Oh my goodness. I feel I have not been on this for a few weeks, cause i haven't. The minute we got up to Utah, I honestly had no time on my hands.. I didn't even get to check out the sites i stalk. :( oh well, now I have something to do at work. :) I didn't even get to see all the wonderful friend of mine i wanted. Granted, my sister did get married on the 20th. That put a small damper on things. :)
We were up in Utah for just about two weeks. We got there the evening of the 15th and left the morning of the 27th.
We had a marvelous time and I apologize to all the people that I did not see. Seriously if you had my schedule you wouldn't have seen any body either. I barely got to see Miss Carrie and her beautiful new girl Eli, Miss Bri Guy and Rilo, Alisha and Eric and Miss Pamala. To all the people i wanted to see, Lisa, Allison, Stina, and Amanda.. I am truly truly sorry... there are also reason to why I didn't try super hard to see people... mostly... a car accident that happened days before we took off.
Christmas was fantastic. :) We had snow!! Hooray for White Christmases. :) We started by opening up a few presents. Not all of them, family was not over yet but Dan and I opened up our gifts we got for one another with Virginia. Then we headed over to Grandma and Grandpa Griffin's for their very traditional Christmas breakfast. It was crazy packed just like every year. Usually we are some of the last people to get there and are the last to leave but with everyone's different time commitments we settled on getting there right when it started. Then we went back to Elizabeth and Patrick's place to exchange presents with Dad, Veniece and Family. Then it was back to Mom's to help with dinner. Once everyone got over there we finally had our own family gift exchange. It was fun and we had a great Christmas. It was not to bad for Virginia's first. :)
Once we got home to El Paso we got to see Lovey and Andrew for a few days and got together with everyone down here for dinner and gift exchanging before they took off back to Louisville.
But before we left for the Holidays... Dec 10th to be exact. I got in an awful head on collision. It was no bueno. Do not worry about me I am fine. We got x-rays taken of my spin right after the accident and no fractures.. no splits, nothing out of line. Just small whip lash which the doctor said would go away after a few weeks. I was sore for a few days but nothing i couldn't stand. I feel great. I do get stiff every once in awhile but that is to be expected for the next couple of months.
Now for some images.
On the 10th of Dec we also had our Ward Christmas party... Babies first Santa visit. :) I was not feeling so hot because of what happened earlier in the day... the car accident, so we did not stay to long. We went for dinner and Santa. We were there for about 45 minutes. While Virginia was on Santa's lap I snapped these images.
Everyone did awe's when they saw the smile and so many parents and friends came up to me and said that I was so luck. All their kids cried bloody murder when they were put on his lap.
Here are a few from my sister wedding and visiting up in Utah.
I love her!
She could not crawl cause the dress was to long so we tucked the dress into the bow in the back. She was so dang cute crawling around the place.
Baby loved taking her bath in Grandma sick. It was just the right size for her. She also loved playing with that cup, not her toys but the cup.
I shot these last night. I didn't get many. I want to retry what i was trying to do. Virginia was super cranky so i let her play with her diaper box and she gave me these faces. :)
Here are a few images of the car crash. It happened right in front of my work building. My supervisor, Susan, didn't see it but she was about a minute behind me and came to help and the owner of the company, Tommy, he was outside getting the paper. He didn't see it either cause he was bent down getting the paper, but heard the noise then looked up and saw me with my bright yellow coat getting out of my car.
I am not proud of this but a slue of profanities came roaring out of my mouth to the boy... he was like 19.... but once i got on the phone with the dispatcher I just started crying.
The image above is not the sharpest but you can see the double yellow line and see that he is all the way in my lane. I had not way of getting around him even thou i tried. ( I can talk about this now cause the insurance has determined liability and it was not me. I'm sure i could have talked about it but i didn't want to get into trouble) Apparently though, I didn't hear this but Susan did. When he started giving his statement to the police, he started to blame me but then the police set him straight and said stop lying. Awesome right! Go El Paso Police!!
Even though it was awful and something I hope, wish and pray doesn't happened to my friends or family, we are just grateful it's not worse. It could be.. so count the blessing right?
We have gotten a new car... I'm going to wait to post about what we got and our experience with car dealerships but we are super stoked about it. :)
Peace
I hate car accidents! They are just soo irritating and dealing with insurance companies is such a nightmare! glad you are ok and it wasn't your fault!! Im excited to see what new car you got!
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