Busy week!!

It was a busy week, but mostly good stuff.  Tuesday Kory turned 14!  He can now go to church dances and is in Teachers Quorum with Kyle for the next couple months.  For his birthday we had stuffed chicken with Mashed Potatoes of course.  He started basketball this week, so he didn't get home till late.  Kory is at an interesting phase.  He is getting rather big so often when he wants to end up playing with the younger boys, he thinks he is just playing and they end up complaining.  It must be hard to have to get use to your own strength changing.  I can't say I ever had to do through that, but boys do!  He's getting stronger and stronger! 

Perhaps one of the funnest parts of my job is when I get to see the boys while I am at work.  Friday Kory came in to say hi sporting a hat Miss Christie let him wear.  He's surly got a goofy side.  I would never be able to wear this hat around school, but Kory pulled it off!!  

We always give the kids an option of whether they want to buy their own gifts with money we give them, or if they want us to pick their gifts out.  This year Kory picked for us to pick his gifts.  He seemed happy with what we got him.  A new headset for his Xbox1, new headphone, golden state warriors socks, and a few sweatshirts.  He's outgrown a lot of his clothes.  He also got a new church shirt from Mammy and grandpop with a pretty nice tie.  He also got some gum from the librarian.  He was doing an experiment in class on which gum makes the best bubbles. 

He couldn't figure out how to put up 14 fingers.  Kyle was suppose to help, but was having more fun making a puppet.  

Happy Birthday Buddy!  We love you.  

 Thursday was Trey's first choir concert.  All the other boys have done band for their music elective, but Trey loves to sing, so I made him take choir.  He seems to enjoy it.  I loved his performance.  He made us proud.  During the last song Kory was trying to get him to laugh by doing the hand signals with him.  I told him to stop and look over only to see Monty doing the same thing.  BOYS!!  Kinda not very nice.  But he still did great.  I also learned he got to stand next to his 'CRUSH' the entire time, so he was in 11 yr old heaven! 

Tyler came to support his brother!

His crush is the girl with  a ponytail.

Friday night was the boys 1st football playoffs game.  They played Lincoln.  We were expected to lose, but actually won, so next week we play Bellevue West.  The boys were super excited after the game.  We almost didn't go because I was afraid it would be too cold, but wanted to watch Tyler in case it was his last game.  Well, it wasn't cold and it wasn't his last game.  We'll see how Friday's game goes.  We've played them before and lost, so we've got our work cut out for us. 

Post game excitement!!

Friday Kyle also had an MRI.  We should get the results for that on Monday and after that we'll have a better idea what to do with regards to his recovery. 

 Saturday we had to pick up all the leaves on our lawn.  The trees are almost done dropping their leaves.  Makai was having trouble working until our neighbor brought this over. 

Once Makai had a maching, he was more than happy to work.  He just needs a tool that looks enough like a gun and he can work all day.  It took many hours to get the leaves, up, but today the year looks much better.  A sign that winter is that much closer.  Yikes!!  

Today we got a new bishopric.  We were all big fans of our bishop, but we also know our new bishop is a great man.  I actually know he has such a soft heart and tender testimony, so we will be blessed by him.  

Now I need to dye Tyler and Kyle's hair because their team made it to playoffs.  I guess that is what they do.  But first I think I am going to take a nap.  Thankful to be able to relax on Sunday Afternoons.  

Tyler's famous!! Or a Senior

It's kinda fun to go to home games and see a poster of your son.  The Elkhorn South team has a poster of all the Seniors on a fence before you walk into the games.  The boys didn't want to take a picture with it, but I made them.

Football 2018-2019 season

 Tyler and Kyle love football.  We've been waiting for the year the two boys would get to play on the same team.  Tyler is a senior and Kyle a sophomore.  This picture was taken after their first game.  They won!!

Kyle and Ciaran

Kyle and Tyler

Loved watching Tyler and Kyle on the sideline talking to each other!

In the Varsity games Kyle didn't get to play much.  Tyler played, but sometimes struggled with anxiety which causes him indigestion.  However, he did really well this year.  They have enjoyed playing and had a decent season as this was their first year in class A.  Their win this week qualified them for playoffs. 

Last week Kyle had an unfortunate incident which landed him in the ER. 

Under this blue shirt is a lot of shoulder pain!!  

He won the award for the dirtiest patient of the day.

Does it look dislocated?  I took pity on him and let the nurse cut his shirt off.  Even that was painful.  I really liked that shirt though, but I love him.

While waiting for them to fix it they gave him some morphine.  It didn't do anything to dull the pain.  After about an hour he went from about a 4 pain to an 8.  He was not happy.  

However, after the x-ray they were able to get it back in place.  Looks way better and feels way better.  He let off the biggest sigh of relief when the shoulder popped back into place.  

After his shoulder felt better, he was suddenly hungry and begging to go to Taco Bell!  

I had to take a picture of his shoes for a couple reasons.  His shoes were the reason he got hurt.  The field at Millard West was horrible.  It had rained the night before and their field was dangerous as a result.  Kyle's cleats got stuck in the mud as he was going for a tackle.  He put out his arm to tackle a guy, but with his feet not moving his shoulder dislocated.  He fell onto the floor face first and didn't move.  He's never been in so much pain.  Dad went out on the field to see what was going on.  I came down a couple minutes after and went to get the car.  We knew it was an ER trip.  In the ER they questioned me as to who I was.  It always throws me off when people just don't know I am him mother, but I guess we don't really look much alike.  However, I am his MOTHER!! 

When he got to his bed I wanted to be able to take his pain away.  It's hard to watch your kid in pain and not be able to do anything about it.  In the car he'd mentioned he wanted his shoes off so I asked him if he wanted his shoes off.  He said no.  A few minutes later I asked him again, but he again responded no.  As the mud started to dry and the sheets got more and more dirty I asked him again.  After about 40 minutes he tried to cross his feet, but couldn't and I asked him one last time.  Finally, he said, "Apparently you really want my shoes off so just take them off."  I took the clue and realized he was in so much pain he just didn't want to talk or be talked to.  I understood that sometimes when you are in pain, you just want to be left alone.  I left his shoes on. 

About 5 minutes later Monty came in and said, "Hey son, do you want your shoes off?"  So funny.  Monty took his shoes off. 

Kyle was a stud through the whole thing.  He was sad and did shed a few tears.  Sad that his season was over, but after this weeks games he melted my heart when he said, "Mom, today it was kinda fun to see a kid that plays under me get to play.  He hasn't played much this season and he got to play today and did well.  I guess that is the silver lining in me getting hurt!"  I love him!!