My 8-8-08 (Long overdue)

I thought I would tell whats been going as of late.... On the famous 8-8-08 I was in a wonderful car accident (wonderful isn't the right word to use though) I was driving home from my parents house in South Jordan and was stopped at the intersection of 11400 S. and redwood road waiting for the light to turn green. When it did I proceeded to go through the intersection only to look to my left and see a car coming straight at me through the red light (that picture will forever haunt me) She hit and spun me then hit into another car straight on that was waiting in the turn lane. With the air bags going off they create a smoke and a burning smell in your car, so my first thought was that the car was going to blow. It of course was not going to blow but it is funny how your mind thinks in times of panic. I went and sat on the curb and all the people that were helping said they were going to send the doctors over from the clinic that was on the corner to check me because I am 8 months pregnant. Well the fire department, the ambulance, the South Jordan cops and the doctors from the clinic all come and start doing what they do... in the mean time I am still just in shock, trying to talk to Mark on the phone and answering every ones question around me. I remember just sitting there shaking and I was saying my leg hurt (??? Once again it is interesting the things you think when you are in panic mode) A doctor came over to listen to the babies heart beat and says to me, " I can't hear a heart beat. " I can't imagine what that women was thinking to tell a 8 month pregnant women who just got in an accident and is shaking on the side of the road that she can't hear my baby? Anyways to try to make this short... they took me in the ambulance up to Alta View hospital so they could check the baby. Finally when they got me to the hospital I felt my little man kick and it couldn't have been a better feeling. After that I was ready to go home but they insisted on doing every test they could possibly think... so I ended up being in the hospital for 6 hours. I told Mark it was good practice for when we would be doing the same thing in a month. So all in all I feel really blessed that nothing serious happened and we had no serious injuries. The worst part about it was the fact that the lady who hit me ended up having no insurance and my car was totaled so that is what we are dealing with now... I'll take that over getting hurt or loosing my baby any day though! I guess my 8-8 of 08 will forever be remembered now... These are the pictures we took in the hospital, you can tell I look really happy! I wish we would have taken some of the car but I guess I didn't think to get my camera out in the moment....

Boy did the baby hate those things being on my belly... he was kicking at the them whole time, it was pretty funny!