Crazies

Last weekend was crazy for us, it seems like it's always crazy though!  Friday we realized our Suburban needed a new hose, there had been a noise, Jody added fluid to the power steering and about a week later the noise was back.  Jody checked the fluid & it was almost gone, yikes?!  He realized the power steering hose had a leak.  Although it wasn't "broken" the Suburban is a very large vehicle and neither of us felt comfortable driving it (we could have kept adding fluid) without it being fixed and the thought of it losing control on 85, wowza!  Jody went and bought the hose and to make a long story short it also ended up needing a power steering pump too.  Jody is pretty handy when it comes to fixing our cars and has saved us so much money being able to fix things himself.  But after looking online he realized it was a large job (lots to take apart in addition to what he already had taken off) and with us leaving for North Carolina Monday morning it needed to get fixed.  So, the Burb had to be towed to a nearby mechanic, which left our family of 6 with Jody's 1972 Volkswagen Beetle!  


We had parents night out at church Friday evening, Jody & I had been looking forward to going to  movie and using a giftcard we had gotten a few months ago and our kiddos were so excited to go hang out at church with their friends (so thankful for that) so we piled in and drove the 4 miles to church and dropped off the kiddos!  Jody and I were able to relax and enjoy a movie, not really because we ended up seeing "Unstoppable", a super intense on the edge of your seat movie!  We ended up seeing it only because we had to be back to pick up our kiddos and it was the only one that fit in the time frame!  It had some language, but overall a good movie.  


Saturday morning we got the house ready for our trip, laundry, cleaning, organizing, etc.  I ALWAYS leave my house clean so when we come home I don't have a mess to clean up in addition to all the laundry!  We were hoping the car would be fixed by Saturday evening, but no luck.  Sunday morning we once again piled the 6 of us in the VW and off we went.  Came home changed clothes for the annual KFBC (Student) Turkey Bowl-I even played flag football, no one gives me credit for anything!  Then home to change again, we were not anticipating this change of clothes and the kiddos ended up getting the fastest bath they've ever had (they were filthy and disgusting from playing in a field and dirt while the games were going on)!  Then back to church for our Thanksgiving dinner!  Thankfully I had prepared my food ahead of time Saturday and was able to warm it up before the dinner!  We had a great time with our church family enjoying a huge Thanksgiving dinner!  We had so many people we had to split up in the fellowship hall and up in our student center!  All in all I believe we had about 400 people!  Then home and in bed, our Suburban still wasn't fixed :(  Monday morning we received a call from the mechanic that the Burb should be fixed by lunch time, what a relief (we had originally planned on leaving early Monday morning).  We had everything packed up and in a pile in our mud room, house was cleaned and decided to watch a few movies to keep the kiddos busy while we were waiting.  We got the call that the Burb was ready, Jody picked it up, came home loaded everything in the Burb, said bye to Jakey (our Border Collie) and off we went on our 7 hour journey to North Carolina!