Escape to warmer weather

So, we were able to go down to Southern Utah this past weekend! It was super fun! We went with two of David’s mechanical engineering buddies from school, Tyler and Zach, their wives Lacey and Tara and Tara and Zach’s baby Porter. We had a ton of fun! I hadn't even met any of them before, so I thought it might be a little awkward, but it wasn't at all! It was way fun and it didn't seem like we had just met at all, but like we’d been friends for a long time already. We drove down on Friday night and got to David’s parent’s house around 10:30, so we all got settled in and then played some games together. On Saturday we drove up to Kolob Canyon and did a super easy hike and enjoyed the pretty scenery, the perfect weather and the good company. After the hike my mama made us an awesome lunch, so we went into Hurricane and ate lunch and then everyone went shooting. I stayed home with my mom and I watched Porter, Tara and Zach’s baby, while they all went shooting. After that we headed back to New Harmony and made a big spaghetti dinner and played games the rest of the night. Sunday we watched Newsies before church. We went to Sacrament Meeting and to our good luck it happened to be the week of the primary program! So it was super fun to see all the little kids singing. We headed back home again and just hung around the rest of the day, watched another movie and then got all ready to leave. We headed out around 5:30 or so and got home around 9. It was a super fun weekend, but I’m definitely tired from all the stuff we did. Especially because I'm extra tired these days, and I usually go to bed around 10:30 or 11, and all weekend we didn't get to bed until 1 or 2 in the morning! But it was totally worth it! I’m pretty well caught up on sleep now, so it’s all good. 

Me, David, Zach, baby Porter, Tara, Tyler, and Lacey.

Such a pretty view.

All of us (minus Porter who was already in the car)  in front of the house before heading out.

We are Practically Professionals at car buying now

So, remember how David and I got a new car over the summer? Well, we were able to drive it for about a month before it got totaled. Yeah, not really the ideal situation for us… It was pretty inconvenient actually. I was driving home from work one day and some 21 year old kid smashed through a red light into me. Thank goodness no one was hurt, but come on, he could not have been paying attention at all because it was 12:30 in the afternoon, perfectly sunny, and the light had been green for me for several seconds already. Anyway, it smashed up our car pretty good and as we predicted, it was totaled.

I had several witnesses that were kind enough to stick around and fill out police reports stating what happened. The kid got a citation and I had to get a ride home with the tow truck guy. It took 8 days for his insurance to get us a rental car, so that was super annoying, but we are blessed enough to have people who were able and willing to let us borrow a car so that we could get to work and school. They didn't even have anyone look at our car for like 10 days after the accident and then we found out the next day that it was indeed totaled. Luckily for us, they actually offered us more money for our car then we actually paid! We were able to talk them into letting us keep the rental car for more than the original 3 days that they were going to give us, they added an extra week onto the end since they didn't give us one for the first week after the accident. Well, long story short, we got another new car! We hardly had any time to look at cars, so we test drove 2 different cars and bought the second one. We feel really good about it, it’s been about a week since we got it and we both really like it so far. We decided on a Ford Focus, it’s a 2003 that only has 53,000 miles on it! It’s been really well taken care of and I think it’ll be a really good car for us that’ll last a long time. Yay for new cars! Now here’s to hoping we won’t have to buy another one in the near future!

I'll put up a picture of our new car later.