And it continues....

Soooooo...we got our car back yesterday afternoon.....and it wasn't as bad as it appeared at first glance....It turned out to be a water pump....with fluid similar in color to transmission fluid....Who knew? It was also covered by warranty....which of course is always good...UNTIL....we were driving the car again last night...and all of a sudden we start to hear noises....It kind of sounds like air running through the engine...and we are also hearing a grinding kind of noise...We stopped the car twice and tried to figure out what was the problem...but didn't see anything...until the last time we stopped...and there was some black thing hanging off of our car.....no idea what it is...but I am sure it doesn't belong there...sooooo Kendal talks to his parents to see if we can use their car...(I am supposed to be at a meeting, and by now Kendal is late for his second job....) and I drive the car very carefully BACK to Pontiac and park....Did I mention that the ENTIRE time my normally happy cheerful sun was testing his lungs to see how well they work? Finally Kendal shows up and I drive him to work, and then go to my meeting (45 minutes late) I shouldn't have bothered. Jeremy was Jekyl and Hyde. In 3 seconds flat, he stops crying and smiles and flutters his eyelashes at the other women in the room...making my previous claim of a screaming baby null and void...LOL! He proceeds to lay on the floor and every time I looked at him, laughed at the top of his lungs...no reason what so ever.... till he decided he wanted to nurse.....so I cover myself, and my friend Ida announces in a very loud voice that "Hey...why are you covering up? We have all seen those before....." I almost died of embarrasment...and I don't really embarrass that easily...but it was very funny, and probably the only laugh I got all day. We ended up leaving the meeting early because Jeremy just wasn't himself....and then....he screamed all the way home.....
So I get home, and you would think I am safe now right? BUT NO! I use my cell phone to call Kendal...and guess what....It is broken!!! I can hear him just fine, but he can't hear me at all....

Oh well- what can you do but laugh right? It will be funny NEXT month.....

and so once again...I am waiting for my car to find out what the new problem is.....

CARS DRIVE ME .......

CRAZY!

Just when you think you have a good one ...something gos wrong....AND.....it is usually at a really highly inconvenient time.....like in the middle of a move.....FUN. (NOT!)

SO........Yesterday we were already having a rough day...and several other things had already happened...but we are ready to go home from church and Kendal is done work, so we stop at COSTCO to grab some lettuce. Bree and I stayed in the car while Kendal ran in, and while we are sitting there, I start to smell something kind of off and burny...I asked Bree if she smelled anything...but she didn't , so I assumed it was just me, or something off of another car passing me. THEN...Kendal comes out of the store...and stares at something on the road....I was like...."Oh Great...I ran something over....Then he asks me to back up...and I am wondering why he wants to stare at it......as it turns out, I wish that I had run something over....because there was light pink fluid all over the road....NICE. (AGAIN....NOT...) I drove the car across the parking lot, and parked it and turned it off...no way I was driving it anywhere else...So now we are left with several other problems....namely...it is Sunday, so there is no way we are going to be able to fix the car today...The second problem is Breanne has a volleyball game and she needs to get there. Jeremy is screaming by now, I have a migraine, Kendal is frustrated, and none of us have had lunch...Add to that the fact that we are in the middle of a move and can't really afford car repairs at the moment...and we had a very frustrating situation...We called first to find out if we still had free towing - which we did, and then we called Kendal's parents to get a lift...but they weren't home....Bree phoned her friend and got a ride to her game, and Kendal called our friend Paul, and he came and picked us up. Thank God for Paul....This is like-the second time now he has come and rescued us from our car...( The first time I ran out of gas-because I forgot to fill up..smart I know....) The rest of the day went ok...we went to Pauls house and Tammy fed the refugees lunch, and then we watched the football game (we lost this time...) and then we went to evening service...Paul drove us home later....(Actually he drove Kendal home twice...because we got all the way home before we realized that Kendal forgot his keys at the church and had to go back and get them.....)

So this morning, Kendal's parents picked us up at 7, and we drove Kendal to work, and I went to GM and set up an appointment to find out what is wrong with my car...and so now we wait....

Jeremy's first screaming Day!

Jeremy learns to wave hi!

Spiders Really Do Crawl out of Toilets...

Ok...I only have a couple of minutes this morning, as I am in a hurry to go somewhere...but I just had to share this so that others could be creeped out with me...no sense being freaked out on my own.....

I went into the bathroom this morning, and when I was done...I went to flush...and there was the biggest spider I have ever seen crawling around on the water......so I did what any red blooded female would do when they found out that there is a spider crawling around under their butt! I screamed! Loudly. and several times. Jeremy was amused....so was my husband when I called him quaking in fear to tell him that he had to come home and kill the spider in the toilet....um...that is I was fearful till he told me he had a little confession to make....Apparently there was a very large and freaky spider crawling around on my clean laundry this morning....It jumped out at Kendal and scared him...so to be sweet (as he puts it...) and not let the visious beast scare me, he says he squished it and put it in the toilet and flushed.....(Apparently we didn't squish it QUITE ENOUGH! ) Hey dumb head...spiders walk on top of water!!!

OK guys...get a laugh at my exspense.....

Share your freaky spider stories with me in comments...I don't want to be alone....

Looking Back...

i actually posted this on June 20th....I felt it was worth another look...Sometimes when I am having a rough day-like today, I like to remind myself of the important stuff in life, the things that give me joy..Looking back on the way God has blessed me helps me to be more positive about whatever is bothering me in the now.....

Sometimes life is kind of crazy...
Today I was thinking about how only 2 years ago, if anyone had told me that I was going to have another baby, I would have laughed at them....
Having a baby was definitely NOT in the cards for us at all. Kendal and I had been married almost ten years, and raised three teen girls before we realized that maybe we did want another baby after all...and now, I can't imagine life without Jeremy! Even all the dirty diapers, and no-sleep nights are worth while..I would do it all over again if I had the choice to make..and not only do we have Jeremy, we are actually considering another one in a year or so!!!
Life sure throws us some curve balls!
Fortunately, once in a while...they are good ones!

Jeremy's first time in the lake....

The Buffalo Days Parade....

Here is Jeremy being stabbed by a pirate....

Here are some pictures we took of the Buffalo Day Parade....We had some cool moments, but overall we were pretty disappointed...Parades just aren't what they used to be....Mostly it is just advertising now, and barely anyone really puts a lot of effort into their floats. They also don't hand out candy anymore which they used to do....but I guess it kind of puts a damper on things when a kid gets run over by a horse....The weather was pretty nice this year though...

Bree wants to join the armed forces and become a pilot,
so she wanted her picture taken with this guy.....

Talon plays at Grandma's house..

Jeremy likes the grass...