Cars and batteries

I go out to my car this morning to take the kids to school and it will not start. It is early (7:00 a.m.) and I need to get the kids to school before they are late. I think to myself, "Why does this always happen when Rich is at work and I can't get a hold of him?" I go to the neighbors house and Lars is extremely helpful and jumpstarts my car. I must tell you he is laughing the whole time. We cannot get my car out of park to roll it out of the garage, so we try to get his big suburban inside the garage next to my van. It is only a two car garage and I had parked a little far over into the middle of it. Lars crawls out the back window to get out of his suburban and we finally get the cables hooked up and started. I drive the van to the dealer, because it is under warranty, and when I get there I immediately turn the engine off. As soon as I do, I remember the battery is bad and say out loud, "Oh , no!" All the guys at the shop just start laughing and then one guy brings out the spare charger and starts hooking it up to the van. He tells me I am not the first to do that. What a funny morning. I would have taken a picture of everything, but I was afraid Lars might not help me again if I started taking candid pictures. He would have been afraid of being the next 'You Tube' sensation or something.

Painting

Michala wanted to redecorate her room and paint it a different color. I put her right to work and taught her how to paint. She worked hard and did a great job with the help and supervision of her parents.

The color is a nice soft camel and goes perfect with her bedroom set she got for her birthday. I will blog the finished results when we finally get the room put back together. For now it just looks like this...

Flat Stanley

My niece Jordan sent us 'Flat Jordan', AKA (Flat Stanley, so he could have some adventures in Texas. I took 'Flat Jordan' to school and took a picture with the all the other 'Flat Stanley's' in third grade. The kids loved that this one came from Utah. They were thrilled to tell me all the adventures Flat Stanley had in their class and that he got married to someone on Valentine's day and I should go see the pictures in the hallway. (Way to go Stanley) If you look really close you can see that the Texas Flat Stanley visited the SLC temple.

'Flat Jordan' received a ride in a T-6 airplane yesterday. Rich had the crew chief take some pictures and then he wrote a nice letter to Jordan telling her all about the ride and where he took her 'Flat Jordan'. She will have some cool pictures and stories to hang on her bulletin board at school in Utah. We love Flat Stanley and always enjoy getting him in our home and taking him on adventures.

"Magyk"

This is a fun book that the girls have loved reading. Michala sums up the book with "the number 7 is hidden in this book in a lot of ways. The biggest one is that this book is all about the seventh son of the seventh son." It is a great read.