We got there late Friday night and we went down to the beach to look for golf balls (Ray's idea :) on Saturday morning. I wish we had more shots of the beach-it was so beautiful that day. It was sunny with no wind. Grace and Elliot each found a golf ball :)
Grace helped Grandma make apple pie on Sunday morning.
This was from the morning we were at the beach. There were actually 2 bald eagles fishing, but we could only get a shot of one. It was funny. They kept going after these 2 ducks-right before the eagles would get there the ducks would dive under the water.
One of the eagles sitting on the beach.
Ray went to the gas station late Saturday night (we had to have soda for Sunday :) and these 3 little foxes were in the parking lot. He whistled and they came over to him. He fed one of them a chip. They were not afraid of people at all!On Saturday afternoon we built this huge fire outside the house to burn all of the leftover building materials from the deck. Grace and Elliot were out there with Ray the whole time (grandpa was working on the rain gutters). It seriously took about 4 hours to burn all of the stuff, but the kids loved it-I spent a lot of the time inside with Maggie (okay, I was reading while Maggie was sleeping!!). I wish I would've gotten some pictures of them working on the fire-I think my mom got some.
On Sunday we went to church in the morning and just relaxed for the rest of the day. They don't have cable up there and it was so nice to be away from all the craziness of the world that you get via TV. So for the crazy part of our weekend. Early Sunday evening I noticed Elliot breathing funny. He was taking really rapid breaths and you could see his stomach moving up and down every time he took a breath. We tried to give him a puff of my mom's albuterol inhaler, but it didn't help very much. His lips weren't turning blue or anything, so I know he was getting enough oxygen, but he was obviously having a hard time breathing. Anyway, my dad and Ray gave him a blessing and he fell asleep. He seemed to be breathing better after he fell asleep-he was taking deeper breaths. He slept in our room and he kept waking up crying and his breathing seemed to be getting worse. We finally decided to take him to the little ER in Cascade at around 1 AM. (This same thing actually happened to him about 14 months ago). So, we got to the ER and they gave him a shot of steroids to open up his airway and gave him an albuterol breathing treatment. He was doing much better. The let us take their nebulizer home for the night so we could give him more breathing treatments (gotta love small towns!!). Earlier that week Elliot had a cough that was pretty croupy. They think that this reaction was just a result of the croup. I don't know what to think about that because his cough had been much better the few days before that. Anyway, he is all better now and that is seriously the fastest ER visit in the history of mankind. We were there for less than an hour-yet another perk of small towns!!
Now for the other craziness. I hate even putting this in print because it still upsets me to talk about it. My dad had been working on rain gutters. There is an upstairs deck and a lower deck. The lower deck has a covered portion, the roof of which the upper deck butts up against. My dad had taken the side (iron) rail off the upper deck so he could crawl out on to the roof to install the rain gutter. Well, Ray had been out on the upper deck with a blanket. After Elliot fell asleep he went out to get it and my dog Max followed him out. Max rain straight out on the roof, which is metal and slanted, probably thinking he could run around out there, and slid straight off the roof. He fell about 10-12 feet. Max is 8 1/2 years old and has been a little arthritic lately. Ray yelled and I freaked out when I figured out what had happened. He couldn't see how Max fell because it was totally dark. We ran down and by the time we got outside Max had walked back up onto the deck. Miraculously he was totally fine. He was limping a little but didn't wince or yelp when Ray was checking him out. He had a hard time getting into the car the next day, so I took him to the vet when we got back and he is totally fine and now he isn't limping at all. Some of my dad's good luck must have rubbed off on him!! It still makes me sick to think about him sliding off the roof, though. It could have been very bad.
All in all we had a great weekend, despite all the events of Sunday night, and I miss Cascade already!
5 comments:
Oh my goodness! Poor Max! And little Elliot, too. I am glad everything turned out well for both of them.
Cascade is really beautiful. I don't think I have been through there since you lived in Boise. I think I even visited you once on my way there to see Mike. I know someone that moved there a couple of years ago, but haven't kept in touch with her (she was more of a friend of a friend).
Sam is getting pretty arthritic, too, but she is doing really well for a 100 pound, 10 year-old dog. Arthritis medicine for a dog her size is $60-70/month. We don't really want to pay that now, but will do it when she gets worse. Until then, our doctor said we can treat her with aspirin. Even Gypsy gets an aspirin now after a day of hunting. Don't know if you've given Max aspirin before, but it's safe and nice to give them on their bad days.
Wow...sounds like a good and scary weekend all in one. I guess that's what it's like having kids (and a dog). I'm going to be a terrible mom, illness of any kind freaks me out. Maybe that's why my good health was specifically called out in my patriarchal blessing.
Seriously, you guys should ask Alex or mom about the time (recently) I thought I was having a heart attack. Funny now, but at the time it wasn't. I think I'll be a mess if anything ever happens to one of my kids.
Glad Elliot's okay. I can't wait to see him again. And all of your kids! Only a month to go!
Mom told me about what happened to Elliot, so I knew about that, but POOR MAX!! That freaks me out! When we were at the cabin (it was before there were rails of any kind on the upper balcony) we pushed the couch against that door so there was no way the kids could open it.
Good to hear Max is okay.
Ray, didn't you just hear on the news about the rabid fox that bit the lady while she was running? Wild animals are not your friend.
Wow- I really had no idea Idaho was so gorgeous! Seriously, I would like to go visit now and never before has that been on my "to do" list. Ironically there is a "states" program on the History channel and when they showed Idaho, there was mention of the eagle population being larger than the people population and plenty of shots of the deepest gorge, the highest falls, and the pretty mountains. I honestly had no idea. I have only been to Pocatello and for all intensive purposes, only within a few blocks radius during daylight. It is so pretty!
And Max had quite the adventure! I wonder if he even knew what had happened. I love dogs. I miss mine so much. I wish we had a bigger house and yard, but that will come later.
Your family looks so happy! I wish there were pictures of you, but I am all too familiar with no pictures of myself on my blog.
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