Family Reunion 2009

It has been a while since we have updated our blog...Summer is upon us and we have been running non-stop. We made the annual trek to the Allen Family Reunion. We went to 7-Peaks in Provo, Utah for a day and then the rest of the week we spent at Pineview Reservoir just east of Ogden Utah. It was a ton of fun.

Count Your Many Blessings

Well today was a crazy day. We are in the middle of spring break and decided to go meet Rollin for lunch. The kids and I were headed north bound on the 55 freeway right where the carpool lane takes off for the 5 freeway when we got into a car accident. I got the brakes on but there was no where for me to go and we crashed head on into a Range Rover who had got side swiped four lanes over, lost control, spun around and was facing me in the carpool lane. There was a pick up truck in front of me with some dirt bikes in the back and you come up over this little hill so I didn't see the orginal accident and the Range Rover coming across the lanes. All I saw was the pick up truck brake and swerve, so I swerved the other way to avoid the pickup and as soon as the pickup swerved the Range Rover was right in front of me. We had just passed a fire truck right before we crashed so within a minute of the crash they had the lane blocked off and the fire men helped open the sliding door which wouldn't open to get us out since I couldn't get out my side. The kids got to sit in the fire truck so that they were off the freeway until Rollin arrived. We all walked away with burns from the seatbelts and airbags and a few bruises. I am so grateful that the Lord blessed us and we were able to walk away and that Rollin was in town to take care of us. Can't say that the car didn't get beat up pretty bad but who cares about that. Can't imagine that they won't total it. They were pulling all sorts of pieces out of the bottom on the front end and throwing into the car just so that they could get it up on a tow truck. We are a little frazzled and I know we will be sore tomorrow but we can handle that.

This is how we ended up!!

You can see how close I was to the retainer wall. I really couldn't go anywhere else!! From the back you can't even tell that there is anything wrong with the car.

The tow truck driver throwing the pieces of my car that were on the ground inside the mini van.

View from the front.

The Other Car

Kind of an ironic title to my last post after the incident today!!!

Yes We Are Still Alive and Well

Haven't made time for much blogging lately but here are a few pics from the last couple of weeks.

Our best buds Tara and Sean came for a visit last weekend. We had a great time going to the movies, eating out and Kassy and Brittnie's highlight was going to get a pedicure with Tara. We hadn't seen them since last August so we were so glad they made the trip.

RJ posing for his "Great Moments". For anyone who has seen the Pageant of the Masters in Laguna Beach, they take famous paintings and recreate them using live people holding completely still. The kids school do this every year and RJ's class was one of the classes participating this year.

This is the picture that his class was recreating.





The kids were supposed to be washing the dog but RJ decided it would be fun to squirt dad with a squirt gun so Rollin decided that the kids needed a bath too!!! RJ decided he liked his baths a little warmer. Maybe he shouldn't have squirt Rollin. Lexi thought she was defending herself pretty good with her little gun.