Jordan black and blue ankle

My poor BABY!

On Tuesday nights we play basketball at church with other guys. while Marie is living with us she comes too, but normally I'm the only girl who goes. So you could probably understand how competitive it can get. Most everyone is nice and just want to have fun and exercise. We are all good friends and joke around as we play. now that summer has started some of the younger guys like to come and try to be the best.

Jordan is one of the best players every night because he can jump, rebound, run, and what he is famous for is tipping the missed baskets into the hoop.

This past Tuesday Jordan was going up for a tip shot and one of the younger show-offs got under him and "hip checked" Jordan as he was landing on his right foot. In a matter of moments Jordan fell like a ton of bricks.

I have never seen him in so much pain. Most who roll their ankle can just get up and walk it off, but Jordan couldn't even sit down and relax for minutes.

But Jordan is tough and talks about it like nothing has happened. He'll bounce back and be at basketball next week and life will go on like nothing happened.

Jordan has been wearing an ankle brace through the day and when he gets home he ices his ankle. Today he came home and his ankle looked like this so I decided that he needed a ice bath for his whole foot.

His entire foot is swollen from his ankle to his toes. it now has started up his calf from the ankle brace.

Jordan learned when playing football and volleyball at Ventura College that if you wrap your toes with a wet suit material the cold water is MUCH more bearable to handle. He is using my swimming webs that I'm doing arm strengthening drills while swimming. It looks funny!

We'll have to see how long this swollen ankle will last

Stadium of Fire

Stadium Of Fire

The American Freedom Festival at Provo 2010

Featuring:

The Osmond's 2nd generation (pop group)

The 5 browns (pianists siblings)

Jenny Oaks Baker (violinist)

Eric Dodge (country singer)

and

CARRIE UNDERWOOD!

I wasn't familiar with the others, but Carrie was all I was really there for.

Let me explain how we were able to score such great tickets...

Jordan works at a sales company called APX Alarms. He works in the corporate office in the city licensing department. Every week they play games such as billiards and air hockey and gets free gourmet lunches every day. They play basketball, volleyball and are always giving away t-shirts and apparel. He gets yummy treats all the time and gets to join in special activities like mini golf as moral boosters for the employees of APX Alarms. Crappy Job....right!

As part of the moral boosting every year the owners buy the managers tickets to this Stadium of Fire, but for whatever reason Jordan's manager doesn't use his tickets and has given his tickets to Jordan the past two years. And APX doesn't go cheap on seating at the stadium of fire. We were on the field of the BYU LaVell Edwards Stadium, 18th row back a slightly to the left side. AMAZING! Thank you APX!

Big Choir

They had Lou Diamond Phillips as the MC This year marks the 1ooth anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America. That night they had the largest Centennial eagle Court of honor in BSA history. They had 261 young men on the stage with their mothers awarded the eagle scout rank, the highest in boy scouting. As the young men were awarded on stage, they had all the eagle scouts in attendance that night stand and be seen while holding a full coverage page image in the program of the eagle medal.

Jordan got to be a part of that, very cool. I truly think that he has gained a lot of his morals, ethics and values from becoming an eagle scout.

The oldest eagle scout in America, 92 years of age

I'm sorry for the out of sequence pictures, but one of my favorite parts of the night is the honoring of the United States Military. As far as I know all generations down to my father and Grandfathers served in the military in some form. My grand father on my Dad's side was a flight engineer in the Navy, and my Dad was a missile systems repairman on AH1 attack helicopters in the army. (mouthful) My grandfather on my mom's side was in the Navy as a sheet metal repairman on planes; and also was one of many generations on his side.

I can't say that I experienced the life of living and traveling from base to base as a military "brat" throughout the US, but I can sure feel and express my gratitude for my freedom. Not only did my father and mother make sure that I would have a life of choices and opportunity, but I'm extremely grateful for my heritage who fought for us to have a free land to live on!

Right before the Eagle scouts court of honor they had 4 Hill Air Force Base 388th Fighter Wings flyover the stadium. As the fighter flew over they have one of the pilots video casts to us a message saluting the armed forces in the audience. Inspiring!

Carrie Underwood sang the national anthem

I didn't bother posting pictures of the other groups and performers. Carrie is beautiful and I have loved all her hit singles and sound tracks. She is at the top of my list with Rascal Flats and Sugarland.

Here are a few videos I took on my camera. I'm sorry for my singing and the sound, but I think you'll get the gist of how awesome!