Watch that last step, it's a doozy

Tuesday had started out so great. Sleeping in on my day off, waking up to my lovely wife, it seemed to be the start of a relaxing day. Alas, but it was not to be so. As part of our calling as the ward institute representatives, we encourage members of the ward to come out Tuesday nights to institute. To help accomplish this, we have been posting fliers on members' doors during the afternoon before institute. As we were making our rounds, I made my way down the steps to a basement apartment. I stepped down from what I thought was the bottom step, only to find the edge of the actual bottom step. My foot rolled underneath my ankle and I heard/felt a pop. And then, some of the most exquisite pain I had felt came over me and caused me to drop to the steps as quickly as I could.

Adrianna rushed to my side and assisted me in loosening and taking off my shoe. She then helped me to slowly hobble up the stairs and back to the car. Any weight put on my ankle caused so much pain. At home, we removed my sock and found that my ankle was swollen to the size of a baseball! We applied ice and bandage and elevation in order to prevent further damage. I was not to have the continual care of my wife, though, as she left for work shortly thereafter.

About an hour later, while I was laying on the couch, someone knocked on the door wanting to be shown an apartment. I told her to knock on the door of one of the show apartments and hoped that the girls living there would be home. She came back shortly, having had no response. I then had to get up and show the young lady the apartment. So I wasn't able to rest it completely. Thankfully, it was good enough for us to go to institute that night, albeit moving very slowly for me.

So here's a pic of it that night after the swelling had gone down.
















I can walk on it now, but it'll still hurt when I turn on it. And all the busyness at work hasn't helped in its recovery. I just hope the road to recovery is short.

Hodgepodge.

So I decided instead of making you sift through posts, I'll just put the pictures here with the captions. enjoy!

Look at the doughnuts!



Thanks Taralee and Jamie! We're making good use of your "gifts".

My poor digital camera. I tried to fix it. I guess it wasn't meant to be.





Happy Mothers Day.
Here's some plants for you to care for, love, nurture, & kill within 2 weeks.

We have come to love homemade Tortillas. They're amazing!
We can make flour and corn tortillas.
Yum.

The Y Hike

Well, after shuttling a few groups of Patriotic Americans up to the Y, Tod, Loriann and I began the trek. At the top we scored some pictures of our amazing feat.

Ok, so this is the Y. Yes, I know, it's the side of he Y. If you look close you can Kinda see the people and the red stripes. :)

We packed a yummy dinner, including 5 buck pizza (which now sells pizza for $5 again!), beef and pastrami sandwiches, yummy-sweet-fresh pineapple, Starburst candy, black licorice, and tons of water.

This is is view we had of the rest of the Y from our picnic perch.

"Where'd the cute boy I was talking to go?" --Loriann

Us on the Y.

It seems like my 28-80 mm zoom lens needs to be cleaned.
(the others above were taken with the 28mm non-zoom lens)

Somewhere in this picture is our Apartment complex.

After all that hiking, gazing, picnic-ing we were ready to go back down the mountain to watch the fireworks on the trunk of our car.

Pictures!

Finally Tod and I have Pictures to share! Yeay!

Be forewarned, I am still getting used to using an SLR Camera, so they're not pa-wow, but they're something! I'll try to get future ones developed more often so it's not so long between posts & photos. I'm going to try to re-post the older mega-post with the photos now. I apologize for having to scroll, but I think it would look funny if I just posted them here all out of context.

Really, I'll figure out how to get this all sorted. Until we have a digital -- it is what it is. Enjoy!

Hiking the Y for the 4th of July

Tomorrow Tod and I put our developing strength to the test. We're Hiking the Y! It's a fairly easy hike, that's not so special, but what's going to be amazing about it is that we're going to dress up all in blue and try -- with hundreds (approx. 300-600) of other people -- to turn the Y into a giant US flag!

I am going to be a shuttle driver from the BYU Law Building to the Y Trail head (in attempt to prevent a massive traffic jam at the trail head where there's only 50 parking spots) and Tod will be Directing people. We will then hike the Y in our garb with our blanket and umbrella (they're blue too!) and join the rest of the the folk on the mountain. We're going to stick around to watch the fireworks. I plan to bring my camera (the old skool SLR) to take all kinds of fun pictures and hopefully I'll finish off the roll so you'll all get to see what else we've been up to!


I hope that this will put some brownie points in the karma bag towards my immigration papers. The gov't rescheduled my biometrics appointment for the 14th of july, when we wanted to go down to St. George and visit my sister and her family. So our visiting plans will change cause I don't want to tell the gov't to reschedule.




This little adventure may get us in the news paper again, the organizers have alerted the media including Provo's Daily Herald, so we may be captured again in the paper doing fun stuff!