broken ankle

Some pics of my broken foot....nothing too graphic just lots of swelling and bruising! My foot is sooo FAT and swollen.

So I broke my ankle! Yes this past weekend we went camping with the whole family and took all the toys (Quads, dirt bikes) up for some riding. Things were great we were having an awesome time! We rode all day saturday and then swam at the camp site. Sunday we went back up to Miami Trails do to some more riding and thats where things took a turn for the worst! My sister and I were hanging out reading magazines and laying in the sun while the guys were out riding. Then when they got back we decided to take the quads for a "girl" run. We had fun and when we got back to camp Jimmy and I decided to go for a little ride while we were waiting for my mom, gram and the kids to come up for lunch. Well all was going good, we were on a trail when we we were climbing a small hill almost at the end of the trail I guess I lost it. I remember loosing control and holding the quad up with my left leg for a few seconds before I came crashing backwards down the hill. I remeber falling..the quad falling on me..whacking my head and thinking "thankgoodness for helmets"..rolling...my ankle snapping...and hurting. Poor Jimmy was running down the hill after me as he saw me fall! He was so great. He handled the situation much more calmly than I did. I remember crying and being able to talk and tell him that only my ankle was broke, I wasnt hurt anywhere else and that I had heard it snap. He told me he had to get me back on the quad and out of there and that we were going to have to go to the hospital. My ankle was swollen. I dont know how he got me on the quad or back to camp but he did. I guess I was crying because all i remember is sitting in the back of my moms car with my mom and Jimmy trying to find an ER to get me to. We finally made it to the Oakhurst ER and they were awesome. So very nice, got me in got me a tetnus shot and some pain meds. Their Xray machine was down so we thought we werent going to be able to get any xrays but lo and behold they had techs there at that time and they got it WORKING!! I had xrays done where they determined it was broken in 2 places (the bones on either side of my ankle were broken so there was no support. They gave me a CD of my xrays and splinted me up! We left there went back to camp where we ate yummy spaghetti and then my dad drove me home and Jimmy took shelby....we let lex spend the last night at camp with everyone. After we got to my parents house I got to take a shower which felt so good because I was filthy!! (its hard to take a shower with one leg that cant get wet and being in pain but Jimmy and I have a pretty good system down now :) So then Monday once everyone got back from camping my parents watched shelby and Lex while Jimmy and I headed to fresno community ER so we could get set up with a surgeon per Oakhurst instruction. Well 9 hours later we left very upset and with only a phone number to call and set up our own appt. Its been a little bit of a rat race and Ive had doc appts every day this past week but finally tues we are seeing the surgeon!! Then we should get my surgery date. Im very scared to have this surgery so please say a prayer about that! Ive never had any type of surgery (except to get my wisdom teeth out) But this is MUCH bigger. So thats where we are with everything! Hopefully ill be up and running/walking soon. Its really sucky to be down and out over the summer :(

Zoo 2010

So for Shelby's birthday this year we had some awesome friends get us a family zoo pass!! This was super cool and something that Jimmy and I had talked about getting but hadn'd done. This worked out perfect!! We tried it out and we a blast and cant wait to use it all summer long! A big Thank you! To the Mathews for this amazing gift :)

me and the girls visiting the elephants

the orangutans...we could have stayed there all day, the kids loved watching them and I must say they were pretty funny! It was a nice cool day so they were much more active than ive seen in awhile so it was super neat!

Ok, so for awhile Shelby's favorite animal has been the giraffe. She had seen the commercial for Busch Gardens where the kids feed the giraffe and LOVED it. She would get so excited whenever she saw it and always said after it was over... "Shelby feed giraffe". She had been waiting all week for Alexia to get here so we could go see the giraffes...and let me just say, the giraffes did not disappoint! She was so excited to see them. Ill post some videos of the kids feeding them because its super cute! Shelby did very well and fed the giraffe and was so excited because he licked her!!
For hours and even days after she still said " the giraffe licked me" but it comes out lick-ed me too cute :)

next was the petting zoo. I wasnt sure how well Shelby would do here because last year when we went to San Diego she wanted nothing to do with the petting zoo. That was too close for her and I wasnt able to even put her down without her starting to cry! Well, what a difference a year makes!! She had a blast this time! They have some brushes when you walk in that you can get and go brush the animals...shelby thought that was great!! Her and lex brushed every animal in there i think! We had to practically pull them out!

Some photos of the girls with the hippo statue

this was a good pic Jimmy got of us girls! My mom, sister, me and the kids :)

Often times Jimmy is the pic taker, because I suck at it, so hes not in a lot of them but he goes everywhere with us and me and the girls love him to pieces!!

here we are at the stingray bay. Lex still hasnt touched one :( everytime we have gone both here and the san diego zoo she gets a little scared and pulls her and out at the last second! Too funny, oh well maybe next time :) Shelby i dont think got to touch one either because her arms are too short lol but she tried and had fun splashing in the water!

the seals. It was nice to see they got a new nice and clean tank to swim in!

photos outside the reptile room

sisters :) they have so much fun together!!

alexia, jacob and Nik

in all the years ive lived here and gone to the zoo ive never watched the bird show...this time we did and it was so fun! Poor Shelby tried to stay awake but crashed about halfway through...but the rest of us had a fun time! These pics were taken after the show as we were walking out

it was a great fun day and we cant wait to go back! Im betting we will be spending lots of time at the zoo this summer! Next day for sure is the Ice cream social! We went last year and it was a blast! Looking forward to it again this year :)