Hello everyone

We haven't had any activity on the blog for a couple months, so I thought I would say hello. We did have an accident in our family last month, but all is well. Karen's daughter, Amy, got out of her van to tend to a screaming child she thought had her hand in the door. She thought she got the van in park, but it was not, the door knocked her over and ran over her legs! She was hospitalized for about 4 days, had surgery to repair a bone in her left ankle (they put a plate and pin in). She was very sore from the fall and of course the van running over her legs, it also hit her abdomen, but luckily just bumped her there. The other ankle was sprained, she had to wear air casts on both for awhile. Luckily the bone that broke was not a weight-baring bone. Worst for Amy was seeing her three kids heading towards a very busy street, and she couldn't get to them. But she has a smart, brave littel boy. Her 8 year old son, Jacob, got in the driver's seat and (we think) turned the wheel because they turned back towards her house and bumped into a tree. The kids were traumatized for a while. Jacob is quite the character, telling the policeman that the van couldn't have ran over his Mom because he didn't "feel the thump of the body". All of this and her little 3-year-old girl only had a scratch on her finger, no one knows what she even did, her hand was not in the door.

Karen and I just celebrated our 38th (okay 48th) birthday with our husbands and Gene & Lynn. They all came to Minnesota for a few days, we had a good time.

How are all of you? If you want to do a post and can't figure out how please ask me or Connie.

Love to all,
Kathy