Trip to Moab

David, Maggie, Meme, Lizzy and Parker

Making the climb to the arches.

Hanging out at the hotel and Grandpa had to make a temporary wheel chair to get around!

The kids were more than happy to help push Grandpa around in his “wheelchair” and loved watching silly animal and baby videos with him on his laptop.

Meme and Papa have always wanted to go bike riding in Moab and so this past April, while they were out here, they finally did it.  They went with David’s Uncle Curtis and Aunt Jerryne. Things were going great until Papa Dave hit some loose gravel on the trail and somehow his foot got stuck in the spokes and he broke his ankle! We got a call from Sherrie telling us what happened and that he would have to have surgery on his ankle.  David was in California at the time, but I felt so bad that Sherrie would have to be there handling all this by herself, so I packed up the kids and we made a last minute trip to Moab. I called up Giselle and invited her to come along too and so there we went! Sherrie’s birthday was on that Friday, so we wanted to help her celebrate that as well. It’s just a few hours away, so nothing too bad.  Dave was still in the hospital, when we got there. So we went to visit him with 5 of his grandkids.  They were a little worried about Grandpa at first, but he made sure to show them some fun things to play with in the hospital room and they all were very entertained. He was released from the hospital on Friday, April 10th, Sherrie’s birthday.  Giselle and I were planning on heading back home on Friday, but they kept insisting we stay another night. We couldn’t say no to the drugged up Grandpa Dave! He was pretty entertaining with all that medicine. He really needed to rest though and the kids were getting restless, so we decided to take advantage of our trip and go on a hike.  The kids absolutely loved it! We picked a somewhat easy path, since we had 2, 2 year olds, with us. It was the neatest thing though to see the arches. Poor Giselle had her hands full with Lincoln. He would have just kept running if she didn’t keep up with him and make him stop, which is why he isn’t in any of the pictures. There was no way to stop that boy for a picture!! So we went back to the hotel after our adventure and had some dinner and had Meme open presents.  The next day was Parker’s birthday. We had breakfast and then packed up to head back home to celebrate the rest of Parker’s 4th birthday with Dad! Luckily Sherrie and Dave made it back to Arkansas and after some more surgeries and a few months of a cast and resting he is now almost back to as good as new and is healing very nicely. We are all glad for him to have his leg back and be back to chasing the kids all over the place! It was pretty sweet though, after he hurt his ankle, every time we had family prayer the kids would always mention Grandpa’s ankle and prayed that it would heal quickly. So sweet.