The Berry Family: September 2008

Monday, September 22, 2008

Lesson Learned the hard way!!!!

Well tonight I had an experience that was absolutely terrifying!!! I had gone to Brigham City to pick up our beautiful family pictures. I let the kids stay in the car, like a good mom, I rolled down the windows, turned off the van and took the keys with me. So like most kids do Zackery moved from his seat up to the driver's seat to pretend he was driving. Can you guess yet what had happened next? , yep that's right, Zackery (and I don't know how) put the car into gear!! I'd parked on a slight incline and forgot to put the parking break on, the van rolled back, across the road, up over the curb, into the neighbors yard and got wedged in between 2 small trees. Amber and I were standing on her front porch and I had turned to make sure they were OK, when I saw the van start to go back words, the look of horror and the terror in there little voice was worse than almost dying. Matter of fact I think that I would rather die than see my children hurt or that scarred again. Poor zack shook for almost 2 hrs. When the van had finally stopped and the kids got out of the van, and I was talking to them, Avery told me that they had put the emergency break on to make the van stop, and it didn't. Amber's husband ran a little experiment, and we found out that the emergency break wasn't working at all. I think that there is going to be a trip to the dealership this week, to ask questions as to why the van was sold when the emergency break was broken.. Thank heavens for those trees. Had the van turned it's steering wheel the other way and they had missed the trees, Avery and Zackery would have gone over a small embankment, and crashed into the house across the rd. Some times I wounder how heavenly father expects me to live through raising this child. He may just kill me yet, and he's not even a teenager yet!!!