The Slip-n-slide Incident

Daddy and Jake running down the slip-n-slide together.

This is the only shot I have of the big kids- Connor and Chase.

Here is Jake sliding by himself!

He's not a big fan of the slip-n-slide, and neither am I now! :)

Ryleigh Kate

Spenser

Carson

Finally...the story behind the crazy photo! Sorry it has taken so long, life has been non-stop since getting back to our "routine." Anyways, where was I?

We left Tifton last week and headed to Cochran for the day to see my grandparents and my cousins; well, my grandparents had to leave to go to an appointment, so we all went over to my cousin Christy's house to play on the slip-n-slide. Christy's husband, Darin, had found this huge plastic sign someone was throwing out, and he thought it would make a great slip-n-slide. And indeed, it did!

On to the photo, Tyson and I decided we would race down the slip-n-slide. Well, my cousin Christy grabbed the camera without me knowing and decided to snap some pics. Thank goodness she did because that picture is phenomenal! She caught it at just the right time! By the way, the next shot was of the grass! :) I guess they all took off running to me because they thought I had broken my neck, and the camera snapped a few shots of the grass itself. :) I can't tell you 100% what went wrong, but I will tell you what I remember:

Here we are about to start the race...

And here am I 3 seconds later...

We had just taken off so I had tons of momentum, and next thing I know, I hit a ruffle on the slip-n-slide that brought my intertube to a dead stop. Well, I had so much momentum that the lower half of my body couldn't stop itself, and my legs went flying over my body. (This is what is photographed). I remember sliding on my face like that for a couple of seconds (long enough for me to think "Oh my gosh...I just broke my neck...what do I do?"). For real, it was really that long! Anyways, my legs over came my body and I went airborne, did a flip, and completely laid it out on my back. Once I realized I wasn't paralyzed, I jumped right up and started laughing my tail off...I knew how funny it probably looked. Like I said, everyone was running at me at the point, including my sweet Jake, to make sure I was okay and all we could do was laugh. Tyson had no clue I had busted it that bad...until we discovered the picture on the camera.

My dad thinks I should submit the picture to a magazine or something. It is pretty awesome! I look at it at least daily for a good laugh! :) Thanks, Christy, for your mad photography skills!