bones, snakes, and Mother's day

Saturday we went up to Huntsville to my in-laws old house to help clean up the lot. The prior Sat. we spent the day filling up a dumpster and this past Saturday the old kitchen was gutted and we burned all the cabinets along with with an old avery in the backyard and some piles of rotting wood on the lot. My boys needed to knock down the avery to burn. They took some running leaps at it kicking down 3 walls---the 4th fell with the 3rd. (I have e-mailed the picture from my phone 4 times and still it has not arrived...if it does I will add it.) CE thought he would hit the wall with his fist when they first started. Below is a copy of his x-ray showing his broken 5th metacarpal--the hand bone below his pinky. He is currently in a splint and will have a cast put on during the week.

J was picking up some wood to toss in the fire and he found a snake--of course he was excited and it is now living in my front room!

Sunday was mother's day. I started it out by starting my dishing washer before heading to church. Yes, I did say dishwasher! Sat. we had a late start heading to Huntsville because I was waiting for my new dishwasher to be installed. I am so excited to have a dishwasher again. It has been about a year (or at least it seems like a year!) and we have all missed it! I was lucky and got a great deal on a Bosch---it was sure nice to come home from church and have all the dishes clean. After church I finally took CE to the doctor. I am cruel sometimes but he broke it soon after we got up to Huntsville and I told him if he is going to be hitting walls he will have to suffer the consequences and deal with it until we can take him into the Dr. office. In the meantime, I told him he still needed to work---just concentrate on using his good hand. Then against his wishes, I didn't not take him Sunday during church but made him wait until afterwards. But my sister stopped by soon after church so I made him wait some more while I visited with her for an hour or so. But finally he was able to go and get the official news that Yes, it is broken. As soon as we got back, we picked up my dad and we headed to Huntsville for dinner.

L, Tiffani, Crystal, Rachel, CD in Huntsville. J went for a walk and took my camera and took lots of pictures. Below are just two. He had some fun ones of a horse and her colts but they are on his memory card...