Wrecking On the Rhino

This weekend we went on a day drive down to Utah to buy a Rhino from someone on KSL. We got home late, but Chase, Kayl and Tyce were able to get a little test drive in. Then next morning after Lindsey England's piano lesson we decided it would be fun to drive her home on the Rhino. She lives just down the road so it would have been just a quick ride. We put Maylie buckled in the front passenger seat in her car seat and just had Lindsey sitting in the back with a boy on each side. As we started heading down the road I got up to almost 35 miles when suddenly I lost control of the Rhino and we went powering through the fence hitting the fence post and bucking all three back passengers off the side. Immediately I panicked and thought the worst had happened to the kids. I hurried and climbed out and found Lindsey lying in a sage brush bush with Trayvn safely sitting on her lap and her arm around Rhev who was lying face down. Lindsey had managed to hold tightly onto both boys and cushioned their landings. Rhev had a cut on his head from where he hit a rock, but Trayvn came off completely fine. Lindsey had a couple scrapes and a bruised bum, but she too was just fine. Because Lindsey was so quick, I know that she saved them from some pretty severe trauma. She was truly a hero. After I checked on the boys, I realized that I hadn't heard anything from Maylie. Once again my heart leaped and I ran over to her carseat to check on her. The sweet little girl had slept through the whole ordeal. She was completely fine. 

Once we had checked everyone and made sure everyone was okay, I walked around the Rhino to see what might have caused our wreck. Apparently the back passenger tire and rim had completely come off sending us sliding into the barrow pit.

I called Tyce to tell him what happened and see if he could come pick us up, but he wasn't able to get away from work. Then I remembered that Dave was going to be coming out to our house to pick up some of his things from our basement sometime that day, so I gave him a call. He just so happened to be just about ready to turn onto our road. He came down, picked us up, Sister Balls stopped by and picked up Lindsey and took her home and then Dave brought us home so we could fix up Rhev's head, grab the yukon and trailer to go pick up the rhino. With the help of a neighbor from down the road who stopped by to help, we managed to get the Rhino home. It turned out to be quite the adventure. There were so many blessing and miracles that happened. The Rhino should have rolled, the kids should have been hurt, we could have been stranded alone for a while and other bad things could have happened. I know I can see God's hand in the whole adventure. We pray every day that we will be watched over and protected. This day we got to see that protection happen 1st hand. We are truly blessed and I'm so grateful to still have all my family and Lindsey!