Car Accident

On December 27th, 2012 I was driving to work at 6:15 in the morning to our American Fork office  to meet the Dr. there by 6:45 to drive up to the North Ogden office. I got on the freeway and only the far right lane was covered with a few inches of snow but all the other lanes were fine. I was merging on the freeway and was still in the far right lane trying to merge into another lane so I wasn't forced to get off the exit but there were so many cars going by. I was going about 15 mph... and finally there was an opening so I merged. Without any fishtailing or anything as a warning that simple turn of the steering wheel sent me spinning three times accross all the lanes of the freeway as I was staring at cars coming head on and switching lanes to miss me.. and then a semi coming straight at me. As soon as my car stopped I got in the far right lane and put my flashers on and just started bawling trying to call Hunter to tel him I couldn't drive any more and for him to come and pick me up. He didn't answer his phone so I started driving again going about 25-30mph.. it was snowing :) Hunter finally called me and I told him what had happen and he talked to me for awhile and then we hung up and he told me to call him when I got to work. A few minutes after we hung up my exit was coming up and the car in front of me merged into the right lane to get off the exit and for some reason I felt like I should try and get in front of her but instead didn't want to try cause I didn't want to spin out again so I just followed behind her.. Right after I got behind her she started swerving all over the place and slammed on her brakes and kept sliding all over... Now i'm not one to follow close and am VERY paranoid about being really far away from cars when following them. So I slammed on my brakes and if there wasn't snow I would have been stopped but with all the snow my brakes locked and I just slid straight for 40-50 feet and then her car slid to the left and back to the right and we both did a half spin and were parellel right next to each other blocking 2 lanes. I immediately called Hunter and then a girl from work who then called the Dr. to let him know I would be late if I would be there at all. I thought that the other driver had called 911 but she didn't ..... so Hunter called since I was just bawling and didn't know what to do.. (Don't worry.. I learned my lesson.. call 911 when you get in an accident and are blocking lanes :)) about 5-10 minutes later a highway patrol man came and helped us pull into a gas station and had us both fill out paperwork and write our statements down on what happened. After that we were both able to drive away and go to work.. it was a long hard day and now a month later I am still trying to get my car fixed... it is definitely something I NEVER want to happen again. Having to call multiple insurance companies and wait for them to call me back when the driver of the other car won't answer any calls or return them. But I'll stick it out since it wasn't my fault and it should be covered by her insurance :)

I'm just exremely grateful that neither of us were  hurt and both cars are drivable because it could have been SO much worse!

A Very Merry Christmas

Christmas Day was amazing.... Everything before and after.... Not so much.

On December 20th we got a call from Hunter's mom saying that Grams (Hunter's Grandma ) cancer came back and it was spread everywhere; lungs, brain, blood, everything. We were devastated. She died on December 24th, 2012 at 4:30 ish in the morning. (POST coming soon with more details!)

On Christmas Eve Hunter and I opened our gifts to each other. I gave hunter a shop vac, which he was very excited about and Hunter gave me ALL 8 seasons of House! I was beyond excited :)

 

 

Then We went to Hunter's parents house and just talked and played with our nephew carter and watched 4 christmases. Then we went to Hailey and Austins and slept over and then got up at 7 in the morning and were at Hunter's parents at 8 and ate yummy breakfast casseroles and began opening presents. They spoiled us and gave all the kids a grill!! We are so excited to use it! We also got all the different scrapers and things for the grill and also some candy and some kitchen things for me and some stuff for hunters truck... and my personal favorite... a pregnancy test. haha :) I think the funniest moment was when Hunter's mom was opening her gift from hunter and I and it was a gift card to red robin and I wrapped it in a small box so it was really light. She shook the box and then looked at Hunter and I with tears in her eyes and said, "are you pregnant?"

 

 This is the face of a woman who thought she got duck decoys for Christmas :) Hunter's dad just used the duck decoy box to wrap the present in.

