Our Sunday Celebration

Our church loves parties, and loves to have celebration times. (and if you know our pastors wife at all, you know most of this starts with her excitement over having parties!) Today was no exception. We walked in the foyer of church this morning, to lots and lots of red balloons, sitting in bundles scattered throughout the foyer. (750 balloons, to be exact). We were celebrating the fact that the new building is coming along, and we (actually the construction crew) was putting up the last 2 beams to the new building today. The 2 beams that are a part of the new building and the old. Pastor Jason let out about 11:30, and gave everyone 15 min to gather up their children, and head outside with a balloon and stand on the new "pad" that will serve as our new kidz church area, to watch them place the last 2 beams. After which we would all have our "balloon release". I wish I could say I saw it all happen, but unfortunately, I missed it.

To make a long story short.....Lilly and I were standing back a ways, in the parking lot, because I wanted a good view of all the balloons going up in the sky. Not too long after we got out there, I saw my bro-in-law, Gerald. He was standing on the edge of the pad, and was looking for the kidz from childrens church. (He was working childrens church today, and was suppose to help gather them all together). He was looking out in to the parking lot, at the people coming over, and misjudged his distance from the edge of the pad, and took a step and fell right off there, landing roughly on his left side and banging up his left hand pretty good, on some small beams that were laying there. I seriously thought he broke his arm at first. It did not look like a nice fall at all! Another guy and I helped him in the shuttle bus, and we took him back to the church. His lip was bleeding, and his left hand/wrist up to his elbow was scratched up and bleeding some. After looking at it, he was moving it, and it did not appear to be anything other than scratches and soreness. He sat in the foyer, and I ran to the nursery to get wet paper towels and as I was passing around the back doors, I saw all the red balloons going up in the sky. We missed the big balloon release, but at least Gerald is okay, other than being sore and embarrassed. Here are the 2 photos I managed to take before "the fall"

In the photo above, Gerald was standing at the far right on top of the "pad" and fell down on to those few beams that are laying on the ground. Thankfully, the pad was not any farther from the ground than it was.

My son is up from his Sunday afternoon nap, so I must end this now, as he is jabbering on my lap. :D Will write more later.....