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Sunday, July 6, 2008

Happy 4th of July!


We had a really fun 4th of July. Since Debbie is moving this week this was our last year to have such easy access to the K-town parade. Her condo that she is moving out of sits right on Main Street in Kaysville so we have had the luxury of getting front row seats to the parade. We did the usual. The Patane's came over to Deb's and brought their weapons, water guns, to carry on the tradition that they have had going for about 5 years. We fill up big buckets and garbage bins full of water to keep our water guns filled with amo. We even drag the hose out to the street so that when the water part of the parade comes we are ready to fight! Kaysville has a really awesone parade. The best part though is the water section. They have fire trucks and gutter cleaner trucks filled with water drive by and drench all of us. In turn we have all our water guns in hand and fight back. This year our water fight was put to a quick stop when a little boy was run over by a truck trailer about 5 feet in front of us. I am sure that most of you have heard about it on the news. Most of us from the party were on the news before the accident, showing off our water gun skills and then after the poor little boy's accident. Landon saw the whole thing happen. A ten year old boy was walking next to a truck trailer filled with about 30 kids and big bins full of water when his foot got caught underneath the back left tire of the trailer. He fell on his stomach as the trailer continued to go over the boy's leg and up to his pelvis. In that split second that Landon and Tom saw this happen they pull ran over to the trailer and lifted the trailer before it went any further on top of the boy. The driver of the truck didn't notice that that little boy was being drug underneath the trailer so some of the guys from our group ran up to his window and started pounding on it to get him to stop. As he was stopping the boys were lifting the trailer off the boy and one of our friends pulled him out. If they wouldn't have had the miracle amount of strength they had to lift that trailer up the little boy could have been run over completely. They saved his life. It's amazing how Lord has a way of putting people in certain places and certain times to be able to help someone in need. And even more than that, to lend his hand in their brute strength to lift this extremely heavy trailer without a problem. The boy was life flighted to the hospital and was in stable condition by the end of the day. Needless to say the parade was pretty much over after that big event. We continued our night with eating some grub, stopping by the K-town carnival at Davis High and ending the night was the firework show. Overall we had a great 4th of July. We saved a life, ate good food, had fun with family, and watched beautiful fireworks.

1 comment:

Tommy, Brittney and Ryder Patane said...

OUR HEROS! YAY! It was a great 4th of July!