 

We have never laughed so hard in our lives. We have no idea why she thought it was but it was hilarious... and then right after I opened my present and it was a pregnancy test and that just made it even better :)

Then after that we went up to Papa's (Hunter's great grandpa) house and just visited for an hour and then headed up to my parents. When we got to my parents we ate a delicious turkey dinner and then all went down to open presents. Our main present was we got ALL of our home videos on DVD! We were all so excited that we have our own copies and that my mom and dad went through the trouble of getting them converted. We also got candy and a sleeping bag and a few other things.

Then we went back to Papa's house and spent some more time just visiting with family and then headed to Hunter's grandmas house. We just picked at a few casseroles and ham and then all sat down and Hunter's grandpa and grandma both talked for awhile and then we opened presents. All of the great grandkids got pajamas/clothes/games and all the married grandkids got a steamer pot (which works AMAZING!) and then their children got either vacuums or a car battery charger thing. :)

After staying at Hunter's grandparents for a few hours we went back up to my parents house to play games with the family. But right when we got there Brian and Makenzie had already left and Kari said she was going to leave. So I forced my parents and Kyle to play a few rounds of yahtzee and Mexican train with me and then we left to go home and organized all of our presents and then watched a few episodes of House :)

School's out!

Hunter is FINALLY out of school!! It was so much fun having a few weeks, and we went out and celebrated by going out to los hermanos for a nice dinner. It was the first time we've gone out for a nice dinner in over a year (we are penny pinchers) and it was so nice!

 

I made this for Hunter when he was taking his finals :)

 

Hunter has a Los Hermanos shirt so whenever we go he wears it and gets a free specialty drink :) It definitely comes in handy!!

The next night my parents took us to the Traverse Mountain outlets and to Johnny Rockets for dinner! It was sooo delicious!

Those were really the only fun things we did since Hunter's grandma was given a week to live and I was in a car accident and then Hunter was in the hospital for a day.. christmas break wasn't much of a break :)

Thanksgiving

This year on Thanksgiving our plan was to spend it with my family since last year we spent it with Hunter's family... but everything seemed to work out so we could spend time with both!! Hunter's mom's side of the family said they were meeting at 11 for dinner at his grandma's church and my family was meeting at 1 so it was perfect! We headed to the church on Thanksgiving morning and Hunter's Uncle and Cousin were there and we all started setting up.. 1230 comes and still no one is there.. we were kind of expecting it. Everything always starts 1-2 hours after it was really suppose to :) So we headed up to my parents saying Good-bye to everyone that was just arriving. We got to my parents and Everyone was there including my Uncle Kurt and Aunt Lisa and cousins McKay and Eli. We went straight to eating and then after that just visited and played a few different games and then ate yummy pies! Once it was dark we started our drive to go see the Spanish Fork festival of Lights!! (we go EVERY year on thanksgiving :))

 

 

When we got back to my parents house after the lights Kari decided she wanted to go do some black Friday shopping at Walmart!! So me my mom and Kari went and stood in line for about 45 minutes and then at 7:55 they let us go to the movies! Every one was running and pushing and we were just grabbing movies we wanted and would go through them later if we didn't want them. I got a ton of movies and so did Kari, My mom however wasn't as lucky. She stood in line on the side that only had blu-ray movies. She was stuck in the middle of a hundred people and couldn't find her way out and was upset at not being able to get any movies. Luckily Hunter was there and he saw her and she was almost in tears gasping for every breath (we forgot she is REALLY claustrophobic) and hunter was able to get her out. The police officers that were in control of the movies were really rude and were swearing at everyone and saying make room I'm coming through and at one point people were pushing me into the Police officer  and I just kept saying, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry " (I'm not your typical black Friday shopper, I know :) ) and then he just grabbed my shoulders lifted me off the ground and moved me over on the other side. I was grateful cause I was trying to get out.

Overall it was a really fun Thanksgiving break! And I will keep working on taking more pictures!