Last night about 8:10pm Cierra, Ayda and I were returning from Target after getting the girls some leatards for their first gymnastics lesson on Wednesday night. We were all so excited and just about halfway home when a truck in front of me swerved to miss a deer lying in the road,it was not dead but stunned. At first, to me it looked like a cardboard box but just when I figured it out I had only a second to react. I did the same as the truck but when I tried to correct and get back on the road, I over corrected the truck and were headed to the very right side of the road and I felt us starting to go up on the two wheels on my side of the vehicle. It seemed forever and we finally rolled over completley on top of the Suburban. Now as a mother I have only been scared for my children's lives this one time and as I heard their pleads and crys all I could do was say hold on its ok and pray that it would be. For some reason I do remember thinking that it would be and that all I could do was leave it in Gods hands. He truley blessed us that night and I know it was for a reason we are still here. The two girls were fine, Cierra had two little scratches on her wrists and Ayda was just hurt from the seat belt. About a minute after we were all suspended upside down with only our seatbelts holding us upright, cierra just had to get out of there. When I looked back she was already out of her seatbelt and crawling out of the window. At first I thought that maybe the seatbelt hadn't held her in maybe she was to tiny and she slipped out. But she wasn't crying and I told her to stay by the car because I wasn't sure of my surrondings. Ayda and I were still in our belts and 2 men ran over to help. I asked them to check on the girls first, and that I was fine. A few minutes later they had Ayda out and they reported back that both the girls were unharmed. The car behind me happend to be a Firefighter that had just picked up his mother at the airport and he and his family were in the car. His wife took care of the girls while he and another good samaritine took care of me. After they checked me to see where the blood was coming from I asked for them to please call Stacy, that he was less the 5 minutes away and that I wanted him there with me. I thank the lord that first of all that my two precious cargo's were safe and unharmed and that I was able to control my nerves. I didn't start crying until Stacy showed up and I apologized for the accident, which he giggled saying that its ok, that we all were fine thats all that mattered. As we all know IM not a tiny person to say the least and that I was feeling a little uncomfortable with all that weight upside down with this little belt holding me up, poor seatbelt. I was upside down for about 15 minutes. But I want to thank the Lord for being with me and the girls that night and to all of you who prayed for me and my family. This had nothing to do with luck, we were being watched over by the Lord and I want to praise him. Thank you Jesus! We left this horrible accident with minor cuts and bruises on our bodies and we only had to loose a car and not our lives. I will be forever changed by this experience. These are some of the pictures that Stacy took, a little shocking but just shows you that God does watch over and protect us.
