Saturday morning all the cousins woke up excited to get playing. They asked Uncle Bret to take them on a train ride and 6 of them loaded into the little train behind the 4-wheeler, with Leo and Elijah getting in the caboose. Bret still doesn't know exactly what happened, he said he was going slow! Somehow while turning, the train tipped over with all 3 trains and all 6 kids going over! Leo and Elijah, being in the caboose were hurt the worst! Oh, sad day! Bret was just sick, he felt so bad! Elijah face was just scraped up and we had to rinse rocks out of his mouth, but Leo had a little split on his cheek that was gaped open enough to need a few stitches.
First they put on a clear like bandaid that covered his cheek which had lidocaine in it to deaden the the pain. We waited so long that Leo fell asleep on his mommy.
Finally it was time for Leo to get his stitches. He was not happy about being bundled up like a burrito and held down by 2 nurses and Kari.
Elijah faired much better!
The Dr. put in 3 stitches that will dissolve, so thank goodness he doesn't have to go back and take them out! Poor little guy!!
As sad as they look, they were both playing and laughing later!
During conference breaks, we had a little work project going.
I've been wanting the wood pile stacked for years!! With Bret's help and all the grandkids working, we stacked about 6 cords of wood!
While we were stacking, the kids were taking all the littler wood pieces, putting them in the wheel barrow, then Bret would take it into the garage and the kids would stack it in there. Such good little workers!
I think LaVerl was remembering the days before his shoulder surgery when he could split wood like Bret.
Sunday Kari did a really cute thing to get the kids to listen to conference. She had bowls of different things like cheerios, M&M's, nuts, pretzels, etc and each bowl was labeled with a word like, Jesus, Temple, Family, etc. When they heard that word, they could take one treat to put in their bag and one to eat. They all listened really good!!
Chad and Luann came over from Snowflake. I made the traditional, had to have, cinnamon rolls.
Later for lunch, Lisa and I made a really yummy pizza for everyone! It had roasted red peppers, marinaded grilled chicken, feta and mozzarella cheese and then after it was baked, we poured a reduction of a soy sauce & brown sugar over it!!
The second session of Conference! Tami said this by Pres. Utchdorf when the pictures were posted!! "I'm pretty sure that church sleep is among the healthiest of all sleeps!"
Lisa took this picture of Bret and Dad in almost the exact position! Like father like son!
It was really great having some of the kids home over the weekend. We are so blessed to have a prophet and apostles to teach us the important things we need to be doing to help us be better and do better!! It was sad news to learn of Robert D. Hales death that happened that morning. He will be missed.
