A Night In The ER

WARNING!!!!!!!!!!! If you have a weak stomach do not scroll down... These pictures are very gruesome!!

So Nate works at a gymnastics gym and we decided it would be really fun to rent it out for a Saturday night and invite all our friends to come play. We got pizza for everyone and were really excited to just play around and have a good time with friends. (well nate would have fun and I would study... Story of my life) So people started showing up surprisingly on time. They all sighed waivers and we were headed to play. Well... 5 minutes after we started playing, a friend (who is a very skilled diver) decided to do a double back off the vault. Unfortunately the difference between diving and flipping off a vault is that under a diving board there is just water and the board extends out so there is no way to hit anything on your way down except the water... The vault is placed on wood and there is about two or three inches that exist between the end of the vault and the start of the pit. In diving you are trained to dive straight up and straight down because if you travel at all you lose points on your dive. So he was just doing what he was trained.... SOOOO he ended up hitting the top of his head with great force right on the corner of the wood... He wasn't really sure what had just happened so he started rubbing his head in a "ouch that kind of hurt" way only to look at his hands and see blood on them. He leaps out of the pit and bends over, blood pouring out of his head. The nursing instincts kicked in. My cute husband was already running toward the bathroom before I could tell any one to go get something to cover it with and was back in less than a minute. We got the bleeding to stop and threw him in our car and headed to Timp Hospital. Below are pictures of him in the ER and the damage that was done... Again BEWARE!!!
First Picture... After they had cleaned him up a lot.. He actually looks A LOT better than he did.
Second picture... Top view of his head (33 CM across)
Third picture... So yes it was 13 inches across and it went all the way through to his skull... There was only a thick layer of skin holding his scalp in place. The doctor said it was the worst head injury he has ever seen.
Fourth picture... The next day... 50 stitches and 11 staples later. You can kind of see the staples. POOR KID!!!

BYU Vs UNLV

This week BYU played UNLV in boys basketball. They started out really well leading going into half time, but in the second half choked and ended up losing... (stupid 3 pointers that they think they can make...) Anyway... Susan has become my basketball buddy since Nate is always cheering so we took some pictures this week!

Sunday night chat with Uncle Nate at Grammy's...

Luke was being so cute this past Sunday night! Nate and I just adore this baby. He has changed so much in the last month. He is such a happy baby! We love playing with him. He loves to chat so Nate was having a nice Sunday night chat with him and I couldn't resist pulling out the camera! It's kind of a long clip but I couldn't stop. He was being so cute!

UPDATE OVERLOAD!!!

So I'm really bad at updating my blog and when I do it's like 10 new posts all in one. But at least I do it... So there are 7 new posts below, so enjoy seeing what's been going on in our lives the last month!

BYU Basketball

So as you have probably caught on to by now, I am a big cougar fan. I love going to the football and basketball games. This game, however, was a sad one because the cougars lost their first home game after a really long winning streak. It was still a fun game though even though it got really intense!I only take pictures of Nate at the games...

Last day of finals!

My nursing school friends and I decided that we needed to celebrate finals being over. It was a blizzard when we walked out of our last final but we were determined to celebrate so we went to Chilies and had a good time relaxing and not worrying about having to go home and do homework or study for another test!

Christmas Ugly Sweater Contest WINNERS!

So Nate and I totally won the ugly sweater contest at his cheer party this year. There were a couple other winners but ours were pretty hot. The best part is that his sweater is his dad's and he still wears it... It had leather diamonds sewn in across the middle of it. We were laughing pretty hard. It was a fun night and it was fun to hang out with his byu cheer friends.