Yum, hospital food...
We've had an interesting weekend that's for sure. Here's the story. As you all know, if you read our last post, we went snowboarding on our break. On one run Chris fell on his butt pretty good and got a little bruise from it but it wasn't a big deal. Once we got home it started hurting really bad and he got all feverish and stuff. A few days later it had spread down his butt and there was a lot of painful pressure so he went to the ER and the guy just told him it was a really bad bruise and he'd be in pain for the next two weeks. So he came home but things just got worse and more painful so on friday he went back to the ER and the same doctor saw him again and realized it was probably not just a bruise. I came in after I was done school and we waited for a surgeon to come in and look at it to tell us what it really was and turns out it was an absiss. Basically there's this bump that most guys have on their bums and that's what Chris landed on and it got infected and filled with pus. So he had a very very pusy bum. The surgeon told us he needed surgery so we waited a few more hours and he went in. He was put to sleep for it and everything but it was a success after they let a whole whack load of pus drain out. He had to stay the night and he was allowed to come back home the next day after lunch.
Yum, hospital food...
Now he's off school for another week because he can't really sit on his bum. Things seem to be going good, he has pain killers and this thing called a sitz bath that he has to do 3 times a day to keep it clean. It's definitely not in the most convinient location for making sure things don't get infected so if everyone could just keep him in your prayers that it will heal good and that nothing will go wrong, that would be swell. So just to warn all you snowboarders, the next time you go, maybe you should wear a bum pad because you just never know...
Yum, hospital food...
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Get ready for a long post people. We just had our reading break from school and it was about as long as the one we had for Christmas so that was pretty sweet. It started off with a midnight pick up of Ryan at the airport on Thursday night. He came home from Capes for his four day break. The next day we headed out to the farm, had a quick lunch and were then off to Millar "College of the Bible" for a tournament that Bethany was in.
The intensity of coaching college ball
They ended up being fifth in the tournament but it was sort of a weird set up with them having to play the same team twice in a row on their second day. They did have a closer game the second time around and possibly could have created a major upset against that team but it just didn't come true. On our way home from the last game we thought we would educate ourselves about the giant windmills that are on the way to Millar. There's about 90 of them on the way and they're sort of freaky being so close up to them.
The intensity of coaching college ball
The attack of the Killer Windmills
Learning some facts about windmills
Learning some facts about windmillsThe rest of the weekend in Herbert consisted of the boys being boys and playing past time games like "mini-sticks" and a new game of trying to balance the longest on a work out ball which I'm pretty sure they deflated just a tiny bit.
The classic Falk mini sticks battle
Ride em' cowboy
Who would've thought this would be so entertaining
Chris trying to out-do his little brothers
No one defeats Jake the wonder dog, he makes it look easy!
The classic Falk mini sticks battle
Ride em' cowboy
Who would've thought this would be so entertaining
Chris trying to out-do his little brothers
No one defeats Jake the wonder dog, he makes it look easy!It was also Kevin's big 21st birthday on monday which we celebrated on sunday by giving him a last minute, but very thoughtful birthday card. That night we partied it up at Alysha's for their big engagement party. I even tried dance dance revolution. I got a D. But so did many people except Alysha's brother who owns it and is a pro at it.
Kevin with his jean blanket from Grandma Braun
Kevin with his jean blanket from Grandma BraunThat was the days spent in Herbert. We took Ryan back on Monday morning to the airport and spent some time at home because Chris had to coach practice at Bethany on Tuesday night. We just chillaxed while we were home, did a little bit of homework but not too much. On thursday morning we made our trek out to Calgary to our friends Rick and Grace and their baby Maya's place. They used to live here in Saskatoon and just moved out there this past fall. We had a great time there playing with a very smiley and cute baby that I took way too many pictures of. On friday afternoon we were able to see my friend Charly from Capes who I hadn't seen in years. I randomly found him one day on Myspace and discovered that he lived in Calgs so we were able to see him on his lunch break. He bought this schnazzy coat at value village to impress Chris for their first time meeting. It was good to see him again, funny guy.
Us with Charly with our lovely fake back drop
We went for a walk with Grace and Maya that afternoon while Rick was at work and then that night we went to BP's for supper and rented a movie. It was good to see those two and to know that their life in Calgary is a good one. It can't be much better with a baby like this...
Us with Charly with our lovely fake back drop
Yeah she's pretty much one of the cutest, most content baby's ever. She even made us wish we had one just like her...but we'll hold off for now because chances are we'll get a lovely screaming child.
