Flying

Oh the joys of flying. You thought that I had a love-hate relationship with cars, its much worse with planes. I have to admit that i am terrified of flying. I am always certain that the something awful if going to happen like...

Irrational, i know. But true.

Although I have to admit thought that the idea of flying out to Missouri was a lot more appealing then spending 20+ hours in the car with a 5 week old baby.

So I was all packed and ready to go the night before, of course we had also been packing to move so we didn't even start thinking about bed until midnight, at witch point I made Jason go to bed because he had to drive me to the airport at 5 in the morning. I, of course ended up going to bed closer to two in the morning because little man wanted to eat at one.
  I had my alarm set for four so that I could wake up and feed that little man so that he would not be hungry again until I would actually have a chance to sit down and feed him. I know smart of me ;)

But of course nothing ever seems to go as planned once you have a baby, so M\my wake up call went something like this....

 yeah, that was definitely the time that I was supposed to be leaving for the airport...and now I had to feed the baby, wake up the daddy and get the car packed(well Jason had to do that one.) and finish getting ready in about 15min in order to be to the airport by a time I deemed appropriate. Yeah, I don't know how much most of you know about new borns but they take at least 30 min to eat. witch meant we were not getting out of there any sooner then 5:15, unless of course I wanted to deal with a screaming baby for an hour car drive, witch I didn't.
 So by the time we are all read to go it is about 5:30, and by the time we got to the air port it was about 6:30, and my flight was leaving at 7:20. leaving us an hour to check in  and get through security. Normally that would be pushing it but then I also forgot to factor in... dun...dun...dun.... holiday traffic. Yeah... we got to the airport and it looked something like this...

 yeah.... gotta love the holidays.

Thank goodness Southwest is pretty fast and we got through the line in a timely manner, and then of course there is good ol' security, the line for them was, of course twice as long. Fortunately for me the nice lady that checked us in took pitty on me and  gave Jason a pass to take me back.Of course that fact that i looked like this...

might have had something to do with it.

Yeah I was just a little overwhelmed. and of course by the time we finished checking in it was 7:00 and I had 20 min to get through security (witch looked just like the line to check in) Jason and I were positive that I was not going to make my flight and be stuck in the airport all day.But with a lot of prayer and lots of crazy running through the airport with a screaming baby we made it! And very out of breath, I sat down very contently in my seat....squished between two men.... whom i am sure greatly appreciated the company of a woman with to much stuff, and a six week old baby.

Cars

Ya know one nice thing about my blog is that I know the people that fallow it are probably in pretty similar situations to me and my husband. Married collage students with little to no money to there name and a husband who is either in school still or just starting a job right out of school. Yeah, and that means that I can joke about things that y'all relate to and hopefully you'll laugh at me as much as I laugh at myself...

 My first post is about something that most of us probably have a love hate relationship with. Our car.... For the first year Jason and I were married we didn't have a car. We survived alright, but it wasn't very convenient having to ask for rides any time we didn't want to walk some where. So when (this last spring-ish) we had the chance to get an Infinite G20t with in our budget amount we jummped on the chance. I have to say it was love at first sight.

Of course the love was dampened a little when we had to write the check and actually buy it. I mean we had the money and all, but writing a check for that amount of money is never something some one enjoys...

yeah, I'm sure you know the feeling.

 But getting a car is still exciting. We had a sudden freedom that let us do what ever we wanted with our begging people for a ride, like, grocery shopping! (yeah I know, exciting right) And of course we could go on dates that were further then just walking distance, witch is always nice.

yeah, car give you all kinds of nice freedom!! Yeah cars!!!

That is of course until you need them to be in good shape. Like when you're going to drive country.... and you take it in to get the 90,000 mile check up done on it. I mean if the car was ever going to behave that would be a good time right? I mean your spending a few hundred dollars to get it all healthy and nice that it would be nice enough to be healthy.... yeah so so so wrong.

We take the car to get it all fixed up, expecting to spend around 400$ (we had to get the breaks replaced as well.) and what happens, well.... this happens...

Well, i might be exaggerating just a little (about Jasons reaction, not the price) Needless to say it threw a bit or a wrench in out budget.... but ya know, we should have planned for that :) But of course there is always some thing that you can learn from these sorts of things (no matter how much it hurts your wallet.) The lesson learned here is, always double your budget for car repairs, and don't let Jason answer the phone when it involves the car.... I would say both are important things to keep in mind for the future!

New Start

 So it recently occured to me that I am really bad at posting on my blog. I thought maybe it  was because I had no time or something, witch is totally a lie because I have way to much time on my hands....
 After thinking about it for a little while, I decided it was because I felt that my blog posts lacked interest. I mean really who wants to just read about my life, I imagine it goes something like this...

 Yeah, ok maybe not quite that bad but close any way....

So (as you can probably tell) I have decided to make life a little more interesting for you, and let be honest for me to, and add pictures, because lets  be honest who dosen't like random stick figures in a blog post? I have to give credit to my sister for the idea, she started adding pictures to her blog and I Looooove it !! So here we go, a new blog, and hope fully more, even better, and hopfully funnier, blog posts :D