Can I have a break please?

It never ceases to amaze that when it rains it pours. Don't get me wrong, I am not complaining, but whoever said bad news comes in threes was an idiot. Bad news comes in hoards. Start it out with our car. The stinking thing has been broken for months now, and nobody can seem to find the problem. I am fairly convinced that the mechanics that we had enlisted were just assuming that they knew what the problem was. I took it to a guy in Salt Lake City before we moved, he told me a loose hose. I took it to a guy in Denver, he told me a bad O2 sensor. I took it to the SAME guy in Denver and he told me the gas cap was just loose. I took it to a DEALERSHIP, who told me it was a solenoid valve. FINALLY we took it back to the dealership again and they told us, "Oh. There is a hole in the bell housing." NOBODY SAW THIS EARLIER?!?!?!? How does a hole in my transmission escape notice during diagnostics? Incompetence is rampant. Long story short, car has been in the shop for two weeks.
Then take our refrigerator. It decided that it wanted to stop working. So one day everything melts in the freezer, the next day everything freezes instantaneously in the fridge. End result? Nothing was saved.
Then take the little girl at church who we let wear one of our hats, not knowing that she had lice. That's right. We didn't find out until ten hours later that she had it and the hat was sitting in our closet during that entire time. We stayed up until 11:30 on a Sunday night grooming each other like chimps looking for lice. Then we bought a spray that is supposed to kill them, and then on top of that we fogged our room to kill them, good and dead. As if to add insult to injury, that same night our air conditioning decided to break! AT 1:00 AM!!!! Can this be any more ludicrous? Of course it can.
Three nights ago, getting something out of my parents freezer, I decided to drop a frozen piece of meat on my uncovered toe, and now it is entirely black and blue. And OF COURSE it is the toe that I injured playing basketball, you know, the one that has no nail? Yeah.
Now, I repeat that I am NOT COMPLAINING. It's actually really funny when viewed from the right perspective, which is that of somebody else. I would laugh at it if I weren't me. I suppose we deserve it. Do not ask me why, or what we have done, but there must be some reason. I probably deserve it really, and Janette just deserves it for marrying me.
It's been a fun few weeks. I hope everyone can have a good laugh at our misfortune. We only aim to please.

Rob's Computer Sucks

Seriously, who on earth downloads 15 Trojan Horses onto a computer?  What on earth could you possibly be doing on your computer, how many times can you say "Oh, I think I should click 'ok' here, even though I have NO CLUE what this program is"?!?!?  Now I know that this is not all Rob's fault, considering he has four kids, all 18 or younger who don't think before clicking, but wow.  Anyway, it's exactly 23:28 right now, and I am working diligently on getting all viruses, spyware, worms, and other such nonsense off of Robs computer.  I have been going on it since 18:15 this evening.  I really hope that when all is said and done his computer will run decently again.  I do not want to have to format and reinstall.

I had a fun experience yesterday.  I was in a bishopric meeting at the Denver 1st ward.  Fantastic ward, good people, interesting doctrines taught there...  As I was saying, I was in the meeting and in my minds eye I could see Ape-Bait sitting behind that bishops desk (if you do not know who ape-bait is, you are better off for it, I promise).  Slack-jawed, mildly confused, glasses crooked, quarterbacking a team on to victory.  The quarterback visual came from an absolutely amazing experience related to me by Scott, when Ape-Bait told him that he was watching football one Sunday and came to the realization that HE was the quarterback and that HE was not leading his team the way they should be led.  That HE was responsible for his teams performance and that HE needed to step up and throw a bomb to the end zone, put one up on the ol' scoreboard for Radio and the other fans.  I can't help but giggle to myself as I type it.  Poor poor Ape-Bait.

Last but not least I have a thief at work.  I cannot say whom, because that is defamation of character, but let's just say it's NOT me, and it's NOT Tommy, and it's NOT Rob, and it's NOT Billy, and it's NOT George, etc, etc...  Well, one thing I can tell you is that it IS a bunch of crap.  I hate thieves.

Weddings!

Well those of you who know seth and I, or who just know me can tell that most of these blogs are written by seth. "How can you tell?" you may ask. Well its seths blogs, he has strange titles and all throughout the blog he speaks in a way that I would not. I enjoy having him write the blogs though because he is so much more entertaining. I just come on and give facts and tell fun stories. I always tell him he needs to write a book, we will see! Maybe someday. So I wanted to get on and tell you all how our trip back to Utah went. ITS WAS WONDERFUL!!! I was really excited to see my family and it turned out to be just perfect. For those of you who do not know, my brother (the last in my family to get married) got married. He is 27 and she is 28 and perfect in everyway for him. It was a beautiful wedding and the best part about it was that everyone of us was able to be there. I feel incredibly blessed to have the family I do. We are all very close and have always been so. Now I know we do have our bizzare moments but what family doesn't. Seth will for sure agree with me on that. But it is what makes us so fun. Ok so anyway moving on. The wedding was on the 25th of June in Salt Lake. We were able to take a week off of work and spent 3 days in SLC and then we drove to Manti to visit my parents. Yes they still live in St. George but they bought a summer home in Manti. It was so relaxful and manti really is a cute city. I could never live there full time but it was a pleasent place to visit. They are loving it!! The picture above is the good looking groom and his siter, just FYI. He is so happy and having him married completes our family, well aside from the grandchildren that are still coming from a few of us. Tata for now!!