Weekend Recap

Well, our awesome Cats couldn't pull it off on Saturday. I nearly cried. No, really. Josh and I went to a bar near our house to watch the game and about 2 minutes left in the game, I started getting very anxious. That anxiety generally has a roller coaster of emotions that follow, and deep sadness was what I felt after the game was over. But, Frankie, there is always next year! Go Cats!!!

On a little brighter note, when basketball season ends...it means BASEBALL! Our Varsity got cancelled on Thursday (stinking rain) but were scheduled to play in a tournament on Saturday. If you are not a Kansan, you may not have noticed that our weekend was a gloomy mess! Friday, our JV played in a similar tournament and got 3rd. Good job boys! But then... it rained overnight and our fields were flooded. Again. So the Varsity was cancelled. Boo!

We did get to go out and watch Josh's softball team play in on of their first tournaments. It was a C/D tournament (if you don't know about men's slowpitch softball leagues...lucky you) and we are a D team. There were some awesome teams that were there. I even overheard a "fan" of another team say that they couldn't believe that we were listed as a D team and that they thought we should be C! Woo hoo! Go Smooth! We did well. We got 4th and got a big trophey (yep, for 4th). Josh obviously didn't get to play...that darn collarbone! But only a few more weeks and I'll be cheering him on too!

So all in all, a pretty boring weekend. We didn't accomplish a whole lot. A few movies (Top Gun, Whip It, and Not Another Cinderella Movie) and a few ball games, that's about it. We will be needing that rest for our upcoming week. We have games on Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. Go Falcons!

Yep, that's it...

Baby K

Today is the first day of Spring...in Kansas, obviously. However, today is my good friend Jana's baby shower! We are so excited for Baby K! And, Jana is such a cute prego!

This is the diaper cake that I made... I am very proud! So I'm tooting my own horn!

Kelly and I threw the shower for Jana and we made lots of yummy snacks! I even donated my delicious habenera pretzel dip for the occassion! Please note the chocolate dipped strawberries. They are my favorite and I thought they looked awfully pretty on the table!

We played a few games too. I even interviewed her husband Matt some "Baby Smarts" questions. He did awesome! We played it for the shower and had to guess if we thought he would get it right and see if his and Jana's answers matched.

We also played the greatest baby shower game ever... Dirty Diaper. I love it. You take pieces of chocolate candy bars and melt them into a diaper and then smush it all around. Then pass the diapers around and have guests try to guess the flavor of the chocolate. It is funny! This is Jana taking a test sniff to see if she can identify the dirty deed! :) Isn't her tummy adorable!

Here's the party posing my my tiny staircase! It was amazing that so many people fit inside our house! It was a great shower and we hope Jana got everything they wanted! Congrats again Jana!

Big 12 Championship

Josh and I were lucky enough to get to go to the Big 12 Championship game with Angie and Bryan this past Saturday. It was a blast! We, unfortunately, were not able to pull it off but we played a heck of a game. And in the words of Frankie, "we just needed our guys to hit more baskets". How clever?!? I love you Frankie! Go Cats!

Weekend Fun

This weekend started out with the big Olathe South vs. Olathe East boys basketball game. It was the big Friday night "to-do". It was a lot of fun! I even got my very own concession stand nachos! Yep, that's right. That is what I was most excited about!

Oh, by the way, OLATHE SOUTH WON! It was a really exciting game!
The final score was 45 -35!

Saturday was pretty awesome. Well, kind of. I spent 3 hours at the Olathe public library. Who knew that was such as hopping place on a Saturday. Really? I stood in line for 15 minutes to check out! Craziness!

That night we had a big engagement! Guess who was in town? Yep - Sir Elton John and Billy Joel. It was such an awesome show! Angie and Bryan had asked if we wanted to go back in September. The original show was scheduled for December 2nd. Then Sir Elton John got sick. Boo. So they rescheduled. Totally worth it! They did a few dueling piano songs and then each did their own show and ended it by the dueling pianos again. And PS did anyone know that Billy Joel is hilarious?

This is the only video I am going to post. The reason: it was awesome! Plus, it may be the number one song that they played! Enjoy! (Sorry if you can hear Josh and I singing in the background!)

The appointment

Today was Josh's appointment at the Orthopedic doctor's. We were anxious to hear some good news. Instead, devestation. No surgery. No manipulation. No anything. He said that the clavicle was in 4 or 5 pieces. WHAT?? Yeah, 4 or 5 pieces. He said that to surgically fix this would be like taking small pebbles and trying to glue them back together. There would be a high possibility of a non-union with all of the pieces AND that no matter what, he'd have to have the plate removed after a certain amount of time. Anyway, he said that we are to keep doing what we're doing. Immobilization for 4 more weeks. At least. He has a follow up scheduled then to re-evaluate the need for surgical intervention. They will take an x-ray then to check progress and healing. Keep your fingers crossed. But until then, keep us in your prayers.

(In case you don't know how miserable this is for him, tie your non-dominant arm to your body. Leave it there for 4 weeks. You will need to figure out how to shower, dress, shave, put on socks, drive - and wear your seatbelt, and sleep. Not to mention that baseball season officially starts in 2 weeks...)

For all of you interested in the X-Ray, I finally figured it out (well, actually Josh did!).

What a weekend...

This weekend, my parents came in to town for some family fun! My sister and her husband and their baby came. We decided on Friday to go to Snow Creek in Weston, MO for some skiing/boarding. It is pretty small, but the weather was perfect which makes a world of difference! Little Ledger came too, but he stayed in the lodge and we all took turns watching him.


This was my turn. It just so happens that during this photo, Josh is currently out on the terrain park. Most likely at this point, he is already huddled on the ground wincing in pain. Josh took a jump and landed it wrong. He must have been 15 feet in the air (okay, probably more like 6 feet)! Nevertheless, Josh got to ride in the tobaggan. We took him to the ER in Olathe and found out that he fractured his clavicle (collar bone) in 2 places. The major fracture is pretty bad. So bad, in fact, that we have a consultation with an orthopedic doctor this week to see what our options are... :(


He did get spoiled afterwards. We had lasagna that night, Mi Ranchito for lunch the next day, and crab legs for dinner on Saturday! Yep, you heard me right. Crab Legs. I am awesome! Okay, so maybe crab legs are pretty easy to make. So what. I still made them and had people over to help eat them! We had about 10 pounds of "clusters" and all but 2 clusters were eaten. It was delicious! And Josh even cracked his own legs! What a man!

I had to post a picture, just so all 3 of you who read my blog would know that I wasn't lying! :)