Home again, home again, just not the way I planned.

This is a long one, sorry.

We leave early in the morning from the Ranch to head home. On the way out there was quite a bit of bison. At least I think that was this day. I don't know.Now I know it is no big surprise, but I can be pretty immature sometimes. My husband asked me to follow my sister home. I HATE that because I feel like I have to be babysat. I know he only does it so that he can feel more comfortable when I am not with him but it still drives me bonkers. So at one point I passed her up. DUMB! In fact her friend that was driving said that she wouldn't follow me because she didn't think I was driving save. DOUBLE DUMB!! Me, not her. We were doing good, yes I made a massive wrong turn and ended up going the wrong way on the highway. I hate that Pocatello exit. We stopped for lunch and it took forever as there was a TV on cartoons right by our table so my kids were GLUED. But apparently it didn't take long enough.
Right around Malad, ID we hit a sudden freak hailstorm. I saw a car that had rolled over in the median so I decided I better slow down. Right as I touched my brakes I started hydroplaning and rolled into the median. The worst part was I had my 3 precious angels in the car with me. Scariest thing EVER!!! When we stopped my daughter was screaming, "I love you Daddy!" over and over. The boys were crying. Butterball had a cut on his finger but not a large one, his window had broken out. Appleseed was just terrified. I found my phone on the dashboard and tried to call 911 3 separate times. It was busy. A man came up to me and I told him that I couldn't get through to 911 and he said that he also had been trying and couldn't get through. But obviously someone did as it was not long before a cop was there and then EMT's. The EMT's were actually responding the the first roll over but they had refused service so we got them.I was very sore on my chest and neck from burns I had received from my seat belt and I had a sore neck and back. Butterbean had hit her head so her and I were attached to back boards with neck braces. NOT FUN! Then the boys were cut out of the car in their car seats and all of us rode in the ambulance to the hospital. The EMT's said I had done such an amazing job putting their car seats in and that they were very tight and that is why they had to cut them out. On the ride I was told I would feel better at the hospital as my doctor was "cute". That cracked me up. I had asked them if they knew what it was like to ride like this and they said that it is part of their training to ride in the ambulance on a back board and in a neck brace. I just couldn't help thinking that I bet when they rode they weren't frightened and in pain.The boys were not emitted as the doctor said they were acting fine. My daughter and I went through several x-rays and me a CAT scan. My wonderful sister, who I was supposed to be following, came back to be with us. Her friend and kids entertained the boys and my sister relieved a lot of my stress by just being her. I love her dearly. My brother-in-law came from quite a ways away to get my stuff out of my car and take me, the kids, and my husband (who met us at the hospital) home. I am very thankful to him for doing that. My husband was asking us about a huge rock that was in the car. I told him that we didn't have any huge rocks with us. Apparently we had picked it up when we rolled. We were very lucky that it didn't hit any of us. The man that saw our accident said we were very lucky. I truly believe that we were watched out for. One thing that made me impressed and grateful is, at the hospital I had asked for a Priesthood blessing for my daughter and I. My EMT and one ER doctor were right there and did it in no time. To have two worthy priesthood holders right there was an amazing feeling.Now an update....I still go to physical therapy twice a week but I am getting better. I still have quite a bit of pain and I have to watch how much I do or I feel worse. My daughter is getting better and better. She did have some neck pain tonight with a headache (poor thing). The boys are fine except for the mental anguish. And my kids have now grounded me from eating, talking on the phone, or "texting" (I don't do that anyway) while driving. No I wasn't doing any of those things at the time of the accident but they are very stressed while in the car now so I will do anything to help them out with that. Thank you so much to everyone that has helped us this last month with the kid sitting while I and my daughter go to NUMEROUS doctor appointments, the food, weeding, lawn mowing, weed eating, borrowing of car, goodies, flowers, and prayers. You have no idea how much we appreciate it all. We are truly blessed to have such amazing family and friends in our life.

A Wedding, cooking, and falling?

