Explosions and White Trash

We started off New Years Eve by having a BBQ with The Clausens and The Brinkerhoffs.


Then we shipped the kids off to the Brinkerhoffs to have their own party with Jenna and Kami babysitting. They had a ton of fun!
We decorated for the adult party while the guys did their own preparations out in the backyard. Imagine watching 4 grown men walking across the yard carrying a large tree and placing it on top of a LARGE pile of wood.Follow this with an explosion and 4 men running as fast as they can toward the house. This continued for most of the evening.These guys had more explosives than should be legal.I'm just happy my house is still intact.

The fire was alot larger than it looks!We had a pretty good turn-out for the party.It was a ton of fun with lots of yummy food and entertainment.
The next day we were invited to go with the Brinkerhoffs to their family New Years Day party which is appropriately named "White Trash New Years"
It consists of a bunch of people BBQing,riding quads and shooting guns.We were barely there 15 minutes and the 1st accident happened.One of the friends of the family was riding too fast without a helmet. He crashed of course. He thought he was turning onto a trail which turned out to be a 30 foot cliff.Nobody knew he crashed so he had to climb out,across a creek and up the cliff,out to the road so somebody could see him.Later we found out he did this with a broken vertebrae,broken pelvis and broken ankle!

This is what it looks like when a bunch of crazy guys feel they can load an injured person into the back of a pick-up and everybody wants a look!

This gives an idea of what the quad looked like when he was finished with it.The crazy guys drove him out to the road,trying to take him straight to the hospital.The women in the family,not trying to be matcho,called 911 to have an ambulance meet them on the highway. They decided not to wait for the ambulance. But by this time the highway patrol knew what was happening. So they ended up shutting down the highway to look for the pick-up with 4 guys holding onto the guy in shock. They hunted them down and called the ambulance. By the time it got there he was out of it and had no pulse in his leg. It was decided that he needed to be air-lifted to Scottsdale Osborn (we were just south of Payson)

This is a pic of the cliff he flew off of. It's much larger than it appears. He flew over the creek and landed 15 feet on the other side of it. Luckily he didn't have a head injury!

We ended the day by roasting marshmallows. This was the end of 2 weeks of crazy!
I'm tired. Now I have a few weeks to recover before everybody comes over for the Superbowl party which my house was again volunteered for!