It's been so long since we've included anything...
Joshua is 21 months and is all over everything. He speaks sentences now and is a very assertive little boy. At the same time, he is good-natured and loveable; truly a joy to see grow up.
Lucas just finished midterms (yeah!), so only 1.5 more semesters to go. He is getting geared up to go to Calif. later in March.
I am doing very well; pregnancy has been quite good. I purchased a serger to increase my sewing capabilities and have found it to be awesome! It makes me want to get more stuff to work on...
Well, that about sums it up; have a great day!
Friday, February 29, 2008
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Car Accident February 12, 2008
Wednesday February 13, 2008
6:10pm
So, I went up to Helen's house last night to go to institute with her. We have had ice storms since about 4 o'clock yesterday and the weather finally started warming up and has thawed all the cars and such since about noon or so today. So the temperature is finally warming up.
I went up to Helen's house to go to institute. I left Fairfax at 5:30. Traffic was horrible. I pulled into Helen's house at 8:30. We missed all of institute so I watched American Idol with her and her Mom.
After it was over (about 11) I left for home. Traffic, again was a bit slow cuz of the weather conditions. (flow of traffic was moving about 45-50 or so) It took me a while, but I eventually came around to the 495/270 split. I stayed to the left to continue through on the 495. I came up onto the bridge going about 40, and I started spinning, lost control and slammed into the cement barrier on the right side of the road. My rear tire came up onto the wall and it bent the rear right tire inward on the bottom at about a 45-degree angle (really bad, see picture number 6) and then I came down off the wall and spun, sliding back into traffic.
No oncoming cars hit me, thank heaven. I tried backing up to get further out of the lanes of traffic, but that didn't' work because of the rear wheel. I had no idea of the condition of the car and was still totally shocked and flipping out. After cars passed and it was clear, I put the car into gear and inched my way across the ramp to the other side out of the lanes of traffic. (the left side of the bridge) and then I stopped and saw that a man was coming over to talk to me. He had seen my initial slide and swerved to keep himself out of my way and pulled off to the left side to make sure I was okay. He had seen the whole thing and explained it to me as we were talking. He came over to talk to me and I could barely get the drivers side door open far enough to talk to him.
He told me that he had called Fire and Rescue and they were on their way and that he would stay with me until they got here to make sure everything was okay. It took them about 35 minutes to finally get there. The accident actually happened at about 11:43 or so, and they finally showed up about ten or fifteen after midnight. In the meantime, while we were waiting for the cops. I was standing near my car, and I heard a loud crashing sound behind me, and turned around to find a car that had lost control, had then been hit by a diesel and the diesel was fishtailing toward my car. I immediately after turning, dove (almost literally) over the cement barrier on that side, to get out of the way. I thought that the diesel's trailer was going to fishtail and slam and completely take out my car. Thankfully, he regained control and stopped, finally pulling off about 500 yards down the road on the right side. The person he hit had been spun around and was now facing the little oncoming traffic that was filtering through the debris strewn road. One person, within 5 minutes later, lost control and slammed into his car. So there was 3 accidents within about an hours time. I was just blown away at how dangerous and treacherous the roads were, and they were only getting worse.
Long story short, I called Dane Larsen who's been staying with us while Mom and Dad are gone with Mariah to the Caribbean on the Book of Mormon lands cruise. He brought his wife, and they made their way over to pick me up. We had to wait for the tow truck to load up my car. Mine was the first to get in an accident, and the last to get towed, but that is because they had to get the other 2 cars out of lanes of traffic. So, we finally got the tow truck and I climbed into the truck to guide him home incase we got separated from Dane and Sarah who were ahead of us. We got home, and had him put it down in the circle of Sideburn Ct. (as you can see from the pictures) We paid him, he left, and we went inside and then I eventually got to sleep. This was now 3:15 A.M. I finally got myself to sleep about 3:30. I wanted pain killers to dull my pain, but was in too much pain to go get them. So I went to sleep.
I woke up about 9am and got up and did Dad's DVD orders export, finishing it by about 9:02 or so. I hadn't set any alarms or anything and figured I needed to let myself wake up when I woke up. I'm surprised my body didn't want more sleep. I took a two hour nap from 7-9pm tonight though and that really helped my pain to go down.
