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.

Mann macht and Gott lacht

This is a yiddish expression that means "Man makes plans and Gods laughs".

I read this in a book today and I decided it is the theme of our lives right now. Every day I plan what I am going to do and most often it gets blown out of the water by Asher! Yes, I did get to read today - one and a half pages of a novel that I have been working on since before Asher was born. Pre-Asher (from here on out referred to as PA) I was reading at least one book a week in celebration of being done with school and being able to read for fun again! PA I could get ready in the morning all in one process, without breaking to comfort crying and to feed a hungry baby. The old process took about 45 minutes. I have been practicing and have fine tuned getting us ready to two hours - and this is not "prom" ready this is "I think I got mascara on both of my eyes today and probably have on a matching pair of shoes" ready. PA I could leave the house in under a half an our because I didn't have to make five trips back in for things that I might need for him and things I forgot because I still have "pregnancy brain". PA I have never spent so many nights sleeping (or not sleeping) in a lazy-boy recliner or woke up covered with someone else's poop. I can't really remember what I did with all of my spare time or two arms PA but I am sure it involved a lot more sleep! I would never what my PA life back but it sure was different!

HA HA HA from the heavens!

On a larger scale, we thought that we timed having Asher well. We waited a really long time for everything to be "perfect". Perfection never happened so we thought we would settle for "really good". Now really good has gone down the drain with the economy. It looks like Jonny will be laid off at the end of this month when the company he is working for goes under. It will be a good chance for him to make a go of Notting Hill (his company) full time but is definitely not what we were "planning". Asher and I are excited to be able to see him more! I know that everything happens for a reason even if we do not know that reason at this moment and everything will work out eventually but.....

HA HA HA from the heavens!

Easter 2009