The Accident

Heber was in a car accident this week.  He (thankfully) is fine as is the other driver but the truck is totaled. It's been a bit stressful as we've tried to deal with the aftermath and buying a new car. 

 

I've spent the past couple of days thinking how lucky we are.  How can I think that?  Well, there were so many things that could have gone a lot worse.  Heber is ok (I don't know what I would have done if he had been injured), the other people are relatively uninjured.  After hitting the car ahead, his car swerved into another lane and there happened to be no traffic in that lane at the time.  You see, it could have been so much worse.  I just really feel like Heavenly Father was watching out for us in the whole situation.

As I was getting online to reserve a rental car, I saw that the last time I'd rented a car was a year ago this week.  That is just a week past our move to Virginia and we were still in the crazy hotel phase.  Somehow, this how experience with the accident made this last year come full circle.  I remember renting that car, at that point, I had never rented a car myself before and I had to learn how to do it.  When the call came that Heber had been in an accident, I knew that I needed to address the immediate needs and just got it done.  This is something I wouldn't have known what to do a year ago and here we are with all these lessons learned.
 
So, it's the end of an era as we say goodbye to the old truck.  I'm not particularly sentimental when it comes to the truck but it's been a part of our lives for a long time.  It's funny, the night before it happened, I took a bunch of pictures of the kids in the truck playing.  It's like it was meant to be.

 

We spent Saturday buying a new (to us) car.  It's a Subaru Outback and we are excited.  I can only hope it runs as well and as long as the last.