Football injuries/ Winning a giveaway

Last week football practice ended with Abram having a broke finger and Isaac having a torn patellar ligament..(result of stepping into a HOLE -while running routes in the field-not being hit! They need a better practice field...) Jacob hasn't been injured..yet... We get results back today from an x-ray taken over the weekend to see if Isaac has a complete tear/broken kneecap. His bg's are running HIGHER. Guess it's from the injury...hormones being released, etc. Plus he's can't be as active as usual and I think he is also starting to come out of the honeymoon phase...I gave him 3 corrections yesterday, also thought about raising his basal. We will see what today brings.

I WON one of the Disney books with Coco that Stephanie @ http://www.mylifeasapancreas.blogspot.com/ was giving away!!! Thanks so very much Stephanie :) Looking forward to receiving it.

Guess I will be heading to the garden to gather some corn, tomatoes, cabbage, peppers, cucumbers and blackberries. 

Our Endo. appt. is coming up the end of this week!

More canning...

 Some goodies from the garden...

 Salsa

 Dill pickles

Tomatoes

Will be canning corn soon :)
Thankful for our garden/harvest.

Putting our pool up / 7 months / Endo. visit soon

Digging the sight.

Working on the retaining wall. 

 Work...work...work..

 Hammer harder dad :)

 Spread those wrinkles out of that liner Isaac..

 Get those bolts tight Jacob!

Having some fun...

 Really mom...more pictures..

 Abram making a turtle.

Marty leveling the block.

 Brothers taking a break.

 Wonderful facial. That dexcom clip is really sticking out of the side of his shirt in this picture!?

Let me help..I don't think you have enough.

We are still working on the pool.. (18ft.round/52" deep) Gave to us by a friend a couple of years ago. It was a tiny bit high on one side so we took it all down and are using a transit to level this evening and will put it back up and hopefully by tomorrow evening it will be ready!

We have our Endo. appt. next week. Summer is going by so fast! Isaac was diagnosed 7 months ago.
(12-27-2010)

 I am so thankful to have found the wonderful blogs of others that are telling their stories about living with diabetes! The "DOC" :) what a blessing!!

The boys and their new critters :) Football Season!!

Abram

Jacob

 The boys and their new kittens.

Isaac

We have been busy working in the garden. Canning alot. Putting a swimming pool up.

Isaac may start football practice Monday. My boys love sports and have played lots of football,baseball and basketball in the past. This will be the first time since diagnosis that Isaac will be playing football. He will be playing on our local jr. high team. Lots to learn with this new adventure-figuring it all out..keeping the lows at bay....but I will not let diabetes hold him back from anything. Jacob has already been practicing with the high school. I always enjoyed football-but when my boys are playing it makes me nervous..LOL

Snakes..

                                                Jacob

                                                Abram


A few weeks ago after church Jacob and Abram caught a snake by the creek.. I REALLY do not like snakes :)
But they like taking a closer look...haha They released it a short time later. Yep..They are really good at knowing which snakes to pick up or not..LOL We have rattlesnakes/copperheads around here also!!
With three boys we have had lots of wild critters being observed/handled around here...

Putting up the harvest

Been busy...  Picking and canning green beans..

            Putting peppers in the freezer for soups/chili.

     The corn is getting taller. We will be harvesting/canning it in a few weeks.

               Thursday I will be making kraut.

    Will be dicing these up to freeze for soups/chili.

   Our first few cannings of half runner green beans.

A summer day.

 Abram and Isaac

 Jacob

 Isaac getting a night crawler.

 Abram getting a bass lure.

 Isaac catching a blue gill.

 Playing with a duck.

 A quick lunch.

                   Cousins stopping by with the boat.

                                                 Exploring.

Cooling off in the Lake.

Isaac catching a trout out of the creek.

Swimming to the other side of the cove.

(A duck is swimming along in front of them.)

Jacob on the rope swing.

Hello there playful duck...

A couple of trout for the freezer.

(For some reason most of the dates are wrong on the pictures??)