Presidents Day at Dumont

We have been having a great time out at Dumont this year! We decided to head out on one of the busiest holidays of the seasons.

We got out there Friday night and as we came up over the hill Dumont was looked like a huge city all lit up!

Saturday we finally got up had our breakfast (brunch), and headed out for the first ride of the weekend, their was a ton of people out there!

We had been riding for a while and decided to head over to the front of the dunes and watch the Jeep pulls. Lacy and Cole were in the Teryx and were going across a hill, not a really steep hill. They were clipping along pretty good and the next thing I see is the Teryx going over.

When I finally got over to them, Cole was pulling himself out of his seat belts, and I looked down and seen Lacy out cold! She had blood running down both sides of her face. When she finally came to, she was getting claustrophobic from being buckled in and being face down in the sand. By then Mark, Wade and some other guy showed up and we tipped the machine back over and tried to get it started but it wouldn't run. So I jumped on Wade's bike with Lacy in front of me and headed over to the Ranger station. Now that was a sight, both of us on one bike with no helmets, with blood running down Lacy's face!

Wade's bike quit and I wasn't able to get it started, but luckily our friend Cory had seen us and he showed up on his RZR and took Lacy to the Ranger Station, while I had to hitch hike a ride over with one of the Rangers!

Lacy was trying to talk me and the nurse into just letting her go back to the trailer and wash off. she was pretty sure she would be okay! I loaded her up and headed off to Pahrump Hospital, to see.

This is the left side, there was no cut on this side!

The sand had packed into the cut so tight, that it had helped to stop the bleeding! That was the good thing the bad thing was that it took the nurse almost two hours to scrub all of the sand out of her hair to find the cut!

Doesn't look to bad here!

Here it is! The cut was 1/4" deep and about 3" long!

One CT Scan, 6 staples, and 4 hours later, we were out of the Pahrump ER room headed back to Dumont.

This definitely was one of the scariest things that I have been through! I am so glad that this is all that happened. Cole was a little freaked out the rest of the weekend to even ride his four wheeler, he thought that it was going to roll. He has rolled twice in the Teryx this year, he has every right to be a little freaked out!

Lacy is doing better, she stuck it out all weekend at the dunes. She has had a pretty good headache, and the kids have been taking pretty good care of her!

We have been going to the sand dunes for about 11 years now, and this is the first time that we have had to go to the ER, and hopefully the last!

Crush

I have a slight obsession with this ice cream. Seriously the best ice cream ever!

Super Bowl XLVI

We had our Super Bowl party again this year and had a great time. The Robinson's came to represent the NY Giants. Although Ben called from Afghanistan and kinda gave away who won before we made it to the end of the game. He was a little too happy about the results so the kids totally knew the Giants had won. :)

The kids spent the majority of the time playing outside.

Except the teenagers, they didn't move too far from the food and game.

I didn't take pictures of the food but you can get an idea from this picture just how much we had! We always go overboard on food. This year Travis made homemade wings and they were super yummy. Plus Mark and LaNae and Jacoy all brought a ton of good food.

The Cowboys fans were cheering for the Patriots just because they couldn't cheer for the Giants. But at least they are used to supporting a losing team hehe.

Control

Alright, so it will come to no great surprise for me to tell you that I'm a control freak. Well aware of it and I'm pretty much okay with it. But, as my kids are getting older I know I have to let them make decisions on their own and not control every thing they do. Well, Wednesday Baylee's friend asked her to go to St. George with her and her family Thursday. She would miss school Friday. Baylee really wanted me to make the decision for her and to be honest I wanted to! But, I am trying to let her be responsible for decisions and then dealing with the consequences of those decisions. She decided that she shouldn't go because she didn't want to miss her math class. Not because she loves that class, but because she knows she would get behind and struggle to catch up. I was so proud of her for making that decision! And I have to say, I was proud of myself for not telling her what to do lol.