It ended with a real bummer...

We took a quick trip up to Salt Lake last weekend for a family event.
Decided to cram in all the fun we could in the 2 days we were there.
We hit a Jazz game...kids thought that was really fun!
Price was low...seats were high.
can you say nose.bleeeeeeed.

Drove by the new Draper temple one evening. Meant to drive by during the day but circumstances left us forgetting that idea.

Isn't she b e a u tiful!



Took the kids sledding the day we planned to drive home.
This is where the story gets interesting.
You see...we took 2 cars up so we could make an Ikea run.
That meant both Doug and I had to drive.

We played in the snow, we sled, we laughed.
We had a goooooood time.
Except Samantha on this FIRST run.
She forgot what she had gotten herself into.
Just look at the terror on that face!

She got over it soon enough and they all had fun.

See....she's having fun now. Can you see the air they caught in this picture?

Both her and Jacks legs are flying up...I love it.

After riding down the hill with everyone Jack finally said to me

"I don't slide with Daddy, I don't slide with Nathan, I don't slide with Samantha, I don't slide with Mommy. I slide with Jack! Jack slide!"

So we did, we sent him on his way...alone. It was the funniest thing ever. So wish I had still had the camera out. But after I snapped a million shots, having no idea what I had gotten we put the camera back in the car so I could play too.

Any way.....the good part here is this...

Towards the end of our play Samantha and I went down together.

We quickly veered off (unintentionally)

into some little moguls.

We bounced down a few

Caught some air

and SLAMMED down

on the top of a peak.

My beeeehind didn't fair too well.

Officially...it's most likely fractured.

Officially....it definitely HURTS baaaaaaaad.

I couldn't drive, let alone even want to sit in a car for 6 hours.

I told Doug to go home without me.

His motto was "leave no man behind!"

So he talked his parents into driving us home and they have stayed this last week

helping me out. I am useless, for the most part.

I tried to drive last night to see if I could....

ya...not happening.

I can walk around ok, sit on the edge of something if I angle it just right and mostly, just lay on my side.

I don't know when I will be able to drive again.

Some of you may be hearing from me this week!

My kids gotta get to school!

:)

oh and by the way...Samantha was ok, just hurt for a short time.