The Bad Weekend

First off, let me say that it wasn't bad in the fact that we were able to see our families, and Micah was actually with us this time...but everything that could go wrong, seemingly did.

Friday was great. Micah got to go golfing with my parents to help him practice in preparation of a golf outing later in the week. Then we all went out to dinner together with his family, and I ran into a grade school girl friend there! Small world sometimes :) Then bright and early Saturday morning is when the weekend went sour :(

Micah and his parents really enjoy bike riding. I do too-but since I have not been on the bike since before I got pregnant, it was not a good idea for me to go along on their rides quite yet, especially since this one they planned on going for 50 miles. I'm definately not in any shape to do that! Anyhow, Micah and Sandy left super early for their ride. We were going to meet up with them later for breakfast. When they arrived to breakfast, Micah was sporting a badly scraped up and bloody leg. He then informed us that early in the ride he fell down a ravine and was hanging upside down stopped by a tree stump, five feet away from falling head down in water. He had failed to unclip one foot and just tumbled on down. As if that wasn't bad enough, 5 miles later he got a flat. Needless to say they only went 46 miles, not the full 50 because they were running late. He's fine, but it looked nasty and could have been a lot worse.

After breakfast we got ready to go out on the boats. Larry and AJ both have go-fast boats, and we were excited to spend the afternoon on the lake and beach. Sandy was going to stay home with Devin, as he is much too little for the boats yet. As we all took off things were going well, until AJ suddenly stops. One engine had gone out and we spent a considerable time waiting to see if he could get it fixed. No such luck. So he was going to turn around and put put back to the marina while we took off for the beach. At the beach Larry, Aiden, and I got out to play while Micah, Dan, and our friend Josh took off for a little more fun on the boat before getting out to play on the beach with us. They were only going to be gone for a few more minutes, but that turned into over an hour. Larry and I realizing that we both left our cell phones on the boat, asked the people we were visiting if they had a phone so we could call them. Sure enough-one of the engines had basically quit on them too-and they were put putting it back to the marina as well. This couldn't have happened at a worse time for Larry because they were leaving Friday on vacation with the boat-and now it wouldn't be fixed until after they had to leave. Graciously, our friends drove us over to the marina to meet the guys with the boats as they came in. What a bummer that our afternoon of fun, sun, and speed had been cut short.

We decided to stay in that night and play Jokers and Marbles with his parents and relax a little. Of course to add to our luck-Sandy and I lost every game we played. Deciding to turn in to bed, I was exhausted. I had been up every night with Devin, never once asking Micah for help realizing he needed his rest more than I did. However, I was thinking of asking him to take one of the feedings that night because I really was starting to feel run down. I had just gotten Devin back down after his 1am feeding when there was a knock at the door. Sandy poked her head in and said that Dan was at the ER and needed Micah to come in because he had injured his hand. We had no idea what the state of the injury was-just that he needed Micah to come in right away. So now we are all worried, and they all take off leaving me home with the kids. I get a phone call soon after informing me that Dan was lighting off fireworks, (which he has done for years) and one of them had gone off prematurely. They were concerned that he may lose the tip of his ring finger, only time would tell. Of course I was concerned about Dan, and was hoping everything would be ok. But my other thought was, there is no way I'm getting any help with Devin tonight. And with the way Micah's schedule was, I wouldn't have any help for the next 3-4 nights.

They guys didn't get home until 5 the next morning. Obviously plans had changed then for Sunday, and we just layed low the rest of the day. Trying to redeem ourselves, we played a few more games of Jokers and Marbles, of which we lost every one of them-again. We took off for home later that afternoon and hoped that we could put an end to all the bad news. No such luck. I get a call from my mom Monday evening informing me that my sister Hilary had a really bad day. She had gone into work, and her pet rat that she keeps at the office had died over the weekend. Then she had found a home for a cat they rescued, but the guy took her away before she got to say goodbye. And then on her way home she was telling her dog Sadie to get down from the window-and when she looked back to the road there was a car stopped waiting to make a left turn. Hilary plowed into them, engaging her airbags. Sadie was shoved down under the dash. After determining that she wasn't majorly hurt, and the lady in front of her was ok, she ran to help Sadie. She was visibly shaken and then after a few moments took off running. Hilary, freaking out that Sadie was going to get hit by another car tried desperately to call her back. Finally Sadie was caught and under control, but limping a little. Hilary had burns on her arms from the air bag and her nose was a little scraped up. She later took Sadie to the vet and had her checked out. After a few days she seems to be doing better and should be just fine.

Everything happens in 3's right? Well, we had Micah's leg, Dan's hand, and Hilary's accident. The animals were in 3's too-the rat, the cat, and then Sadie the dog. Now that just leaves the boats right? Well, you have AJ's boat, Larry's boat, what's next? Well, on their trip, they took their Bayliner, since the black boat would be unavailable. The bayliner hasn't been run in a few years-so do you really think it will last them the whole time? Not so much! They didn't even make it the first afternoon they put it in before they had to get towed back to the marina! So there is the 3's for the boats :) Luckily it was something that was easily fixed, and the Bayliner is back up and running-we're crossing our fingers that it lasts them the rest of their trip...

Here are some old pictures I have of the boats. I can't find my full length picture of Larry's Black boat-I think it's on Micah's computer, but here are some pics of us a few years ago with Aiden on the boat (it's basically just like AJ's only with a radar arch and back deck). I do have a picture of Dan's hand, but I'm not sure everyone wants to see that!

AJ's boat

On Larry's boat with Aiden when he was about 10 months old

Lauren, Kiki, Aiden, and Hilary chillin out on the boat :)