Every cloud has a silver lining (or red as the case may be!)

Sometimes good things do come out of bad situations! My good thing is shiny and red and very fun and will only cost of lots of pennies for the next several years!!



It is a 2005 Dodge Durango. It's got all wheel drive and 4 wheel drive so maybe driving in that season that shall remain nameless won't be so bad. And 3 rows of seats so my ever growing children don't have to sit on top of each other anymore!

We've been trying to come up with names for it (I have no clue why...we are not a car naming people)

• Big Red
• Code Red
• A Durango ate my baby (said with the necessary bad Australian accent)

Feel free to vote your favorite - or add any suggestions you may have. My kids are in 7th heaven - it has a dvd player in it. Now they feel the need to watch a movie on the way to school.

So sorry I've been MIA - both in reading and writing - I've missed y'all! I've tried to read a bit here and there, but I've had nothing left in me to comment. I am totally tapped out after all the stress of the last 2 weeks.

Thank you so much for all your concern and nice comments about my husbands accident. We both really appreciated it. He was surprised - he just doesn't get the whole blog friend thing :)

Life has been crazy since then - some highlights:

:: Mother-in-law visit. 'nuff said! The whole week before school started...never again. (Though she did buy us lunch at Maddox - rolls and raspberry butter are great healers of relationships!)

:: #2 turned 12! She can FINALLY go to Young Womens! Yay her! In case you didn't know it's year of the cupcake - so we celebrated accordingly!

:: School started...Trauma, Trauma, Trauma. #1 started high school, #2 started jr. high - it's been high anxiety around here to say the least. One or two of my kids have a REALLY hard time with change and new situations. There has been much weeping, and wailing and gnashing of teeth (and that was just me!) TGIF!!!!!

:: Flat tire on the rental van, flat tire on husbands jeep - which sadly is no longer nekkid :(

:: Buying a car. OMGosh - What a most annoying, irritating, sucky experience. Just tell me the bottom line of how much the car costs. The dance back and forth the salesman did between the sales manager up in his little smoke windowed office and us needed better choreography or at least some music. I hate the way they try to make you feel like they are acting on your behalf with the manager. Oh please - don't insult my intelligence. I was so ANNOYED that we ended up haggling over $25 - yes, I won that point - but I wasted too many minutes (that felt like hours) of my life!

:: I'm so tired, I can't remember what else!

I am absolutely exhausted. I feel spent (and not in a good way!). I need some sleep. I need some Lifetime movies, I need chocolate, I need something. I am mere millimeters from the edge of crazy.

I hope there's someone there to catch me.

Oh, I forgot to tell you - I milked a cow at the Davis County Fair. I love Utah.