A Thanksgiving to Remember

Every year, Dana plays in a Turkey Bowl at church on Thanksgiving morning. Every year. Every year, except this year, since no one organized it. So....he decided to have one with the kids at our house- the First Annual Ortman Turkey Bowl. Sounds fun, right?

We bundled everyone up in their crappy play outside clothes - which took forever, by the way, and then, this is how it started:

These are from the window, inside, where Elaina and I were watching, warm.

After this running play, something terrible happened...

Leah slipped while holding onto running Dana and her face smashed into the side of the wooden playset....

Resulting in a trip to Children's Hospital where a plastic surgeon placed four stitches on her inside nostril- she sliced it wide open. Not to mention the blackened face. So, Leah and I spent 4 1/2 hours at the hospital, while Dana and the others stayed at home, patiently waiting for our return.
We were supposed to go to Grandma and Grandpa's for dinner as usual...thankfully they brought dinner out to us after we got home- so we did eventually enjoy turkey, stuffing and all the trimmings of a wonderful feast. We are so grateful it wasn't worse. It has been over a week now, and she is nearly healed.

But for posterity's sake, here are some pictures, and yes, they asked me about domestic abuse!! Poor girl- glad she is better and she was the most courageous of all the plastic surgeon's patients- he was very impressed with her!

This is right when we got home- her poor swollen face.


This is 5 days later- sometimes it looks worse!

Thankfully she doesn't even look this bad now. She still has a bloody eye- the entire white is still red, but it is fading, so hopefully by the end of the weekend she will be as good as new. I tried to get a better shot of her nose, but to no avail...it's hardly noticeable now anyway.

I told her that next year will be so much better- we pray it never gets worse than this one!