Our youth Pastor just recently got a website up and running for our church...it's awesome!

Ash was able to visit for a few days...

longer than she planned because of an ice storm in ND
It is always nice to see her :)

Winter...but not fun!

After a trip to the Doctor's office,
and an x-ray, it was confirmed that Austin
broke his ankle...in PE class

Bummer!

Keeping it elevated to get the swelling down...

Surgery is in 5 days

Surgery day...good thing gramma had some crutches we could borrow :)

Prepping...

Cute hat!

Surgery took an hour and 3 minutes..still a little groggy...

Replenishing...

Keeping an eye on the stats...
Blood pressure was too high and oxygen level too low...
So, Austin was admitted for 23 hour observation...
Breathing exercise....
Trying to cheer him up :)
After lots of good care and being waited on hand and foot,
we were waiting for Dr's ok to leave...

Winter...but not fun...part 2

A week later and it was time to cast...

Off came the old splint...

Cool!

& out came the staples...
Steri-strips...
Getting the cast ready...

Austin chose red...

Dr. A...the surgeon

On our way out, we stopped in Radiology and picked up his x-rays...

At home..

Getting ready to shower...

Alex showing Austin all the things he could be doing,

instead of being waited on!

Austin was enjoying watching Alex give it a try :)

...2 weeks to go until the next Dr. visit and x-rays, and maybe a walking boot...yay!

Speaking of Frosty~
Following is a link to an interesting article in American Profile magazine, titled "The Snowman"...

Winter fun~

We decided to take advantage

of the 40 degree weather and

make an attempt to

build our own Frosty!

After being up a couple of days,

"someone" decided Frosty would look better

without an arm...

His tracks gave him away, tho!

The next morning, after fixing Frosty's arm, Austin sped away to school....

A couple of nice days,

and we were able to grind a stump...

One cold morning, we had a nice 5 point white-tail buck

about 100 feet from our back door...

Too bad hunting season is over...