Friday, September 26, 2008

" Stupidity at it's finest"

Well it all started with a visit to the vet. Usually one of the kids will go with me to take the pets to the vet, but on this one day Matt was staying after school for tutoring and Kaycee was at soccer practice. So I decided to attempt to take our 50 pound puppy to get his stitches removed.(We had him fixed a couple weeks ago) the only problem is we have the most frightened puppy in the world. In the backyard he is ferocious but try to get him in the car and take him anywhere and he turns into a big chicken, this is where the fun begins. He almost always throws up in the car and on this day he did. Well I got him to the vet and the stitches were removed, I took him out to the car and had to force him in. I finally got him in leaving my purse and cell phone inside, as I was walking around the back of the car my sandal got stuck in the buckled pavement and I went down like a ton of bricks. I saw my ankle roll and thought it was broken. Now I wasn't as worried about the ankle as much as I was about "Who Saw Me Fall" then reality set in and I noticed nobody was around. With my cell in the car what could I do. I managed to make it to the car, and since it was my left foot I decided to try and get home. By this time my ankle was the size of a grapefruit. I called Jim and told him to go get Kaycee because we needed to go to the emergency room. Well it turned out it wasn't broken just badly sprained. They took me out of work for five days, wrapped my ankle, gave me crutches and some good meds and sent me home. So here are some pictures notice the nice pedicure (ha ha) and the scraped up knee. I usually have ankle bones but I can't seem to find them through all the swelling.




Thursday, September 4, 2008

"Our Redneck Weekend"

On Sunday we went to the California Speedway for our annual redneck weekend. Jim and I have had season tickets for about 10 years. We have four seats, Paula and Scott used to use two of the seats, but when they opted out we kept the four and decided we would take the kids. This race was a little boring. We had a great time anyway, the weather wasn't too hot which was a plus!!! For a couple of years it was almost too hot to sit in the stands, and torture for the kids. We even made it out of the parking lot in record time. (We finally figured out that if you park closest to the street instead of closest to the track, you get out faster). Jim getting all geared up
Waiting for the race to start
Night racing at it finest
Green Flag!!!

Matt took this video on my camera, excuse the shaking and no sound. (I have one of those "cheap" cameras without sound)