Well, long story short, the Honda is more than likely totaled. I'm in slight pain, but doing okay, and I am still trying to get a hold of Mom and Dad to let them know I'm okay. Say a prayer for my pain, and I will update as things come along with the car search and such. (or whatever it is that we end up deciding to do) I am going to go to bed now, I'm exhausted...
6:10pm
So, I went up to Helen's house last night to go to institute with her. We have had ice storms since about 4 o'clock yesterday and the weather finally started warming up and has thawed all the cars and such since about noon or so today. So the temperature is finally warming up.
I went up to Helen's house to go to institute. I left Fairfax at 5:30. Traffic was horrible. I pulled into Helen's house at 8:30. We missed all of institute so I watched American Idol with her and her Mom.
After it was over (about 11) I left for home. Traffic, again was a bit slow cuz of the weather conditions. (flow of traffic was moving about 45-50 or so) It took me a while, but I eventually came around to the 495/270 split. I stayed to the left to continue through on the 495. I came up onto the bridge going about 40, and I started spinning, lost control and slammed into the cement barrier on the right side of the road. My rear tire came up onto the wall and it bent the rear right tire inward on the bottom at about a 45-degree angle (really bad, see picture number 6) and then I came down off the wall and spun, sliding back into traffic.
No oncoming cars hit me, thank heaven. I tried backing up to get further out of the lanes of traffic, but that didn't' work because of the rear wheel. I had no idea of the condition of the car and was still totally shocked and flipping out. After cars passed and it was clear, I put the car into gear and inched my way across the ramp to the other side out of the lanes of traffic. (the left side of the bridge) and then I stopped and saw that a man was coming over to talk to me. He had seen my initial slide and swerved to keep himself out of my way and pulled off to the left side to make sure I was okay. He had seen the whole thing and explained it to me as we were talking. He came over to talk to me and I could barely get the drivers side door open far enough to talk to him.
He told me that he had called Fire and Rescue and they were on their way and that he would stay with me until they got here to make sure everything was okay. It took them about 35 minutes to finally get there. The accident actually happened at about 11:43 or so, and they finally showed up about ten or fifteen after midnight. In the meantime, while we were waiting for the cops. I was standing near my car, and I heard a loud crashing sound behind me, and turned around to find a car that had lost control, had then been hit by a diesel and the diesel was fishtailing toward my car. I immediately after turning, dove (almost literally) over the cement barrier on that side, to get out of the way. I thought that the diesel's trailer was going to fishtail and slam and completely take out my car. Thankfully, he regained control and stopped, finally pulling off about 500 yards down the road on the right side. The person he hit had been spun around and was now facing the little oncoming traffic that was filtering through the debris strewn road. One person, within 5 minutes later, lost control and slammed into his car. So there was 3 accidents within about an hours time. I was just blown away at how dangerous and treacherous the roads were, and they were only getting worse.
Long story short, I called Dane Larsen who's been staying with us while Mom and Dad are gone with Mariah to the Caribbean on the Book of Mormon lands cruise. He brought his wife, and they made their way over to pick me up. We had to wait for the tow truck to load up my car. Mine was the first to get in an accident, and the last to get towed, but that is because they had to get the other 2 cars out of lanes of traffic. So, we finally got the tow truck and I climbed into the truck to guide him home incase we got separated from Dane and Sarah who were ahead of us. We got home, and had him put it down in the circle of Sideburn Ct. (as you can see from the pictures) We paid him, he left, and we went inside and then I eventually got to sleep. This was now 3:15 A.M. I finally got myself to sleep about 3:30. I wanted pain killers to dull my pain, but was in too much pain to go get them. So I went to sleep.
I woke up about 9am and got up and did Dad's DVD orders export, finishing it by about 9:02 or so. I hadn't set any alarms or anything and figured I needed to let myself wake up when I woke up. I'm surprised my body didn't want more sleep. I took a two hour nap from 7-9pm tonight though and that really helped my pain to go down.
Well, long story short, the Honda is more than likely totaled. I'm in slight pain, but doing okay, and I am still trying to get a hold of Mom and Dad to let them know I'm okay. Say a prayer for my pain, and I will update as things come along with the car search and such. (or whatever it is that we end up deciding to do) I am going to go to bed now, I'm exhausted...
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