This is the first picture we've taken since the wedding, isn't that just sad!? I got a new hair cut and we found some new shirts for David. So to commemorate the occassion I had Dad take a picture of us. I had wanted a full body shot, but Dad's soup was burning so this is all we got!
All right, so here's a brief update of the last week. I called pyrex about the exploding cake pan. I was told that in the booklet that comes with the pans it tells you to never place a hot pan on the stove, even if the stove is warm. Apparently the temperature difference is enough to result in an exploding pan! Isn't that crazy!? However, they're still going to send us a new pan, which I thought was pretty decent of them. Hooray Pyrex!
Now for the car. Most of you probably don't know the whole car story so here it goes. I've had a '99 Purple Pontiac Grandam for the last three years. I've never had any problems with it, other than the front seat tilting to the right. Last Christmas Dad installed an XM radio, which I loved! A few months later someone broke into my car by popping out the driver side lock and stole the radio. This sucked! I was able to find a replacement door handle and Damon installed it, but I was without a radio. A week before the wedding in May, I was driving to church and I went to turn into the parking lot. I turned the steering wheel and nothing happened...so I kept turning it, and turning it...finally the car turned enough that I could make it into the parking lot but there was a lot crack! The rack and pinion, which connect the steering wheel to the wheels had broken! We talked to a couple people and discovered that it was going to cost us over 1,000 to fix! We were going to try to save up the money but that just didn't happen so we finally went to the bank and took out a loan to fix the car. We ended up having to replace the sub frame and the rack and pinion for about 1,300. The day we got the car back, we took it to get washed and talked to a glass replacement guy who called my insurance and got them to replace the entire windshield for free! We got a 100 dollar radio at April's work for 40 and installed it ourselves, everything was going great! Then the interior panel lights went out. We checked the fuse and it was blown so we replaced it but the light was still out. We figured a bulb had blown or maybe a wire had snapped, but it's really complicated to check on those kind of things behind the dash. We found out that it was going to cost us about 140 just to have someone see what the problem was and then 5-600 depending on what was wrong! Dad suggested we take the radio out since that's when everything started going to crap. By then fog lamps, shift lights, and other interior lights had stopped working and we had replaced 4 blown fuses! We took the radio out and saw some wires that had been pulled out of the panel when my radio was stolen. They weren't important, so I had never noticed that they weren't connected. When we installed the radio the wires fell down and touched the metal, grounding them and causing fuses to blow! We fixed the wires, replaced the last fuse and everything finally works great!! Thank goodness! We're planning on keeping the car until David's disability rating goes through in february/march and we can afford a car payment. Hopefully the car won't blow up before we can get rid of it.
and our interpretation of our son
and daughter.
This is one of the few times she actually sat still!
Keeping the house safe from fake wooden snakes!
