11.21.2007

My Poor Car


As some of you already knew, while I was out in Colorado, I got into a pretty bad car accident which resulted in them totally my Ford Windstar. Let's just say that this is NOT how I wanted my vacation to go. Four days after I got there, I went to Loveland to meet all my sisters for breakfast. Traffic suddenly came to a dead stop due to construction. I was able to stop before I hit the car in front of me and yelled at the girls to hold on! Next thing I knew, I looked up to see the guy behind me swerve out of the way to miss hitting me and I thought that we were all in the clear. Except the guy behind him wasn't as aware of what was happening and slammed right into me. AND the guy behind him seemed to do the exact same. So, needless to say, I got hit twice and it was pretty bad. All in all, the accident and police report claimed that there were 6 cars involved. Obviously, the force threw me into the car in front of me and so on. Fun stuff! I was involved in a 6 car pile up and I was right in the middle. The rest of my vacation was spent dealing with insurance companies, police, and doctors visits. The girls weren't hurt but I hurt my shoulder and neck pretty bad. So, all in all, we were pretty lucky and figuring that this is a blessing in disquise. We are able to take the money that we are getting from the van and it covers almost ALL of our debt. Yeah!!! I guess that the Lord works in weird ways sometimes. Although the girls were pretty shaken up by everything... they weren't hurt and that's mostly what I am thankful for!!! So, here are the pictures of my car when it was all said and done at the body shop. Bye bye my cute little mini van!!!

11.04.2007

BEAUTIFUL COLORADO

So, after a long six months of major homesickness I was finally able to make the long trek to come back and visit everyone in CO. With a 2 day car ride, I didn't think that I would EVER make it here.... but I did. And let me just add that I have the most AMAZING children EVER!!!!!! They are the BEST travelers in the world. 18 hours in the car and I didn't even have to whip out all my tricks. They were SO content just coloring and listening to music. I rarely even used the DVD players. It was AWESOME!! Surprisingly enough, I actually like road trips by myself. We can stop when I want to. (which we only stopped ONCE each day) I can listen to whatever music I wanted to. And I didn't have to feel bad that one second I had the heater on and the next second was the air conditioner. It was great!!!
And let me just say that I have never really appreciated the beautiful mountains of CO until I hadn't seen them for a while. They really are beautiful! I am really getting used to my life in NV and it actually is feeling more like home.... but sometimes there is nothing like going back "home" to visit. One day I will probably say, "I'm ready to go home... to Nevada!" But for now, it's great to be home!!!!!