The week of medical adventures:
Cordelia fell off a ladder and injured her wrist. At 10 pm on a Friday night. We debated about taking her into an emergency room as she has hurt her wrist about a year ago. She perked up fairly soon and we iced the injury and put it in an ace bandage as well as pulled out the splint from last year. After 2 or 3 days she was doing well and went without the splint and just kept her wrist still and now seems to be doing well. Then on our way to Utah for Ben's sister's wedding Elnorra developed an ear infection and accompanying headache and fever, including a heat rash that itched like crazy one morning. Just as Elnorra recovered Ben had a shocking and major accident. During the bachelor party the night before the wedding of his only sister, Anni, and best friend, Lewis, Ben broke his leg. He went to the emergency room and had surgery and now has a titanium rod and pin in his right lower leg. He was so determined, though, to attend the wedding that the doctor allowed him to leave the hospital long enough to attend the ceremony and witness the union. Windy figures a healthy normal birth in 6 weeks should cover her obligation to keep the up with family's medical needs.




Ben and Anni


Check out the cool shoes!

The newlyweds off on their honeymoon!

Anni & Lewis's big day-Alpine Utah

Elnorra, Cordelia, Candice and Veritie

The Bachelor Party: Pirate town and trampoline adventure centers.

Ben and Dilly at Grandma and Grandpa Shaffer's apartment

All the Shaffer Grandkids:
Joeseph with Candice (18 mo) and Veritie (3)
Ben with Elnorra (4 1/2) and Cordelia (2 1/2)
Adam with Muriel (18 mo), Marcus (3) on his lap and Merideth (8) and Madeline (6) on the floor

Cordelia, Veritie, Elnorra, Merideth, Candice and Madeline

Dinner with Aunt Anni

Ben and Lewis

The Windy-Anni "tradition" painting toe nails. We catuall did the toenails bright red just before they left on the honeymoon after she changed out of the wedding dress, but on this day we only had clear polish for fingernails.

Elnorra 4 1/2 years old standing in front of the hospital where she was born in Cedar City, Utah.

1 month after moving in I hosted my first week of co-op preschool. We survived the hury and relocate the mess panic and had a lot of fun in our large kitchen that 9 little kiddos can stand on buckets and make "C" for cookies with cookie dough!

Progress! The garage is organized and the shop is up and running, just a few more details to put away and then we conquer the moving mess monster and battle the daily living mess monster!

Baby #3, healthy active and measures just the right size. We are waiting for the birth day to know the gender.

The perfect day:

Harry Potter 6 movie: midnight showing on opening day.
An early morning swim (Windy, girls and Grandee) Poor Ben had to go off to work.
11 am we signed escrow documents to own our first house (1301 W Calle de Cobre, Sahuarita, AZ 85614)
4 pm title recorded and we officially own the home and can now enter the premisis.
5 pm all utilities are set up to start in our name.
6 pm Windy naps with Dilly
8 pm Pizza dinner in the new house sitting on the dining room floor.
10 pm Back to the apartment to sleep!
What a long and wonderful day.


1301 W Calle de Cobre, Sahuarita, AZ



Elnorra sleeping in her room.


The shop.


A real yard, needs work, but at least we'll have space to play and garden!

Father's Day as the Johnson family plays:
Water Balloons


Catch!

Obama's Inaguration day in Tucson, AZ

2008 Family Picture Elnorra's 3 3/4 and Cordelia "Dilly" is 1 1/2.

Thanksgiving!
DD Jay (Host, Turkey, Stuffing and Gravy)
Windy, Ben, Elnorra, Cordelia "Dilly", Jim, Mary, Sam, Anni, and Daniel Shaffer

We climbed a little rock formation and had a good time. Let's just say we won't have spaghetti on the camp food menu again. We didn't realize it was that messy until we saw the pictures, as we ate after dark.

We went camping up Madera canyon and the flower was beautiful and the moon amazing as it was rising at sunset.

The "mother" saguaro in bloom.

Ben's birthday pie.