Crashed Vehicle and Ice Cream

This was one of those days where I knew I didn't want to do half of it! Ryan and I went to Redding to take care of a truck of ours that was in a motor vehicle accident that our friend was driving. The saddest part of this was she passed away in the accident. The police had to check the truck of course as it was a fatality so it finally got released. We had to go pick it up two hours away in Redding. First stop was Sheriffs office to sign papers and get the keys. Second stop was the Towing place were it was being held. My good friend told me before I went to brace myself. It was a horrible accident and I hadn't really seen the truck since then. We went to pay the fees on the towing and to get the truck towed to a junk yard. The guys at the Tow Yard were very nice. They have a contract with the police department to have all the cars that were fatalities so I am sure they are used to seeing shocked, sad faces.

I went in to look at the truck. I was silent. We had to try and get something out of the glove box for the towing company. I had to try and put my arm through the glass to do it. It was heartbreaking. My friend of two years was gone and her last minutes were here. I had to change my thinking quickly. I broke down in tears and couldn't stop crying for awhile. I was NOT prepared to see what I saw. I had never seen a truck so smooched in my life. The one thing I did realize in that instant was there was NO way she felt pain. She had to of gone within that instant. It had rolled too many times. I cried again. I knew the truck was cleared and it was deemed just icy roads and driving too fast for the conditions. I said to Ryan that I wish we wouldn't of let her borrow the truck. He said it was in Gods timing. It wouldn't of mattered who's vehicle she borrowed. She was now dancing with her son.
After a lot of paperwork our time was running out. Finally getting the stuff done we couldn't take it to the junk  yard as now it was closed. Ryan would have to come back alone the next day. I never wanted to see that truck again. I want to think of the wonderful stuff about my friend.

After we really needed to get our minds off of things. We called our good friend Becky who was going to pick up our kids for us and bring them home after the game. She suggested since we were already out to go to sushi and to think of the good times. So...That's what we did. We went to Sushi. We cheers our friend and talked about the good things. Ryan talked about how she was so cool the first time he ever met her and how she knew every single kids name at the school and treated them as her own. I talked about how she was such a talker like me and how she always had a smile on her face no matter what her day was holding. We could learn from her. We ate and talked and started to feel better. Got a sushi to go for Becky because she deserved it for bringing all our million kids home for us :)

Before we left Redding we had to price some stuff at Home Depot for Ryan's work. Got the prices so we could compare but they were having a bathroom cabinet event so we ended up walking away with one of those for the ranch house small bathroom that needs updated.

With thinking of our friend it brought up a lot of feelings of the loss of my mother. Its been Four plus years now since she passed from Stage four cancer and everyday I still think of her. She was my BFF and someone who was SO in my life that sometimes even I was like "seriously mom this is the fourth time you have called today" lol. I miss those calls. We started heading back home which is 2 hours away and stopped off at my moms favorite ice cream shop Dairy Queen. I have not been to a Dairy Queen I think actually in about 4 years. We got a Blizzard and couldn't even eat half of it. But heres to you mom.....your favorite Ice cream and to my friend a cheers at dinner. For all those ppl who have passed in our lives to know that you affected us in such a good way. Things to really think and pray about.

Side note....that's why I take so many pictures all the time. Maybe even why I am blogging my life for my kids. When my mom passed I wished I had written down more. Done more. Had more pictures. Videoed her more. To be able to SEE her still and HEAR her voice. That's why I take so many pictures. So even though my kids know that....and they still him and haw about me taking so many pictures....they still smile, let me do it, let me blog them:)

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