Idaho Falls - Rosy's accident

I'm sure everyone knows by now, but I'll summarize anyways. Last weekend we went with all the Mitchells to Idaho Falls to see the air show, which was at Dave's client, the IF Airport. Right before we were leaving the hotel, Rosy's fingers got shut in the hinge side of our hotel door. In medical speak, they were "avulsed from below the nail to the tip". (Avulsed means pulled or plucked off.) We rushed her to the ER where God in His grace, brought us a hand surgeon who was very good at hand surgery and kind to Rosy as well.

This is Rosy while we waited for him to come - he was in surgery fixing someone else's hand emergency. After Dr. Wilson sewed her fingers back together. Tired but not in pain, thank God.
A long day - she was incredibly brave through it all.

Today we went for her 1 week dressing change. We had no idea that it would be terrible.

Sorry if this is too gross - does the blurriness help? The bandages were stuck and it was pretty painful to get them off. It caused the middle finger to start bleeding. 2 hours later it had saturated her entire bandage. We went back at noon where Dr. Andy did a digital block and cauterized it. It didn't seem to stop the bleeding, so he wrapped it tightly while he went to consult a surgeon. The surgeon told him to do a tourniquet wrap for 15-20 minutes to see if it would stop. While he was on the phone, I prayed with Dave & Rosy that God would stop the bleeding so we could go home and not on to a hand surgeon. When Dr. Andy unwrapped it to do the tourniquet it had stopped bleeding. Thank you, God for giving the answer we wanted and showing Rosy the power of prayer. Here she is with her new slightly darker pink bandage -- after a nap and some Tylenol and Motrin.

Psalm 12:8

I was doing my daily Bible reading and came across this verse:
"The wicked freely strut about when what is vile is honored among men." Wow - I feel like David wrote that today! When such wickedness - homosexuality is what comes to mind - is honored, trivialized, normalized the wicked do truly strut about. I always thought the adults might be exaggerating when they said the world was getting worse and it was a bad time to raise children but I'm actually beginning to feel like that now with my own children.
But I'm grateful to know that our God is the same God whom David loved and it fires up my desire to teach my children to know Him so that they'll be prepared to live for Him in this sinful world.

Emma's Birthday

For Emma's 9th birthday, we took her friends to a dance studio where they were taught some dance and just had a great time.

I don't know if you can see it, but it says Emma down the middle. Another creative cake experience!

Sammy's Birthday

For Sam's 6th birthday we had a Harley party. Our friend, Jay, brought his Harley over and gave the boys (and Emma) a ride down our street. It was pretty fun!

This is about as creative as my cake's get - but Sammy thought it was cool. (I can't get the pictures and words to match so you'll have to figure it out yourself!)

Last Day of School

Here is Emma on her last day of 3rd grade with her teacher, Mrs. Page. I can't believe she's on to 4th grade only 4 weeks from today!





Here is Sammy with his kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Emery. Emma had her also and we really enjoyed having her again. My boy is going to 1st grade! (sniff sniff)