My children were playing dress-up one day and this is what I found. Hilarious. They had a friend be the flower girl and she also had to catch the bouquet. There was quite a bit of discussion about who she was supposed to marry as my Butterball was "already married". They never decided on a partner for her. So cute. The happy couple.
Here is our little chef helping Daddy cook dinner.My kids all dressed up with their green hair for St. Patrick's Day. Butterball was so upset thinking that no one would be able to see his green hair. I put a ton of the spray on but his hair is a bit darker than the others so it took a lot to show up.Butterbean is the only one that I was able to get an individual picture of . She was actually reprimanded during library time for having the spray painted hair. Yet I see kids in there with semi-permanent dyed strips of hair all the time. Atleast hers you could wash out in one day, not like the others. But oh well. Now we know.Appleseed fell and cut his eyelid. Poor guy. I of course freaked out. Those darn head wounds with all the blood.I told him that he should probably start wearing that helmet all the time.This is what he looked like the next day. Poor guy. He would cry in the night saying, "Owwie owwie."

You've been Minioned?!

What may you ask do these goooooorgeous shoes have to do with Minions? I will tell you how. I was wearing these shoes one day after my super tacky flat shoes fell apart in the washing machine. And when I say tacky I mean it! Tragic I know. So when I was wearing them I twisted my ankle 3 times all before 11:30 AM!The last time I was holding Appleseed, I fell dropping him on the cement and then my knee smashed his head a little more into the cement. So sad. But all I saw was a slightly scratched face. It wasn't until after nap time that I noticed his front tooth was broken and crooked. Very sad. After a couple dentist visit we found out his tooth has to be watched but may be fine. Whew! As for me? I pulled some serious muscles in my back and can barely move.So one day I had to go get my Bountiful Basket and when I came home I found this sign with several balloons taped to my door.Inside we found these adorable minion Twinkies. I ate WAY TOO MANY of them and the scale showed it. Totally worth it.And of course a nice bottle of my favorite soda with "Get well soon!" on it. I actually had given up soda per my son's request. But he gave me permission to drink just this one. YUM! But day 3 and I still have about 1/2 a bottle. Normally that baby would be gone by now.The kids all had individual gift bags with fun things in it like sticky hands, hand made notepads with their name, jars with erasers, and a minion. They were screaming like it was Christmas.Appleseed LOVED his sticky hand. And my good boy took a few bites of his Twinkie and then tackled some strawberries. My boys are good at eating more healthy then bad.Licking those chops!And here is a sample of our minion balloons that were on the door. Thank you secret minion decorator. My cute kids guessed who it was and wanted to break into her home and decorate it with "robbing stuff". Silly kids!

The FINAL injury?

First off I need to apologize to my husband. I know I will not do this post justice as it still makes me very upset to even look at the pictures.

He was on a snowmobile trip in the mountains. It is so beautiful up there.I think this is the hardest picture for me. Seeing his beautiful smile before he was hurt.The evil rock that jumped out and bit him. He had gone down a hill to help some customers and when he was coming back up he hit this rock that was covered by snow.He triaged himself and told his volunteer, BD what to look for while one of the customers took notes. Another customer rode up the mountain to try and get a signal to call 911. It makes me glad we do have cell phones. Thank you BD, your awesome.I bet this was kind of cool to see. He had the customers place their snowmobiles in a large T so that life flight could locate them easier.He was trying to give the life flight people instructions on what NOT to do and they had to tell him to shut up and let them do their job.Our wonderful friend and her daughter showed up to my house and the first thing she said to me was, "Has the base called you yet?" I said, " Oh no. What happened?" I am afraid seeing her come to my house will give me anxiety now. :) It was wonderful of her to come just a couple days after having knee surgery and give me the news and drive me to the hospital. Thank you so much D. You are an awesome person! Love you tons.My poor drugged up husband with the kids visiting him at the hospital.
So he ended up having 4 broken ribs (those xrays were GROSS), a broken right wrist, and a banged up left knee that we are actually getting ready to have surgery on tomorrow. Someone told me that it was only broken ribs so why was I so upset. My husband has been injured so much lately that to me it is another set back on the ladder to him being whole. And was very frightening to me.

I love you dearly hon and I am so glad that you are alive though broken. You are so amazing and an inspiration to us.