Wayne and Rebecca Madsen

Note to self: artificial turf is nothing like real grass.

My injuries this week started on Wednesday when I went for a goal in my soccer class. I slid for the ball, realizing afterwards that artificial turf acts more like sandpaper than real grass. My leg was shredded. It didn't hurt so much at the time, but it continued to hurt worse throughout the day, making the worst pain right when I was trying to sleep. Now one side of my leg is a large wound, but fortunately it is healing well.

That's really only the start of it. Thursday night I got hit in the face so hard that my nose was bleeding. And I think I might have fractured one of my knuckles. And then, on our campout Friday night, I slipped on the snow and re-opened my leg wounds. It has definitely been a rough week. [but Wayne has been a trooper, and kept working hard at everything anyway...despite the added "color"! -beck]

Monday we drove up North because it was our Nephew Davin's birthday and Chris and Katie were visiting. Which is why the next day we ate at a Thai restaurant with Karl, Angela, Chris, Katie and Davin and played frisbee golf afterwards. We were glad they could make time to see us on their trip here and sure had fun playing with them!

Lucky for me, only Wednesday and Thursday were the only really painful days. Wednesday night, I threw together a fast version of GalleryOneTen's website.

Although it was raining to start with, we went camping up in the Uinta Nat'l Forest next to Payson Friday night. There was snow at our campground and it was definitely much colder up by Payson lakes than it had been down in the valley. Yet, at night, it didn't get much colder. I thought we were going to freeze to death, so I was glad we were wrong and it wasn't too cold. You can see our pictures of the campout here and Karl took some pictures which are posted here. It was a beautiful area and a good way to start off our camping season. Good thing we didn't let the rain and snow scare us off!

Saturday, we tried to recooperate from our campout. It always takes us a day to get back to a normal schedule because we loose a lot of sleep. After some long naps, we were ready to get started. But it was a bit late for that. So we had a restful Saturday.