The last couple of weeks!!

Where have I been?? Here's the update. :]

A couple of Sunday's ago, Nick and I went out to the pond where Greg and Auntie were working.

Monday I went to work to paint this desk red. It looks pretty good.

Tuesday, Auntie, mom and I left for Arch Cape for our annual week at the beach!! It was full of book reading and nap taking. Awesome!!

We took a side trip to "The Grotto" in Portland. It was beautiful.

We got to Arch Cape about 5:30 that evening. Here is what we looked at through the front window. Great!!!

Although our week was on the nice 70 degree weather, inland it was HOT so we got the clouds....fog rolled in early in the morning and burned off later in the afternoon. One minute there would be sun and the next, fog!!

Days spent reading.....awe the life!!

We finally left the house Friday and drove into Wheeler...and Manzanita.

Farmer's Market at Manzanita.

Sunday we took a walk from Hug Point down to Arch Cape, along the beach. It was fun.

Mom taking the bike out for a spin!!

Jim played the harmonica for us the morning we left. He did a great job!!

Jim and Barb...another year!!

Getting home meant checking out the Hailey kiddos...busy practicing baseball!!

Loved the t-shirt!!

Kyle had a surprise for me when I got home.....new tile in the bathroom. Also had him paint the cupboards for me. Looks nice.

Before....

After.

Tuesday hanging out in the shop with us!!

Thursday night Kaylee came and spent the night with us. Here we are picking up a couple of things at Home Depot for Grandpa Kyle!!

Waking up, Friday!! Eating Cheerios....

And drinking apple juice.

Kisses for grandpa.

Love this little one!!

Sunday here were the clouds. Awesome!!

Started yet another project....no dresser in the house was safe except for the one in our room.

Have to let everything dry tonight so will post a picture of the finished projects tomorrow!!

Bradley...

Nick serenading us.

Dinner on the grill!!

Weak stomachs....BEWARE!!!

Briar had an accident a couple of weeks ago......July 5th to be exact. He was tarping a trailer full of grass seed as a storm was coming through (one of our famous blow throughs: 100 m.p.h. wind, rain coming down horizontally, thunder, lightning, flash floods; 10minutes pass and the sun is out again in full force!!). To make a longer story short, a gust of wind came up, grabbing the tarp and causing a handle to come cascading down....cutting off the top of his middle right finger. Emergency Room lingo: amputataed finger. Kaylee found the actual cut off part of his finger but the doctors weren't into re-attatching it....time past, small veins, black dead limb...something to that effect!! Anyways, I have been wanting to post pictures and finally have some decent ones to show all the progress he has made over the past 3 weeks. Definitely NOT a "try this at home" situation!!

The day after it all happened:

Due to all the blood seeping through the bandage, we took off the outer layers (very carefully!!) and replaced them. This picture above is about as far as we went. The blood had hardened close to the top of the injury so we just left the first piece of gauze on. The pain seemed to big of an anticipation for that last piece to come off....fine with mom!!

This is a new wrap for the top after seeing the doctor on Friday the 10th. It is a special kind of gauze that has antibiotic ointment in it so we could help keep infection out of the area.

This is a side view...

A top view...

and another angle.

This was our superior wrap up job!!! {Friday pictures}

This picture and the next were taken on Monday the 13th. This picture cracks me up because the picture shows the 4th finger sticking up behind the amputated one, almost looking like a new fingertip has sprouted up!! LOL!!!! The doctor took out all of the nail bed so he won't be having a nail on this finger any more. Such is life!!

When he goes to the doctor tomorrow he will get the stitches out.

And THIS is what it looks like about 3 weeks later!! This picture was taken yesterday, the 26th. Looks good huh!!!

This side really looks good. Eventually the finger will loose that little bump on the side of the finger. You can really tell where the new skin has grown back from this shot. He peeled off the old dead skin a couple of days ago....that was pretty grose to watch!! He will have to get use to a lot of new things with it, mental things also. All-in-all I am thanking God that this is all that happened!! Could have been oh so much worse!! THANK YOU ALL for the recovery prayers!! It will be interesting to see how things progress in the coming months....he is hoping that football is still in the near future!!!

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Eric brought Kaylee out for a visit Sunday. She is getting big quickly. Here are some pictures of the sky during that big storm that hit. Way to be mother nature!!