Look what just happened on my street...

So, I'm sitting in the house about 5:30 and I hear a helicopter that sounds like it's right over my house. I looked out my back window and it's sitting across the fence in my backyard and they were life-flighting someone. So I ran out the front door and saw yellow tape at the end of my street, 3 doors down. I see a car sitting half in my street, half in the highway. And there's police, tow trucks, fire trucks, etc.

I start walking down there fast to make sure it wasn't Bill or his sister and I saw a motorcycle laying there in the road and spray paint markings all over the street. It stopped me in my tracks and I started to cry. I was thinking about Stephen and that this must be what his accident scene was like. Cars driving by slowly to look. Cops marking the body and the vehicles on the road. People standing by watching it all. I felt very sad for the family.

I don't know what happened to the man. I'll have to wait until the paper comes out tomorrow.

Here are some pictures I took, and they look very similar to Stephen's.

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The ambulance in my backyard



What I saw when I walked up



The bike getting moved to the tow truck



The car that pulled in front of the motorcycle

Ahhh, Summer...beautiful time for a court date

Looks like Chrissie will be going in to plead on June 8th. This time she will be scheduled for first thing in the morning so there can't be any more half-day situations like last time.

We will probably be going up for sentencing or a trial in July or August. I'm hoping it will be during the summer so I won't have to miss any work.

I think this has dragged on long enough. It has been almost 20 months! I even feel bad for Chrissie and her family ONLY because her family can't move on with their lives either until she has served her time.

I am ready to get this part of my life over with. I'm ready to close this chapter and begin the healing process. Leaving this unresolved is like having an open sore for 2 years and then having salt rubbed into it every couple months. The waiting is horrible.

Can you believe some people!!??!!??

Man arrested for DWI hours after DWI sentencing
Fri Apr 17, 9:02 pm ET

DERIDDER, La. – A Texas man was arrested and booked with second-offense driving while intoxicated only hours after he left a court for sentencing for an earlier DWI conviction. The 31-year-old man was arrested by state police on Wednesday.

Hours before he was arrested, he'd been in 36th Judicial District Court in DeRidder being sentenced for first-offense DWI.

The man was being held in the jail without bond pending a hearing later this month.

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Information from: Alexandria Daily Town Talk, http://www.thetowntalk.com/

It just goes on and on...

On Wednesday afternoon our family got a call from SC State Attorney that said Chrissie would be coming into court on Thursday to enter a plea and be taken into custody to be held until her court date. She could do 1 of 2 things:

1. Plead guilty, be taken to jail and wait for her sentencing, sometime in June, when we could be there, OR
2. Plead not guilty, be taken to jail and wait for a trial to begin, sometime in June, when we could be there.

Of course, Thursday came, and the judge had a family emergency and couldn't stay all day. She could not be reached to come in early. I'm sure she was just taking some last-minute family time with no interruptions before she turned herself in. I know this was completely out of her hands and not her fault, but it's just ridiculous how many extensions this girl keeps getting. It seems like we're never going to make it to the inside of a courtroom.

It will most likely be another month before we can get her before a judge. So we just wait...

Thanks for your support and for all your prayers. They mean so much. I will let you know as soon as I know something more.