Who has the cutes niece and newphews....WE DO! Zayden, Brylee and Kingston are precious! We did Halloween in Harris Ranch at Nanna's. Mom made mummy meatloaf, witches broomsticks (and soup for Jonathan). Zayden was Lightning 'Queen (too cute) from Cars. Bry was a fairy princess, I think at one point she said a tooth fairy princess and Kingston despite being the cutest little Bronco fan ever....he was a little lion! Bry and Zayden got a lot of candy and Jonathan and Rob even managed a beer from one of the houses!
Zac, Kingston and I at Joel and Lindsay's for Jonathan's birthday brunch before the football game! I think we're going to be a pretty cute family someday!
Jonathan and I on the tube....we took our fair share of spills...but we had so much fun!
During Thanksgiving break we babysat Kingston for an afternoon so Jonathan could run some errands. Kingston is such a good little baby.
The dogs have just been hanging out being good boys. I do think they miss traveling on the weekends and getting out of Boise, but with Zac's school schedule we've become homebodies this semester. I know they are going to be super excited to go to McCall and Hailey during our Christmas break. The neighbor's dog broke into our yard and the three dogs chased each other for a good 2 hours or so. They loved it! I don't know how I feel about the fence that is broken....I'm hoping the neighbor gets it taken care of soon!
Going back to August....we celebrated Cam's birthday up in McCall for a fun night around the fire pit with some wine, a little shuffle board and then a beautiful Saturday on the lake. It was a good time! Unfortunately, it was one of those times Zac had to pass up for studying and school work. Hopefully those times will become fewer as he gets past this first rigorous semester.
Jonathan and I on the tube....we took our fair share of spills...but we had so much fun!
I have an amazing group of first graders this year! They always put a smile on my face!
Jonathan after his surgery.....Jonathan had been having some pains, headaches, tingling and numbness so he went into see a neurosurgeon. The doctor ordered an MRI, read the MRI and gave Jonathan a week to schedule surgery. Unbeknownst to Jonathan, his neck was so unstable, a simple trip or whiplash could result in paralysis. Very scary! His vertebrae were compromising his spinal cord creating painful symptoms and instability.
We celebrated Jonathan's birthday with some tailgating, a heart wrenching loss to TCU (by a missed field goal) and then a fun party at his house, before he went into surgery on Monday. The surgery was supposed to be a pretty routine operation with only an overnight stay. However, the medicine wasn't working, Jonathan was very nausea and throwing up, and in A LOT of pain. By Wednesday morning he had so much medicine in his system, it produced the reversal of effects and he stopped breathing. We will never know how long he wasn't breathing, Anna woke up to his nurse calling for the "Rapid Response Team." He was grayish in color and his oxygen level (which should have been at 98-100) had plummeted to an incredibly low 4! The team of nurses and doctors got him breathing with a mask, but he was completely unresponsive! They gave him an IV to reverse the effects of the narcotics and warned he would be in a lot of pain upon coming to again. I took a half day to spend the afternoon with him. By the time I got to the hospital around noon, we was still pretty out of it, but able to open his eyes. By mid-afternoon he was starting to ask a lot of questions....he doesn't remember any of it! I think we are very lucky to still have Jonathan with us and without any brain damage. Jonathan is almost a month post-operation and he is so much better! He is still home off of work, but goes to see his doctor in the next week or so, will begin physical therapy and hopefully be cleared to get back to work.
Wow it has been a very busy fall for us....between Zac studying and BSU football, we haven't had much down time.
Zac is almost done with his first (and hopefully hardest and most time consuming) semester of his radiology program. He has finals and then he's a free man for a month. He got his placement for clinicals next semester. He will be going out to Ontario....which is a long drive (an hour away), but luckily everyone says it's worth the drive and he only does clinicals two times a week next semester so that's good.
As for Bronco football....we suffered another heart-wrenching, gut-twisting loss by a single point, this time to TCU....and it wouldn't be a loss unless it came with a missed field goal! It wasn't nearly as bad as the Nevada game last year, but now it is starting to sink in, how bad it really was, and how much it cost us, despite being three weeks ago. Had we won, we would have ended the season undefeated....with only one other team in the BCS rankings undefeated (LSU), this could have been our year to play in the national championship! Sooooo close, yet soooo far away. As it turns out, we may not even get a BCS bowl bid at all! Getting so close to a the national championship to absolutely nothing......all over one loss....that's our ridiculous college football system for ya! I did dream all night last night that we got a bid to the Fiesta Bowl....and if my dream becomes a reality, Zac and I will find a way to get to the game! But for now our fate is in the hands of BSU haters and some computers....so we very well may end up playing LA Tech (yes from the WAC) in the Poinsettia Bowl...we have played them the last ten years....for Kellen and Doug's last game....come on! Look at the big picture people! We have the all time most winningest quarterback in college football history and our senior class has the best career record of any senior class in college football history! We are 50-3 over the last four years....give the Broncos what they deserve!
We have one last game to watch the talented senior class....hopefully it's a BCS bowl! It has been such an honor to watch Kellen lead our team with such poise and class! He will be missed by Bronco Nation and the next play caller has some big shoes to fill! Oh, and when you get sick of playing with the big boys, feel free to come back to BSU for some coaching! We would welcome you back here in a heartbeat!
