In A Matter Of Seconds....

....Life can change. Are you ready for it?

This is what I have been pondering today.

Something interesting, and strange happened yesterday. Yes, it has something to do with the following pictures, but not entirely.

First, to explain where my head was, I have to say I have been doing alot of thinking and praying for my family lately. Memories of my Brother's accident a few years ago have been on my mind, and I have just felt like something was going to happen, and we needed to be ready for it.

Cory called me around lunch yesterday, asking if I knew where Dad was working. I didn't. But he was insistent, and I asked why? He then told me there was a page for a rollover accident on Southbound I-15 for a White Ford Ranger.

(Stomach drops)

(Memories come back)

(Heart races)

I call Mom to find out..... and he left earlier in the Day for work. Can't be him. Whew!

Skip ahead 3.5 hours and you get THIS.

A 17 year old girl pulled out right in front of him in Roy on his way home. Right in front of him is a girl, looking at him coming at her in a truck, and he knows it's going to hurt her, but has nowhere else to go. His truck hits her broad side at her door. She was knocked unconscious, and Dad was afraid she was dead. She was pinned between her door and the console of her camaro. So far, Dad is fine, just a sore shoulder from the seat belt. The girl had some internal bleeding, ruptured spleen, and a broken pelvis. (we found this out after Dad called the hospital and spoke with her Dad)

So today I am thinking about our choices.

We have heard the statement: "It's My life", and yes, we were all given the gift of free agency.

We are free to make our own choices.

But our choices effect our friends, family, and loved ones.....

and perfect strangers.

Am I blaming or accusing this girl?

No, not at all.

Dad is lucky, this won't effect him much, physically he is fine, and he even is lucky enough to have another truck. (Which is much bigger and heavier, so we are grateful he wasn't driving it yesterday)

I am asking myself today, to pay more attention to how my choices affect those around me. Not just the obvious like my family and friends. But perfect strangers. (And I am not talking about the way I drive!)

So today I am asking this question..... Yes, our Father In Heaven is aware of us, and wants us to be happy. But is our life mapped out for us? Do we have a pre-determined destiny? If we have our agency, and are fee to make our own choices.... wouldn't it make sense that we need to remain close to our Heavenly Father, do what we can to stay close to the spirit so that we can make those little choices every day that will determine not only our futures, but those around us?

We are reminded of this many times. But for some reason when it hits closer to home, we pay more attention.

We NEED to be ready for it.

Cory Update

Cory's hand is healing. He had an appointment last week and they removed the stitches in the long zig-zag area in his wrist. There were 41 stitches there. They left the stitches in up in his hand area and he goes in this Thursday to have those removed.

He hasn't really been able to work. He can go and meet his employees and lay out a job, meet with contractors, and bid plans. Yesterday and Today he is trying to get a boiler up and running in Huntsville. Not alot of lifting or heavy work, but he came home last night really sore and hunting his pain pills.

All in all, he is doing well, and it's getting better. Thank goodness for Aflac!

Mr. "Boy Scout"

Somebody needs to repeat boy scouts. He didn't learn proper knife saftey, apparently.

Cory was trying to cut and pry apart something last night, cutting towards himself, and the "exacto" knife slipped, going right into his wrist. So at 9:45 pm we headed to the ER.

Ahhhhh, lidocaine. It makes everything better. (if you can survive the initial burning)

Getting it all cleaned out.

The inspection...... and they found he also cut his tendon to his little finger. So we had to wait for the hand specialist to come from Logan to repair it.

Cory's Owie Cont.....

They had to make the "hole" bigger to stitch his tendon. You can see the tendon here, just above the instrument.

The tendon is all repaired so now they are stitching him up.

Almost all done stitching.

This is what he will look like for the next few weeks.

Bite Off More Than You Can Chew?

I have often "bit off more than I could chew"..... not in the literal sense. But today Gage did so literally.....

The coffee table was more than he could handle....

He tripped over his blanket on the floor and fell forward with his lip connecting on the edge of the coffee table and then sliding up into his upper gum tissue. Poor boy..... and it bled so bad.

He looks like he got beat up.... he has a swollen ear from a mosquito bite and two fat lips.

OUCH! It gives me the chills just looking at it again. He sure was a tough kid though.... after only about a minute, he just kept telling me... "me otay mom, me otay."

I was really worried about his teeth, but they're not loose, so we're crossing our fingers they stay good and anchored, and they don't die from being hit so hard.