DRIVE CAREFUL!

On the way to my Dr. appt today-finally got some medicine for this sinus situation going on-i drove by an AWFUl looking car accident, i flipped a U-ey to see if they needed any help, or if i could offer anything.

What i saw was a little two door truck flipped over and sitting right on top of the cab. The teenage boy had somehow managed to climb out of his passenger side window. I have no idea how, the frame was so smashed up and small. His mom was still buckled into the drivers side hanging up side down!

There were a few people there already seeing what they could do to help, one witness etc. Right when i arrived they were just calling 911. I went to the driver's side to talk to the lady, got her name and told her help was on the way etc.

I'm an LVN but i still feel like, what do i do in a situation like this? i feel a little responsible to stop and see if i can help since i've had more medical training then others. But seriously, i was at a loss when i'm talking to this women hanging upside down. I just wanted her to keep talking to me, i was trying to feel her out, is she hurt? etc. i didn't want her to go into shock i suppose. She spoke spanish better so i had her son keep talking to her, aw poor lady! The boy told me that she swerved to miss something running across the road and then they lost control. The witness told me that they most of flew 25 feet, he said they were super high in the air.

Pretty soon an off duty police officer came up and talked to the lady who was now complaining that her seat belt was getting tight.(she was a stud! the only thing she ever said was that her seat belt was getting tight. she never said anything else hurt or that she was scared or anything! She just hung there with one hand on the roof to help hold her) She wanted us to take it off of her but me and a few other people agreed she needed to wait til the firemen got there to take care of that, we didn't want to move her and possible injure her...well the police man was laying partly in the window talking to her and before we know it she is crawling out that little space of a window-if that's what you call it.

When she got to her feet she grabbed her son and just hugged him for a good while. She had the biggest smile on her face. She look genuinely happy to be alive and to see her kid in good health as well. You could tell from her smile that she felt like the luckiest person in the world. Seeing her hug her son almost brought me to tears. HA. i'm the one almost crying and she just crawled out of her smashed truck, i'm telling you, she was a trooper.

Just a little self reminder that things can take a turn for the worse at any second of any day. I'm so grateful for my family and health and safety. I'm so grateful that this lady and her son were okay.

Please DRIVE CAREFUL

Does anyone have a good Dentist?

I need help finding a good Dentist!

I like the actual dentist we have but i don't feel like the staff does a good job cleaning my teeth, they do it in under 10min. A quick floss and that swirly toothpaste thing(and not very detailed) and they are done...my other dentists had their assistants SCRAPE, floss and brush my teeth...

i know, well, i hope my teeth aren't disgusting but i do know i definetly need the scarping part everytime i go. I feel like without it i don't get that fresh (no pun intended) start on the next 6 months between cleanings!

If anyone loves their dentist and staff please let me know, if you don't want to leave a comment, so that weirdo's surfing the web won't know what city you live near just email me at sweetestjessie@yahoo.com

A post is following shortly to let you know how Riley did at her first appointment!

Early Morning What?!

Whose idea was that anyway?

Ha.

Ya, i haven't done it once yet! Can you believe it! I've been keeping to my running schedule though (except this week due to sinus headache) but just not in the morning like i'd like to do (in theory).

No one wants to run in the mornings with me?

-Please-

It's still my goal and will happen soon...right?

Sister-Brother Bonding

Riley loves Braden SO much and he loves her right back

On a walk to the park, i don't have a sun hat for braden so he was in short leg overalls with a winter hat on, what a sight!

A lesson well learned!

Get up and run when my alarm goes off even if i'm scared of running in the dark alone. Otherwise I have to take both kids in the jogger. egh! And let me tell you, it was a pathetic run...or should a say "rawk"-run-walk.

My newest intimidating adventure...

I have to give some credit to sarah for helping to inspire this post. As i told you a few posts back that i want to, no, I WILL-run a half marathon this year. That was also one of her goals for the year and she sent me a 12 week training schedule.

Now 12 weeks seems like a lllloooooonnnngggg time when:you only have 12 weeks left in your pregnancy or have only 12 weeks left of work until vacation, or 12 weeks left until school lets out for summer, or...fill in the blank :)

So why does 12 weeks until a race seem like NOT enough time?!

I love my blog for so many reasons, but one of the reasons i love it the most is because it's my "enforcer". Anything I want to do i simply just have to write on my blog and because i'm a bit competitive i will do it! (I know all of you out there reading this will just laugh and laugh at me if i don't complete the goals i list on my blog, right?!) Last year for my new year's resolution i wrote on my blog this RIDICULOUS eating schedule for the month of January. (it started mostly to help overcome my addiction to chocolate which i still "suffer" from daily and turned into so much more) but the point is i did it because you all were out there looking over my shoulder ready to point fingers and laugh if i cheated. So here goes nothing, or a whole lot of something...

Starting tomorrow I'm going to run every morning before my husband leaves for work in order to train for a race in april. I tried running at night after he got home from work but it left me with no time for the two of us and no time for us with the kids all combined...and i hated that.

I want to feel that runner's high again, i want to be addicted to running, in a healthy way-is this possible? I used to CRAVE runs not dread them. The only way im going to make this a reality along with my dream of running that race is to get up and run while my family is sleeping. No one loses mommy or wife time, i can, eventually, watch the sun rise as the seaons change and i will be up before Riley so i'm not grumpy when she wakes me up :) win win.

Now, a side note for my running buddy katie. I'm sorry! I know the best time for you to run is at night and i hope you know how much i LOVE running with you. Seriously. I am totally willing to go running before your husband leaves for work which i think you said is really early, just to ensure you as my running partner. So let me know if that's something you want to do.

Please wish me luck, strength and energy as i set my alarm clock for an hour a lot of people don't know exists-okay, so it's an hour of the day most people are getting ready for work but come on, early is early!

I'll also take any running advice, strategies, good routes in our city or people who want to run with!

*correction...the race is 16 weeks away not 12. Phew, that sounds like a little more time to prepare.

Our "fake" Christmas Pictures

Here are the fakies...we took them before church on sunday and they didn't turn out too great BUT i'm glad i got them anyways...my camera ended up working! But i forgot to turn the flash on and the battery was SUPER low so my camera wouldn't focus. These were the only un-blurry pictures we got.