Ka-Boom

To start our week off we had a "little" ow-ee. On Monday I was out watering my plants and I put Isabella on her litte riding 3 wheeler (keep in mind this thing is only inches off the ground). All the sudden I heard a Ka-Boom and I looked over and the bike was tipped over and Isabella's face was flat on the pavement. She immediately started screaming, so I ran over and dusted the gravel off her little arms. I knew that an OREO would probably calm her nerves (it calms mine anyways), so we went in and got a cookie and some milk. When I put her in her highchair, I looked down and she had a GI-NorMous bump and bruise on her head. When she turned to the side she had a 2nd forehead. It just broke my heart, this was her first big Ka-Boom. And as she sat there and ate her cookie and tried not to cry, she kept saying "Ka-Boom, ouch, Ka-Boom." Uhhh.....doesn't it just rip your heart out to see your little ones cry from pain?


These pictures don't show the true purple color of the bruise because I had my flash on, but I think you get the idea!

So, Monday started off exciting and Tuesday got even more exciting. For our Young Men/Young Women activity we went to Wellsville ( I hope you can hear my Cornish roots coming out when I say that). There was the coolest place that we rented out. It was some land that a family owns and they rent it out for family reunions and church activities. But, it's a hill and they have taken tarp and put it down the hill, and they run water from the top, so it's like a HUGE slip and slide. The only way I can describe this thing is like Splash Mountain (minus the log seating). It scared the Ba-Geebies out of me, but the kids had a blast!!
Here's me and Isa going down the small slide, she thought it was pretty cool!

The next picture is all of us standing at the top of the hill waiting our turn to go down the Mother of all Slip and Slides. I thought I was going to throw up just looking down this thing, I haven't had butterflies like that in a long time!
So, someone had a brilliant idea. Why not send down the Young Women's President, the Miamaid Counselor, the Miamaid Advisor (me), and The Bishop's wife together on a train. Hmm....it sounded fun. But then as I was half way down the hill (a little too late) I realized it wasn't such a great idea. Think about it, a hill....straight down.....400 plus pounds in one train, and the speed that that weight creates down that steep hill.....I screamed like a little girl all the way down
I know this picture only looks like 2 people, but that's 4 of us bunched up grabbing a handful of each other's boobs just to keep a hold of something as we screamed down this slide!!! Good time, good times!

Other family news, my Grandpa Winn is getting married!! We are so excited for him! So my mom flew into town this week to help my grandpa clean out his house and get all of his belongings put together so he can get married in the next month. It was a short trip, but it's always fun to see my mom. We got the family together and went to Coppermill before she headed back home, and it was just a really fun night. It wasn't sad to say good-bye this time, because we will see her and my dad again in less than a month for the big wedding!!