Clutzy me

Well, I missed the bottom step on our stairs (thinking it was the floor-it was dark and the new carpet color blends in...) Anyway, my ankle gave way and there was a popping sound (I thought I broke it). I screamed in pain- Tom came running- it hurt so much I got all tingly and naseaus. My luck, with summer around the corner and I'm now hobbling around. I haven't been to a doctor- if it's a sprain no real point- I'll give it a few more days and if there isn't more improvement I may go get an x-ray just to be sure- but Tom's fairly certain it's just a bad sprain. we got a brace for it and I used crutches for a couple of days until I got completely annoyed with them. None the less- yesterday was a great day for yard work, and we have a TON! Luckily I can hobble to the Tractor and then sit and let it do the work! So I was able to get corrals cleaned, arena leveled, and some rocks hauled out of the field! We turned out Kaydee and Gretchen across the road to the land- there isn't much grass yet, but for those two, enough. Shakira is bagging up and should foal on or before her due date! Sage is so smart- she learned to fetch a ball in about 5 minutes! Everytime I praised her for picking up the ball she would get so excited she would drop the ball- so I stopped praising her until she was all the way back to me with it. Now she's got it down what the job is I can throw the ball farther- well as far as my girl throw will let me... My Sis spent the night Friday while her daughter was at Snow college for an overnighter/intro thing. She is going there next fall- so we'll get to see her a lot! This week was busy as I also taught an afterschool acting class on Tues, Wed, Thurs- it was so fun! The kids we're a blast and really enjoyed the improv part! I think we'll have some great actors for the play coming up!

Visitors From Idaho

Just in time for some visitors our house was (mostly) finished! Good thing because we had one of those rare times when the Center was rented out for something other than a family reunion. Of course with the Center to get ready for renters, the house to clean (top to bottom dust!), I would come down with a cold! But we pretty much got it done- I noticed after Alex & Marie left that the fridge handle had gotten skipped- we had done the inside, but forgotten the outside! Yuk! It was thick with smeared dust. Anyway, we had a fun day with Alex and Marie and gang. Grandpa Tom enhancing the museum experience. Getting Muffin and her babies to come up closer- but they were too worried about Sage- the grain helped alot to overcome the fear of sage. "What is that?" Lincoln seems to be saying. He was so curious about everything and so dang cute! Kalia LOVED Sage our brand new Border Collie puppy. And Sage LOVED having so much attention! I gave Kalia a few instructions on making the puppy sit before petting and how to teach her walk quietly on the leash "heeling." Kalia was a natural dog trainer! Even Ethan liked Sage. We also ran up to North Salt Lake to have lunch with Aaron & Caroll and their gang. We FINALLY got to meet our newest granddaughter, Siena! I feel bad that we forgot the camera- she was a doll! The boys were all as cute as ever. We had Cari's three oldest with us as she was very sick from a horrible tooth infection- her face was swollen up something awful. Luckily it was one of the few sunny days we had that week and the kids all had fun playing together at the park!