On saturday morning we left Rick and Grace's place and headed over to Dustin and Rebekah's. Chris went to Capes with both of them and Rebekah also worked at camp with us for many years. We had a lovely brunch with them and headed over to the mall as they had a brief meeting about RSP's and such. Supposedly getting a home in Calgs is outrageously pricey these days. Even for a tiny old home in the city it's like $350,000. Crazy. No thank you. Chris had this "daydream" where Rebekah's dad somehow got 4 flames tickets for that night and gave them to us. His dreams didn't come true but we did try and see if there were any on sale but all that were left was standing tickets which were $82. Pay that much to stand? That doesn't make sense to me. So we passed up that offer and made up our own fun. We went for a walk around the parts where they live and looked in random shops, like in fancy fabric stores where one pillow sham cost $175 or something like that. We also had some coffee and such, well I had a smoothie which wasn't very good because the ice wasn't crushed, so it wasn't really a SMOOTHie. Yup then we headed back to their place, looked at some photo's from their family cruise and had a delicious "experimental" supper, and then broke out the Ticket to Ride which Rebekah and Dustin kicked our butts at both times we played. I was a little out of it for most of the night, for some reason I was really tired so for part of the night they had a jam session as I watched and took pictures.
Rebekah and her many salad dressings
The musical trio
If you've never played this game, you should. Look at how much fun they're having...
All in all it was a very good night, even if Chris' dream of hockey didn't come true. Thanks for having us over guys and hey you made our blog!
The next day we drove out early in the morning, so early that I was dozing the whole day to canmore. We stopped at our hotel, picked up our ski passes, rented some snowboards at a local shop and went to Lake Louise for day of snowboarding. We both hadn't snowboarded in about two years so it was a little sketchy. Many of the trails that we picked were not wide enough for me to relearn how to carve so things got pretty frustrating for me at times. When I did find places that gave me enough room to slowly carve back and forth I was having a pretty good time. I had never been on such a big mountain. You'd go to the back side of the mountain and there would be three other mountains that you could take lifts up to. A little overwhelming. I was done at about 2 because my thighs were burning and the snow coming down the mountain didn't feel too good on the face. So we had some lunch and Chris went for a few more runs by himself. It was a pretty good day, I just wish I could've gotten back into the groove earlier on so I wasn't tired by the time I actually had the hang of it.
Yeah, we're pro.
On saturday morning we left Rick and Grace's place and headed over to Dustin and Rebekah's. Chris went to Capes with both of them and Rebekah also worked at camp with us for many years. We had a lovely brunch with them and headed over to the mall as they had a brief meeting about RSP's and such. Supposedly getting a home in Calgs is outrageously pricey these days. Even for a tiny old home in the city it's like $350,000. Crazy. No thank you. Chris had this "daydream" where Rebekah's dad somehow got 4 flames tickets for that night and gave them to us. His dreams didn't come true but we did try and see if there were any on sale but all that were left was standing tickets which were $82. Pay that much to stand? That doesn't make sense to me. So we passed up that offer and made up our own fun. We went for a walk around the parts where they live and looked in random shops, like in fancy fabric stores where one pillow sham cost $175 or something like that. We also had some coffee and such, well I had a smoothie which wasn't very good because the ice wasn't crushed, so it wasn't really a SMOOTHie. Yup then we headed back to their place, looked at some photo's from their family cruise and had a delicious "experimental" supper, and then broke out the Ticket to Ride which Rebekah and Dustin kicked our butts at both times we played. I was a little out of it for most of the night, for some reason I was really tired so for part of the night they had a jam session as I watched and took pictures.
Rebekah and her many salad dressings
The musical trio
If you've never played this game, you should. Look at how much fun they're having...The next day we drove out early in the morning, so early that I was dozing the whole day to canmore. We stopped at our hotel, picked up our ski passes, rented some snowboards at a local shop and went to Lake Louise for day of snowboarding. We both hadn't snowboarded in about two years so it was a little sketchy. Many of the trails that we picked were not wide enough for me to relearn how to carve so things got pretty frustrating for me at times. When I did find places that gave me enough room to slowly carve back and forth I was having a pretty good time. I had never been on such a big mountain. You'd go to the back side of the mountain and there would be three other mountains that you could take lifts up to. A little overwhelming. I was done at about 2 because my thighs were burning and the snow coming down the mountain didn't feel too good on the face. So we had some lunch and Chris went for a few more runs by himself. It was a pretty good day, I just wish I could've gotten back into the groove earlier on so I wasn't tired by the time I actually had the hang of it.
