Wedding weekend

So Trent was in a wedding on Sat. his college buddy, that was in our wedding 11 yrs. ago. Kevin and Liza had a lovely wedding day.

We left early early Saturday morning, like in the car by 6:40am. It was down in Brookville, we stayed in Batesville, reception was in Guilford and they were all basically 30 min apart. The wedding started at 1:30, which was 12:30 our time and then T needed to be there an hour prior since we was an usher. We got there right at 12:30.

We thought Brookville felt like Hobart. The downtown area really resembled it, but I’m sure the population was way less.

Ethan was good at the church, for the most part.

     And then he got annoyed with his tie…

and then had use the bathroom during the ceremony, but luckily T went to the back since he had to do his dismissing duties soon after.

Ethan and I waited outside and he created his own ‘boutonniere’ a word I don’t think he really knew before this weekend.

  i love how put it in his little button hole, too!

by this time I let him take off the tie…

We used Dave’s tomtom, plus I had printed up some directions in the different combos. The tomtom gps sent us through some back roads, I guess it was the quickest route. They route we took from church back to hotel was super curvy and hilly, but was neat. 

The reception was at a winery and again, used the tomtom and thought we were lost but then just ended up and found it.

We asked someone to take our pic.   

We sat with another family with 3 kids, I guess Liza used to be their babysitter. Ethan hit it off with the 2 little ones and was even dancing with them later.

 

E was too cute asking for a ‘kiddie cocktail’ at the bar!     

 

Ethan was happy he got to go swimming on Sunday morning at the hotel and have the breakfast buffet. I missed both and slept in.

On the way home we stopped in Lafayette to eat lunch. I wanted to go to the McDonald’s diner, a sit down service diner that we saw on the travel channel. We couldn’t find it so we ate at Fazoli’s since it has been forever since we had it. Googled that mcd’s once at home and found out it they changed it way back in 2004! Way for the updated program on unique McDonalds there Travel Channel! 

Sept - Fall

My family received sad news with death of my mother’s cousin. Mary Jane was her dearest closest cousin. She died due to a tragic accident while driving a 4 wheeler atv. So sad and sudden. She enjoyed such adventures with her family and they had been out in Colorado when it occurred.

The visitation was on Friday/Saturday down in Indy. My parents shuffled their trip plans around to be able to attend it. I My sister and I did not go down, though.

Odd thing that on the day before she died I was using the nice farberware pot she gave me for my wedding and truly thought of her. 

On Sat. night was Casino Night at the fairgrounds. T and I went again this year. Always a fun time and this year we knew the dealer, but that didn’t help. At all! This was the first time we lost all of our money! Shocking! We usually break even or just lose around $5, so bad this time.

 

and then the Zubie bros sat at our table at the end of the night. We played blackjack for like 6 hrs and I don’t know why but it is fun! It was packed with people, so we made sure to get a table early. T gets us in for free and we get food, drink with free refills at the table and dj music. It is really loud with the music and people talking though. T and I look forward to this weekend all year, we don’t really go out enough.

his ankle is fractured!

So I guess his ankle is fractured after all. We went to see Dr. Tim today to get another xray. Last Monday he thought it just might have been since it was still a little swollen. He is walking normal without a limp, I even catch him running and tell him to stop.

I have no experience looking at x-rays but when it was on the screen even my eyes went to this little triangle spot that looked like it was chipped! That was the fracture. The one good thing was that he didn’t need a cast and crutches. He said that kids at the age are resilient and he should heal without it. Just no running or jumping still and no gym.

We go back on Oct. 4 for another set of x-rays and see the progress. Dr. Tim said that if the same injury happened to adults, we would be casted for 6 weeks for it to heal. Interesting.

photo of his ankle from 8/23

from 8/24…

fun at playground

My mom was wanting to take her grandkids to the new playground at her elem school she used to teach at. Ethan had never been to it, so he was so excited.

We made sure not to have E jump off anything or run with his hurt ankle.

They had this neat zip slide like thing. I was worried E would fall off of it and kept walking with him.   

Amanda was so funny yelling hi to me from my mom’s new car…so then Matt had to say hi… then Ethan, of course, had to try it out too…

Ethan’s first real injury

We went to baby Scarlett’s christening party on Sat. Ethan was most excited about the water slide that was going to be there.

He loved this slide..it was so fun, and at first it was just him and 3 other little kids.

He probably went down it at least 20 times.

It was in their backyard on a steep hill, T and I went up to the house to get another drink, but there was another mom down still at the slide. We walk out of the house and hear E screaming! He was grabbing his ankle. We hurried down there, but I knew T would be handling anything that was wrong with him. When stepping out of the slide he slipped on the wet grass and majorly twisted his ankle. The other mom said she saw it happen and knew it was gonna hurt him bad. We got it iced, and then the swelling happened. Dave came down and checked on it, too. He suggested getting an x-ray, fearing it was broken. Ethan asked if an x-ray would hurt. We had to explain that it was just a picture to see if it was broken, which then he started to cry again when I mentioned crutches.

He couldn’t even stand up, I could tell he was too afraid to even try to walk. T had to carry him on that steep hill to the car and we headed to urgent care. We got there at 5 min to closing, but grabbed a wheel chair and got him in.  They gave him a sucker on the way to get the x-ray, which was good to calm him. He just stayed in the wheel chair the whole time. The dr said that one of the x-rays looked like it could be a fracture, the growth plate looked slightly shifted, but then she explained that that is common with their age though, also. T said that they would probably put a temporary cast on it and then say to follow up with orthopedic doctor. Well, that is exactly what happened!

