklee some carrots when I decided to somehow throw them (okay I didn't throw them but I may as well have) all over myself and the floor. Not really sure how it happened but things happen. Anyways, don't mind my nastiness it was just one of those days.

Last of all, injuries. Colby decided to go play basketball with some old friends over the weekend we were in Cedar City for football. He did not have his basketball shoes so I asked him if he really should go because he tends to have bad ankles. Anyways, I must have jinxed him. He had been gone to basketball for about 20 mins when I got a call to go pick him up. He had sprained his ankle. By the time I got there, the ankle was so swollen and mis-shaped that I could have sworn it was broken. Anyways, these are just a couple pictures of that. This picture shows some bruising which was rather small in this picture. This side of his ankle was all bruised then the top of his foot and toes became bruised and finally the other side fo the ankle bruised. Weird but true.

This picture is to try and show how swollen the ankle got. However, this was about 4 days after the fact and he had been off of it and iced it before this picture. I have to say he has been a good sport about it. It has been almost a month and it is still swollen. Jackson of course has bumped it, jumped on it, and hurt it in many ways and Colby tries to just remind him to be careful of the hurt foot and still goes and wrestles and tackles with Jackson. I hope it gets better soon.