Catching up With the Holidays....

THis is everyone getting their revenge on the tree the next day..

Keep In mind.. this is Ashlyn after the doctor already reset her nose..

The hospital bed Ryan was on was a Stryker bed... Stryker was the company her worked for in San Jose. We thought that was pretty funny.

Ryan.. doing much better.

Just before the tree came down on everyone.

Thanksgiving Adventures.....

So, Ryan's family came out for Thanksgiving, which was an absolute blast. They were our first house guests and everyone was super helpful and a ton of fun. Thank goodness Kimara was around to help out a ton with the Big Thanksgiving Dinner.. if she wasn't there to help me the Turkey we cooked would have been a disaster! We all had a blast, and then headed over to my family's house for Dessert and games. The Parkinsons were not afraid to let their true colors show and they were right in the middle of the game PIT. It was halarious to watch everyone shouting.. 2, 2 , 2.. 3,3,3,... and so on. Funniest thing about it was that Alyssa's husband Luke and his brother were by far the quietest ones playing the game and they both just kept winning over and over again.

The Day after Thanksgiving was an adventure in and of itself. We were all at the Elk Grove Park and thought it would be fun to get some family pictures in the trees there. Well, Dallin found a cool Palm tree on the island in the middle of the pond at the park and everyone decided to climb onto it for a sweet picture. How often can you climb a palm tree right? Well, aparently the weight ended up being more than the tree could handle and down it came on everyone. Dallin was the only one on the tree to walk away without injury. So, a call to 911 and 2 ambulences later.... Ashlyn had broken her nose (really bad) and the tree had landed on her face, Landon had staples in his knee, and Ryan who thought that he was going to die because he thought he had broken his Femor bone bc the weight of the tree and the weight of Dallin had come down on him (probabaly 400lbs plus...) he turned out to be okay and there was no break in the bone but he was sure hobbling around for a good while and his neck has been tweeked from the 9ft fall since. I've never seen Ryan in so much pain. He actually stopped breathing for a little while because of the pain and shock from it all. My parents met us at the hospital and gave everyone a blessing. They were super helpful and had us over that evening to feed and take care of everyone. Here are the pics. The one picture of them on the tree I took right before it fell and you can actually see the tree leaving Dallins hands already headed for the ground. Thankfully everyone is doing much better now.