We bid you farewell

I have been trying to 2 weeks to make a post to our blog, but the photos refuse to upload. My computer is really making me mad. We are upgrading our operating system to the new Leopard-it is on its was in the mail. So we are hoping that doing so will allow us to upload photos easily again. It has been a pain for the past few months to upload anything online. It takes WAY to long. So for now I will skip it...

We have all been doing wonderful these past few weeks...well except for Halli who has been sick and teething (like always). We went to the annual Wichita Flight Festival a couple Saturdays ago and enjoyed seeing planes, playing games, and eating funnel cakes (YUM!!). On that same day we also picked up a piano! I finally have a piano in my home so I can practice anytime I want. This will make playing for the ward choir and accompanying musical number so much easier! I may actually stop sucking now :)

As previously mentioned, Halli has been sick for about a week now. Just a cold and cough, but it is annoying wiping snot from her face every 2 minutes. Thank goodness for puffs with lotion, or her poor face would be rubbed raw! Carson caught a cough from Halli, but now runny nose as of yet. Ryan and I seemed to have slid off the radar on catching it-YEAH!

And now for the farewell, as read in the title of this post. Our faithful Explorer has been great for us for 6 years now. Ryan bought it the summer we met, and it has been a fantastic car for him. As of Friday though we are no longer a two car family. Well I guess it is technically sitting in front our house, but it doesn't work. Ryan drove it to work, as usual, but called shortly after he left to tell me that it quit working. He made it to work, but it would start back up. By some miracle though it did start after work on Friday and Ryan drove it home. We went to take it to the shop, and it quit on the way there. We got the alternator replaced, and then the mechanic told us we needed a new transmission too. So we were able to drive it home, and it has sat in front of the house since. So we bid it farewell, and hope we can adjust to having just one car!

As a side note...we can't afford to buy a new car due to the money we are spending on new windows for the house, a new sliding glass door, and apparently a new roof. Thanks to the rainstorms these past few days there is a wet corner in Halli's room. Oh the joys of owning a home. I think I may go back to renting-ok not really, but all this money being spent on our "new" 1990 house is getting OLD.