This is random-but can I CONFESS that I hate blogging? I would dare say that I think blogging takes more patience than being a mother. What the freak is going on with our backdrop? I have been stubborn for months and just tried to fix it...but to no avail. I have edited almost everything behind the scenes in HTML---changed sizes, paper, pixels...and NOPE my blog hates me and I hate it back!
I remember laughing with Kristi Hartman about blogging when we first started. We both were talking about how some people take it so personal. There was one person that we randomly found out in the blog world that kept threating to take down her blog unless people commented. AKA Blog threats!
We were laughing saying--Man this is serious stuff if people are out there committing blog suicide. Well let me just tell you---it has crossed my mind more than a few times lately with this blogging backdrop mess.
Can someone please talk me off the ledge? :) JK
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Stupid Blogging
Snowy Montana-What are we thinking?
2008 Christmas will be in good ole' Bozeman, MT. We usually try to rotate where we spend Christmas each year and this year we are spending it with my family first in Bozeman at my sister's house and then we will drive back to Colorado with my parents so we can see Dustin's Family.
Everything was good until the snow started coming down. Maybe I am paranoid but I keep thinking we are going to get stranded---bears will eat us or something dramatic?? I don't know if it comes with being a mom but I have noticed I over analyze EVERYTHING now! Lame---I know. We were originally going to go to Mexico but I insisted that we didn't because I didn't want Brody to drown in the ocean!
Maybe I am being a good mom or maybe Dustin is right---I have lost my mind! Well if we don't return by the 31st please send out the search and rescue. Oh and have a Merry Christmas from us---we are lame and we still haven't sent out our Christmas cards.
Saturday, December 6, 2008
A Tragedy Beyond Measure
Last night Dustin and I were driving down to Ogden to meet Kyle and Kristi for dinner. We were coming down the hill outside of Mantua when we saw smoke and commotion. When we pulled closer we could see that a bad car accident had just taken place. We pulled over as a fire was about to burst one of the cars into flames. A kind truck driver pulled out a fire extinguisher and put it out as others gathered to assist. I jumped out of the car to offer help and as I ran up the hill I could hear a child screaming and trapped in the car. My heart ached. As I got closer I could see that a truck and suv had hit headon. The woman in the passenger side was still alive but trapped. Some very kind bystanders broke the back window of the suv and pulled the toddler safely out. I remember thinking that he had a mother that loved him because he was in a warm coat and had socks and shoes on. She had taken the time to bundle him up this cold night--this made my heartache more....especially, because she couldn't hold and COMFORT him.
I knew they needed comfort and they needed it NOW. Just then someone yelled that they needed blankets. I knew we had blankets in the car so I went to get them. As I was hurrying away from the scene I saw the mom and I had the impression to take the mom by the hand and to tell her that her son was okay and that she needed to pull through so her kids could have a mom. (but I failed too)
I ran to our car and grabbed the blanket and animal crackers first-in hopes to comfort the little boy. As I was going to get the blanket an officer arrived. I hurried back up with a blanket and the officer took it from me. They ended up needing 2 blankets so I ran back to the car and asked Dustin to bring the second one up. Then a kind lady approached us and asked if the family involved was Spanish and if the needed a translator--it made me feel so good that someone had taken the time to think about this amidst the commotion-eventhough they were not. Then the ambulances arrived and I stayed in our car so they could provide medical assistance.
Dustin returned and said that he didn't think that the mom made it. I sat in disbelief. We later heard on the news that this was true...the mother, father, and a family friend age 9 (only child) had passed away. The toddler, a 5 year old girl in the SUV and the driver of the truck survived.
I post this because I know I will remember this the rest of my life. It hasn't even been 24 hours and I can't stop thinking about these little families and the pain that they must be going through. The driver of the truck had innocently fallen asleep and this was the tragic outcome. I stand in amazement how complete strangers in a situation like this can express empathy and show love for those that they do not know, how a mother's role stands true to the end...holding on until she knows her children are okay. I cannot tell you the gratitude that fills my heart to have my family and to have the Gospel in my life. How precious life truly is...what an eternal gift families are. No matter how bad our situations are financially, emotionally, phyisically, spiritually, it is moments like this that wake us up as people and help us to tap into the realm beyond the veil and hold onto the things we have in this life closer.
I know a few news stations have mentioned that the father of the 9 yr old girl recently lost his job and she was an only child. I believe a fund is set-up for both families at Wells Fargo and would encourage anyone that is able to help. May our thoughts and prayers be with them at this time and Holiday Season.
I knew they needed comfort and they needed it NOW. Just then someone yelled that they needed blankets. I knew we had blankets in the car so I went to get them. As I was hurrying away from the scene I saw the mom and I had the impression to take the mom by the hand and to tell her that her son was okay and that she needed to pull through so her kids could have a mom. (but I failed too)
I ran to our car and grabbed the blanket and animal crackers first-in hopes to comfort the little boy. As I was going to get the blanket an officer arrived. I hurried back up with a blanket and the officer took it from me. They ended up needing 2 blankets so I ran back to the car and asked Dustin to bring the second one up. Then a kind lady approached us and asked if the family involved was Spanish and if the needed a translator--it made me feel so good that someone had taken the time to think about this amidst the commotion-eventhough they were not. Then the ambulances arrived and I stayed in our car so they could provide medical assistance.
Dustin returned and said that he didn't think that the mom made it. I sat in disbelief. We later heard on the news that this was true...the mother, father, and a family friend age 9 (only child) had passed away. The toddler, a 5 year old girl in the SUV and the driver of the truck survived.
I post this because I know I will remember this the rest of my life. It hasn't even been 24 hours and I can't stop thinking about these little families and the pain that they must be going through. The driver of the truck had innocently fallen asleep and this was the tragic outcome. I stand in amazement how complete strangers in a situation like this can express empathy and show love for those that they do not know, how a mother's role stands true to the end...holding on until she knows her children are okay. I cannot tell you the gratitude that fills my heart to have my family and to have the Gospel in my life. How precious life truly is...what an eternal gift families are. No matter how bad our situations are financially, emotionally, phyisically, spiritually, it is moments like this that wake us up as people and help us to tap into the realm beyond the veil and hold onto the things we have in this life closer.
I know a few news stations have mentioned that the father of the 9 yr old girl recently lost his job and she was an only child. I believe a fund is set-up for both families at Wells Fargo and would encourage anyone that is able to help. May our thoughts and prayers be with them at this time and Holiday Season.
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