BLESSED WITH ANGELS

The girls in our family are all horse crazy starting with J. and her cousin K.. So every family get together has the big girls getting the horses out and riding and then giving rides to the little girls. I believe that Angles were with us this family get together. Something spooked the horses and J. who was getting on a horse named Midnight had the horse lunged forward and land on her cousins little head. J. watched the horse come down on the head and she has know idea how but she got off the horse as it started to fall down. She said it was so slow motion and little K. was; she thought under the horse. Then somehow she got little K. out of all those legs without getting kicked to death or a single broken bone to her body just a bruised scraped wrist. She can’t even remember getting little K. into her arms but she does remember that it felt like it took her forever to get to Jadies back door which is really not that far from the horse pens. She remembers big K. screaming and little K. crying and wanting to scream but nothing would come out. She even remembers Kt sitting on the ground and big K. yelling at her to let go of the rains. It turns out that Kt. got bucked off the horse BJ that she was sitting on, most likely when big K. started to scream it startled that horse and somehow big K. managed to realize that if Kt. didn’t let go she would soon be being dragged away. J. just wanted to get little K. to Alonzo and kept hoping that he hadn’t left yet. But he was gone and it didn’t take but seconds for us to be in the trucks and on the road to the hospital. Little K.'s ear was cut along the back so that it moved the whole ear off her skull and cut her forehead above the eye. There is no crushed scull and no other broken bones. No head injury that can be seen at all. The main artery to the ear is severed, amazing that she didn’t bleed to death but it does explain the volumes of blood that was everywhere. She did have to have plastic surgery at Primary Children’s Hospital and they are all amazed that this was the only damage done. Heavenly Father will send angels to help us and protect us if we but ask. We should do that more often and also thank him for those he sends when we do not ask. I for one am so thankful that the girls were as protected as they were it could have been so much worse.

DRYER FIASCO

WE have this brand new dryer, well three years old and it goes and starts smoking like its on fire. Tyrell is yelling and Alonzo comes running while trying to get dressed at the same time. They jerk it out from the wall and unplug it and open the door, the smoke stops, the smell stays. After taking it all apart we found that the lint was going down in to the bottom and not out the vent. Some was somehow getting past the lint catcher. It had all caught on fire right along the top of the lint that coated the bottom of the dryer. One plus is that the body is made of metal. All I can say is THANK GOODNESS IT ONLY SMOKED. We haven’t tried to see if it will work yet. Maybe I don’t want to anymore, hanging cloths out to dry sounds nice right now except I would never stay ahead of what the boys can wear in a day. I definitely am going to do a yearly clean out of the bottom since I do not trust my lint catcher. I even cleaned under it about two weeks ago. Thank goodness Tyrell was just around the corner and smelled the smoke.

Adventurous

Tyrell and J. on the spur of the moment Sunday evening at 5:30 to be exact talked their Dad into taking them up the mountain and dropping them off with a tent and saddles and three horses to camp and ride out the next morning. Tyrell has been on a scout camp like that once but never by himself. J. has never done anything like that. It was almost dark by the time they loaded the horses and packed the tent up, got up there and were all unloaded. They had the time of their lives even if they hardly slept. April doesn’t like to be tied in one place so she pawed all night waking them up over and over again. April the semi green horse was the pack horse. She is usually the lead lady but after two hours they almost had to drag her. The tent wasn’t small and it was awkward to tie on so it was rubbing April the wrong way. She usually doesn’t mind water but was ornery about getting in any water this time. It was sixteen miles out and took them till late afternoon to get home. As they were crossing the freeway underpass connection people in cars were staring. One almost wrecked his car and trailer from staring. They are ready to drag Alonzo up this weekend and do it again except they want a smaller tent since Dad will have to ride April this time. I am just glad that they were able to make it out because I didn’t want to have to pull the gooseneck up the mountain for my first experience at driving it. I can just tell what this summer is going to be like. I think maybe I had better get some quick meal packs and some light weight cook pots so they can eat on their trips. Dang my stupid camera is on the blip so I couldn't even get a picture of it.

I HOPE THY CALL ME ON A MISSION...

The mission paperwork went in and the wait started. It really wasn’t that long of a wait. The post office called early Friday morning before we left to help Tyrell move out of his college apartment. They asked if we wanted them to deliver it or were we coming to get the big white envelope that was from the church headquarters. Of course we were coming to get it. Tyrell said it took forever for us to drive to Manti, he must have called 10 times asking us were we were at now. Finally we were sitting in the Chinese restaurant he announced that he would be going to South Africa the Johannesburg mission and would report to the MTC there not in Provo. He would not be leaving until September 15th that he didn’t think was as great as he is ready to go right now. He texted over 100 contacts and then his phone died so we were not sure who got the announcement. He was so surprised and excited and wanted to tell his good friend Will who had already left on his mission but of course he had to wait to send a letter because his computer was taken apart to pack up. He called the kids and made them guess, C. hit it on the nose and they all searched the globe to see where it was located. We quickly did all the work to get the passport sent off and that has been forever wait but even it has finally arrived and he is very relived. Now all that’s left is to get the clothing and send in the stuff for his visa. It’s been one month since that letter arrived only three months and one half left to go. Really it’s been a life time of preparation and years of waiting. There really are still many years to go for all the other boys that this family has.