I was scouting out locations at Utah Lake for Brayla and Mckays sunrise engagement pictures. So I took the kids and Ukulele with me. Now the spot I went to was really muddy. I parked up the hill and we had to walk down to the lake. The lake had thin layers of Ice that as we walked on we broke. William wasn't really listening to me in the beginning as I said stay behind me so I could test the path before the kids, and he ended up getting super stuck in the mud. I had to go into the mud, hoping I wouldn't get stuck, to get him out. So While I took a couple of pictures of Sydney, Lizzy and William were running around stomping in the puddles and breaking the ice. And everything was going great til right at the end when I said lets go William jumped on this one ice sheet and fell into the water. In all reality if it hadn't been winter time, that puddle wouldn't have been a big deal. It was only mid-shin deep. So after he fell in the water, he was holding himself upright, and I was screaming at Syd (I was about 6 feet away) because she was next to him to pull him out and she couldn't. So I ran over as quickly as I could and pulled him up. I made sure everyone got off the mud and ice onto the path and then I ran to the car. Sydney got to the car next, and of course Lizzy was crying and upset because she was the last up the hill to the car and thought I was leaving her. While the girls were getting to the car I was stripping all the clothes off William. I had a towel and a sled in the back of the trunk with spare clothes for each of the kids. So I laid him on that wrapped in the towel and went to go help the girls out of their muddy boots so they could also get into the car. I then came back to William and finished getting him dressed and in the warm car. I then helped Sydney get out of her fancy dress and into some regular clothes. All while doing this Ukulele was just running around in circles around the car. I know he was cold, because he was wet and muddy, but he stay right with us, didn't run away, and allowed me to deal with the crisis at hand first, he was just a good boy. Every one was fine. Nothing bad happened to William after that whole ordeal. And I really wished I would have handled that crisis better. I felt really bad once everything calmed down for yelling at Sydney over something that wasn't her fault. So I apologized to her. And made a promise to myself that even in a crisis to count to ten and assess the situation first.
Afterwards we left to go meet Shayla in Parleys Canyon at the Golf Course because my mom was going to take the girls for a sleepover, that way we weren't going crazy the next day with kids and trying to take Braylas pictures.
below: in this picture you can see William falling. This is the last picture taken of the day, but also right before the scary event happens with him falling into the puddle.
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