20 weeks and Happy Freaking New Year!

Ok we'll start with the good stuff :) I am 20 weeks today!!! Wow this is going by fast lol. Only 12 more days until my big ultrasound! :) I'm starting to really feel girl so we'll see. I've been feeling pretty good pregnancy wise. The chiro has really been helping my lower back and I'm so glad I started seeing her. The drive sucks but it's so worth it.

I turned 31 on the 31st and me and Rich got to get out and go to dinner which was nice. I didn't stay awake for the new year lol, I lasted til about 11:15 and headed to bed. I think this is the first year ever that I was in bed for the new year. Oh well, didn't miss much. It was snowing like crazy, not sure how much we ended up with but it snowed all night and into new years day. We got at least 8". So on new years day I decided to make a quick trip to the store and leave all the kids home with Rich. Which is unusual for me, even when Rich is home I Always take Ashlyn with me, but that day I didn't. It was 2:00 when I left, I pulled out of my neighborhood onto the main road and right away I saw a car up the road coming the opposite direction and he was going fast and sliding pretty bad. I thought to myself "omg this jerk is gonna hit someone!" It's a 4 lane road so I got to the far right lane to be as far from him as I could. Then I saw his car start to spin. I tried to veer off the road into someone's front yard, thinking I was missing the collision then BAM.....he smashed in the side of me. I just remember holding onto the steering wheel as tight as I could. When it was over I sat there for a minute taking in what had just happened, and realized I was now In the front yard that I tried to get into and my van had spun and was now facing East (i was driving west). I tried to open my door but it wouldn't open so I jumped out the passenger side and started cussing the guy out telling the guy he was damn lucky I didn't have my kids in the car! lol yeah, this guy was about 4 times my size, like I could have really done anything to him lol. So then I look at my van thinking ok there's gonna be a good dent but it's ok.......haha yeah right, the sliding door on the drivers side, the door Ashlyn would have been sitting at, was smashed in, so was the back panel and the back right corner. The back tire was bent. No way the thing was driveable. My belly started cramping quite a bit, most likely from being so upset, but I wasn't injured. I also later realized the the passenger side of the van came just inches away from a telephone pole.

Any long story short, cops came, the prick had no insurance of course, he got citations, both vehicles were towed, and I went home. The cramping did go away after a couple hours.

We went and cleaned out the van yesterday and took pics, the insurance company is picking it up today and taking it down to Indianapolis where their storage facility is and I'm hoping we'll hear something by Monday. When I talked to the adjuster she said from the sounds of it, it will most likely be totalled. Either way we're screwed, we owe more than what the van is worth. I know that it could have been so much worse, had Rich not been home I would have had all 5 kids with me and I guarantee they would have been hurt, especially Ashlyn. I knew the impact was coming so I braced myself, there's no way the kids could have. I'm still really upset over the whole thing though, this was the First nice vehicle i've ever had and now some jackass that doesn't know how to drive in the snow has taken that away from me and I can't get it back!

Anyway here's pics: http://s198.photobucket.com/albums/aa283/stillcrazymama/van%20damage/