Lucky to be alive

This Christmas I feel a little lucky to be alive! As we headed to the Barker family Christmas party in Roy during the snow storm, I was a little nervous. JD's car isn't great in the snow, but my tires were bad so we ended up taking his. As we got off the Roy exit, we started to slide, but JD got things back under control...so we thought. We then started heading for the fence on the side of the road and straight towards a mile marker. I thought for sure we would just mow it right down and end up in the ditch! Surprisingly I kept it together pretty well as our car slid out of control! And we definitely had someone watching over us. As I watched in horror, heading straight for the ditch, we amazingly did a 90* turn and stopped dead in our tracks! We stopped about a foot away from the mile marker I thougth we were sture to hit. We both just sat there stunned for a minute wondering how we just stopped and hit nothing. The car was stuck and JD got out to push, which left me in the drivers seat. (I get a little nervous driving in the snow when cars are whizzing right by me) As soon as he got out of the car, someone behind us pulled over to help, which in a matter of about 30 seconds turned into two, three, and four people. I can't believe this many people stopped to help us! Whoever you are, thank you! It took 5 people to push the car out with me behind the wheel trying not to make someone else slide off the road by backing up into traffic coming off the off-ramp. We safely made it to the party and we happened to tell my mom and Rod about our little adventure on the way to which they responded, "Oh that was you?" Come to find out, my entire family was behind us and saw us slide off the road! My own family didn't stop to help! My mom actually said as they were driving by, "Oh that's so nice of those people to stop and help on Christmas Eve!" Apparently none of them know what JD's car looks like...they all said they didn't know it was us! Thanks! Well, I'm sure if they would have known, they would have stopped! Anyway, we are alive! And we had a wonderful Christmas! Thanks again to whoever it was that helped us!