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Denver Children’s Hospital Marble Sculpture

Kara has always enjoyed the marble sculpture at The Children’s Hospital in Denver. It was a highlight in their old facility, and now we know where it is in the new facility. Cosette asked me to take a video of it so she could see how neat it is, so I thought I’d post those videos here for everyone to enjoy! There are two parts to the video so I could show the different parts of the sculpture.

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Random Pictures from the Last Few Days

I have a few pictures that I have taken the last few days that I’d like to share. The first ones are of the Morning Glories in my garden. I just love the color of those beautiful flowers!

A Pretty Girl on a Pretty Day:

Hula Hoop Fun:

Sweet Friends:

We are truly blessed!

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A Successful Surgery, but a Crazy, Crazy Day!

Last Thursday was Kara’s surgery in Denver to remove the surgical staple from her foot.  It was a long, long, LONG day, but it all went well, and she is doing fine.

Kara’s surgery was scheduled later in the day than we usually prefer because that is what they had available.  We wanted to take a time that was as soon as possible to avoid the potential of driving in Colorado winter storms, and this is what they had.  So, she was originally scheduled at 4:30 our time, and we knew that would make a late night getting home at best.

Unfortunately, there were a couple of traumas that came in, so we were given the option of rescheduling or waiting it out.  We thought it would be ridiculous to have to travel back another day and agreed that waiting it out was the best option.  They thought she’d be able to go into surgery around 6:30, so we saw our time getting home getting later and later. Their estimate proved accurate.  She did go in around 6:30 and was finished around 7:15.  It took her awhile to wake up from the anesthesia, but once she did, she was her normal tough self, and they were ready to discharge her around 9:00.

We made pretty good progress getting home until around midnight when our driver’s side rear tire blew as we drove down the interstate at full speed! Thank God that there was no traffic around us and that Dan was able to get the van pulled over and stopped safely!  It took a little bit to gather our thoughts on how to proceed.  We were way too close to the interstate in the dark for Dan to get that tire changed safely, so our first thought was to call the police so there could be flashing lights to warn passers by to get over.  Well, it took the police forever to come, and while we waited Dan decided that maybe trying to change the tire wasn’t such a great idea anyway since we couldn’t tell how much damage had been done to the rim trying to get stopped anyway.  So we called my Dad who gave us the phone number for a towing service.  He also volunteered to come give us a ride the rest of the way home.

Try to picture us in the middle of the night with a girl who just had foot surgery tromping through the weeds in the ditch!  I’m sure we were quite a sight as we struggled around!  😉  Our bad luck even passed on to the tow truck driver!  He must have dropped his reading glasses in the ditch while he was working on our van because when we did finally make it to a service station, he couldn’t find them–and he couldn’t see well enough to fill out our bill!  So, I filled out our bill for him–what a day!

We finally made it home around 2:00 a.m.  Kara had just got into bed when she called me in to her room.  The surgical bandaging, including the surgi-strips, had all come off.  So, we all got back up, re-bandaged everything, and went back to bed around 2:30.  I certainly am glad that not every day was like that one!

I will say this, though:  God is good, all of the time.  Things don’t always go just like we plan or desire, but nothing is out of His plans. We just look back on the whole thing and kind of laugh–after all was said and done, the surgery was successful.  The staple is out, Kara is fine, we are fine, the van is fine, etc. Things could’ve been a lot worse, and we are thankful that they weren’t.  Kara has been running around and seems to be feeling fine.  It’ll take a few weeks to completely heal, but we are definitely heading in that direction!  So, we praise God for His healing, guiding touch.  He is always faithful.  Always good.

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