Autumn injured her neck after attempting to drive through a wire fence.

The three youngest were each on a dirt bike while the oldest child was out with her boyfriend. While she was gone, the other three rode the dirt bikes and the four-wheeler for hours.

Heck, I even took a couple of turns. First, I let Justin give me a ride on the four-wheeler. Next, I climbed onto the 50 and took a lap. My family was skeptical. They thought I might crash.

When I arrived back safely, I abandoned the 50 and climbed onto the 100. Amanda didn’t hesitate to suggest that I was going to fall and hurt myself. OK, I normally do NOT ride the dirt bikes, but it doesn’t mean I can NOT ride them.

It probably did nothing to help my image that during my entire drive around the field on the 100, my husband followed me on the 80. He too was thinking I might injure myself. I didn’t.

Soon, the children gave up the dirt bikes for more exciting pursuits like climbing up onto the roof of the garage and asking their dad for money if they jump off.

He agreed to pay, and Amanda was the first to jump off. Justin and Maxine soon followed.

During the roof jumping, the oldest child returned home. She climbed onto the roof, but she refused to jump because she claimed she had an injured knee. Oh, that’s right! She does. So she climbed back down the ladder and onto her dirt bike.

No one told her she would hurt herself, and her dad didn’t follow her around waiting for her to crash.

She crashed.

More specifically, she misjudged the opening in the fence, and she decided to drive through the fence. Her arms and neck took the brunt of the force as she was yanked off the bike and the fence wire flew.

We noticed she had put the bike down, but we didn’t immediately realize she had gone through the fence. She stood looking down at her bike for a bit. Her sister came along and put down her bike too. Finally, Autumn turned off the bike and began walking back to the house. Within just a few steps, she began to run, and we realized something was wrong.

Her injuries were minor compared to what could have happened. The place she went through the fence was right next to the opening, so the fence came undone. The top wire of the fence cut the inside of Autumn’s arm pretty badly along with scrapping along the entire section of her neck to her chin. Autumn said she threw her head back as she went through.

It could have been so much worse, and although she is still sore, Autumn is recovering and doing well. I knew she was going to be OK when she started texting, but it took all of us a little bit to recover as we comprehended how badly this could have ended.