Month Over?!?! Ahhh!

I could not believe March had come, and now,it's GONE...
The past month has been a whirlwind of activity and no slow-down is in sight for April.
From now until Mid-May (and the past couple of weeks) we have 4 scheduled soccer games. Hayley, Darby, Zack & Sadie all play on different teams, on different fields, and at different times. (There are a couple of games at the same times, but for the most part, they are spread out over the course of the day on Saturday.) Subsequently, our Saturdays are booked.
In addition to the Soccer games, we have a few weekends like the last one, where we also have dance competitions, dance pictures, scouting events, choir concerts, etc.

For example; last Saturday, I got up before 7 a.m. to get myself ready, before waking up the girls to get ready for dance competition. Chloe and I curled and teased Darby and Sadie's hair until almost 9. When I took Chloe over to the high school to work at the track meet. I took Darby & Sadie to their dance competition a little after 9. In the mean time Ryan was taking Hayley to her soccer game, buying oranges and cutting them up for her half-time treat, watching her game, buying after-game treats for and taking Zack to play his soccer game. A little after 1p.m. Sadie was done with her part of the dance competition, so on my way to take her home, I picked up Chloe from the high school, took Darby to change into her next costume and She and I went back to the dance competition. Then while Darby and I were gone, Ryan had the kids that were home work on chores, went to help one of his home teaching families with some things and took Hayley to a birthday party... As soon as Darby's dance was over, she and I raced home to change her clothes for her soccer game at 5. Following her game, we raced home again to change her clothes to go baby-sitting. Then Ryan and I took Sadie to buy an Easter dress, because she was the only girl that didn't have one for Sunday.

So, I'm a blog slacker, but, it's really only because when something has to give, it usually is a little time to myself.

I had better think of something!

Well, I am seriously going to try to write something regularly, even if it is the same old stuff. Because I don't want to have to wait for BIG things to happen to compel me to write.

Yesterday, Darby and Sadie were headed home from a visit with their Dad for Spring Break, and ended up right in the middle of a 15+ car pile-up on I-15 only about 20 miles from home.
Jason had sent me a message about 8:30a.m. that he was just leaving with the girls to bring them home. I asked him to let me know when they were close so I could take my lunch about the time the girls got home. Around 12:20 p.m. I saw that Jason was calling, and my initial thought was, "Wow, they made good time." Then Jason proceeded to tell me they had been in an accident and they were all ok, but they were pinned in the car.
The next little while was tense, and frightening. My friend, Carol drove me as close to the accident site as she could, then we waited for the Highway Patrol dispatch to call me to come get the girls.
It was horrible sitting, waiting, knowing the girls wanted me to get them, and I desperately wanted to see them and know for myself, they were ok, but I couldn't.
Ryan left work early and came to all of our rescues. He drove me North past the incident, then we turned around and drove as close as we could in the emergency lane. After that I got out of the car and ran up to where the girls were sitting in a fire truck staying warm.

This was the VERY welcome sight I saw when I got there.







These are pictures of the scene as it was being cleaned up, and of the car they were riding in.