Daddy's Day

I don't think I have any dads that read my blog, so Happy Father's Day to the men in your life that are fathers!

We had a pretty low key day and tried to give Daddy some extra love today.  Ella and I put together a little project for Chris for his Father's Day gift. Here are some pictures.

It's time to swing, Mommy!

Daddy's little helper

Wheeee!

Daddy opening his Father's Day gift

Daddy's Day!

Ella and I worked on Daddy's project last week.  I chose blue ink to make it look manly, but then later realized how hard it was to get off.  Let's just say I thought Ella was going to have smurf feet for life!  It was a lot of work, but I was happy with it in the end.  The poem is about following in Daddy's footsteps.  I got the idea from Pinterest and put my own little twist on it.  Feel free to steal my idea for gifts of you own! :)

One Life to Live

Two weeks ago Ella and I were in a horrific accident.  It was the Sunday before Memorial Day weekend.  Ella had been sick with a fever so we came home from Illinois the night before where we had been visiting family.  That morning, her fever was gone and she was acting like herself again.  So, we decided to go run a few errands and Daddy was going to go play golf.  Well, you know how they say most accidents happen within a few miles from your house?  Well, I totally agree with that.  When Chris was in his accident a few months ago it was about 5 minutes from our house.  Then, after making just two turns, we were hit almost head on by a 93 year-old woman who slumped over her wheel and began driving into my lane. I can't begin to describe that initial "crash" sound, but I have replayed it 100 thousand times.  There is nothing more terrifying.  We ended up spinning around about 2 1/2 times (or so I think).  My windshield cracked immediately and I couldn't really see where I was going.  We ended up in the grass, right by the entrance to the Colts complex.  

In hindsight, this was a perfect spot to land.  Any further west and we would've ended up in a ditch where there was construction going on, and there are tons of trees on the side of the road that we could've hit as well.  When the car stopped, my stomach and ribs hurt, and then I heard Ella cry.  I pushed open my creaky door and went to get her.  All of my doors were locked and wouldn't unlock even though my car was still on.  I was in a panic.  So, like a good wife, I called my husband frantically.  Mind you, Chris has been in this situation twice before, and he has always been so calm on the phone.  Well, I apologized later because I was not one bit calm.  Anyway, as soon as I hung up, 3 amazingly nice people who had witnessed it all showed up to check on me and one of them climbed in the back to get Ella.  My baby girl was okay!  She was crying but we were both happy to see each other... and then she found her thumb. :)   


Chris was there within a few minutes and he helped me get what I needed to the police and I headed over to the ambulance that had arrived.  Just after I signed the waiver to have Chris take me to the hospital instead of going via ambulance, the paramedic went and looked at the front of my car. He then advised me that I needed to go right then via ambulance.  I agreed and Chris followed with Ella in her car seat.  


Chris took Ella to pediatric side and I went the other direction. Ella checked out fine.  A new sippy cup and some Teddy Grahams, and she was on her way with a smile. I had an u/s done and a CT scan to check for any internal bleeding.  Thankfully, everything was okay.  Just some cuts, a jammed finger, and a few bruises that I didn't realize at the time.  I still have a nice bruise on my right knee and a knot on my leg.


All in all, I am so thankful that we are okay.  I can't imagine losing Ella or Chris losing the both of us.  That has always been my deepest fear.  Unfortunately, the other driver went into cardiac arrest on the way to the hospital and she did not make it.  It took them a very long time to get her out of the car after having to cut the top of her car to rescue her.

The Other Car

Front of car

At Zore's picking up my belongings a few days later

When we went to clean out my car, I couldn't find my prescription glasses that I had just gotten about a month or two ago.  I was wearing them during the accident and remember them snapping in half.  They were the least of my worries so I just tossed them into the seat.  Somehow they were nowhere to be found in my car when we went to get everything out.  BUT, I did find my cheap pair of sunglasses from Kohl's in tip top shape.  Wouldn't you know that those would be fine, but the others wouldn't.  I found a little humor in that :)

God spoke to me that day when I thought he was going to take me from this world.  I am forever thankful that he saved me and especially our sweet Ella.  I hope that we can all remember that life is so precious and that God can take us away from it in just a matter of seconds.  I had said goodbye and "I love you" to Chris before I left.  He was going golfing and I was going to run errands, but what if that would've been our last?  

We only have one life.  We are responsible for determining what God wants us to do with it.