Mike breaks his leg

On Feb. 28th, Mike took Sophie and Jack to the dollar store to get a treat.  On the way to the car, his walking stick slipped on some rock salt and he went down.  He ended up breaking his leg.

We took him to Instacare and they put this LONG splint on him which made it so he couldn't do anything!  It was awful!  Saturday morning, Josh and Jordan showed up and built a ramp.

in our garage

 so that he could get in and out of our house without having to crawl.

Krista brought over one of dad's wheelchairs and with the ramp, he could get around so much easier.

The next Tuesday, we finally got in to see the Dr.  He put him in  a short boot.  Hooray!!!!

 He can actually walk on it and get around much better.  Yay for the short boot!
Now on to a speedy recovery!

Dad's visits to the hospital

Dad had not been feeling very good and the end of January got a call from his doctor telling him that his white blood count was very low and he needed to go to the emergency room.  Kathy and Cierra had just gotten to his house for a visit and answered the phone call.  They took him to the hospital where he ended up staying for a few days.  They did some surgery to try to put some stints into his kidney, but it didn't work.

They sent him over to IMC and tried a different procedure that didn't work either.  They sent him home and said they would try again in a few weeks.  Robynn flew into town and spent time taking care of him

Dad is spending lots of time on the couch these days.

Before we knew it, he was back at IMC to try again and then another trip a few weeks later to finally get it the way they thought it should work, it hasn't yet, but we are hopeful that it will soon.

He's had lots of nice visitors at home. 

We are all learning to do lots more than we ever wanted to about home health care.

More visitors

Dad is spending most of his days taking lots of naps and is in lots of pain. He needs round the clock help and sweet Robynn flew in again to help out!  Sophie stopped by and let dad take a nap with one of her favorite kitties. 

More fun with the grandkids!

It is so fun having these former Arizona boys join our Utah Grandkids!

Even though it's still chilly outside, they love to be out in our back yard.

Tether ball is a favorite too!

Logan is always so helpful in the kitchen.

I hit Old Navy's clearance the other day and found some matching shirts for these cute boys.

On the Friday before Valentines, we invited the grandkids over so their parents could have a date night.  They made some fun valentine cards.

We had Jamie's kids over to play with Jordan's kids a few weeks ago.  They sure have fun together.

 

There was a Safety Fair in Sandy and a bunch of our grandkids went to that!

Hi Maui

Last weekend we went to the Clark planetarium with Josh and Jordan's kids

All our grandkids LOVE making things with Perler beads.  This was Logan's first project.

He made the cutest rainbow dolphin