Yep It's November and we have another ACCIDENT

Ali made this poster for Fro for when he got home from having surgery on his arms. He broke both of his arms biking last week at the bike park. He went up on a metal ledge and his bike slid out from under him and he landed on his arms. He ended up being in surgery for 4 hours and they put a plate and screws in his left arm. His right arm had two fractures that they thought would need surgery but ended up just needing to be casted. It is really difficult to do anything with NO arms!!

He has been very sleepy the last week and hopefully it will start improving for him- he is miserable. He said that this totally is worse than his ACL surgery last year. That at least allowed him to do things for himself he just couldn't walk. This has made him very dependent on us for everything. He had his temporary casts taken off and know that he can move his elbows it has helped alot, but still is not fun!! He is out of work for at least 2 months. His boss said "You just got back to work and now your out again!" That is sometimes how life works and you just have to roll with it. We can't believe it happened at the same time of year. I told him there are better ways to get the holidays off!!!

Tron Family

 

I have not always been a big Halloween fan, but several years ago I realized you can make it fun. Every year Ali usually decides what she wants to be and we do a theme around that. I have never been a "theme" kind of person but it does make it a little more fun and creative. Well this year Cam was pretty set on being Sam Flynn from Tron. I kept thinking he might change his mind, but NOPE. So TRon it was!! I am not crafty in any way so i looked online to find some tron costumes. yeah not cheap and none existant for a little girl. So I let my creative juices work and decided to do a little experimenting with Duct Tape. Love the stuff and the variety of colors. We had a fun Halloween being Tron and Ali loved no one else in her school had her costume!!

Moab with the Derricks!

 

Last Year we decided that we don't spend enough time with Fros side of the family. We wanted to do fun things with them since we try to do yearly trips with mine. Last year we went to St. George and had a lot of fun so we decided to do another trip this year. Moab was decided and I am glad we chose moab. There really is A LOT to do in Moab. There are NO stores or restraunts, but tons of fun activities.

My favorite thing of the whole trip was watching Ali ride the same trails as all the adults. I was SO proud of her. She peddaled over everything and tried everything. I was worried she would panic and get off and walk, but NOPE!! She showed us all up. It was so much fun for me to ride right with her. I loved every minute of it. It was also fun for fro to ride with his brothers. He rides a lot with us, but not usually with them.

We stayed in little cabins at a campground and it had a pool and was warm so in the October chilling mornings we were perfect. We went to delicate arch, bowtie arch, went jeepin' at least Cam and Ali did. We hiked to dinosaur ruins, we swam, we went to Music park. This way awesome park that has all kinds of wind chimes and musical things for kids to play. We went to the sand hill where YES I broke another camera. It just goes to show I can't go on vacation without braking one. Good thing I had a back up!!

It was fun for everyone and I was glad almost the whole family was there. And we will see where next year takes us.