Yeah, we're pro.After we were done at the mountain we went to Banff to walk around for a bit because I had never been there. We had some supper at a place that Rebekah and Dustin gave us a coupon for so that made it worth it. Then we headed back to canmore and chilled in our hotel room the rest of the night. It was a pretty nice hotel except for it's unfortunate location being right beside a train track which had about 7 trains running on it throughout the night. But we got to sleep in so it was a pretty restful night and the mountains were right outside our window so you can't really beat that. We got home tonight at about 7pm saskatchewan time and tomorrow we're back to school. It hasn't quite sunk in how much I have to do now that school is back in gear. I've sort of just left it all until the break was over and now that it's over I don't want to think about it. But alas, it must be done and it must be done soon. So this might be the last blog for a while as this month will be nuts with huge reports that are due in a fews weeks or so. Kay I better publist this before it all of a sudden gets deleted our something. Farewell friends.
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Well, Chris and I are officially out of the limelight as the newly married couple in our family. Kevin proposed to Alysha last night and she said yes! And so the wedding plans begin. It was about -35 last night with windchill and so kevin's plan of going ice skating didn't quite work out because when they got there it was closed and covered in snow so he took her for a walk which I'm guessing was pretty short and that was that. Before this big event happened we had a little family gathering for Chris' grandpa's 75th birthday. We played a rousing game of buzz word which the men won, only because they had easy words, or they cheated. Of course. Chris' parents made the trip up not only for the birthday but also to be there for the big proposal night. Yes, it's been a weekend filled of special events. Tonight was the superbowl and Kevin and Alysha were over to watch. It was a pretty good game to watch, even though it was Ryan's team that won.
Okay so I'm going to take over now because Vicky is talking to her mom on the phone. For the exciting news which they are talking about check out Jamie or Paul's blog. Oh and I realized that Vicky said ice skating in the above paragraph. She should realize by now that ice skating is just called skating here so she doesn't need to be so specific. Hmm, what can I tell you from my point of view. Things are a bit stressful because according to everyone at school I should be applying for all these teaching jobs already and we really don't know what or where we want to be and yeah it just a whole new thing. We'd like to go to BC but I don't know how many jobs are out there and I know that getting a job here, at least in a small rural place wouldn't be hard. And then there is the plan to go overseas but it seems to be getting smaller because of all these weddings we want to be at. Anyhow, I guess its just one of those things we have to trust God with and ride it out eh. Yep. Its pretty nice to know that someone knows how it will all work out and that we don't need to worry.
Anyways enough about my worries. What else can we say wicky? She contemplates while biting her nails which are already non existent because she always bites them. That girl and her bad habits. So I'm reading this book called Searching For God Knows What. Its pretty rad. Its by Donald Miller. I really like his point of view on being a Christian and all that. Check it out. I think Vicky thinks that this is getting a bit long but I know you all love hearing from me. So I guess I'll go now. Here are some pictures from the weekend.
The love birds with Chris desperately wanting to be in the picture
Hey Apes, this time they really are engaged.
I don't understand this picture.
This one's for Ryan "Roary".
Okay so I'm going to take over now because Vicky is talking to her mom on the phone. For the exciting news which they are talking about check out Jamie or Paul's blog. Oh and I realized that Vicky said ice skating in the above paragraph. She should realize by now that ice skating is just called skating here so she doesn't need to be so specific. Hmm, what can I tell you from my point of view. Things are a bit stressful because according to everyone at school I should be applying for all these teaching jobs already and we really don't know what or where we want to be and yeah it just a whole new thing. We'd like to go to BC but I don't know how many jobs are out there and I know that getting a job here, at least in a small rural place wouldn't be hard. And then there is the plan to go overseas but it seems to be getting smaller because of all these weddings we want to be at. Anyhow, I guess its just one of those things we have to trust God with and ride it out eh. Yep. Its pretty nice to know that someone knows how it will all work out and that we don't need to worry.
Anyways enough about my worries. What else can we say wicky? She contemplates while biting her nails which are already non existent because she always bites them. That girl and her bad habits. So I'm reading this book called Searching For God Knows What. Its pretty rad. Its by Donald Miller. I really like his point of view on being a Christian and all that. Check it out. I think Vicky thinks that this is getting a bit long but I know you all love hearing from me. So I guess I'll go now. Here are some pictures from the weekend.
The love birds with Chris desperately wanting to be in the picture
Hey Apes, this time they really are engaged.
I don't understand this picture.
This one's for Ryan "Roary".
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