Little Boy Blue...Cast

Matthew seems to be doing pretty good this morning after all the excitement he has had.
He loved going down the slide with his siblings....until he stuck his foot out to the edge of the slide. Oh dear! He cried harder than I had ever heard him cry (I wanted to cry too) and he really favored his left leg. Basically no swelling though. It was Tuesday evening so we gave him motrin and somehow managed to get through the night.
We headed in to Flagstaff Wednesday and sure enough the x-rays confirmed a green stick buckle on both bones in his left leg. They said it is pretty rare for someone his age.

We had to go to yet another doctor to get a cast for him. He enjoyed being a clown and making faces at the doctors while they were discussing the fracture with us. It was amazing how much better he felt just having it stabilized.

We are not having to give him too much pain meds....he does pretty good. Except when he gets more active with playing then you can tell he is in more pain. They said he can put weight on it when he is comfortable with that.

Matthew, the day before

He was really good about it.

Happy to be back home I guess.

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I Seth, am going to show you two pics of lightning that i shot.

This is the best one.

( I think you can tell )

This one I shot in Kansas when we were driving.

It seems I’m finding less and less opportunities to update here. Summer is here and has been keeping us busy answering the door and feeding extra kids. Of course all of this brings more opportunities to touch lives……I have to admit there are days I just don’t have the desire to touch lives.  I’m realizing more and more how I really am nothing without God and I need to rely more on him to get me through each day. Trying to get it all done and be a light in the process is just not something I can do on my own. Am I living my life day to day moment by moment in such a way that it is obvious that I truly do have faith/trust in God? So it seems our days are filled to the brim and amidst that I find myself calling out to God for strength and wisdom for it all.

It has been so good the last 8 months or so to have a closer relationship with this Christian family here. To hear them share their heart. The reservations we have sensed from them have come down and we are openly fellowshipping.

A couple days after we got back from our travels we had a baptism here for the couple that moved to Kansas 1 ½ years ago. It has really been neat to watch them grow amidst their struggles.  It was the first time they had been back to visit since they left.

We had Hopi Camp Meetings here a few days later. We were pretty involved down there this year so we had a full 3 day weekend.

So far we have a flourishing garden this year. (just tomatoes :-) We’ve used our grey water for watering and this year we started using soap nuts for laundry detergent instead of my homemade laundry soap. Maybe I’ve been killing our plants all this time. The tomatoes are really growing and have fruit and blossoms. Yay! I need to get some shade cloth on them today though because the sun is getting too hot and I'm afraid I'll loose them.

It sounds like I need to get Matthew up, so I'll let Tara add pics.

Tara feeding deer

Matthew Chillin'

Matthew and Sharayah - At the Fort Wayne Children's Zoo

Tara - petting goats with Cousin Bryn

Sharayah, hangin' out

                                                               Matthew with Cousin Aliya

Matthew with Cousins Leah and Ryan

Argggg!

The Miller Family!