It's all fun until someone gets hurt

Since John Henry has been traveling with his job, he has made an incredible effort to spend quality time with his family when he is at home. If you'll recall, we've been teaching the children how to play disc golf. The boys are really good at it and the girls are showing improvement each time we play. Last year John Henry broke his leg and had a plate with 5 screws placed in his leg from an injury he received while playing disc golf.

Fast forward to this weekend:

On Saturday we asked the kids what they would like to do for the day. Lake said he would like to play disc golf. The others said they would like to go to a 'cool' park. So, we loaded everyone into the van and went to Spring Park. It's about 45 minutes from our house. The city it's located in has a nice downtown area in which we stopped for lunch. We then walked to the park.


The roller coaster has been added over the last year to the park. The boys loved it and road it four times.

Waiting to board the train.


The park also has a nice playground.

After we left the park, we went in search of a new disc golf course. We've played several in Alabama and Tennessee but we ventured into Mississippi on this afternoon. We stopped a few times on the Natchez Trace Parkway. Once we found the state park we were excited to find out they had two disc golf courses. It was late afternoon so we only had time to play one course. This park is on our list to go back and play again!

We had a few hours in between church on Sunday and decided to go play disc golf at the course about 15 minutes from our house. On the third basket I noticed John Henry on the ground. I thought he was rolling around in laughter over something that Daisy had said - she is becoming quite the comedian. However, is wasn't laughter causing the rolling on the ground: it was knee pain. We spent the following 4 or 5 hours in the emergency room only to find out that nothing was broken. An MRI is scheduled for this afternoon to find out if anything is torn.