4th of July

Thursday morning, Morgen woke up crying which is ODD for her. She is such a happy baby she always wakes up in a good mood. Her crying when she woke up went from bad to worse....cranky & clingy all dy, wanting to be held, sleepy & a fever...by 430pm she was throwing up. Oh boy. What a way to start off the holiday weekend. I had spent Thursday trying to pack as we were planing on leaving town for the weekend to go to my parents house. That was obviously on hold. Friday morning, JaCee crawled in bed with us at 4am, crying ---- her leg touched mine & I knew she was sick too. her leg was ON FIRE. Matt & I looked at each other & tried to go back to sleep for a little while...When JaCee got up her temp was 103 something....Morgen was still clingy & we had been up every 4 hours keeping Tylenol in her, but no sickness through the night like I was worried would happen. By Friday night, they were both doing better...they both ate dinner & we even went for a little walk around the block.

My sick baby girl. By the time JaCee got sick I couldn't pick up a camera to get a picture of them...they both needed to be held at the same time all day long.

Saturday morning we got up & hung out for a while...the girls seemed to be doing better so we headed to MT. We visited with my mom & dad, did some fireworks ---

JaCee showing off her new plate grandma got her



My 4th of July baby



Grandma & her girls

JaCee & mommy

Sunday, my brother & his soon to be wife came over for the day to BBQ & visit too. The day was crazy. It started with Matt & my dad heading out early in the AM to get a load of wood. They got home, and Ryan, Erin, Matt, Me & JaCee all loaded on the 4.wheelers & went for a ride. My my mom & dad kept Morgen at the house with them. Unfortunately, the ride was cut short by Matt having to tow me & my 4.wheeler back tot he house. I went through what I thought was a creek, but it was a mud bog filled with water & it sunk my 4.wheeler & the water cut the power. Ughhh.....I had JaCee on my lap & it was quite the scene to hear her screaming as the water was getting higher & higher. We were in no real danger though, so I wasn't too worried.

Ryan getting ready to tow me out...

Erin taking care of JaCee for me. Thank goodness for her!

After we got back from the ride....we ate Dinner & JaCee had been begging Erin to go with with her on a 4.wheeler ride. I asked Erin if she would just take her down to the boat launch, which is just about 1/2 mile...not far at all. Erin said yes...she's such a trooper, she doesn't care for 4.wheelers anyway, but did it for JaCee. Matt & my brother & my dad were all outside messing around with my 4.wheeler since it had dried out & was running a little bit. All of a sudden we hear a girl screaming ... she's on her 4.wheeler  screaming there is a roll over ATV wreck. My heart sunk, I knew Erin & JaCee were up there on the 4.wheeler, I yelled for Matt ---- to see where JaCee is ---- the look on his face was of Panic!!! Matt & my brother took off on a wheeler toward the wreck, my dad went running by me for his 4.wheeler. I was crying by this point yelling where is JaCee...where is JaCee & Erin??? No one would answer. As I started running in the direction of the wreck, Erin came running down the road toward me carrying JaCee. I was SO happy to see them....Erin was yelling right away --- we are OK. We are Ok! Our neighbors had some family over to visit & two of them were racing down my parents road, when they looked up, one of them was coming straight at Erin & JaCee, he swerved to miss them & rolled his 4.wheeler. He had his 5 year old little boy with him & they were both bleeding really bad & it appeared his leg was shattered. My dad is a volunteer firefighter so he knew how to handle the scene. Erin was so scared, shaking....I felt so bad for her. She felt bad JaCee saw the wreck & was crying. The ambulance came, and then...someone came riding up on a 4.wheeler & said there is a BEAR coming down the road. My parent's area they live in has had a few bears bugging them for a couple of weeks. I started laughing --- only in Montana. There is a 4.wheeler wreck and then a bear coming down the road!!!

After the accident, Erin & Ryan drove back home & we set off fireworks to end the night.

Monday Morning we packed up to head home. We got home around 11ish, it was 90 degree's out, so we un.hooked the trailer of wood & hooked up the boat & headed to the lake. Matt's family was at a family cabin, so we went to visit for the day. Got home & everyone crashed. It was a nice long relaxing weekend! I am so Thankful God was watching over us and protecting our family. Matt & I were talking on our way home, saying if that guy hadn't have swerved to miss JaCee, our day would look a lot different!!! We feel we are safe with the kids when we are riding, but you can't account for what other's are going to do, we learned that lesson this weekend.




Matt taking the cousins for a boat ride