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No really I mean catch up! Yeah its lame. but.......
Things have been very hectic round my house. After all the ranting about the car I did end up with a vehicle I just love. It worked out in the end so thats a great thing. I've had some time for fibery stuff though not really much. Ill put those pics up in a second post.
Here's some accident piccies (the one from the back of the car really is a level picture- that's how jacked up my poor car got). It ended up being almost $16000 in damage to a '99 4Runner. That's a lot for that year of a car- it was frame damage so nothing we could really fix if we had salvaged the car- bummer there. The last one is the new Sequoia (well it's a 2002- but it's my new one!) I love it even more than I loved the 4Runner- thought that would never happen- I really loved having the 4Runner. It's so roomy and with it being 2wd the gas mileage isn't too off from the 4Runner (it was 4wd). That's it for the car thing.



On to kid stuff- Just some fun here- my daughter had her three days for taking snacks in for her class and for one of the days I made homemade marshmallows (then they needed some for their bake sale too :-)) I made four kinds- strawberry, mint, vanilla with chocolate swirl, and cinnamon. Wasn't all that excited about the flavor of the strawberry and the cinnamon. They needed more umph! The mint were tasty and the chocolate swirl were pretty yummy too. The kids loved em though. The second time around for the bake sale they turned out way better- fluffier and tastier (I didn't get piccies of these though). I made strawberry, chocolate, and vanilla with flavored sugar sprinkles on top. The flavored sugar was enough to give the vanilla ones a good taste without being too much. There was one set of peppermint sugar and one with watermelon sugar. They sold out so it helped the class.


Marisol also had her first Daddy Daughter Dance- she was so excited.


Koby got to go to a young eagles day at a semi-local airport. They were giving free flights to kids since they are a group that gives kids flying lessons. That was fun for him- he actually got to go up alone with the pilot (some flights had three kids) so he got a little more attention, plus the pilot even asked if he wanted to try flying the plane. Cool!


That's about it for now on the kid front- they're just keeping me busy as can be!

Totally unconnected

So my phone and email service has been interuppted and now I have to wait a week until it is back up. What a mess. I am borrowing my MILs computer when I can to check things out. Just one of the few things going on. I have two broken teeth- one needs a root canal and the other will just have to get pulled. I was on my way to fill a prescription to take before the root canal when a lady pulled out to turn left in front of me (across two lanes!) and ended up totaling my 4Runner. I am just so thankkful that I saw her almost instantly and managed to hit the brakes fast enough that she hit the fron passenger side fender. If I hadn't hit the brakes the imapct could have been right where my 6mo old sits. How scary is that?!? I feel very blessed that both of the kids in the car with me were fine. I am having back pain that I never had before, but it could be so much worse. Her insurance is paying for the damages, no they're paying for the value of the vehicle- but since we still owed on that one I don't know if we'll be able to get another vehicle. I was working when we got the loan for that one and now we're in a really bad spot financially so it's been a mess. Just doesn't seem fair that she'll still be driving a nice new vehicle and I may end up driving something that I don't even feel good about having my family in just because it's all we can get. The accident was her fault after all. Oh well, I have a good family and keep trying to have faith that I will end up with what I need to take care of my family. I am sure it will come in time. When I get my internet back up and runnning I will post pics of the car.
Meanwhile- I'm still running a sale in my etsy shop (twisted sheep)- 15% off regular priced items, 5% off sale priced items. Thanks all!