a stressfull 24 hours

Well yesterday was supposed to be my first day off with out having to do anything except watch the kids, now for you moms I realize that you say this is a full time job and I do not disagree with you but when it is only every now and again you get to spend quality time with the kids it does not seem like a chore at all. Jen and her sisters were supposed to go out to dinner to PF-Changs let me say LUCKY, that is one of my favorite places to eat. then they were going to go and see A Christmas Carol presented by the Hale Center Theater. Things changed a little at about 1330 or 1:30 in the afternoon when I received numerous phone calls from my wifes side of the family first it was Jen from the Pizza store tnen it was Levi on his way home from work, then Mark driving up and down state street, then Levi's mom called my mom who asked my sister to call me. I never thought that I was so popular in my life until I found out that they all just wanted to know the same thing. Where Mom and Kris could be at. Mark had received a phone call from Joyce stating that they were on State Street and had been involved in a pretty serious accident, then the paramedics took the phone away from Joyce so she could not say anything else. He called Levi to see if he had heard anything and the snowball started. I was asked to pull some strings make some calls and see if I could figure anything out, especially where they might be. Now you have to remember with those two in the vehicle they could be anywhere from Bountiful to Provo and who knows how many miles of State Street there are between the two. I called my friends and co-workers at VECC but they had no information I then called Salt Lake Police who said they were really busy and did not have any accident on state street and the only injury accident that they had was at approx 2100 s 700 e. I then got a phone call telling me that this was the accident site and they were being transported to IMC in Murray, this did not bode well with me knowing that it must be serious because there were other hospitals closer but they were going to a trauma center. Long story short the entire family found out where they were at and trickled in and out of the hospital E.D. throughout the late afternoon and early evening. Kris has a fractured right pelvis, and left ankle, a ruputered spleen and a contused liver, also had a concusion. Joyce was released last night with some minor bumps and bruises and a whole lot of pain (probably more of that today). Kris was admited into the 5th floor ICU Shock Trauma for observation for possible internal bleeding from the spleen, today Her husband says that she is doing fine although in alot of pain. So my ever so relaxing evening turned out to be one giant ball of stress I am just gratefull that they are going to be ok and that Jen is starting to De-Stress 24 hours later.

Don't you just love 2 year olds!!!!!

So I was at my moms house for dinner on Sunday and learned that my son and a few of his cousins decided on Thanksgiving Day to use my brothers Wii as a penny bank and stuffed a whole bunch of coins in the cd slot. I was so angry! I knew that I would have to buy a new Wii system and I did not want to spend that kind of money right before Christmas, and then just trying to find a new Wii would be an even harder challenge! We tried to take the machine apart but Nintendo has made it almost impossible to do that with out completely destroying the machine. As a last resort we ended up calling Nintendo and asked if there was anything that we could do. We were suprized to find out that they have heard of this happening before and it only cost us $67.50 to fix. My sisters are going to split the cost with me. All I can say is thank goodness we don't have to spend $300 on a new Wii system. YEAH!!!