Trauma for Corban..and Momma

Two days before we were set to fly back to India Corban broke his arm!--and I was alone with the boys! I won't tell the whole story b/c i feel like a terrible mom...but let's just say the song "10 little monkies jumpin' on the bed" is true!! I'm not sure who it was more traumatic for...Corban or me. I've never had nor witnessed a broken bone so this "first" was quite shaking for me. Corban seemed to put the ordeal behind him quickly but if I relive the images in my mind it makes me shutter. I just try not to "go there". We went to the hospital in an ambulance and spent most of the night in the E.R. Thank goodness for my grandmother who took care of the other two boys and my aunt who stayed with me at the hopsital! I can't imagine having to bring the other 2 boys with me to the E.R. for hours.

Corban was in pain the next day but after that he didn't complain at all and we were able to go home on our scheduled flight. He did great--no pain! Praise the Lord! I must say that I was already dreading the long solo flight, and the added pressure of a broken arm patient made me cry (literally) when we entered the security gate at the airport:) But the Lord was so good--besides being a long journey and Kai intermittingly yelping:), it was pretty uneventful. Thankfully Kai forgot that he took many strolls crawling down the aisle on our way to the u.s.!! He didn't even try to do that this time. And he slept for 7 hours straight!

We were so happy to see Brian--it was way too long to be apart. Thankfully for the boys and me it was 5 weeks of furious fun! We definitely had the better end of the deal:) Now we are trying to adjust to India time--it takes about 2 weeks (for kids). We were up at 4 am this morning:) Party time. Thank goodness for Diet Pepsi in India.

We had calmed down a bit by this point...enough to take a memorial picture.

Vacation Over

I took a few weeks off from blogging as I savored "vacation mode" in the states. Really we were just too busy to sit at a computer long enough! We had a great time touring TX and LA making our rounds to be sure we saw everyone we wanted to . There are a few people we missed this trip and we weren't able to go to our church there, but for the most part we were able to spend quality time with our family and friends. This was such an amazing 6 weeks! Thank you to everyone who spent time with us and served us in so many ways. We are very blessed.

I'm going to put some pics from our last few weeks there.

What we're up to lately...

For some reason it's hard to sit down at the computer while we're here... i guess b/c it's not my computer and we're having fun visiting. We are enjoying the lazy days of summer here in LA. We visited my grandparents yesterday...they are in their 80's and still work hard everyday. We saw my cousin and her kids--it's kinda weird when all our kids are together playing...not so long ago it was us playing at my grandparents house:) And we ate at my favorite pizza place last night. For those of you not from LA. it may gross you out to think of seafood on top of pizza but here in Lafayette it's a delicacy....Crab pizza, crawfish pizza, shrimp pizza...c'est bon!!
Here's some recent pics...

BFF's

Last Friday I had a reunion with my BFF from middle school and my BFF from high school. They were BFF's too...you know how that goes:)
It was great to see them and reminisce.

Ally is in the center, my highschool BFF and Jill is on the right, jr. high BFF. That's Jill's daughters head:) Sorry Natalie