Unintentional

 I didn't MEAN to be gone that long but lots of life was lived and photos to prove it... scroll below to catch up!!

Post-Op

Another two weeks has gone by... and Husband was BACK to the surgeon to have the stitches removed from his surgery. Skip this post if you don't wanna know the "gory" details. Kidding. 

They're not THAT bad and I've certainly posted WORSE.... 

On Monday, we headed out TOGETHER (because SNOW DAY whoop whoop) in the BLIZZARD. From our house to the big city it looked like THIS.... Roads were TERRIBLE.... I HATE being out in it... but off we went at 7AM.

 

By the time we got past Portland the roads were clear, it wasn't snowing at ALL and it was a whole new world! SO CRAZY!

The PA came in and took off the dressing and said it looked REALLY good. He had somewhere between 15-18 stitches which we were ALL really surprised with but she felt that it was closed and READY for her to remove them. (We didn't know that NOT taking them out was even an option until she said that so HAPPY that they were able to come out!)

She still put a layer of glue and steri-strips but so far it is looking really good and we are optimistic that this is the END of the journey with the "new hips". Now he just needs to stretch and work out those hip flexors. 

*Warning Graphic Image Below*

February Break (Part 2)

This is my FAVORITE Life360 view. All of us in the same place at the same time.

We hit another pond for fishing... Miss B had DREAMS of bringing her friends and Husband made those dreams come true... the day AFTER he had spent 15 hours on the hard water with a friend...good man!

Minnie in her happy place...

This was SUCH a fun group of kiddos...

and this time I actually HAD SUN!!! Barks and I were HAPPY!

Speaking of happy... love these two looking at Chelsey... they both just love her so much!

Best advertising Welch's gets.

The whole crew had SO much fun... the BARELY had flags but they snacked, the shoveled, they got soaked and they had a snowball fight. It was a WIN WIN WIN!

and Px4 had the best nap of his life! Close to 2 hours!! Love the traps in a line behind him... hahaha!

The goal of the day was for Px2 to catch a fish and between he and his sister... they pulled it up!

End the day with a last minute sleepover? Yes please!

We headed to the "big city" to watch HTED's daughter and the rest of the San-fid gals in playoffs... Abbey wasn't certain she was going to be able to make it but she DID and we had to document getting Amato's because she claimed she'd never had it... guess it's been 8-10 years since she's had it sooooo.... good to get it again! :)

Unfortunately it did NOT go how we hoped for #15 and her team...

Fun to walk in and see the guy who takes all the track pics... he recognized these three immediately and asked to take their pic. So cute!

Speaking of CUTE! We celebrated Jan/Feb bdays on Saturday and mean-muggin' was THERE for it... hahahaha!

My word I love them!

The derby was the LAST day of break. Minnie decided she didn't want to go but Miss B was ALL IN! None of the regular "crew" went but these two got after it and had a GREAT time together!

Poor kiddo was REALLY going for the basket backpack to carry her traps in but nothing board worthy for her this year.... she didn't stay sad for VERY long though because she asked if she could have a sleepover at Reese's house who had JUST PICKED UP HER NEW PUPPY!

There was a very good chance of a snow day for Monday (extending our break) so Minnie and I went over to drop her off and get our OWN puppy snuggles.... meet Finn. :)

On our way home the seasoned folks that hit the ice cream shop EVERY Sunday night at 5:00 were still there so I asked Minnie if she wanted an ice cream cuz I knew I WASN'T going to have to PAY! :) Best way to end the va-ca.....

AND... we got the snow day!!!!

February Break (Part 1)

Kicked off the first weekend of break with ICE FISHING of course.... Minnie wanted to sleep in and in fact thought about NOT going fishing but after this game and this season....Husband and I both decided she NEEDED some outside time.....so I surprised her with a trip to our fav breakfast place FIRST (in the opposite direction of fishing) before we picked up Abbey and headed to the lake...

Bonus fun was that it was at the Walker's so there was HEAT and the Johnsons!!! Minnie caught one fish....

and Miss B and Px3 caught this one! Slooooowww day on the pond but...

a GREAT day on the pond!

Miss B and Px4's dad *might* have used this guy as their own personal "stone" in their game of curling but I assure you he LOVED every SECOND of it! :)

I was promised full sun and the cozy deck... I did have a fire but there was NO SUN... Until I left... My friend Louise took this picture and showed me how beautiful it was... once I was home. Hahahaha!

It was the PERFECT day for a reset and EXACTLY what MINNIE NEEDED!

Other sights from break....

On Monday the gals wanted to go support Abbey at States... we dropped them off and hoped they would be able to find a ride back to our vicinity....

Thank goodness this crew showed up to give them a ride! :) HA!

Track kids are the BEST kids. You can't convince me otherwise :)

 

Is That The End?

On November 17th....Husband was having MAJOR surgery and BOTH girls were trying out for their respective basketball teams. 

The amount of tears, conversations, discussions, prayer, thought, time in the car, with Minnie in that week (and some weeks to follow) regarding basketball and the season ahead...was hard...

When I would feel like that I kept thinking of this picture I took...where I tried to make our make-shift bedroom a cozy sanctuary.... 

fast forward 3 months later and we are bumped, bruised, tired, some of us are still cut open... but we survived. And we didn't JUST survive but we made it ALL THE WAY TO PLAYOFFS!? Who wouldha thought?

My girl WORKED this season... she was 110% every practice, every meeting, every film, every game. 110%. If you click on the picture below you can zoom in on her knees. (Granted it was from tripping over a teammate in practice but still...) NOTHING slowed her down....

 

They battled the whole game and it was looking good... until 1/2 time...

They could not hang....

There were a LOT of tears at the end of this game... I think knowing the season was FINALLY over, how hard she worked, being disappointed with the loss... but through her tears... her first question to Sky... "can you do my nails this weekend?" Hahahaha!

We thought and talked about this quote often during the season...

and after the final game and she was off with some friends I texted her these screenshots...

We'll wait a few months before we ask her to answer that... some stuff still feels very raw...

Well done kid. You did a great job. We are ALL so proud of you. We love you.