Happy Bday Chris -Sweet 16 .......... And down........ he went!

WED JUNE 20, 2007 A DAY TO REMEMBER

OK so I missed blogging yesterday, but I really DO have a good excuse! For one thing, it was my "baby" boy Chris' 16th Bday, happy 'belated' bday Chris! He isn't really our baby, but he is our firstborn and always will be my baby! Anyway, he didn't expect much yesterday bc we are holding his party Fri night, so thankfully he wasn't too shell shocked when he was working with Blake yeseterday on the truck and they left their scheduled appt and as they were turning into the E.R. parking lot at the hospital Blake told him that they were going to see his Dad, who had wrecked his motorcycle!!!!!!!! Yup, you read right! VERY very bad afternoon yesterday and definatly NOT what Chris had in mind for his 16th Bday!
So, Wed afternoon Ed was headed home for lunch on his new motorcycle .... they just repaved the street down the road from his work and as he approached the stoplight it changed to red. Rather than try to gun through the light, Ed proceeded to stop, but the BIKE had another plan as the road was hot and slick with the new tar and the wheel locked up, the bike slid up around him and he was thrown to the right and skidded through the fresh, hot, sticky, slick tar! 4+ hrs at the ER and a broken left wrist later, he was home, in pain, but home. Luckily he WAS wearing his helmet and luckily there was no other traffic in front of or behind him. Luckily he was not going fast and luckily he is pretty much OK. Thank you Lord! He is banged up, has a mild concussion, broken wrist, lots of road rash (with tar for souveniers) and bummps and bruises all over. Bless his heart, he even got back on his bike and RODE IT HOME after he dumped it and then announced we needed to go to the E.R.! OYE! MEN!
Yup, that pretty much covers it! I did include a few pix, one of Chris on his lil' brothers bike, (prob the only one I'll let him ride from now on) in honor of his Bday. Then there is one of Ed with the wrecked bike and his fresh new cast, also one of his helmet showing the gouges in the chin area and then one of the big fat dent in the gas tank on his bike. I took like 40 pix but they were mostly for insurance, every little scrape and bump, but since the bike was in extremely excellent shape, it really IS that bad.
OK Well, count your blessings folks! We sure are!
XOXOX
Darla