Do We Just Have The Worst Luck Or What????

We took the kids floating down the Provo River this past weekend. I failed to get any photos because I wanted to be mindful of their safety the entire time and focus just on that. It was something we were excited to do but weren't sure if we should get a sitter for Abby or not. We agreed to take the raft out at some of the more treacherous parts of the river, mainly the famous bridge that everyone seems to have issues with. Floating the river have been something on Jus and I's Utah bucket list for the past 10 years......

Everyone loved it....well, except Ethan. He would, at times scream, "I HATE this and want to go home." Isaac said it was even more fun than having a birthday party and Abby was totally tickled the entire 2 hour float! She even got out of the raft and floated in the river with me for a bit. It was at a really smooth part and you have to know I made Justin tie her to me for the entire duration.

We had a little moment at the end. We pulled out at Vivian Park and guided our boat perfectly up to the side but our friends behind us came in quickly behind and as we pulled their rope it began pulling us further down the river. Ethan was already on the shore and looked in horror as his entire family began to float away. We got past that little moment and began putting the boats in the truck. As I was standing in the parking lot just 10 feet away from Abby, I watched in horror as she stepped right off a 3 ft. ledge and ended up hitting the back of her head on the concrete. We are doing a new treatment on her eye called Atropine which basically blacks out the vision in her "good eye" in the hopes to help restore the brain function and vision to the "bad eye". This obviously was a contributing factor to her fall. It bled a lot, but head wounds always do......since she was not unconscious, seemed to cry right away and stop quickly, we thought we would just keep her awake and watch her for awhile to make sure everything was okay. Then she threw up. We both kind of freaked out knowing that is a sign of head trauma. So we raced her down the canyon to the ER and had a CT scan done. Long story short, she's FINE. The throwing up was probably remnants of the virus she had a few days before. And the wound was only a small abrasion not even needing stiches, who would have thought after all that blood. The important this is that she's okay, and going to the hospital was kind of an adventure for her.