The Wreck

 I was driving our children plus another child to drama last Monday and after getting gas we were pulling back out onto the road and a truck with a trailer of concrete ran a red light and smashed into us. After a few donuts in the middle of the intersection we finally stopped in between the entrance and exit to 65. 

I called Levi while in the middle of the road and then 911. A older man who ended up being such an angel ran up to the car window and asked what he could do for me. Every time someone found out how many children were in the car they themselves went into a slight panic mode. Bella and Cecily were hit the most because it was on the driver's side. I was mostly terrified to be sitting in the middle of the road watching traffic everywhere. I asked him to take Cecily out the window as her car seat was completely sideways on Nephi. Thankfully my windows would still roll down because the smoke from the airbags was thick. 

He took her and then came back to get Nephi and Adam and then Bella and Coraline. 

Clairana and I managed to get ourselves out the front and run across all the lanes of traffic. 

We waited in their truck for 20 minutes before the police or ambulance arrived. 

We had another kind man stop and ask how he could be helpful and he pulled our Volvo from the middle of the road with his Jeep and offered to let us have his child's car seat who was the same age as Cecily. 

It is so hard to even show your extreme gratitude for people during a time of complete shock and chaos. 

I will always be sad that I wasn't more thanking of such a blessing. A repeated word of thanks and tears just doesn't seem like enough. 

Adam was picked up by his mother. Nephi, Cecily, and I all went to the hospital by ambulance and Levi took the others to the hospital behind us. 

Jack and Jane met us at the hospital and took some of them home as we now don't have a vehicle to fit all of us. 

We all checked out fine - they were concerned about my neck and the baby but both seemed to be fine. (If you are just reading this and don't know yet we are expecting number six) 

Friends of ours that were talking to us at the hospital joked that we had to make this birth announcement such a big deal to out due the others and we could have told them in a less dramatic way. It was a sweet time for a joke and made me laugh.

Bella got several burns and cuts but is getting better now. Everyone else suffered whiplash and I had some crazy rashes from the airbag. Emotionally, everyone is doing better and I may be an awful passenger for awhile. 

Our car was totaled and we seem to be forking out money all over the place at this point...with hopes we may get a reimbursement someday. 

Ukkkk. 

Vehicle shopping out of complete necessity is not nearly as lovely. Especially when its limited due to the number of seats. At this point, I want to just join the minivan world and be done with it. Maybe look again in a couple years when life settles down and not so much money is spent.