My Own Cowboy

The Ranch

Grandma and Grandpa moved a short 2 1/2 hours away!!!
What a fun place to visit too!

The lady to our right

OK, I don't want to take traffic away from the funny video I just posted below, but I had to say something about that super skinny pregnant woman over there on the right, counting down my days. First of all, when she says my days left are over 100, that is kind of depressing. Second of all, have you looked at her legs???? Who really looks like that when they are expecting? puulllleeeese! Even your hip bones expand!!!! So, if I didn't think she was otherwise super cute, she would be off of here and back into the void, where she can't make me think this will take forever and my legs will never look like that even a year after childbirth!!!
OK, I'm done. :) Now go enjoy the video.

Shoes left on the floor?????

Make them permanent!! :)
A little superglue is all it takes.



I would never really do this, but I thought it was pretty funny!!!

Audrey Update

October 2nd Audrey had her surgery. Technically what we had done was reimplant both her ureters into her bladder. They made a small incision at the base of her abdomen (think C-Section). It is just a couple days more than two weeks and she is doing just great!! We are so happy with her recovery and with her hospital experience. It was not easy, but much better than we thought. She went home after 24 hours and has really improved so much each day. November 4th we will go in for the Post-op check up to see if there is any swelling around the kidneys. As long as that is all normal, we are free to take her off the anti-biotics (yippeee!!).

We are very grateful for family and friends fasting and praying for us and Audrey. We felt such a strength and love in the hospital. And we know the Lord is with us...a blessing we do not take lightly.

Sarah's Broken Arm

Sarah fell off the monkey bars again and broke her arm...again. We were really very very blessed to find an incredible doctor for her and we know we avoided surgery only through the Lord's help. But here she is at our first doctor. I told her to look sad and this is the best she could do.Then I told her to really look sad and I got this one....much more appropriate.Here is our new doctor's office which is absolutely GREAT! This is one of the techs in the cast room. Our doctor, Dr. Sackett at the Carrell Memorial Clinic is a wonderful, sensible, good man.Here she is on the day we are going to take off the cast!!!There they are with the saw...apparently it doesn't saw through skin, only casts......

Votes for Women

This is the story of our Grandmothers and Great-grandmothers;
they lived only 90 years ago. Remember, it was not until 1920 that women were granted the right to go to the polls and vote.The women were innocent and defenseless, but they were jailed nonetheless for picketing the White House, carrying signs asking for the vote.

(Lucy Burns)

(Dora Lewis)

(Alice Paul)

Photographs from the Records of the National Women's Party.......
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/suffrage/nwp/prisoners.pdf

They fought hard and suffered much. When we stand at the polls it is in gratitude for their efforts. Let us not let one opportunity to place our vote pass us by.