Caldwell's Family Photo's and Prayers for Kaitlen

Teele went to what Crystal refer's to as the "Holy Grail" of all rodeo's this past week.  Spending four, highly anticipated, days in Williams, Arizona.  I felt bad for him when he came home still cold, wet and shivering from all of the rain they had. Many of the cowboys, who paid good money in entry fees, opted to not take their run and just turn their cattle out for a big fat "No Time"!  This beat risking injury to the horse or themself in the very muddy arena.  He did place first in the go around in the calcutta roping.  That made things much better knowing he won the cost of the last four days back.

We received some much needed rain too!  We had a good wind storm in adition to the rain losing a section of roof off of the announcer stand at the arena.  Charlee and Royal came home to find the tree in their front yard had blown over.  With the rain comes the mosquitoes!  Jessica asked if I could take picture of the four kids Saturday evening.  The place we wanted to go was flooded so we chose another less muddy place and first thing Kaitlen fall's into a huge water puddle soaking her pants from the knee down.  That's okay we just won't photograph below the knee on her left leg! Between the heat, humidity, mud, water and swarming mosquitoes we very nearly gave up.  Despite everything I think they turned out pretty cute!

Little Miss Payten McKenzie

This one makes me laugh.  It shows her funny personality.

Haven Grace

Kaitlen Elizabeth

Caden James

LOVE LOVE LOVE his chunky cheeks!

And those beautiful blue eyes!

We almost postponed taking pictures and I am glad we didn't.  Sunday afternoon Jessica called to see if they could come over to look at the pictures.  Just as they were leaving they heard screams from the girls bedroom.  Kaitlen had knocked over some papers she had been drawing on then slipped and fell on one of them. In case your wondering they have shiny wooden floors and a piece of paper can be very slippery.  Jessica called and said, "Mom it's bad!  Can you watch the kids?  I think Kaitlen broke her leg!" 

I took this picture of her leg when they dropped the kids off.

One look and I knew it was broken!

X-rays revealed that Kaitlen had twisted the bones and broken both the tibia and fibula clean through.  They were afraid she would need emergency surgery but after determining that she was not bleeding internaly  they decided against surgery until she see's the Orthopedic Pediatric Surgeon on Tuesday.  Poor girl she is one sad young lady. She will miss the second week of school, no more swimming and they said no baptism.  She was so excited to be baptized and now it is cancelled.  My heart broke for her.

So if  your counting, yes she has broken a lot of bones!  Her arms three times, her clavicle/collar bone and now her leg.  They are going to run a bone density test in addition to other tests to see if she has brittle bone disease or something else.  So here I am again asking for more prayers!  In fact just don't stop praying for us apparently we need all we can get.