Flat Tire

I was on my way home from work yesterday with the windows rolled down, because it was a beautiful day.  I was on Pioneer Crossing and just pass the new Holiday Oil on 500 West when I started to hear a funny noise out the window.  Then my car started driving a little sluggish, so I decided I had better pull over.  Pioneer Crossing is a busy road and people are whizzing by me like it is no big deal, so I got out the passenger side, to see that my back passenger side tire was flat.  And by flat I mean, 3 big holes in the tire.  Great!  I call Mike and he grabs tools and 20 minutes later is with me and doesn't have the right tools for the tire.  So we drive back to Mike's work, get the right tools and drive back to the car.  The jack is being difficult (because we forgot to put something in front of the front tire so the car wouldn't roll off the jack) and it makes is harder that we are right next to the curb.  We finally get the car jacked up, the flat tire off and the spare on.  When we release the jack, the spare tire releases all its air!  Dang it, the spare is flat too!  So we drive the car off the busy Pioneer Crossing to the school on 1700 West and take the tire to Discount Tire.  I drop Mike off because it is 5:30 and they close at 6 and drive home to pick up the boys.  We head back to Discount and get there at 6:30 $115 poorer, but with a new tire!  We head to dinner at Chick-Fil-A and then drive to change the tire.  As soon as we got there at 7:15, the tire was changed in 15 minutes and we were on our way home!  We got home a little after 8, put the boys' jammies on and put them to bed! Yesterday was a crazy day!

Fun with Boys

For Gavin's birthday we found this cool car road tape. So we taped it to the carpet and left it there for a week or so to let the boys drive their cars on it.  It was so fun and they had a great time with it.  I wish we would have bought a small carpet rug or something for it so we could always keep it and just bring it out when they want to play with it, but we didn't. It was fun while it lasted!

"Cars" Cars

Tuesday and Yesterday, 3 Cars from the Movie "Cars 2" were in Salt Lake City at the Energy Solutions Arena. I had to work both days and really didn't find out about it until Tuesday night. I had decided that we probably shouldn't go, but yesterday on my way home from work, I decided to brave it and take the boys down to see them! We got some cool swag bags and won some awesome items to take with us. Then we got pictures of Lightning McQueen, Mater and Finn, and pictures with the characters as well! Gavin loved it! So glad I decided to go!

New Car

Since last December the Pontiac has been having issues. One weekend while My Mother-in-Law were out Christmas Shopping, we were driving in the car & all of a sudden it lost power. Mike was a Drill Weekend that day & I was 5 months pregnant with my MIL & my 21 month old son. Needless to say, I was freakin out! Got a hold of Mike & he started to come get us & a nice guy stopped and found out that one of the spark plugs had "magically" popped out of the socket. Oh Joy! He popped it back in, we thanked him profusely & went on our marry way!

In January, one cold, snowy morning the car started overheating. I thought I ruined the car. Since then though it has never ran the same. We have literally put hundreds of dollars trying to figure out what was going on with the car & trying to fix it...but to no avail! Nothing was working or helping. Finally we took it to our mechanic & he said the dreaded words...BLOWN HEAD GASKET! We are looking at $2,000 to get that fixed. Mike and I decided that it was time to part with the car.

We sold it to Low Book Sales on Friday the 17th, Mike carpooled to work with a neighbor for the week and we started stalking KSL.com Classifieds for a new (to us) car that we wouldn't have to make payments on. One that we could just buy outright. We looked at some real duds, but Saturday we found the car! We bought a 1994 Lexus ES300. I think we got a pretty good deal on it & everyone keeps telling us we have moved up in the world. We don't really care, as long it is lasts us at least a year until we can afford a monthly payment on a car to go get something else for our family. And that is the story of our new car!

Our Cars

So we bought a new car (new to us at least) last weekend, so I thought it would be fun, interesting & great for rememberance to go through all the cars we have had in our short 6 year marriage.

Here they are in order of appearance:

1969 Ford Mustang
1999 Ford Ranger
1995 Geo Prism
2001 VW Beetle
2004 Pontiac Grand Am
2003 Ford Mustang
2005 Dodge Durango
1994 Lexus ES300

We have also had a 4 Wheeler & a Aprillia Motorcycle

Wow, that is alot! And here is to many more cars that we will own!

Cars

Gavin's favorite movie as of the last month or so has been Disney's "Cars." He has never really been a TV or Movie watcher but lately, "Cars" is the only movie he will watch. And we watch it OVER and OVER and OVER again day in and day out. He always brings us the DVD case and says "Mobie, Cars." After the movie is over he hands us the remote to start it over again. It has kind of been a life saver as of late because he has been super cranky teething, so even though I am getting sick of the movie, whatever helps, helps, you know?! We will tell you that we are DEFINITELY looking forward to June 24th, 2011! Hopefully Gavin will like the 2nd movie as much as the 1st!PS - This is my 300th post!