A Very Bad Day

Reuben and I had a very interesting morning today. I couldn't figure out why Reuben hadn't shown up from work. From what I knew he was coming straight from work. Well, it was about an hour after the time he normally gets home and he still wasn't home. I was starting to get worried so I called his cell and asked him where he was. He told me that he was in a tow truck. I asked him if he had broken down and he said well....sort of. I asked him what that meant and he said that they were almost to the house and that he would talk to me when he got there. Well come to find out he had been in a car accident. He was coming home from work and had just come around a corner on the highway in Fruitland and a lady turned left right in front of him and Reuben ended up t-boning her at 40 mph. As you can see from the picture it smashed in the driver side front part of the car. It actually did more damage to her van than our little Honda. With the lady's van the impact ripped the axle off of the springs and shoved it into the body of the car. Something that was pretty amazing was that a piece of our bumper got shoved between a rim and a tire on her van and the tire was still inflated. Kinda crazy. Anyway, she had a little boy with her and Reuben said that he was a little banged up. His eye immediately began to swell and he probably had whiplash. The paramedics took him to the hospital to get him checked out. Well, this lady saw Reuben coming but thought that she would be able to cross over into the other lane before Reuben got to where she was. Well, that was definitely miss judged. Well, Reuben's back is pretty sore but I think he'll be okay. The Sheriff's department still has to do the paperwork so they said we won't here anything until Monday but the lady was cited. I guess we'll see if they total out the car or repair it. It's old enough and has enough miles that it would be better just to give us the money for what it's worth but I guess we'll see. We'll let you know what happens. You all take care and DRIVE SAFE! Keep an eye out for other drivers!

Our Newest Addition

On Tuesday while I was working Reuben and Caleb came into the store and daddy said that Caleb had something to ask me. Caleb then said "kitty?" I then of course gave daddy a dirty look. They had gone to the pet store to get a fish for our tank and Caleb saw the kittens and just fell in love with the cats. He told Caleb that he had to ask mommy first. Reuben then told me that these cats were only ten dollars but they weren't fixed yet. I love cats and so I said that we could go over together and look at them when I got off of work. We were wanting a male since they are cheaper to fix but there was only one there and I wanted one that had mixed colors so I told Reuben that we could go to the 2nd Chance shelter. We don't particularly like this shelter because they yelled at Reuben when we tried to bring one of our cats. They said "does it look like we have any room?" I think they could've been a little nicer about it. But, I knew that they fixed their kittens and gave them their first set of shots before you take them home so that's why I suggested going there. I know it sounds crazy that we were wanting a cat when we had gotten rid of one of our other cats but we had to get rid of her because she was peeing on everything. We tried everything and she still did it. This is flat out not tolerated in our house. So anyway, this is the kitten that we ended up getting. He is now 12 weeks old and he is so incredibly cute. He's got massive ears, wiry hair and long hair in his ears. I picked this one since he had the coolest markings. The kitten is doing really well and he settled in within a few hours. It took us a couple of days to name him but we finally decided on Simon.

Mommies Little Helper

Yesterday while Caleb and I were playing outside he went over to our garden and started picking the tomatoes. I went inside and got a bowl and this is how many tomatoes he picked. He had so much fun and he was a big help!