9 Tidbits of news

News for this week:

1) On Friday, Grandma and Grandpa Rasband went to Heber City for some sort of reception.  As they were walking through the line, grandma fell and broke her arm.  Grandpa took her to the hospital there, and they said they couldn't admit her because they didn't accept Medicare.  He then took her to Provo hospital, and though she's been there many times, and we don't really know why, they turned them away also.  Grandpa took her home, and on the way into their house, grandma fell again.  They went back to the hospital, where she was finally admitted.  At first they thought she had also broken her hip, but determined later that it was only bruised.  Dad went down Friday night and sat with her so grandpa could go home and rest.  The two of us went down again last night, and dad went down there again tonight with Jennie and Caitlyn.  She has a CNA assigned to her 24/7 because she is a fall risk. Grandma had surgery yesterday and they put a plate and screws in her arm.  She seems to be doing all right, at least physically.  Dad will continue to go down for a few nights as he is needed.  Nan Theobald gets back in town on Tuesday and will be able to help, then.  Al is coming for Thanksgiving.  Grandma will go to a rehab center for at least 30 days when she's released from the hospital.

This is an x-ray of her upper arm, thoroughly plated.

2)  Doyeon, at the age of 4, has had an orthodontic appliance put in her mouth to push her lower jaw back (I may have that wrong, but she has an under-bite that they're trying to fix). Dan and Jieun took dad and I to lunch on Saturday.  Poor Doyeon hasn't had much to eat since they put the appliance in place.  Before we went to lunch Dan and Jieun bought her a Jamba Juice.  She wanted purple, and the only purple one had peanut butter in it. (No wonder she wouldn't eat it :)  

3) Adrienne had a hard week because Ollie is suffering from another ear infection and will likely need to have his tubes re-inserted.  Gunnar lost a filling from his tooth and was in a lot of pain.  Adrienne, overburdened with all of this, backed her car out of her driveway into a neighbor's car.  Se la vie.  When  you have several children, the odds are that you will have weeks like this.  I tended the boys on Thursday for a couple of hours, so at least she had a little break. Ollie kept asking me where Hyeji and Doyeon were (aren't they always at my house?).  We Face-timed them to make Ollie happy, and soon they were at our house, too.  Jieun helped me with Finn when he got super tired and unhappy.  Adrienne had made chicken] lasagna for our dinner that night (I guess she feels like she has to pay me :)  We all ate together.  I left at 7:00 for our Stake Relief Society night, and they all went home to bed.   

4) I taught 3 water aerobics classes-Tuesday, Thursday, Friday.  I haven't done that in a while.  I was actually pretty sore and tired on Saturday.  That may be partly because I had to be at staff meeting at 6:30 a.m.  I work extra hard as the teacher because I'm responsible to try and give everyone a good workout.  

5) Sometime during this past week, Bean, one of Nick's cute little bunnies, died.  Sorry, Nick.

6) Crista sent me a picture of Ruby with the caption, "Those Cheeks.  It is such a cute picture that I made it my wallpaper on my phone (I switch out pictures of the grandchildren occasionally).

7) Elise had sent me a cute picture of Max a couple of weeks ago that I missed.  He was helping his daddy with the fence.  We Face-timed for a little bit today.  Elise is looking pretty and pregnant.   Andy is fully involved in tithing settlement as a counselor in the Bishopbric.  That made them late getting home from church.  Max looked pretty sleepy.  

8) Adrienne and I played the duet "How Great Thou Art" in her ward.  We have now done it in various combinations of violinists at Uncle Bill Berry's funeral, in my home ward, Dan's ward, Crista's ward, and Adrienne's ward.  We're on to the next piece.  "I know that my Redeemer lives."  Cailtyn and I will be playing that the Sunday after Thanksgiving in our ward.

9)  Dad and I have tickets to Houston Texas for the first week in December (I may need a little help with Caitlyn that week--hint hint).