Leg X-rays

Sorry it took so long to get these up but these are xrays of my bionic leg.

Summer at a glance

Played with my baby......

Spent a lot of time with my sisters and my mom ....

Went to the State Fair......

Rode the sand dunes with good friends....

More dune riding.....

Camped at the dunes.....

Rode in the Razor with Asher.....

Camped in the mountains.....

Rode Farmington Canyon.....

Got some sun at Cherry Hill......

Every other day......

Grew bigger, got sweeter, and cuter.....

Let the healing begin!

On 6/11/2009 I underwent surgery to fix my broken leg. Four hour surgery with seven incisions (2 big, 5 scope holes), seven screws, one plate and a complicated ACL evulsion fracture wire suture repair. I spent 2 nights and 3 days in the hospital. I just got the bill for the hospital only and it was $21,000! Thank goodness we are still on COBRA from having Asher and we have now met our max out of pocket for the year (finally something went our way). I will be completely none weight bearing for 12 weeks which makes for a long summer! I have already started physical therapy and can move much better and feel much better than before the surgery, however. I still suck on crutches, by the way, which makes for some good laughs! :)

Another addition to the farm

I finally got a goat! (Before all of the bad luck hit.) His a Billy Goat/Fainter mix and is five months old. His name is Henry. Jonny let us get Henry to help keep the weeds down on our lot until we get grass and on all the empty lots around us after we do.

It can only get better from here.....

So along with me breaking my leg over Memorial Day weekend, our beloved Saint Bernard, Bruce, died. He died in his sleep from an unknown cause. We really miss him.

More Pictures of The Ash-Man

Already protesting Mommy's kisses because little boys don't like kisses!

Check out that smile for Daddy!

In Daddy's hat.

Happy Family!

Finally a smile for Mommy!

Oops!

We had a fun - yet short Memorial Day camping trip this year. It was not planned to be short but it ended up that way because I broke my leg. How, you might ask, did I break my leg? The answer is simple: riding (and wrecking) a dirt bike. Why would I be on a dirt bike? Because I really want to learn to ride one well. This was not my first time on dirt bike, by the way. Where was Asher while all of this action was going on? In the trailer taking a nap while my brother-in-law, Gator, was babysitting him. This was the first time I had left the trailer the entire weekend, by the way, and I was only out for about 20 minutes before breaking my leg. After a long trip in the Nephi emergency room we found out that my leg was broken (which I did not see coming - I thought I just sprained my knee or tore some cartilage) and I will need surgery to fix it we decided to come home early. This seemed like the best course of action because I can not walk and therefore can not be left alone with Asher and I am in a considerable amount of pain. So now we wait for the specialist to get off their holiday weekend and decide what to do with me. In the mean time, Jonny is being an excellent husband/nurse/full-time caregiver to Asher. For all you medical friends out there, I have a tibial spine fracture and a comminuted proximal posterior tibial head fracture with a depressed lateral tibial plateau. This just means the big bone in my lower leg is broken into a bunch of pieces right at the top if it by my knee.

HA HA HA from the heavens.