To our surprise July 9th brought the wedding of our teammate's daughter Anshy. We had originally thought that it was on the 10th but were surprised when Bolo told us to be ready by 11am for the wedding that day.After getting ready for the wedding we took a 15 minute taxi ride out to a farm where the wedding was held. It was great being able to spend the day celebrating with our teammates family. Of course our kids seeing all of the farm things wanted to play rather then watch the wedding but there was lots of space for them to play without interrupting anything.
It was a beautiful wedding and we got to meet many people from the church and from Bolo and Jenny's family who came for the wedding. One of the great thing we were privileged to be a part of after just arriving in the city. The reception after the wedding was fun as well, the kids got to be at the kids table and were fed chicken nuggets and fries instead of the adult food and given coloring things and then all of them went to play on the playground. After awhile the girls all pretended they were getting married under the tent that Anshy and Chicho had just gotten married in and the boys found a soccer ball to play with. Calen is pretty talented at soccer and was the youngest boy by about 7 years and still could get the ball away from the older boys. After awhile the boys didn't want to play with him any more but Calen didn't seem to notice. The kids had lots of fun and so did we as we were able to talk with the adults without having to worry much about the kids.
As we were leaving, Travis went to get Bolo to call us a taxi and I took the kids to the front of the farm to wait. They had a very old tractor as a decoration there and the kids were pretending to drive it while we waited. At one point Calen climbed up further to look into the holes and pull out rocks that had been put in them. As he was getting back down he moved his foot and lost his balance and fell. I saw him falling but couldn't catch him as he went down the other side to where I was standing. Unfortunately his head hit a rock wall on his way down and caused a large gash in his head. He was bleeding lots so I couldn't tell how bad it was, although at the moment it seemed really bad as there was so much blood. A lady came to help me and took Calen and I to a room away from the wedding crowd and Ceara ran to get Travis. I of course was freaking out at that point and couldn't really get across what happened very well. Finally there happened to be a pediatrician who came to look at Calen's head and said everything was okay and that it was just a large surface wound that needed stitches and that the bleeding had already stopped. So Travis and I with Bolo and Jenny went back into the city to a emergency clinic and got Calen's head stitched up while Ceara stayed with the youngest of Bolo's daughters so that she didn't have to see and worry about Calen. Bolo and Jenny went back to the wedding and a few hours later Ceara came back to the apartment where Travis, Calen and I had just gotten back from getting his stitches. Calen is doing well now and you can't really tell anymore that anything had happened unless you know where on his head he hit the wall. We go back to the doctors on Saturday to get the stitches removed. Calen's healing well but definitely gave me a scare. What a thing to have to worry about on the second day in the city that is going to be your home. But the doctor was great and we saw someone right away. It will just take me more time to recover from it because as a Mom you hope to protect your kids from things like that and I was standing right there and couldn't catch him. But maybe that is just a reminder that God is ultimately in control and no matter what God will be the one watching over us! So please keep our family in your prayers as we let God be the one who is in control of our lives and that we allow Him to shape us and mold us as we share our lives in Him with others here in Cuenca.
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