May!

What is happening!? I am so behind.  We’re more than half-way through summer and I haven’t blogged a bit of it!  We really haven't been up to anything super exciting, but hopefully I can get all caught up this week, and then somehow stay on top of this little blog…

So here we go…May:

First, we had another appointment for Ty and his stinkin eyes… what am I talking about? His little clogged tear ducts that just. wont. go. away.  We did a simple probe surgery when he was 10 months old… that didn’t work, and then we did this surgery…that didn’t work either.  I sort of was hoping they would somehow go away with a little more time, but that has not been the case.  So we had to go back to the dr. who recommended an extra special specialist who basically said the only thing they can do is put the stints back in and hope it works this time.  Lame.  He did say we might be better off waiting until he’s a little bit older before doing the surgery, because there would be a higher success rate.  So we might wait a bit.  But in the meantime, Ty had his eyes dilated and was pretty thrilled about the sunglasses he got to keep…

Next, Ace got into a really bad car accident and totaled his little truck.  It was real scary, but thankfully, he was alright.  The big bummer was that we had to get him a new truck, pronto…we were hoping to make his old truck last one or two more years to save up a little more money.  Never. Make. Plans...luckily we found a new truck for a pretty good deal, and this one fits our whole family.  So yay for family truck outings!

School ended May 30th, and we had a last day of school celebration with our neighbors:Me and my dumbo camera missed the actual “run through the banner moment” but you get the idea…

And we worked and worked and worked on our yard.  Since we had to buy a new car, we had to save money where we could, so we decided to weed and grade our yard by ourselves.  I should’ve taken a before picture but just imagine every bit of this dirt was completely covered in a thick giant layer of weeds.  So everyday, we weeded and graded, weeded and graded, moved dirt and weeded and graded etc etc… and at the end of the month, this is what we had to show for it…Just a whole lot of dirt. (but no weeds!) 

So that’s May in a nutshell…and tomorrow we’ll move on to June!

Happy New Year To Me!

This is what I got New Years Day...
If anyone knows Ace you know how long it takes for him to purchase something big. I have wanted a Honda Odyssey forever...well at least for the last year. First, I had to convince him that even though a mini van wasn't the best looking vehicle on the streets, nothing can compare to its automatic doors, the deep trunk, and the many other conveniences of them (which I can argue about at any given time). We have been to every dealership in the city of Las Vegas and online, researching prices on the different kinds of mini vans (we looked at ALL of them) all the while I already knew I wanted a Honda Odyssey. So when New Years Day came around and Ace started talking about going around to dealerships I just thought it would be another day seeing how low they would go on a price and then going home and budgeting it...like always. But instead, they offered the lowest price we had ever heard since we started looking (which was a long time if you don't remember from my story) and Ace shook the salesman's hand and I almost fell out of my chair! I still can't believe it actually happened! Hooray!