July 4th Weekend

Anthony and Mandy came up on Friday to spend the weekend with us! It is always fun to see them and glad they live so close that we see them often. They also told us that they are expecting a baby in February so i will have another neice or nephew! I know the only reason they come to Idaho to visit us is if free food is involved or we are doing something fun and they would just be sitting at home doing nothing but for this weekend they came for all the good food!

Our 4th of July weekend was busy and interesting! We got together with Josh's family and did dutch oven ribs, dutch oven potatoes, homemade root beer, dutch oven cobbler, and homemade ice cream! Yummy! The food was very good and the kids had so much fun with cousins. As we were working on getting everything cleaned up Kaytlin our little mischevious girl who has to know what is going on crawled through the hot charcoal. It looked much worse before this picture that was taken the following day. That afternoon we took her to the hospital and had them looked at, cleaned up and bandaged. I call her my walking mummy now because both of her legs are wrapped in bandages. Her elbow got a slight burn which is looking pretty good but we are keeping it covered with a bandaid so if the blister pops it wont get infected. The same is with her right leg. She has about a quarter size spot on the side of her leg that we are covering with a bandaid to keep from getting infected. He left leg got the brunt of it all. Pictures never do justice but just so you have an idea. She is recovering very quickly and isn't taking any more heavy pain killers but you can tell when they hurt her when she falls on her legs. She is favoring her right leg as much as she can because of the pain i am sure.

We are immensely blessed! This accident could have turned out so much differently but I am so thankful it didn't. The doctor told us yesturday that she shouldn't have any scarring and that they should heal nicely. My sister in law Jennifer told us kaytlin will think it is great when she hits puberty because she probably wont have to worry about shaving her legs in several spots. How lucky for her ;) I know without a shadow of a doubt that our Savior loves each one of us and the things we go through in our life time is only to better us and make us stronger. He is constantly there to help us through the rough spots in life if we will only turn to him.

On Sunday we attended church twice! I know kind of a bit monotonious especially with a girl fighting pain but what can you do when you dont want to miss a baby blessing. Jacob and Tammy, Josh's brother and his wife had a baby boy about a month ago. Her family was here with us this weekend to celebrate Landon's life! He was blessed on Sunday afternoon and we then ate more really good food! Lets just say Anthony and Mandy got their fill! Holding baby Landon is sure making me baby hungry!

I have two beautiful babies of my own even if they are growing up fast!