Of All the Rotten Luck

My Grandpa Hebdon's coined phrase was "Of all the rotten luck!" He would mostly exclaim it on Sunday evenings when we would play SkipBo at their home as a family. He would get a bad hand of cards and then breathe in and sputter, "Of all the rotten luck!" as his team was on a losing streak.

Well our family has had some bad luck lately too. Two of our kids in 12 days had to get their heads fixed at the doctor's office. Lincoln on October 19th and Makayla on October 31st.

We wanted to see Danny and Dixie's new home in Sandy, plus meet their new dog Wall-E. The home is nice, the dog was playful,  and our visit was basically over. I asked the boys to give Dan and Dixie some goodbye hugs on our way out.

Lincoln tripped on his shoe and landed with his head on an inside wall to their kitchen.  Blood went gushing everywhere!  We tried to clean it up as best we could. At least it was on tile and not the carpet.  It just wouldn't stop bleeding, so we decided stitches would be needed probably.

We stopped in Smith's parking log to double check if we really needed to to to the doctors. We try to avoid it if we can because we don't have insurance.  But the wound was shaped like a football and an inch long. Plus it was right in the middle of his face, and we didn't want Lincoln to have an ugly scar for life.  So we went to First Med Urgent Care, and they stitched it right up for him.

After having stitches in for one week he then got them out.

Twelve days later, I had already gone to see Makayla in her Halloween parade and was home for probably 45 minutes when I got the call that every parent dreads.  The secretary at the school explained, "Your daughter has cut her face at recess. You need to come and see this!"  Yeah, not really the way I had planned on spending my Halloween holiday, but I rushed on over.

Makayla had fallen off some recess equipment (the highest red circle) and sliced open her face below her left eyebrow.  It was a large gash and surely needed to be looked at.  I took her home and let Scott see it before we took her in to the same place we took Lincoln.

Makayla took this selfie as we were waiting for the pain medicine to kick in. It's gross how the blood is highlighted in the photo.

I hoped they wouldn't think I was an abusive parent or something.  Hey, this one happend at SCHOOL and I was not even there!

At least the doctor was able to glue Makayla's face instead of stitches. Then we don't even have to go back to get the stitches out.

We are supposed to wait for the bandages to fall off before we pull them out. Now it's been two weeks. Maybe I should call and double check that to see if we can take them off yet.

Don't bad things happen in threes? Well, if you pair these two incidents with my four wheeling accident in August, then we should be off the radar for awhile I hope.  Knock on wood for me.

October 2013

Makayla was chosen for Student of the Month on October 1st. I am so proud of her! I know she is a happy friendly student who tries her best. She also earned this last year. Good job Makayla!

Sterling went on a zoo field trip with his preschool class.  His leader this year is Jaycee. She is very good with him as far as I can tell.  Lincoln and I tagged along to the zoo also for some entertainment.

We took advantage of General Conference weekend and headed out camping up to the Hot Springs Campground up in Garland. Let me tell you, the natural  heated spring-water was just fantastic even when the temperature outside of the pool was at least 20 degrees cooler than the water!

A nice little getaway, and we were able to listen to conference up there. We love the autumn leaves in their beautiful array of colors.

And randomly, we happened to see that there was a special Malt-o-Meal cereal sale that they do once a year in Tremonton, so we were able to stock up on some bags of cereal for one dollar each! 18 we ended up getting.

Of course we had to take advantage of Frightmares at Lagoon.

We decided that we definitely got our money's worth out of the passes. We went to Frightmares 6 times this year!  And our kids, well especially Makayla, grew over the summer.  She was able to ride the Air Race ride, 48" requirement, the last 2 times we visited Lagoon. But she had to trade in the little kiddie boat ride to do that. She is now too tall for that one.

Sometimes we were the only ones on a ride, like the Tidal Wave with Scott and our 2 older kids.

Makayla and I had to make a paper doll of herself in her Halloween costume for school. I thought it turned out pretty cute!

The boys went to the library Halloween party and gathered some treats.

We explored Gardner Village one evening and looked for witches.

We adopted a new cat, Rosco, a 6 month old male from a super pet adoption event at the State Fair Park.  He is so hyper and cuddly too; a great fit for our family.  We need to get him declawed in the front paws asap because he keeps piercing holes in our new chairs. :(

Makayla won the best crazy hair award in her class for red ribbon week.

We wanted to try something new as a family, so we ventured out to a crazy corn maze one Saturday afternoon.

We navigated the pathways and played tag, plus they had some other fun things like the train ride and some slides made out of pipes.

Scott and I decided it was time for a date, so we went to dinner, then Nightmare on 13th haunted house, and then for some nitro freezed ice cream.  We decided we need to go on dates more often!

We went to the Spook-a-Boo at the Zoo for the first time and decided that the crowds were pretty insane. Don't know if we will brave that again.

Some more pretty fall pictures. The bridge is by our bank, so we explored it.

We went to the Hebdon Halloween party and enjoyed seeing the family. The Jeffersons did a great job with the party.

Went to the ward trunk-or-treat on Halloween and then headed to our friends, the Robinson's neighborhood.

There was a castle for the kids to play on and of course the fun spook alley garage.  Then we swung past Grandma Paxton and Aunt Lisa's home.

Makayla was excited to count her 75 pieces of candy!