It's about time for an update.
At the beginning of this month I started a project for my church calling. I'm putting together a primary program video. Whether we end up watching it physically at church or individually in our homes is yet to be determined, but I'd like to have it done in the next week or so. I'm still waiting for some stragglers to get their parts to me, but I definitely have the majority of the kids' contributions so I can start editing. I've been going to families' homes and recording them with my phone. It's been really sweet to have siblings sing primary songs together, and for the kids to share what they've learned about the Book of Mormon this year. I think it's going to be great!
Justin had his birthday! We went out to dinner at Pickle's and I have to say...it was the worst food I think I've ever had hahaha! So dinner was not great, but Justin did buy himself a pie for his birthday so we enjoyed sharing that with Mom and Dad for dessert.😂 I have been really missing normal out-to-eat options lately...especially fast food!
I've been debating what to do with my hair. It hasn't been cut into it's pixie since July. I've been debating cutting it short again or keeping it longer and getting bangs. After my hair appointment was delayed a week I decided to go with bangs. I haven't had these for 6 years! I can pull my hair into an itty-bitty ponytail if I want to. I may just cut it all off and go back to my pixie cut. I still don't know what I want to do with it. Ha!
Teddy has been getting into trouble lately. He kept wandering over to the neighbors to play with their dogs, and the people let him into their house a couple of times so - hello - no wonder he likes to go over there. So Justin finally got him a nice long leash and had been keeping him tied up. After a couple of weeks of that, he decided to let him off-leash and see if he'd stay home. On the second day of this experiment he went missing all day. Justin went to the neighbors to see if he was there with no luck and ended up driving all around the block looking for him. We decided if he wasn't home by morning then we would worry. Well at 7:00-ish that night I hear Justin in the kitchen say, "Oh my heck!" and there was Teddy looking at us through the glass back door with a broken leg!
I called the emergency vet in Idaho Falls to ask their opinion what to do. I start these conversations out with, "We live in Arco...." so in other words, is this an EMERGENCY-emergency, or can is it a it-can-wait-til-morning-emergency...? She said if he wasn't putting any weight on it at all then he was in a lot of pain so we needed to get some meds for him at the very least until his leg got set.
The Arco vet had an after-hours number that we called, but he wasn't willing to give us any meds to get Teddy through the night. He also said he doesn't do any orthopedics. That pretty much left us with two options: let him suffer all night (and potentially do further damage to his leg) and drive over in the morning to set his leg, or drive to Idaho Falls that night and have the leg set by the emergency vet people. Our humanity decided we better take care of it ASAP, so Justin drove Teddy to Idaho Falls that night. They were able to get his leg x-rayed and a cast within about an hour after Justin arrived and they were headed home with some pain/anxiety medication and some specific instructions for how to care for his leg. They suggested we also book him for surgery to ensure his leg "heals completely" for $2,000 over in Emmett, ID and to book that in the next few days....yeah, no thanks. He can have a gimp for two-grand! His cast isn't allowed to get wet, so we've kept him inside and put a garbage bag around his leg for potty breaks. This lasted for a couple days... but then the meds had caught up with him. Shortly after a morning potty break I smelled a most alarming poop smell to find he had defecated on the carpet - gross, dog-has-been-on-meds runny, smelly, damn-it-to-hell poops that made me want to call Dad to bring the .22 and put the dog down after all. It is hard to fully describe the personal hell it was to clean this up mostly by myself because Justin had a call. He's been sentenced to the shed for the foreseeable future, single-digit temperatures and all.
Justin turned on a star wars video game of someone playing and the kids held the controllers and acted like they were the ones playing😂 They thought they were pretty good! Emmett: "Where are all the bad guys?" Logan: "I dunno Emmett."😂
That's the big happenings at our house for the last little bit. I've been doing a "thankful turkey" with the kids when we remember to do it which has not been much of a success. Emmett just wants to say he's thankful for dinosaurs every day, and Logan wants to say he's thankful for cars. But after some pressing, I did get them to admit they were thankful for Granny and Gramps so...progress. We went sledding behind the four-wheeler yesterday and I did my first virtual primary singing time for my ward. I had about three moms text me that their kids watched it, so as long as someone is getting use out of the videos I will call it a success. I'm wishing Thanksgiving was this week - I'm ready for some turkey and mashed potatoes.
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