Best Laid Plans

oh, we had a plan. we even got out of the house on time. but the best laid plans, well, you know how that goes...

we were going to start the day with a bba(big bike adventure) and end the day at the beach. (for those who don't follow my gallery, the bba is a big bike ride through the santa monica mountains, that starts at the top of a canyon and ends at the beach near malibu. it's about a 10 mile ride and a rough one!) well, we still did both, sort of. there has only been one bba and that was back in april with jay and drew. this time they decided to go again and take camryn along, since she just turned 8 and everyone thought she was ready. so i dropped them off at the starting point, and it took me about 20 minutes to get back to our house to pack up for the beach. 5 mins after i get home the phone rings. it's jay telling me to come and get them. he did not sound very happy at all. there was an accident with camryn. i packed up the rest of the children and left immediately. my mind is just filling up with all of these images of camryn being hurt. so i just tell myself that it must not be too bad since he called me to come and get them and not 911! but i know blood is involved since he asked me to bring the first aid box and make sure the neosporin is in it. the 15 minutes it took to get there seemed to take even longer, but i get there and camryn pops up- that's when i realize that she's not the injured one, jay is. cut and bruised, and in a lot of pain. what happened was that they were going down a pretty steep hill. jay was out front with camryn, drew in the back. camryn starts down the hill and ends up going too fast, but couldn't maneuver the breaks to slow herself down and she was heading fast to the bottom which was a cliff... ya. so jay catches up to her and grabs her handle bar to try to slow her down, but by this time she was wobbling out of control and his only thought at this time was to make her fall, so he pulled her into him so that they hit the rocks which were on his side. had she leaned over the opposite way she would have gone off the edge. so she crashes into him and he goes down, both bikes on top. he says once he realized that he was still alive he wanted to make sure that cam was ok. just a scrape on her elbow and a bruise right above her hip. jay on the other hand has a couple of road rashes, a pretty bad gash in his hand, and a few cuts on his leg. his hand is swollen now and he says it hurts pretty bad but he will live. and we are all glad that camryn is still with us- she came really close to going off that cliff. needless to say that there won't be anymore bba's in her near future! jay was surprised that i did not have my camera for this. as soon as i heard the words accident and camryn i left the house so fast i didn't even think about it!

after a lot of going back and forth about it we decided we should still go to the beach so the kids could play. glad we went since they had lots of fun and it took camryn's mind off of the accident. she keeps crying whenever she thinks about it since it scared her to death. she had a great time. deacon on the other hand, was terrified of the water, and carter kept finding things to put into his mouth!

i am thankful to be home now with my family all safe and sound.