I finally got a picture that looked like a nice normal family. Sort of.
Today the famiy enjoyed Eric's new "Guitar Hero World Tour" video game. It comes with a guitar, drums, and a mike. In this family of hams, there was no shortage of people willing to warble the vocals to the likes of "Welcome to the Hotel California" and "American Woman". You really haven't lived until you've heard Anisa belting out the Michael Jackson song "Beat It". "Just beat it...."
Doug's gift of the Seinfield "Scene It" was fun too. Men against women probably wasn't the smartest way for us to play the game. Between Doug, Craig and Eric, they had a vast pool of knowledge to contribute. Galen and Carol joined us today also, as their family has been delayed coming home due to all the snow of the past week. Hopefully they will make it tomorrow.
I foolishly requested the boys to let me take a group photo at the end of the day. Mine all immediately morphed into poses. I cut Craig out because he just looked too sinister. I hope Anisa got a good one of the four boys because I didn't. Why can't they all be cute and smile like Duane?
Doesn't Duane's leg look good? He's getting around very well on crutches. He's had an interesting week. Monday he took a dive off a sled and ended up in the hospital with a broken leg. He had to go to the Sacred Heart in Springfield Monday evening and had surgery to place a rod from his knee to his ankle on Tuesday morning. I visited the family there and was amazed at the beauty of this lovely new facility. The pediatric ward where he spent two nights was beautifully decorated for Christmas, and the whole place was just gorgeous. Beautiful or not, he was more than ready to come home!
Craig took a fall during a snowball fight last week and broke his ankle. I believe that's the third time in his life. He's wearing a boot similar to Duane's but can walk without crutches.
So we have much to be thankful for, most of all that Jesus loves us all, "normal" or not.
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