Going to lunch and then to Cornbelly's Corn Maze with my family



My Mom and sister rock!  I stole the front seat from my Mom (hehe) and so she jumped in between tina and steph in the back....and then put the entire middle row down and made herself a nice footrest.

We passed tons of parking spots.  But my Dad chose to drive all the way to the outskirts of the place where there were NO other cars and still managed to park like this.  HAHA.  Oh boy, I love my Dad.

You know you are sisters when you all wear the same shoes.

I thought this was funny.

Right....well, it looks like a path to me!  I'll take it!

We bought pumpkins for my family to carve.  That one on top is for my sister michelle - haha!

Isn't it a beauty? :)

I'm officially certified as a wilderness first responder - - one of the coolest classes I have ever taken!

A traction splint for a fractured femur.  The pole on the outside is actually pulling the bottom of the foot downward with a rope tied to the bottom of the foot.

We learned to do a lot of improvising.  Here is a 100% improvised splint.  made with backpacks, belts, jackets, and a crazy creek chair.

Practicing a rescue for someone who "fell out of that second story window onto their head".

One of our classes was a staged night rescue.  We had fake patient's covered in blood act out a scenario for four hours in the mountains.  It was POURING rain and freezing - - but awesome!  We were only allowed ot use materials that we would actaully have with us on a day hike.

This is the scenario:

3 people riding down on four wheelers flip.  We come accross them shortly after they flip and must assess/treat their injuries and stabalize/monitor them as much as possible.  We are 6 hours from the trailhead, with no cell phone service, and there is no way a helicopter can get to where we are tonight, so we must stay the night and monitor the patients.

 In our assessment of each  patient we discovered the following:
Pt #1: Possible spinal cord injury, a Tib-fib fracture with bones sticking out of the right leg, another tib-fib fracture on left leg with no bones sticking out.  Severe asthma induced by pain and anxiety which causes him to start wheezing, and then stop breathing multiple times.  The pt. is also in hysterics and trying to move (the actor was amazing btw! - - he was screaming the whole time, and freaking out!, which would cause him to hyperventilate, have an asthma attack and then stop breathing...multiple times).  He was also very cold.

Pt #2:  Dislocated hip and pelvis fracture, a stick going straight through his left arm, and a spinal cord injury.

Pt. #3:  Internal bleeding in his abdoman, lacerations all over his face, and going into shock.

A member of the group had small hiking tarps in their bag so we were able to have some shelter from the rain, although the water still dripped through a lot.  In the end we were all soaked.  (I stole these pictures from one of the guys in my group)

Taking notes to keep track of vitals.  That is the patient covered with orange jackets, the one who had the stick go through his arm.

We did it!

 

After the class we brainstormed the 10 most important things we would want with us in the outdoors.

This was seriously one of the coolest classes I have ever taken.  I would highly recommend it!

Rehearsal. Such an amazing group of people to work with!

So...Tina and I were playing with our guitar when we had an idea! "A miraculous idea!" We decided to make a ridiculous CD! Filled with one-take songs! Meaning, we picked the first two words that came to us, and then pushed record and had one shot to make a song. Thus, it turned into quite the epic set of songs haha! Because it was so ...um...amazing!...we decided to go all out and make a CD cover, and then mail it to all of our siblings in college. They will get quite the suprise when this little masterpiece shows up :)

We even signed it, because, obviously, its going to be famous!  ...duh!

There is a new baby giraffe at the zoo so Elizabeth and I went to see it!