As he was getting wrapped he started to wimper some and the nurses were wondering what thinking he was in pain. I figured it out when I saw one of them had just brought in the crutches. I guess he thought he could walk on it once it was in the cast. Or he thought we were taking that wheelchair home? Poor kid. He had a super quick tutorial on the crutches, as they were closing. He was so scared. T ended up just carrying him to the car.

When we got home I was trying to get him to use the crutches, but just getting thru the kitchen was tough for him. We let him rest with the elevated foot in our bedroom and watch tv. After awhile I heard him hopping to the bathroom.

We were so lucky that T knows a local doctor that helps at the school, he had called him almost immediately after it happened. T knew that Tim could access the x-rays online, so he could check them at home. It was such a relief to get another opinion from Tim. Dr Tim called him back and T put him on speaker and told Ethan that he didn’t think it was broken and that he could take off the cast and ice it some more. Praise the Lord, it is not broken. Praise the Lord that he wouldn’t need to use both of the crutches.

We were so worried about how he would do at school. We emailed his teacher, gym teacher, nurse, and principal to alert them. He took just one crutch in to help with his limping, T said he shouldn’t be putting so much weight on it. He will be sitting out of gym this week and prob next. The nurse told him that he should stay on the blacktop at recess, to which he started tearing up and asking he can’t go on the grass?? Aww, poor guy.

So when he came home on Monday, he unwrapped it so we could ice it up. Now that morning it was bruising up some, was purple in some areas but that night it was crazy gross purple and red bruising.

  Dr Tim was going to be at the hs that night so we went in so he could check him out in person. E was doing great just limping along without the crutch. Dr Tim looked and said he didn’t think it was broken but still have him take it easy and not do running or gym class.

Ethan is not having a good August. Or he is becoming accident prone.

The first week of August he went golfing with T, his Uncle D & his Poppy. He was riding with his uncle and fell out of the golf cart! I guess there were a couple of quick turns and he was sliding and then fell back on the path. He landed on his side and hit his head. I freaked out when T called and told me what happened and said he thought he had a concussion.

When they got home he was still crying, because his mommy really is the only one that can calm him down in these cases. He ended up fine with some tylenol. He had some scrapes on his back. His uncle D felt horrible. It was an accident, but he really felt bad about it. He was just trying to be the fun uncle. I think he thought that E is bigger now and could handle it and hang out, not his fault he just isn’t around little kids.

So Ethan will be fine, thank goodness! He didn’t even take the crutch to school today and he is hardly limping.

August means FAIR days!

 

Our county fair was last week. It is a 10 day fair, really 11 with preview Thursday night. We went 8 times, and loved it everytime. Yes, we had a pass to get in. Yes, we ate a bunch of fried fair food.

E’s first time playing this shooting game – we all liked the ‘shoot til you win’ He had to shoot the yellow ball but it had to have a smiley face on it. T asked the guy where area would it be in, but no help. I did see him sort of look at an area.

he picked this little guy on a skateboard

imprinting leather craft – in the AG bldg.

our favorite fair game EVER

and Ethan WON right as I took the pic!! 

Tally of Roller Bowler wins for the fair:
Ethan – 3 wins

Mommy – 2 wins (but I really didn’t play as much as them)

Daddy – 8 wins

Ethan owns 3 large animals and 2 small animals, 1 medium

loved these fun cut-outs! and I love how he put that polar bear we won in the extra hole

mouse game – didn’t win this year.

loved these Flurries ‘blizzard' 

Ethan didn’t ‘win’ a fish, but this teenage couple did win and came up to us with their bag of fish. I thought it was 2 fish in the bag, but no it was 4!! They are all still alive, but one is missing an eye.  

Ethan was cracking me up as he would change his pose as he went by me everytime! I had the camera triggered great to catch each one. These were taken when Trent was back at work so I was standing there laughing outloud alone!

 

new attraction at the fair – Water Globes. I couldn’t believe that Ethan wanted to try them out! We saw them at the Porter Co. Fair the week prior and hoped they would be at ours!  

They were $7 for 3 minutes, Ethan used his own money to go in them, too! You had to be at least 5 yrs old and max of 160lbs. 

Ethan loved them! It looked impossible to stand up in, though.

Click on the video below of him…

 

that guy must get a major workout each day pulling the kids out of the globes!

 

my new fav are the Fried Oreos! Yummers!!  

We tried fried butter at Po. Cty Fair, just to try it. it was the fried dough with melted cinnamon-y butter inside. We won’t ever try it again. They had fried Pepsi, too. That was too weird to try.

AUGUST 9 trip to fair…

 

getting hooked up to to the bouncy bungee thingie – he was a dare devil this year!

more video of him

 

motorcycles are still fun. The height max is 54” for the motorcycles. E is at 51” now, I think I might cry if he is too tall for them next year. 

Sat. August 14 – we met up with Zubie! Her bros were playing in the cornhole tourney so we watched that some, too.

 

This was a new ride for Ethan this year. We sort of talked him into trying it. It looks fun and I knew he could handle it. This was his 2nd time on it. The first time he was standing in line next to a little girl and her mom, so he rode with them, that mom was so nice and made sure he was in the middle seat.

 

and then Zubie won at the mouse game! she let E pick something out – he got this soccer bear

Sunday, AUGUST 15 – last day of fair

up on the ferris wheel with Ethan. I bought tickets to ride on 2 rides with E.

pics from up in the ferris wheel – love all the pics of my fair!

Daddy waiting for us – can you spot him?   

looking for our house..too many trees    

playing roller bowler one last time…

and he gets his 3rd win!

until next year!