Car Jacked

We were car jacked Monday night.... By this guy.


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Ok, so not that guy in particular, but one of his peeps.

I never saw a thing, which is good because I would probably have nightmares if I had. We were taking the kids to Sonic for dessert, driving down Main Street, when I heard and felt this WHAM. I wasn't sure what had happened. We had just passed a park so in my mind I thought wow, some kids just threw a frozen turkey through our windshield. I wasn't totally with it. Ernesto managed to get the car pulled over and I told him that I needed help. (make sure and click on the picture so you get the full effect... and check out all the glass in the bottom right picture)I took almost all of the force. The deer caved in our windshield and roof and then when it rolled off, the window and roof rebounded to some degree. Blake got some glass on him but he was the only one who was physically hurt beside myself. Thank goodness for safety glass!!! I was sitting sort of crossed leg and sideways so I took the impact on the right side of my body. Luckily my sun visor was down so it protected my face. I was really banged up so the am-bu-lance took me to get checked out.

I was covered in so much glass that they had to cut my clothes off and everyone who touched me had to be double gloved (they were getting glass in their hands). I was wearing my favorite green shirt and best fitting pair of pants. *sigh* But nothing is broken and I am only bruised with a million tiny cuts, so no complaints right!Our back yard neighbors were so good, coming to the accident and getting the kids and watching them while I was in the hospital. Jen even bathed Blake to get all the glass off of him and put the kids down to bed. And the man and the lady who stopped were so kind. The woman took Blake and cleaned off his pacifier so that she could give it to him and rocked him and sang him to sleep. The firemen who came to the scene were really kind too, getting the kids' minds off the accident and making them feel special. The kindness and generosity of others is amazing.