I Got On The NEWS!!! And I Only Had To Break My Leg To Do It!

For about five seconds anyway. At the end of the clip it shows them taking me out of the ambulance and putting me in the Air Med helicopter. I know it was me cause I recognize the people helping me out of the ambulance and it was almost dark when they were taking me out. Plus the news anchor announced that the person had a broken leg. Just a coinsidence... I don' t think so. I finally got on TV! Wa Hoo! Check it out here is the link below ......... http://www.abc4.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=c5986727-751c-40ba-bbc5-9ecad843026d

Easter Weekend

Marc and I went to the sand dunes with the Rombergs for Easter. Ryder stayed home with my mom and dad. We got there thursday night very late, we slept in a trailer in subzero temperatures. It was so cold, we didn't get any sleep! Friday morning we had breakfast with the Rombergs and went riding for a little bit. We played UNO run, a game where you collect UNO cards and follow each other on the 4-wheelers through trails at the dunes. Everyone went, it was kind of fun except Brandi (kevin's wife) and i got lost for a while. After lunch we all decided to ride thru the sand dunes to sand mountain, it's about 8 miles away. There were about ten of us, 3 girls including me. I can ride 4-wheelers but i'm not a very confident rider. I was kind of scared but didn't say anything, just went along with it. Well it turns out I did very well, I kept up with all the boys, and they didn't have to wait for me and I never got stuck! Actually I was going so fast I almost fell off my quad. Marc and I were so tired, our whole bodies hurt! We got back to camp and set up our tent and started preparing our dinner, we put some potatoes in tin foil with butter , salt, and pepper. We also wrapped some whole green beans in tin foil as well, and got our ribeyes ready for the grill. I was really tired so I decided to take a nap in the tent, Marc decided to go for a last ride with Chris Van skyndall (Marc's brother's best friend) before dinner. In Marc's words this is what happened next;
First of all I just want to say that I LOVE MY LTR 450!!! It is so awesome and fast and ... Ya it rocks!!! Anyway, So I had been hitting this jump all day and off to the left of the jump was a tree stump that stood about four feet tall. Everytime i hit the jump and came back for another jump I would ride off to the side of the tree stump but for some reason I misjudged where I was after I had hit the jump for about the 50th time and I found myself headed straight for the tree. So I hit the brakes and the sand was super deep and of course the front brakes locked up and I did a sweet front flip over the handlebars and landed right in front of the stump. Before I had a chance to move the quad landed on my head pinching me to the ground and the wheely bar came down on my leg it was a good thing too cause my quad might have hit the tree and got all banged up but i blocked the quad sacrificing my body and broke my leg instead. I would take a bullet for that thing. So Chris ran down and pushed my quad off of me and he went to get help. Kevin and his wife Brandi came back to the rescue with a cardboard box and some electrical tape. Brandi rips off her shirt (easy... she had another one on underneath) and wraps it around my leg to stop the bleeding. And they made a splint to put on my leg. Shortly after a state trooper came over and pretty much did a whole lot of nothing and called for the Sand Rail ambulance with an L6 corvette engine to come pick me up. It drove me over to a real ambulance which drove me over to the air med helicopter that flew me to Utah Valley Hospital. I got surgery and now I have a cast on my leg and lots of pain pills. So that is all I have to say about that... well that and I have the world's greatest wife. She has been taking super good care of me and gets me whatever I want and gives me sponge baths :)