Counting Blessings

About 2 months ago we left one night after I got off work to head up north for Curtis' uncles funeral. I had dozed off when Curt unfortunately hit a deer. :(. He pretty much had no choice. There was a semi on one side and a median on the other. We were lucky in that no one was hurt, we were able to pull off to the shoulder, and we were right by the Fillmore exit. We were unlucky that the van would go no further and that it was midnight. We sat there and made some phone calls and woke some family up trying to figure out what to do. My Dad was able to get hold of his friend Mark Gentry who lives in and has a shop in Fillmore. He was able to get a tow truck for us and take us to a motel and our van to his shop. We slept the night there and then the next morning Curtis arranged for a trailer from a guy he works with and my dad was able to bring it up and pick up all of us and our van and take us home. We were unable to make the funeral and our van was pretty messed up but we really did feel blessed. VERY thankful for my dad and his help! Today our van is all fixed and better than before and we will continue to count our blessings.

Crazy way to start the week

Well we have had quite beginning to this week at our house. No pics to go along but that might be for the better because I almost took some graphic ones but thought better of it.
Monday night we were at the elementary to get some exercise in and Austin somehow slipped on the merry-go-round and smacked his head on the edge. When we ran over and could see blood but weren't sure exactly were from until I turned him over and seen it gushing from his head. So we hurried him to the van where I found a diaper stashed and he held that on his head. Of course it was after hours but we were able to call one of the PAs from the clinic and we got him in. After numbing it and being able to inspect it we could see it was deep. To the skill in fact. So 3 stitches and 6 staples later he was all put back together. Poor kid. But he actually toughed it out pretty well.
Then Tuesday, was Taynes big day at the dentist. She need so much work done that they had to completely sedate her. She was pretty hilarious going under (wish I would have videoed!), but an emotional little girl coming out. She did really good to though. So even though we had some big incidents to go through, and lots of money poorer, our kids are great troopers and did a good job. :)