Out and About

So Wednesday we needed to run into town (Buhl) to do a few errands, because we had spent the last 5 days cooped up inside because Logan had been sick. Poor little guy, just didn't feel good, he even ran a low grade fever. So it was a long 5 days and we were all in need of an outing. So we all got ready and lately both Logan and Ashlee HAVE to be wearing their "Monster Shoes." They both freak out if they both aren't wearing them. These are Crocs I bought before Ashlee was born, because there was a really good deal on the croc website. Ashlee is finally starting to fit into them and if you can tell Logans shoes have quite a few miles on them. He loves these shoes so much that when I was in Twin the other day, I offered to buy him some light up Lightning McQueen shoes and he turned me down. He just wanted to wear his Monster Shoes.

Looking Good In Their Crocs (AKA Monster Shoes)

Both Sporting their Vests as well (yes Ashlee still occasionally still has her bottle)

Having fun Playing on Logans Bed

Two Little Monkeys

Finally got both of them to look at the Camera :)!

Part of my out and about was needing to fix a few things on both cars.

So the Pontiac or green car as we call it, needed to have some money retrieved from the cd player, that a cute but sometimes naughty little boy had stuffed into the cd slot. It has been in it for a while, because I was afraid to attempt to take it apart. So I finally just got in and took the dash board panel off and pulled the cd player out and apart. Matthew came out and helped me and we were able to get the money out, but we blew a fuse in the process. So we replaced the fuse and radio turned on but there is still a problem, we did something to the speakers. So good news we went from at least the radio working to now being in the car without music. Sure makes for long trips with whining kids. I can no longer turn up the music so that we can dance and cheer ourselves up :(! So looks like I will be taking everything apart sometime this week to see if I can find out what happened to our speakers.

So Logan and Ashlee Played outside while we were fixing the car. And they turned on some water and apparently Ashlee walked through it. She wasn't too happy about it :(!

She was so sad about it, but it sure made me smile.

There is the smile I was wanting.

Yep that's my girl!



So that is what is wrong with the green car, but we needed to fix a few things on our white car (jetta). The headlights needed changed. On one side the bright worked but the dim didn't and on the other side the dim worked but the bright didn't. So I headed to Napa to get new headlights. I also had to pick up a new wiper blade as well. So it was a fun learning experience for me. I had to figure out how to open up the compartments to get to the bulbs, then you have to be careful not to touch the glass on the light with you fingers because if you do they will burn out as soon as you put them in. So I was successful on one side and the other side Matthew came and took the battery out so that I could get to the other side. Needless to say both headlights are working properly and the wiper blade in changed. It was fun and a little frustrating. I sure am learning a lot of different stuff since we are trying to do things ourselves to help save some money :)!

I also used a little trick I found on pintrest to help clean the yellow grim from the outside of our headlight covers. There are special kits out there that cost quite a bit, but the secret ingredient to a cheap and effective way to cleaning headlights is TOOTHPASTE! It really works. I wish that I would have gotten a picture. You couldnt even begin to see the lights on the white car, but a little dab of toothpaste and a little elbow grease and they are almost crystal clear. Pretty sweet trick ;)!