Well, I know it's been a long time since I have updated the blog, but it has been a crazy 3 weeks. I'm sure you have all heard that I hurt my knee, and I wish I had a better story as to how I did it, but I don't. I wasn't doing anything cool like skiing, I was exercising! I guess I won't do that anymore..LOL! Anyway, I was downstairs doing a work out video (Paul and I were doing P90X), and I went to do back lunges (which is where you step back and lunge at the same time). I had done quite a few of them, but I went to step back and I guess I went back wrong and then twisted to look at the tv, and my left knee POPPED all the way around! Needless to say, I went into screaming mode and went to the ground. This all happened at like 6am in the morning before work. Paul came downstairs and helped me up the stairs.
Went to orthopedic and he said that I dislocated my knee cap! Had an MRI and I actually tore a ligament (thank goodness it wasn't one of the major ones). So now I am doing physical therapy and hoping it heals correctly. I can walk a lot better and the swelling has gone down tremendously, but I still can't straighten my leg out all the way, and I definitely can't pivot. Hopefully it heals correctly so I can ski! (Of course not this season..:(((!
At the beginning of Feb, we had our biggest snow so far, and the kids were actually out of school for 2 days! Paul was shoveling the snow and I thought it would be a good way to show you how much snow we actually got:
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| In this pic, you can definitely tell how much snow we got! |
We haven't had any snow since then, but I have heard that March and April are the biggest snow months...can't wait! (That was sarcastic ;)).
Mason and I went to the Ice Festival that they have in Cripple Creek, so a couple of weekends ago, Mason and I took an adventure up there to see what it was all about. Cripple Creek is a small western town that has a bunch of casinos and neat little shops and soda fountain (unfortunately it was closed). The Ice Festival wasn't what I expected, but it was neat to see some of the ice sculptures and of course Mason got a funnel cake!
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| Grinch in the sleigh |
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| Polar Bears |
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| One of the streets in Cripple Creek |
My parents have been gone from TN since January 16th on a very long camping trip. They have been to Casa Grande, AZ...Yuma, AZ...and San Diego, CA. I had Mason keep asking them if they were going to stop through on their way back home, and at first they weren't sure because of the weather or whatever, but they came! They got here on Friday and are going to be staying the whole week! Mom and I went shopping to some antique stores to find me something to go in my entry way. Finally found something, but will post pictures later! They got to see Mason receive his orange belt in Taekwondo on Saturday night and Mason was so excited that they were able to go! Here are some videos of him doing his orange belt testing:
The quality isn't all that great once I uploaded them to the blog, but hopefully you can still see them!
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| Man in the gray robe is Grand Master Lee - Mason was nervous |
Hope everyone is doing great! Mason and I will be coming in for Easter weekend to Memphis, so we hope to see everyone! Have a great week!
