Palmer Family Blog

So can you tell this is me?? :) I'd just like to say that I did not pose for this picture. Whenever I get on the computer, Jeffrey thinks it's fun to take pictures of me. And I have no say in the matter. Anyway, when he took this one, he saw potential and created this! Wouldn't it be a great ad? I think he should start selling his work to these companies!! Below is a fun wintery ad of our wedding rings. He's so good! Oh by the way, obviously I don't smoke, the smoke was just added for effect! :)



Happy Birthday to Brett and Jonathan! We haven't had cake for my brother, Jonathan yet, but this was Brett's party. Yummy chinese food and a DELICIOUS chocolate/score cake after!! Thank you for being born!


So my poor mom. She fell off a horse. Again. :( It's so sad!! This horse is not the horse she fell off. This is Mauritius. :) The horse she fell off is Misty. She has only been in the process of being broken in for a couple months now. But my mom got on her anyway. She loves horses so much that she will do things other people might be scared to do. Unfortunately, my mom is a "delicate flower" as my dad calls her. And when the horse bolted for whatever reason, my mom couldn't hold on. My dad thought he watched her die as she flipped off and landed in a bush. She was so white and immobile when she landed. He said she looked like a ragdoll. When he heard her moaning he realized that she was alive, but he thought for sure she would be a quadriplegic or something. She was rushed to the hospital from Cardston to Calgary in an ambulance. Strapped tightly to a board. My poor mom. They knew she had broken ribs and her shoulder blade, and they thought her diaphram ruptured, but they weren't sure about her neck and spine, so they sent her to Calgary like that, so they could take the best care of her. Also so that they could do the surgery necessary to fix the diaphram if they had to. Turns out she broke 8 ribs, snapped off a piece of her shoulder blade (which is still floating around in her body somewhere) and punctured a lung. Now the first time she fell off a horse, she broke 4 ribs and punctured a lung. And that was on the other side of her body. Now she's broken both sides!! My poor mom. She is in the hospital right now until her lung is stable. There is nothing they can do about her shoulder blade or her ribs. So it will be a long, painful process to recovery. And the saddest thing of all for my mom is that she knows she can't ride horses anymore!!! It is her absolute passion and she has to give it up! At least if she ever attempts to ride again, it has to be on an absolutely trained horse!!! Of many years!! Cause none of us would let her do it otherwise!! It's so scary when accidents like this happen. It totally is a reality check. Things happen so quickly and you never know the outcome. She could have been killed or injured way worse than she was. She is so blessed!! I love her and I'm so sad that she's going through all of this, but so happy she is okay!!!