Camping at Ririe Dam

We went camping with a bunch of our friends that Ben works with at Melaleuca.  It's still kind of cold here, so we made sure to bring warm clothes, coats and hot chocolate.  The kids had lots of fun making smores and roasting starburst, but it was hard not to let Sophia have any of our treats because they were too hot.  She was eventually satisfied with a graham cracker and some chocolate.

One of Ben's friends brought his power kite and Ben had fun trying it out.  The bad thing is we don't usually have steady winds here, just big gusts.

A different friend brought his dad's boat up for the weekend.  This was one of the first sunny days of the year, so the water was FREEZING cold!  The kids still wanted to go tubing, so as soon as the boat was ready Ben took Sara and Brandon out on the water.

Brandon and Sara both loved being in the tube, but Brandon wanted to go fast and Sara was scared so they went very slow for her.  While the first half of the day was warm and sunny a storm blew in, so we didn't want to be out in the boat if it started raining and the wind picked up.
With nothing to do the boys got out the power kite again.  It was pretty windy and they were having fun until the wind totally died down.  They were about to put the kite away when the wind picked up again. There was a big gust when Ben was flying the kite and when he jumped the wind dragged him about 15 feet across the field.

This is Ben in massive pain in the back of the truck.  We knew we had to get him to the Urgent Care, so I ran around packing up all our camping stuff and shoving it in the van and the back of the truck.  Brandon stayed with some friends and Ben, Sara, Sophia and I drove back to town.  Luckily we were close so it only took about 30 minutes.  I dropped Sara and Sophia off at a friends house in town and got Ben to Urgent Care as fast as I could.

After they took x-rays we found out that he broke his ankle.  His fibula is shattered into five pieces with six different breaks.  Since it's the weekend they sent us home with his ankle in a big black boot and a prescription for loritab.  Ben goes in for surgery tomorrow and then starts on the long road to recovery.  What a fun filled weekend!