Happy Easter

Happy Easter Everyone.

I just realized its been forever since I posted; we have been a little preoccupied. We had our own little Easter miracle on the 5th of April. We were on our way home from Grand Island (after the spring snow storm) and teh roads appeared to be fine until we started to see cars in the ditch and one car was actually in the road covered with snow. I had to stop and go around. I had not even sped up yet when we hit a patch of fresh slush, we hydroplaned, went into oncoming traffic (missing an oncoming F-150 truck by like an inch) rolled and landed completely vertical in a ditch packed with fresh soft snow. Miraculously noone was hurt. Brooklyn slept through the whole thing. Carter and Hailee were terrified but unharmed. Jason stood on the sliding passenger door and opened the driver side sliding door to get the kids out (I was pinned and couldn't move). The driver of the truck we almost hit stopped and rushed to help. He was waiting by the door of the van so Jason started handing the kids to him. He gave them to another woman who stopped to help and put them in a nice warm vehicle (it was cold out that day and the kids had taken their shoes and coats off for the drive home). When Jason got Brooklyn out he looked out and he said there were probably 20 people helping. Only in Nebraska would this happen, it really is the Good Life. After Jason got the kids out he unbuckled my seat belt because I was stuck completely in the air so I swung my legs around to the window and pulled my self out and jumped down into fresh soft snow. I got a nasty bruise on my arm but all in all the bruise was no big deal. We even had a wonderful woman from Aurora bring us back to my mom and dad's house. Everything fit so perfectly in place for our miracle. I never drive if Jason is with me, I like to sit back and zone but for some reason I decided to drive. I would not have been tall enough to reach the drivers side sliding door from the passenger sliding door to get the children out like Jason did. We were complaing about a snowstorm in April but that snow saved our lives by stopping us from completely rolling and landing us in a pillow like fashion in fluffy white snow. One second slower or one second faster we would have hit on the passenger side right where my precious baby girl was sitting in her car seat. It was like He just took over the wheel and placed it where we needed to be, the whole thing was actually gentle considering what had happened. Everyone walked away safe and sound; our van on the other hand not so much and that is where the preoccupied comes from.

My parents let us use their vehicle (our vehicle had full coverage but it didn't cover a rental vehicle) the second day we had it it starts knocking at us and broke but my dad was able to fix it. The whole vehicle-insurance thing is nightmare, but life goes on (Thanks to God and his wonderful Grace).

We had a nice weekend. Jason had Friday off so we just bummed around the house. One of my girl friend's dad owns this amazing place called "the warehouse" and it is just an abandoned warehouse that he turned into a three story dream pad. It is such a fun place to hang out. We were invited to a birthday party there on Friday night, my parents came and stayed with the little ones. We had a really fun time. They have Boulevard Wheat on tap that you can just help yourself to all the time so Jason was in heaven. All my friends were there so I got to socialize which is always good. On Saturday I cleaned the house then we headed to my mom and dad's to celebrate Easter with them.. We had a good and relaxing time. The Easter bunny visited the kids in the morning and then we went to 10:30 service and all the kids were really well behaved. We went out for breakfast afterwards. We headed back home accident free around 6:30.