Counting Blessings

I am so blessed to have such a wonderful family. The Lord has definately had His Hands in our lives the past couple of days.

Kristalee is recovering very well and may possibly be coming home Wednesday night if things continue to go ok. She will still need to recover from her injuries for about 6 weeks.

Today I went and helped her get herself cleaned up a bit. I combed her hair and helped her wash her face, neck and back. She said that it felt just wonderful. She was able to be moved into a stroke chair (which is a very large hospital wheelchair)and she said that she felt like a queen. She was so grateful for all of the love and support that she has recieved. Kris hopes that she will be able to return home soon so that she can feel a little more normal.

My mom is also doing ok. She said that she feels "like the life has just been sucked out of her," Her boss replied that 'it was and the angels put it back in for her.' She is slowly returning to regular life activities. My dad has been able to be home and help her. This has also given him time to work on his Honey Do List, which makes my mom happy.

It is really sad that emergency situations make you reflect on how important family really is. I don't know how life would be had this emergency gone any other way. It truely makes me grateful to know that the Lord knows each of us as individuals, and gives us what we need. In a way I am grateful for the new look on life especially because of the holiday season. It makes me reflect and know the true meaning of Christmas is Giving. I am grateful for the service that I can give at this time.

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!!!

Disney on ICE

Well 2 nights ago we went to the Energy Solutions Center in Salt Lake to see the Disney on ICE program. This is the 2nd year that we went to this presentation. Last year it was princess on ice and this year their 100 year celebration. It was a good time to just be with the family and the kids really thought it was fun also. We had really good seats 6 rows up from the ice and right in the middle so the kids were able to see the entire show really well. The girls of course thought it was awesome when the princesses did their portion of the show, A.J. sat on my lap the entire time and just was awe struck when Mickey Mouse came out, he would clap at the end each section never even wanting to get off the lap. after the show we of course got the kids each a little souvenir. My parents and sister are in Disney Land this week and we were unable to go so this was our way of continuing our Disney adventure as a family.

Your Invited!

I will be in the Girls Day Out Boutique on Saturday November 8th from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm at the West Valley Fitness Center selling Creative Memories scrapbook supplies. There will be over 30 vendors there. If you would like more information visit http://www.girlsdayoutboutique.blogspot.com/ and you can see pictures of items and a list of vendors. It is going to be fun. I hope to see you there! You can also view my website - www.mycmsite.com/jenspicer