And yet another injury...

As most of you know, Nik is not the most outgoing, carefree, or reckless person in our family, and yet he keeps injuring himself. He asked, "Why does this keep happening to me?" I said, "Maybe you're just trying to get out of doing dishes longer!"
Last Tuesday evening as he was playing basketball in the back yard, he tried to slam dunk the ball and ended up with the whole basketball hoop coming down on him. He fell back hitting his head on the cement and cutting his right hand pretty badly. We ended up taking him to Utah to the ER where he had a cat scan done on his head (everything turned out good) an xray done to the hand (no broken bones) and plenty of stitches (we don't know exactly how many, though they had to numb his hand 5 times!) Then we went to see an orthopedic surgeon to make sure everything was good. On the good side he had his cast taken off the left arm 2 days early, but still has to wear a brace for protection of that arm. Today was his first day back to school, and as you can see he is doing pretty good! Hopefully we are done for the year with injuries!

Just when we thought spring had sprung....

Easter Sunday woke with beautiful blue skies and glorious sunshine streaming through the windows. Nik and Austin came in early searching for their baskets hidden the night before by the Easter Bunny. (Yes, they know the truth, but love to play along) After searching high and low, and getting a few hints, they found their baskets along with their brothers' baskets. They had so much fun searching they just had to go wake up their older brothers, who were trying to sleep in and got them up to search for their own baskets. After a wonderful sacrament program and much Easter candy, the day ended in all it's glorious spring splendor. According to Elko tradition, we have this saying; "Elko has 2 seasons, Summer and Winter". We definitely followed tradition. Monday came in cloudy and cool, Tuesday was the same until afternoon when the rain and wind started up, then Wednesday hit with four inches of snow. My tulips and daffodils bowed over from the weight of the snow. A day later and the snow is gone but the daffodils are still hanging their heads.