the good parts of the weekend

The weekend wasn't all bad despite my injury. Sawyer had a great time at both the Easter egg hunt at church and at the picnic at Rest-A-Bit Farm too. Here are few pictures of him enjoying himself...

We had the Easter egg hunt inside this year since it was so rainy on Saturday, but Sawyer had a good time regardless. 

the mandatory group shot

Sawyer and his nursery buddy Nicole

playing with Bailey

hanging with the big kids

playing ball with daddy

my guys

he was more interested in eating the eggs than finding them

the very second after I took this picture Sawyer slammed his noggin into that red bench, which is funny because that bench almost broke my leg when it fell on me when I was little

see that big red place on his little head, bless his clumsy heart, I have no idea where he gets that from (wink)

Of course after the hunt we had to go visit Mema Dean so she could see his outfit and for a quick photo shoot.

reading a book with Mema 

How I almost ruined my free trip to Europe

This weekend started out like any other weekend.

Saturday I ran to Walmart for groceries then took Sawyer to the Easter egg hunt at church (expect cute pictures from that tomorrow) and we ate supper at home before being lazy bums and going to bed at like 10.

Sunday, we went to our church then I ran to Belk to get Josh some clothes while they had their big sale. Mind you, on Saturday all their men's pants were buy one get two free, but then on Sunday when I went they were only buy one get one free, but oh well. Josh got four pairs of pants and four shirts for $170.

I even to got Josh to agree to letting me buy him these Nantucket Red pants, couldn't believe it.

Well, after my shopping trip we went to Rest-A-Bit Farm, a farm owned by some church members from Josh's parent's partner church (the Edmondson's go to Temperance Hall United Methodist which has a sister church in Pinetops called Pinetops United Methodist). They were having a picnic and were showing their new-ish preacher the area where we used to have the "Walk With Jesus" production on the farm.

This is where it all went down...

Josh and I were playing soccer (I scored three goals on him by the way, boo-yah) and I was fine, no knee pain, no nothing. Then went to play basketball, no falling, no knee pain, no nothing. Then I walked away from the court to get a ball, rolled my ankle and fell to the ground in excruciating pain convinced I had broken my entire foot/ankle area.

Seriously, just walked.

Thanks to my lovely Clark Wallabees with their thick soles, I rolled my ankle so hard my ankle bone actually touched the pavement.

My first thought when I hit the ground? How I am going to walk around Europe next week with a broken ankle?!

Well, I laid there, writhing in pain for a few minutes before I told Josh we just had to go home so I could go ahead and ice my already swelling ankle. So I limped away and we drove to the house.

This is what my ankle looked like when we got there:

side view. where is my ankle bone?

So of course I had a giant pity party, crying over the pain, crying over possibly missing my once-in-a-lifetime trip and crying that I must have done something to anger baby Jesus for this punishment (yes I know how dumb that is).

Daddy came over and looked at it and told me to prepare myself for to be broken and the possibility that I may not be able to go to Europe (which was followed by more tears).

The next morning my awesome Papa came over and took me to get the X-Ray and praise god it ISN'T BROKEN!!! It is incredibly sprained and I just have to wear a lovely brace and walk on crutches for the rest of this week.

Please be in prayer not only for me, but for my amazing husband who now has to take care of both me and Sawyer all by himself.

Tomorrow I promise to post nice pictures from the fun part of the weekend.

Target Tuesday

Today I am linking up with Tara @ Fabulous but Evil for Target Tuesday!

In preparation for my trip, which is ONLY 5 DAYS AWAY, I visited le ole Tar-jay to pick up a few packing necessities....

Travelon Compression Packing Bags

I highly recommend these compression bags. You put your close in then roll out the air, it makes for SO much more room in your luggage, which for me is always a problem, it also protects your stuff in case your luggage gets damaged or wet. 

A bright, lime green luggage belt by Embark

My luggage is all soft Vera Bradley duffeel bags, so I am using  Josh's dark blue rolling bag to travel overseas, meaning I will never be available to pick it out from the rest of the bags on the baggage claim  belt, so I invested in a bright lime green which I had monogrammed in hot pink of course.

Some more bangles

I ADORE these braided bangles, and they're only $4 a piece. I already have them in purple & gold (of course) but I figured I needed a few more. These may not really be necessary for travel, but hey a girls got to accessorize. 

Travel-sized everything

I know I should go the cheaper route and just fill up those little 3 oz. containers with my soap and such, but I make SUCH a mess doing it, and it is so much more convenient to buy them this way, and you certainly can't make your own travel-sized hair spray.

Mossimo Supply Co. Color-Block Maxi Dress

same theory as I have for bangles, you can never have too many maxi dresses

Make sure you come by tomorrow to hear about how I almost lost my free trip to Europe. Oh yeah, tears were cried and tantrums were thrown. I may have actually said, "Jesus hates me".