Photo Shoot '09

We had dinner with Blakes family yesterday and decided to have his brother take a few pictures of our little family, it's been almost a year since we've done family photos and Weston has changed so much! Happy Fall

He's One

**Girl Time**

Sometimes I find that I don't spend enough one on one time with Ashlyn and I think that is partially to blame for her acting out at times. So while Weston was napping yesterday I decided to let her make Halloween cookies with me. She loved rolling the cookie dough in the colored sugar (she chose purple) and she also did a great job taking the wrappers off the hershey kisses. We had a fun time just being together and I think it made her feel special to have "mom" all to herself. (baby brothers can be kinda needy)

Dirt Bike Wreck

Last Thursday (the night before we were supposed to take our anniversary trip without children) Blake went riding at the track with is brothers as usual, I got a phone call from his brother telling me Blake got hurt - his shoulder and he had a good concussion... I met them at the ER. Blake was asking the same handful of questions every 2 minutes or so and it was pretty weird, it wasn't funny until all his tests came back and his brain/head was normal with no injuries besides the concussion which would heal on it's own. We had to take turns answering the questions as they were so frequent. (He still doesn't remember wrecking or being at the hospital) He has an AC Separation in his right shoulder (all tendons torn that hold your shoulder to your collar bone) and may or may not need surgery - depending what the surgeon says and how Blake feels. The wreck wasn't his fault, he was jumping over a "table top" jump and another guy had wrecked on the down side which Blake couldn't see until he was in the air and of course couldn't move his bike to land anywhere else but on the other guys bike... The other guy wasn't hurt at all and actually ran to the top of the jump to make sure others didn't land on Blake. The weekend was kinda crazy, just trying to get things together with doctors and catching up on sleep - my mom had our kids even though we didn't take our trip to California, and that was a HUGE help! Thanks to everyone for your thoughts and concern! We have such wonderful family and friends.

His shoulder is much lower than his collar bone - see the bump

He has some good "road rash" on his side, elbow and hurt shoulder

Here are the kids taking turns snuggling with Blake

We count our blessings, because it could have been a lot worse - thankfully Blake was wearing all his protective gear! And yes, I'm sure he'll ride again - but fixing his bike isn't our first priority!