Bowl Games, Snow and Stitches

So many of you already know that my dear, sweet sister Lisa followed in Mark and I's footsteps and became a marching band nerd! (Yay for nerds!) Some of you might be thinking "wow... seriously? Don't you have anything better to do with your time?" But let me just tell you how AWESOME marching band can be.

Last year the Highland High School Marching Band was invited to a competition in Florida. The competition is set to take place this week on Wednesday in Miami! But this isn't just some cool competition in Florida... the winner of the competition gets to perform at half time of the Orange Bowl! For all you non-football people, the Orange Bowl is the National College Football chamionship game. Its held in Miami, Florida at Dolphin stadium!! All of the bands get to play at the pregame, but only the winner gets to play at half time. How freakin' cool is that?! I'm not going to lie... I'm probably a little jealous of my sister at this point. She and my dad are in Florida right now and she gets to perform at a rock awesome competition!! AND perform at the Orange Bowl... yeah... definitely feeling the jealousy vibes! But no matter... GO RAMS!!! We're routin' for you, Lisa!

In other news, Christmas break is going pretty good. I have to admit, though, I'm getting kind of bored. And I HATE being bored. At this point, I'm looking forward to Monday when classes will start again. Is that crazy? I must have something wrong with my brain if I'm actually looking forward to the start of classes again. Weird.

Something funny that happened over the break, was that my sister, Lisa (I'm talking about her a lot this post, aren't I?) got stitches! HAHA! No sympathy here! Lisa has always been the accident magnent in our family. She's broken the most bones, gotten the most stitches, had the most surguries, etc. Some of her more noteable injuries were sewing her finger in the sewing machinge (the needle broke off in her finger, she had to get it surgically removed); breaking her arm by slidding down a huge hill on her stomach; electricuting herself (trying to fix her radio while it was still plugged into the wall); and breaking her finger in 3 places slidding on the ice (she had to have a bunch of pins put in to hold the bone in place... her finger still looks like a Frankenstine creation). Those are on top of the numerous scrapes and bruises she recieves on a regular basis. In fact, considering her track record, stitches is a realitively uneventful occurance. The story of her stitches this time went like this....

It had snowed a couple feet Christmas week. By the time the day after Christmas rolled around, we had a pretty decent snowfall in the backyard... So Lisa, Paul, Rob, David and I decided to go play in the backyard. We bundled up tight (as you can see): and went to play in the snow. We had fun, Paul trying to hit me with snowballs... ...and missing me (of course)! Making snow angels... Swinging on the swings... Paul had this crazy idea that it would be fun to jump out of the swings going really high. I figured that was kind of dumb... just cause it's snow doesn't mean it's soft! Luckily, there were no broken bones there. But then came the fun part... Lisa had the great idea that we should burry her in the snow! And we figured, sure, why not?! Lets do it! So we proceded to burry her in freezing snow, like such: and all was going well until our dog Dan decided to come to Lisa's rescue. He thought she was in trouble, so he proceded to start digging her out of the snow! It was so funny! We're not really sure what happened at this point... somehow while Dan was trying to dig her out, he managed to get his claws under 2 layers of clothing (Lisa's coat hood and her beanie). And in the process of of this digging, Dan put a nasty scratch on Lisa's face. She came out of the snow looking a little bit like this: Honestly, we were horrible sibblings, we laughed at her! But after we got over our mirth a little bit, we took her over to Dr. Dad, who examined the gouge and reported that she would need to get stitches! So Rob and I pilled into the car with Lisa and Dad to take Lisa to Dad's office. Since I had worked there this summer, I helped my Dad assist and we managed to put Lisa back together again! Good thing she's beautiful... she can even make stitches look sexy and stylish! It was a fun! I enjoy assisting my dad and Lisa looks fabulous! She just had her stitches taken out and is now in Florida.

Hope you all are having fun on your own holiday breaks!!