November

It was quite the fall season for me since I got to go on another girls trip, this time with the Atkin ladies. We went to Lava Hot Springs and had a blast. We ate good food, spent some time in the hot pools, and hung out talking in our room. I'm so thankful for them!

We went to an event at the school and Eve was so excited to see Regina's picture on the wall:

Eli's grade put on a really cute Veteran's Day program:

School pictures came out and some turned out really cute!

Natalie's swim picture:

Natalie asked a friend to a dance:

Eve and I had some adventures at home:

All bundled up for a walk:

It snowed for the first time:

We drove down to Erda for Thanksgiving with Jon & Jaime and Tom & Lorna. We stayed at Tom & Lorna's house and Eve had fun trying on my sunglasses:

It was a great weekend with delicious food and fun times:

The girls had fun braiding Eve's hair:

We even took some family pictures Thanksgiving night:

The day after Thanksgiving, we were all hanging out at the house and some of us decided it would be good to get the kids out of the house and go to a park. We went and starting playing some pickleball and throwing a football around. Joe, Natalie, Nate and I were playing when Joe and Natalie started messing around fighting for the ball. Joe tried to kick it away from her and stepped on the ball and broke his ankle. He was in a lot of pain and we could tell pretty quickly that it was broken. Thankfully we had lots of family around to help our kids and help get Joe to the car and I stayed with him at the ER in Tooele. It was one of our best ER experiences ever! He was treated really quickly and given pain meds and they brought the x-ray machine to him and had answers right away. He was told he'd most likely need surgery in a week when the swelling went down. His poor crooked leg:

Tom was nice enough to drive Joe back to our house in his car so Joe could keep it elevated and be comfortable and I drove the kids home in the van. Not only that, he stayed long enough to help install our basketball hoop with Joe's brothers who were here. We were so grateful for the help.

It was a rough few days until they got him in for surgery here in Idaho and quite a painful and long recovery afterward. It was definitely not what we were hoping for but what can you do? Thankfully, the surgery was successful and they were able to fix his fractures (3 sides on his ankle) with a lot of hardware in his ankle. We're definitely grateful for modern medicine!