October!

We had a busy start to the school year and October kept pace with September.  Early in October we went down to Salt Lake City for an Anberlin concert.  Anberlin is one of Kyle's favorite bands. In fact for our very first Valentine's Day together, I got him an Anberlin t-shirt.  Which he proudly wore at the concert.  We invited Katelyn to come with us, so that was a lot of fun.  The concert itself was interesting.  I am not a huge fan of big crowds, and once those big crowds start jumping around and pushing on you, then I become absolutely terrified.  We were right up front by the stage, but as soon as Anberlin came on and the pushing and crowding started, I ditch Kyle and Katelyn and headed back to a safer location.  Overall, it was fun.  Kyle and Katelyn really enjoyed themselves. I just ended up feeling old because it was too loud and too crowded.  Here are a few pics!

Waiting in line outside.

Oh my, look at all the people!

Kyle and I also had the opportunity to go to a dinner theater. Several of his classmates in his program worked at an event and they were given tickets for their work. We got to see a local theater perform the play Les Miserables.  The food was yummy and it was a lot of fun.

And the last event to blog about... We had a Niatec Fall/Halloween party.  I helped to organize it.  I had found online that there is a pumpkin patch/corn maze close by.  We ended up having dinner in a church near the corn maze, then heading over together.  The corn maze was a ton of fun.  It was the type of maze where it gives you questions to choose your path.  There was also a huge pumpkin patch where we picked out pumpkins.  It would have been better if we had gone a tiny bit earlier so we could have some sun, but it still worked out great and I'm glad we got to do it.

Crazy start to the school year!

Well, if you didn't figure it out from the last post, I broke my foot.  We had just gotten home from our trip to D.C.(literally home for maybe 30 minutes).  Kyle had gotten up in the loft to get down our fans (it was so hot!) and he asked me to throw some bags of stuff up to him.  In a perfect combination of events.  I jumped, threw the bag, landed wrong on the cement/carpet in my flip-flop, my foot twisted to the side and I heard something pop.  I wasn't in too much pain, really just astounded at finding myself sitting on the ground. I had scrapped up my knee and the top of my foot in the process.  Kyle, of course, looked dumbfounded at my blunder.  I stood up and hobbled up the stairs to the kitchen. As soon as I stood in the light from the kitchen (the garage light had burned out while we were gone), I could tell that a bone was sticking out in a way that it shouldn't be.  It was at that point that I told Kyle that I had thought that I had broken my foot.  He seemed slightly panicky as he rushed down from the loft. I just went into the kitchen to sit down. Again, not much pain.  So we debated whether or not I needed to be taken in.  Kyle decided to feel my foot to see where it hurt.  I registered no pain as he pushed on the bone, but in the process almost passed out and had to lay on the floor. I think that was the scariest part for me.  I hate the passing out feeling and obviously my body was registering that something was wrong.  Well, we decided to go into an urgent care clinic. They x-rayed my foot and it was broken.  The doctor also proved what I had been telling Kyle for years, that I had a high pain tolerance. He said that it's been scientifically proven that red-heads have a higher pain tolerance.  That's what I thought!  Anyway, I went home with a nice big boot. It was hard to sleep because of the boot but also because my foot hurt. I took ibuprofen to help with the pain.  That happened on a Sunday evening, and I started school on the following Thursday.  My students came back on the next Tuesday, so I started the school year hobbling around on my boot.  That afternoon, I had an appointment with a podiatrist.  He x-rayed my foot again, and since there were two small breaks, connected to a tendon, it turned out that I actually needed a cast.  I got a nice purple cast, and a scooter to get around on.  Of course, my kids loved it.  They wanted to put a motor on it and bling it out.  Luckily for me, I was only on the scooter for two weeks.  But that two weeks sure made me grateful for having two feet that work.  After two weeks, I went back to the podiatrist. My foot was healing nicely, so I was put back in the boot for two weeks.  It's been two weeks since I got the boot off.  My foot is still sore sometimes, but it seems to have healed nicely.  So that was the start to my school year!

I was not excited about getting a cast!  But at least I got to choose a nice purple color!

Trying out the scooter for the first time.  It was amazing how fast I could get down the halls at school. 

Kyle had a good time on the scooter, too!