Busy Holiday Weekend

This weekend has been full of baking and celebrations. Yesterday Kyle had his second Basket ball game. He did great, although his team did lose. They played against a really good team and unfortunately they were down to 6 players. After the second quarter one of their better players got fouled out :( But we were glad that Kyle really stepped up and did a great job. He played the entire game which was new for him because they usually cycle kids out every three minutes.

I did a ton of baking, which I really enjoy. I made toffee bars, snickerdoodles, buttery almond cookies, apple-carmel pie, baked macaroni and cheese, sweet potato casserole, fudge, reindeer cookies and raisin bran muffins. Everything has come out great. We had a Christmas party tonight and tomorrow I am taking some snacks to Phillip's office. He's off for the next 2 weeks, but I usually send something in to the office every year, and I am a little behind this year. I am just doing a mixed platter of toffe bars, buttery almond cookies and some bars I am going to make tonight.

We went and visited Joel and Candace and Sammy this afternoon. Sammy turned 1 today! We brought him a bug trike and he was so cute with it! He had more fun with the wrapping paper than anything! He is getting so big. The kids really enjoy playing with him and he seems to like them as well.

Knee set back

Well, I haven't been having too many problems with my knee until about a week ago. I have been doing alot of pool therapy which has been nice. However, I started having tremendous pain about a week ago. On Monday when I had therapy I was hurting but was able to get through therapy. On Wednesday I had pool therapy but could not get past my 5 laps. The therapist put me in the deep end with weights on my ankles to "pull" my leg and straighten my knee. It helped a little, but after doing some stretches I was still hurting. She put me in the hot tub for 20 minutes, but I was having shooting pains. She put a Renalto patch on me to wear home. This fun little number shocks medication into my muscle and helps with inflamation and pain. So, the out come is good, since I usually have no pain for about a day, but having my knee shocked for three hours is no fun. I usually have it done "in Clinic" which is done after I am numb with an ice wrap and is a much higher voltage and it takes 20 minutes. (See the picture of my lovely knee patch above with the electrode.. how cool is that ?) I have more pool therapy on Monday, so we will see how that goes. I haven't heard too bad today, but give it some time....lol