Kids on the deck

These pictures have been up a while, but they capture two important events of the year, so I will add commentary. Earlier this summer Jefferson broke his radial bone about an inch down from his wrist falling off a chair onto some tile. In September on a Saturday after Brian and I had run 20 miles, Truman went to the park and fell off the monkey bars. His left arm broke in the same way, in the same place that jefferson's did.

At the doctor I forgot to tell them he was left handed so they casted him so he could no longer grip a pencil with his thumb and finger. He spent four week writing with the pencil straight up in his four fingers, moving his arm to shape the letters. Truman is veryroud of his handwriting, so that was rough. Even rougher was the first night of his Jr. Jazz season when he had to play with his cast on. Fortunately we had it off by he next week.

You may notice his cast is orange. Jefferson chose blue for BYU, then glow in the dark. Truman wanted red. Because he knows red is controversial this time of year. I told the doctor he could have any color but red. He finally went for orange cause it was almost Halloween. This kid will either be die hard Cougar or Ute when he gets older. I can't wait to see whether we will be paying for his college or not :)

The second big event was Brian building us an awesome deck on the back of our house with a shed underneath. It is gorgeous and adds to our view big time. Thanks Brian for yet another awesome project at the house!