River Front Park

We usually go to riverfront park in Spokane each time we are there and kids all love it. Some of the highlights are below.

The family at the falls
Feeding the garbage goat. Always a crowd pleaser.
Feeding the ducks. Like the goat, but with more dookies!

The cousins at the park

All the cousins hanging out at the park in Spokane.

I still think Nate is too young to have his own tanning bed.

Our stop in Utah

Uncle Tom was nice enough to set up a water park in his backyard and all the cousins had a lot of fun. This was about an hour before the whole hospital excitement.

Easton's Video Update

Here is a video we took of Easton in the hospital, that we just got downloaded on our computer. It is pretty big, but Easton is pretty funny on it.

Easton's head met an easton bat....

...and Easton's head definately got the worst of it. We are in Utah on our way to Washington, and two days ago we went to a park to meet some friends, who were having a work party. They had a pinata and invited our boys to do it with them. Unfortunately, they only had an aluminum bat, made by the easton company, and when a girl broke open the pinata and the other kids ran in to get the candy, she swung one more time and hit Easton in the head. Easton started crying right away, and an EMT who was there started to check him out. When Easton couldn't move his left arm or leg, we got him to our van, gave him a blessing and got him to a hospital.

He had a thin fracture in his head and some bleeding inside of it
He was being so brave while they did a CT scan, started an IV, and even when they strapped him onto a backboard and
Loaded him onto the lifeflight helicopter. His parents were trying very hard to be as brave as Easton was.
He had a short flight on the helicopter to Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City....
... and a very long night in the Intensive care unit with an uncomfortable neck brace. He threw up three times, but couldn't drink anything to get the taste out, since they thought he may have a neck injury. The Mickey doll the hospital gave him really helped to calm him down.


Once he got the neck brace off sunday morning, Easton started getting better much faster. Monday morning he stopped throwing up and began acting almost normal. He got to go out in a mini wheelchair to a fun play room and outside to see some fountains.



He even got to hang out with the US ski team, making buttons, getting their autographs and making them laugh. He was feeling so good, he remembered his brothers and made each of them a button too.


This is Easton trying to smile while still hooked up to all the equipment.


And this is Easton today right before we left, smiling for real.

We want to thank everyone for all your thoughts, calls and prayers. We feel very blessed for how this all turned out. The doctors and nurses were so good to Easton and our whole family.

It's already hot and humid

Carson getting his annual bath

Before

During

After

The boys with their giant water ballons. We started out making everyone's ballon the same size as their heads, but went a little crazy on Tyler's and Easton's. The real fun started when the boys realized they could drop the ballons and not break them.

Our friends from the ward

We went to Tom and Vera's house for dinner a couple of weeks ago and then to the park afterwards. Trevor and Amanda were there too. Tom got on the spinning wheel and Trevor made sure he had a wild ride. We are really going to miss all our friends when we moved later this month.