Christmas Happenings

Our family had a wonderful Christmas this year! As mentioned in my previous post, we went to Leavenworth on Christmas Eve Night. The lights were absolutely beautiful! We browsed through some cute shops and adored the lights and Christmas spirit all around us. It was an evening very well spent!

For whatever reason we didn't take any pics of Dad and Josh :(

Christmas day started out with some delicious monkey bread, then headed off to spend a wonderful morning in church. We were able to finally get a good family picture! The picture in my last post was the best/most recent one, which is from Thanksgiving LAST year.  (I'm kinda the odd ball with my blue sweater, oh well!)

After church, we came home opened gifts and louged around for a bit. We decided that we would do the big meal for dinner instead of lunch this year. We played Scategories after dinner and even had a visitor via Skype play with us! Fun fun!

Monday evening we went with some friends and fellow church members ice skating, at the before mentioned ice skating rink. (On the way to ice skate I was wondering....we call the day before Christmas, Christmas Eve. What do we call the day after Christmas, Christmas Post?!) Anywho, just a thought :). 

 30-45 minutes into skating, right when everyone started getting there...BAM!!

IT happened.

What is IT you may ask?

I fell.

Face forward.

On the ice.

After getting up I quickly noticed something was wrong with one of my back teeth. It was cracked...grr. Aside from the blow and initial pain from it all I didn't know something was wrong with my chin until someone pointed out...she's bleeding

OH SUPER

With help from others I made it off the rink and mom came to examine my 'wound'. Then I heard it, those dreadful words that no one, I mean NO ONE wants to hear.

She needs stitches.

Grrrreat

I.do.not.like.needles.

There was a doctor on vacation who popped up and asked if we needed any help, he looked at my chin and confirmed it.

 After many phone calls, made even by kind strangers, no hospital was open or no doctors were available. We had to travel back home, almost an hour away to the ER. I took some pain meds, hopped in the car and began on our journey to the hospital. Oh the joys of small towns :)

So, all this to say I am now the owner of 7 stitches on the underside of my chin. The first two days were the worst, but today I am feeling much better. Plus, I was able to get my tooth fixed yesterday, so all is well. 

Praise the Lord. Thank you all who knew and were praying, the assembly of the stitches went so smoothly. God is good. Despite my dislike of needles, God allowed it to go SO well and really, truly not as bad as I had imagined. I think maybe, just maybe, I am not as scared of needles because of this experience.

Here is the good news/things to be thankful for:

1. I get my stitches out on Tuesday (Lord willing it heals up nicely, Mom says its looking good..), just two days before Kali and I hop on a plane to visit our friend
2. The tooth that cracked was in the back of my mouth, not the front. Big Blessing.
3. My 'wound' is on the underside of my chin, so SO thankful it was not directly on my face. HUGE blessing.

My family has been teasing me about my stitches. At the right angle it looks like I have the starting of some dark facial hair underneath my chin. That's ok...accident's happen and you just have to laugh! :)