a close call..

A close friend of ours father (Bart) was involved in a semi rollover on Friday night. I'm unsure of all of the details, but Bart had to swerve to avoid hitting a car (full of scouts, by the way) that had cut in front of him to turn left. He rolled, and because he wasn't wearing his seat belt, was ejected through the windshield. Not wearing his seat belt actually ended up saving his life, because he would've been smashed by his dash had he been in when his truck landed. We went to visit him Saturday and he told us the first thing running through his mind while he truck was swerving out of control:

"Please God. Take my life, but please don't let me kill them.."

Luckily, no one in the other car was injured. They stopped to make sure he was okay and wait for the ambulance. He was life-flighted to a hospital in Salt Lake. It looks like he fractured two ribs, a pretty big gash on his forehead, scrapes and bruises all over, and is having a hard time keeping comfortable (understandably). Cody has known this family (and has pretty much been part of it) since about 5th grade. Remembering Cody's rollover accident back in 2004 was unavoidable.. As we entered Barts hospital room, the first words out of Barts mouth were, "Cody, I don't want to hear it, because I remember seeing you in the same place!"

Bart got us laughing and crying the whole time and I can't help but feel so grateful that his life was preserved. He's got a lot of recovery ahead of him, but he understands how lucky he is. I've become very close to this wonderful man, and I hope to have many more years of his jokes. I love you's were exchanged as we left, and I couldn't help but get teary-eyed just thinking about him. Cody has thought about driving commercial vehicles with Bart, and even though I might warm up to that in the future, Cody said before we left, "Well, Bart, thanks to you I don't think Fe will let me drive one of those rigs.." And I replied instantly, "NOPE!"

Yet another experience to help us realize how fragile life is..

update-ish

I guess I should update...It's been a while! Not much has happened recently in my life. The investors came to work a little while ago, so we had to have a clean office and where business casual...blah blah. LOL We should keep the office clean anyway, but wearing business casual was actually pretty fun. I do love hoodies and jeans, but it's nice to play dress-up every once in a while.

We are thinking about selling our house here pretty soon. We want to get into a cheap apartment and save for a down payment on a nicer house for a year or so...But we'll see how that goes. We tried to sell our house around last Thanksgiving, but that didn't go so well. Even if we break even, I'll be happy..I just don't want to lose anything. The problem with our house is that it can't grow with us. If we wanted to add on another bedroom, it just wouldn't work because the property is so small. But living here has been a good experience for us. We had a little debt scare earlier this year, and that taught us to pay better attention to our finances. Cody has gotten a much better job, and since I got a raise, we feel more comfortable with getting a nice house. Preferably in Spanish Fork, but we'll see.

I'm playing the scrapbooking game with my best friend this weekend for a gift for Cody (SHHH!) and I'm so excited! I have a lot of materials, thanks to my job at Xpedx. But I've never had time or the patience to actually sit down and do it. She is beyond excited to help me, so I'm giving her something to look forward to as well.

Even though it's a little boring, I love my life. I am so blessed to live with the things I have, love and be loved by the people in my life. There's always something else I want, but everything is good for now. 4:30 pm and all is well! Slow day at work, obviously...Boss-man is out for a dentist appointment today and there isn't any mail going out. Holiday = lazy day!

Tchussy!

<---spoils from Cody's candy run in the German stores up north!