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13 hours ago
Another cost at the expense of my dog
If you've been reading my blog for some time now, you will know what an expensive lab we have...she is a walking accident, ringing up bill after bill, but when her and Owen are connected at the hip, what can you do?
However, this past week, her bills are now affecting me personally. She dug a nice 6 inch pot hole in our lawn, which got covered over by the lovely green grass, making it a perfect trap for me to step in while carrying a picnic out to Owen. Yep, ate it, right there in the yard in front of Owen, collapsed on my face. After 4 hours in the ER, I came home with crutches and a possible fracture. I got into a specialist right away because I couldn't bare the pain in the muscles I didn't know I had (from using the crutches). He read the x-rays and thinks it's a bad sprain but will take another x-ray in two weeks (apparently fractures can take up to 2 weeks to show up). SO, they casted me with a hard cast. So much better, could get rid of the stilts (as Owen called them.) However, it couldn't end there, not exciting enough. By that night at 6, my leg was swelling and pulsating, I could feel my heartbeat in my foot and my shin was burning. By 3 AM, I wanted to rid myself of this limb, so I drove to my parents house to get my dads cutters that he was going to leave out for me in case of an emergency...well, he forgot....so back home I went at 3 AM! I endured the horrific pain until 8 where I drove myself straight to the doctors office and they rushed me in and cut off the cast...the PA put the cast on way too tight and I had developed a hot spot on my shin and top of my foot. So at this point I was pleading to not have another hard cast put on and so, tonight I sit here with a boot on - I can deal!
And now back to tending to Owen, the chicks and my gimpy goat, who has a hurt leg (had to put meds on her hoof which turned her entire leg neon purple!)
What a weekend...not to mention, we gave my mother-in-law a surprise birthday party at my house all in the same weekend! I need a vacation!
A day with papa
Monday, May 18, 2009
Owen has the privilege of having a "Bob the Builder" for a Papa...we take field trips to his shop to see all the different tractors, cement mixers, loaders, ect... It wasn't until yesterday that he finally was comfortable with riding a tractor with Papa. Up until this point, he would only ride it with me...yes, I drive the tractor - something you learn to do at a young age when you're the first born girl to a contractor daddy!
Owen and his Papa!
Lifting the bucket on "Scoop"
Fake smile from Owen...not too convincing that he wanted to be on the thing.
Proud tractor driver at 4
Look what danika drug in...
Saturday, May 16, 2009
So, have you ever had things in life that you would love to do, maybe something you'd be when you were all grown up (but it's not what you are doing nor what you'll actually ever end up doing)? I have a few in my closet....Two things about me that might surprise you...we'll start with being a race car driver. Yep, me, Danika would have loved to be a race car driver - fast but in control...But that dream was fulfilled enough through my name becoming known when Danica Patrick joined the circuit...now I don't have to spell it quite as often or pronounce it correctly quite as frequently - enough for me. The second thing I would love to do in life is live on a farm. I was raised on one for a short time when I was young, don't remember much but the memories I'm told about (aka: getting lost in a 65 acre field when I was 18 months old and found by my dog, Brandy.)
I married a web engineer! Not sure I could keep up with farm life. But I have to say, Noah has been quite the trooper in helping me complete my little farm here in Danville. Over the past month, we've acquired 2 fish, 8 chicks and today....1 baby goat! So my farm is complete, enough for that dream to be laid to rest.
So, enjoy our latest addition to our family...Rosie the goat. Owen couldn't wait to pick her up today. She is so sweet, a bit timid right now after leaving a clan of 80 goats to come live at a home with a totally spastic dog, Izzy who thinks she's died and gone to heaven with chicks and a goat...I think she will be forever out of her depression stage (as she's been in for a year now - pathetic!) Hope you enjoy the pics...and yes Mary (Noah's mom), your son is holding a goat!
This is what greeted us at the Chocolate Festival (we had to kill an hour because we arrived early at the goat farm and it just so happened that this festival was going on today!) yes, what appears to be a full size cow bone in the trash can on the sidewalk...we were in Oakdale, maybe that's a normal site there.
Me and my buddy!
Owen with his first snow cone, he was in heaven!
The herd to pick from...or at least a quarter of them!
Rosie's mug shot.
Proud caregiver and his goat!
Daddy and Owen welcoming Rosie to Danville
Rosie hiding in the wood pile within seconds of being put in the back yard
And after a long afternoon of cutting down a few trees that were poisonous for little Rosie, she's settled into her quarter acre of 3 foot weeds...our live lawn mower has her work cut out for her!
Visit with our friends
My best friend Sara (since I was 2) stopped by this past weekend with her family. One of our favorite pastimes is spending time with this fam! Owen just adores there boys and they get along so great, minus the stick war between Owen and Cooper! I love that the Lord has given us both boys...knowing Sara will be a forever friend, so will our boys, including the husbands!
Chase and Owen
Dave and Noah
Me and Sara
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