Jared's First Gymnastics meet

Jared had the first meet since we were in gymnastics. We didn't know whether to do it or not, because he was not really cooperating with some of the tumbling. The night before we practiced forward rolling until he was dizzy. I had to promise him a toy if he did it.

The morning came and he was ready. He and 20 other toddlers to do the same 15 second routine. It was great fun. Each of them got a medal and got to stand on the top of the medal stand and have their picture taken.

I will attach some of the pictures of the routine and the medal stand and show the crowd that he had for his first meet.

It has been a long time

It seems as if I haven't been to this page to blog in months. I know it has only been a couple of weeks, but they have been long.

I wrote a few times ago about my dad needing surgery. He went in 2 weeks ago yesterday to have this. As many of you know my dad never makes anything easy. The doctor came out and told us everything went perfect. Within about 10 minutes he was in front of us saying they were going back in because he was bleeding. The next 2 1/2 hours stood still as we awaited word. He then came back and told us that he almost bled to death. So instead of going to a regular room with a dismissal the next day, dad went to ICU.

As you can imagine Ash Grove, small town USA, was buzzing. We were getting calls in the ICU waiting area that dad had an hour to live and so on. He was stable by the time we went to ICU and had no major complications after that, but it was very serious.

He is doing much better, but it has been a long process.

For those of you who knew and whispered a prayer on his behalf many thanks to you. For those of you who didn't know the whole scoop can say one now for the praises that he is getting better and will be back up on his feet in no time.