Our first broken bone

We have never had a broken bone, me included. Joel broke his ankle in high school. Our two adventurous, high-flying, super hero boys have never broken a bone! Precious Saylor was on her tummy on our big ottoman and slid off, on purpose, and must have caught herself wrong and broke her humorous right above her elbow! I was without a working phone and Joel was working a basketball game... Yes panic set in. Thanks to technology I was able to get the iPad and FaceTime Joel at the game, all I could do without falling to pieces was say "I'm on my way! I think Saylor broke her arm!". So I dropped the boys off with him and went to the ER and sure enough it was broken. The ortho-surgeon that Joel wanted her to see then called Sunday night and said no food or liquids after midnight because she will probably need some pins. Long story short, all she needed was a cast! She is doing very well and uses her left arm to pick up her casted arm to move it, it's kinda sad. She is not sleeping well at all because she cannot turn over or move once she is laying down, so we are all ready for these few weeks to pass so we can go back to sleeping!

We I was excited she didn't have to wear a tshirt to church!

All she can wear are the boys' tshirts! So we put a bow and ruffle socks on to make it a little more girlie :)

The boys had PJ day at school and got to wear their batman PJ's and then they wore them all over town, here we are at a Laurel HS basketball game.

Here she is getting her pink cast, it was so hard, she was scared and screamed the whole time. 

After getting her cast on our way to get the boys from school, she was happy again.

This was Sunday morning after she broke it, with just the splint on, that would be a smile on her face...hard to tell ;)

The boys will play baseball this season for the first time and Daddy has been practicing with them, Hudson thinks its not fair that they have to pick up the balls they hit and bring them back to Daddy.

Laurel Brick

Laurel has had a few major industries that have made this little city what it is today. One of the old industries is masonry, a brick yard, brick manufacturing. They are not readily available and are an antique. I have one for each of my kids since they are being raised here but I wanted a few more for my friends that were raised here and now live elsewhere. So, according to my sources the "Old Hospital" has a ton of them. This would be the Charity Hospital that is unsafe to even look at! So of course we wanted to go and walk through it and look for bricks...

Water was dripping everywhere on my head I was waiting for the ceiling to collapse and trap me in here.

This is where we entered..

Some lovely art work from previous and recent visitors. I just knew we were going to come up on a tenant or drug dealer or rat or snake...

Perfectly safe to be here :/

Pappy was committed to helping me find the perfect one.

Most of them were broken or chipped.

I couldn't help but think about the people that were patients or employees here at one time. 

This is the front looking out from the inside.

We joked about running across a bone while we were digging.

Nana Pierce carrying out our finds.

He went through a lot of bricks!

Old empty stairwells... scariest thing ever.

Finished product, some are engraved and some embossed. I love the engraved personally. I have relatives on gulf coast that have said these bricks are down there in old neighborhoods... a little piece of the brick history of our town.

A Clean 2013

..... That's a great way to sum up how we want this year to go... house, food and everything CLEAN! Happy New Year! I have put off posting because I am waiting on some Christmas pictures and I was getting so behind I decided to skip ahead :) The New Year came in with bang or a spark I should say. I told Joel I would run by the fireworks stand and get a few so that we could be festive with the kids. He was certainly not impressed with my selection of fountains, black snakes, sparklers (green, blue, multicolor and neon!) and one set of Roman Candles. It was nice and peaceful I thought. We I was ready for school to get started back and us get back to a routine! Here is what we did the first week of 2013!

They brought out their new chairs to watch the sparkler extravaganza. It was freezing!

Hudson grinds his teeth awfully bad at night and wakes up with headaches so I got him a football mouthpiece, he thought it was cool just to wear around.

Saylor's first New Year that she can partake in! She did good and was not scared of the fireworks.

I love this...her first sparkler :)

Daddy tried to get inventive and make the show more exciting, it was just right ;)

We brought out all our new art supplies and had an art morning. We got Joel's grandpa's old tackle box to put all of their new colors, markers, and finger paints in.

The girls came to stay with us one night and we went to the park and played and McDonald's for lunch.

Kali has recently lost 4 teeth! It happened so fast!