Easter

We had a great Easter this year! It was quite different with out our families to spend the day with, but we made the best of it. On the Friday before we went to the Easter Pageant for the first time. It was amazing! Its all about Christ's life and ultimately the atonement. The dancers, the costumes, and the story itself were great. On Sunday we had a nice traditional ham dinner with three other couples. Devin and Lena, Erik and Teresa, and Jason and Anika. It was a lot of fun! Its amazing how your friends become your family when you have no one else. We love our friends down here! My parents sent us our Easter basket, actually the card said it was from the Easter bunny. My parents are so thoughtful! We love you guys!

cars and bad luck

Scott's car is hopeless. It continuously has something wrong with it. Especially lately! We bought the car in April of 06. In August of 06 the engine seized up due to lack of oil. Scott had gone 3300 miles since his last oil change, and in his car manuel it said you were allowed to go 7000 miles between oil changes. We fought with Jiffy Lube, and nothing came of it. We ended up replacing the engine in January of 07. As soon as April rolled around we realized that the air conditioning wasn't working anymore. We took it back into the dealership who replaced the engine, and they told us that they must have bent a pipe when they were working on the car before. They needed to special order the part, and it wouldn't be there for a week. Well, just as our luck has it, Scott was leaving that same day to drive to Wisconsin for a summer job. So they decided to just repair it when we were home from WI in October. While Scott was driving to WI a deer jumped out in front of him at about 3:00am in the middle of Nebraska. He swerved and ended up off the road with a flat tire. He ended up needing to replace all 4 tires. While we were out there, the battery died and we had to replace that. We made it back to Utah without any other problems and got the air conditioning repaired. Everything was going fine until we moved down to Arizona. The check engine light suddenly came on, and we were freaking out because we didn't want to have to replace another engine! We took it to a dealership down here and they ended up replacing a solenoid in the exhaust system. We then drove up to Utah and back for Christmas. As soon as we got back the check engine light came on again! We took it to Auto Zone where they do the electronic test and it came back saying it was the solenoid again. The lady who did the test said it could also be that the gas cap isn't as tight as it should be. So we took it back to the dealership who fixed a week before and they said it is some sort of sensor, or the gas cap, so we didn't really worry about it. A few months later Scott's car randomly wouldn't start. He thought it may just be out of gas. We bought a gas can and filled her up with a couple of gallons. Still wouldn't start. We were frustrated so we just left it alone for a few hours. Scott decided to just give it one more shot, and it started right up! We went to bed that night, I went to work the next morning, and Scott went to start his car, and nothing happened. It wouldn't start. Finally, a week later my brother and Scott were getting ready to tow it, and it starts right up! It ran great for a week, and then wouldn't start again. We got it towed to a local mechanic shop and the problem was a crank sensor. Turns out that when the dealership was fixing the solenoid sensor the cut some wires and instead of repairing them properly they just taped them up all together. Well, when they would touch it would make the sensor burn out, which made the car not start. Anyway, we got that all replaced and we were feeling good. Then, the check engine light came back on a week later. We still dont know what the new problem is. And then to top everything off, tonight when we were driving home a teenage kid decides to run into us on his bike! Scott didn't hit him, he ran into the side of the car. It was really dark and we had no idea he was even there. Now there is a big scrape across the driver's door. We just can't keep up with all this car stuff! Luckily my 1992 Camery is running like a charm. All 207,000 miles of her! Hopefully our luck can't get any worse, and it will only go up from here.

family visit...love it!

Last week my parents and my sister came down and stayed with us for the weekend. It was so great seeing them again. A little crazy though, seeing my dad for the first time since he lost his hair due to cancer treatments. Luckily he is doing really well and was able to enjoy his weekend away. We had a great time! My aunt and uncle also met up with us for the weekend. We spent most of the time eating and playing games. We also went to the Padres/Rangers spring training game on Saturday. Unfortunately, Scott had to work most of Saturday and missed out on the game. Kylie had fun with her "niece" Zoey, and Zoey had fun attacking my parents while they were sleeping. It was a good weekend.