That Man Made a Bad Choice!

Yes, that is a truck in our backyard. Chance always said he wanted another grey Chevy, but I don't think he wanted it to happen like this! Here's what happened at our house at about 5:30 this afternoon:

We were inside cooking dinner and heard a terrible crash outside. Chance stepped out to see what happened and saw this little surprise in our yard! We are very thankful that this didn't happen about 10 minutes earlier, because we were all outside then and Cade was jumping on the trampoline. But, since we were all inside, we really have nothing to do but laugh at this strange situation. The young man driving the truck started his partying a little early and was on his way to Northgate. He turned the corner a little too fast and went straight through our fence. These things only happen in college towns!

The police came pretty quickly. I love this picture because it looks like Chance is the one in trouble since he is sitting on the curb by a wrecked truck. It was pretty amusing to stand at my kitchen window and watch someone taking a field sobriety test in our yard. The driver failed, by the way.



One of the most challenging, but funniest, parts of this event has been explaining it to Cade. We talk a lot about making good choices, and told Cade that the man that drove through our fence made a BAD choice. Cade has lots of questions and observations, such as "Mama, the wheel fell off that truck!" and "Daddy, why is that truck is still in our yard?" We let Cade stay up past his bedtime to watch the wrecker pull the truck away. He cheered "Yeah, truck!" when they finally got it onto the bed of the wrecker. This was apparently difficult since the truck only had one functioning wheel. To make this even more fun, we received our first rain in almost a month while the police were trying to get statements from everyone.



We will have to keep Cade and Holly corralled until the fence is repaired. Hopefully we can get this taken care of soon!



Other than this, we had a really fun Family Friday with a trip to Research Park and the pool. Unlike the driver of this truck, Cade made very good choices today :)