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Friday, November 28, 2008

I finished my baby hat!

Today I finished a baby hat that I was making for one of the Pratt twins. I am going to make another one for the other twin. The hats are white and VERY VERY thick. The yarn I used is kind of silky.~Melissa

Monday, November 24, 2008

No School

Today I don't have school! I am going to read a lot today. I just got to the point in tennis shoes among the nephites #3 were Doug Bowman was laying on the floor of his house with two holes in his stomach, and Jim got in his car, there was a gun on the seat and police are arresting him.~Melissa

Sunday, November 23, 2008

This last week's Tender Mercies:
Friends who care
Prayer
Brothers who fast
Kids who get themselves off to school on their own
Modern technology and drugs
Kind doctors and nurses

Friday, November 21, 2008

Megan birthday party

Today was Megan's birthday party! It was a great one. She was very surprised when Dad came in with a pair of stilts just for her! We went swimming at the Holiday Inn and Gram and Gramp were there and guess what? So was Aunt Janet. I played with Megan all day today and before the party we made shrinky dinks. They are pieces of paper that you have to trace a picture on to and put it into the oven, then it shrinks and crumples up and gets straitened out and it is really tall. I made a bunch of ones that are perfect for a charm bracelet. I went to Megan and Ashley's conferences at the school. I saw Kelsey (my friend a school) on the hill. And after Megans party we went to DQ to get a gift card for a girl that Kolby is going to a movie with for her birthday party. and we got a free cone, mom bought a cup of onion rings and I saw Austin! So I saw both the people that sit at my table at school.(Kelsey and Austin)-Melissa
Braden has survived! The long anticipated surgery has been accomplished! Braden went into KGH (Kennewick General Hospital) at 6 am Thursday morning to have "orthonagstic" surgery. He began this long road in 4th grade when normal orthodontics would not correct his overbite. Dr. Crawford did the surgery and said everything was very successful. Braden went into surgery at 7:30 am, and we got to see him in the recovery room 3 hours later at about 11:00. He was really groggy. His face wasn't very swollen, and I was so happy to see him o.k. There were lots of wires and cords attached to him as they checked on his vitals. He was put into the ICU unit of the hospital because they are remodeling and that was where they had room. This was very nice, he had a private room and his own nurse. The nurses were really good and took great care of him. Of course, they enjoyed having a 17 year old as opposed to a 70 year old! His mouth is rubber banded shut to teach his jaw where to close. He also had a morphine pump that he could push every 7 minutes. It was a game to him: if it beeped at him, he lost and couldn't have more medicine, and if it didn't beep, he won more medicine! He dozed in and out most of the day. We fed him water with a syringe. Because he had an IV in, we weren't worried about hydration. In the afternoon, some friends from school came by to visit. Casey Hare, Eric Turner, Merilee Strong, and Mindy Strong brought him some pudding and a Snowboarding magazine (which Dr. Crawford pointed out was a definite NO-NO). The heart monitor spiked when girls walked into the room! There was also a canine visitor. A beautiful brindle boxer and his handler were visiting patients. Cameron, Kolby and Melissa came with Brett to see him around dinner. Braden likes the visitors.

Early Friday morning, he was taken off the pump and other tubes. He was given Lortab in a liquid form. He got to have some yogurt (with the syringe) and he really liked the chicken broth! Oh, so good! When I left him Thursday night, it was really hard. I knew he was in good hands and that he would be fine, but I still wanted to stay with him and make sure. I also know how yucky it is to be alone in the hospital through the night. It is very lonely. He said he watched ESPN a little, slept a little, and laid there.

At 1:00, Dr. Crawford came by and checked him out. He said he could go home and gave him some prescriptions. He also said he would continue to swell. It is hard to believe he could swell more. He didn't swell at first. We could even still see his dimples! (Much to my relief!) But sure enough, he has continued to swell. He is also bruising where he is swollen. Dr. Crawford said that some people are bruisers, and evidently he is. He is now home and playing host to visitors. We are so relieved that the surgery went well and he is doing so great! We love him!

Friday, November 14, 2008


Although this is me playing soccer, I just had my first 7th grade basketball game. I scored 6 points, grabbed 3 rebounds and had several assists. Mom says, "Kolby is just an athletic animal!" I played point guard most of the game, but was wing for about 2 minutes. We beat Chief Jo, 27-13. Only half of my team played in the game. My team is split into two teams of about 9 and those two groups switch off playing every other game.

P.S. Darci- I am pretty sure I have a bunch of grammatical errors and such, so please don't waste your time editing them!
-Kolby

I can do the stilts!


I can do the stilts! Guess what that means. It means I can do the stilts! Today I went to circus club. I got some juggling balls (like normal) and I started juggling them. But when I got over to Megan and Allison, Allison had stilts in her hand! Allison was doing the stilts(although she took two steps and then fell)! Megan asked if she could try them after Allie and she said yes. And I got to go after Megan! When I tried, it was like my legs were spaghetti. But after a while I got used to it. The second time I tried, I got two steps in instead of one. On Megan's second try, She had it mastered! On my third try, I had it mastered too! It took Allison a few times to get the short ones mastered. By the time she could do the shortest ones, I could do the highest ones. I got my pictures today!-Melissa
Braden successfully ended his High School XC career at a Banquet Thursday night. He was honored for being a team captain and won the Most Inspirational award which was voted on by his teammates. He also won the Bomber of the Meet at the Nike Pre-National Meet in Portland, Oregon earlier in the season. I thought he should have won every award possible for all the sacrifices he made to run, but I'm just his mom. His best 5k time was 17:28 or something ridiculous like that. He now is looking forward to winter conditioning and preparing for the spring track season. He wants to run (and he is very good at) the 800 and 400. Oh, and he has to have jaw surgery first and recover from it. That is scheduled next week (Nov. 20th). We will have an early Turkey Day on Sunday for him. Back to XC, I loved watching him run, and was really proud of how hard (that cannot be emphasized enough) he worked. He was a great example of dedication (did I mean obsession?) to everyone. Maybe he will run a marathon someday and I can watch him then. For now, I look forward to track season, too. Mom

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Hello from Provo everyone! I played with the blog and had some fun with making it cute. Mom will appreciate it at least. ( : I'm exhausted after a long day though so I'm off to bed. Good luck with school and work and housekeeping and sports and seminary and everything else that all of you do! Love you all.
- Darci
Kolby has homework so he cannot post anything right now! He made this blog for Mom but now she is on her own (SCARY!).