car continued...

So, the car is totalled...
I owe $1200 on the car still.
The insurance company seems to think my car is worth $5000.
so after paying off the car and my deductable... i get $2200 to put down on a new car.
so it ended up working out good in the end.
Mini-van here i come. LOL

Totalled???

Last nite, i got home from YW and parked my car in my usual parking space and came in the house... after a long day I just wanted to relax. Went almost immediately to bed. I was in bed when i heard a loud bang outside. This is not uncommon, however... we have a walnut tree and under the tree is a shed with a metal roof. So we hear the walnuts hitting the roof often and i don't even think about the sound anymore. However, this one was a bit louder then usual... I thought, "wow that must have been a big walnut..." Didn't think anything else of it until... Sean went outside and came back in a min later and asked where my car was... "what do you mean, where is my car? i parked it where i always do???" Furiously running through my brain was... OHMYGOSH, did i forget to pay the bill and someone come repo the car? did i leave the keys in the car and someone come steal it????

THEN WE SAW IT....

My car had come out of gear (or did i leave it out of gear???) and rolled 50 feet down the hill into a tree.... (that was the loud walnut falling...)

All in all... not my fault... Sean was sending me text messages and was distracting me from my parking the car correctly!?!?!? or maybe the car wanted to be free...

who really knows what happened here... :)

we are pretty sure it will be deemed total loss, but we should find out in a day or so... for now... you are welcome to join everyone else in laughing at my stupidity...

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Taison had a contest a school. They were to make a robot out of recycled materials. Taison and Daimon both decided to make one. This is what they came up with. They designed it all themselves! just a little help from me with the tape... Taison actually got 1st place in his class and was able to put his robot on display in front of the whole school!!! He was so excited. So proud of you, Taison!

I was having fun with some pics from this summer.

Memories...

So here's the deal...I guess this is a type of tag post. I wanna see what y'all remember!
1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember!
2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It's actually pretty funny to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you. If you don't want to play on your blog, or if you don't have a blog, I'll leave my memory of you in my comments.

Feeling a little old....

So this past weekend i got the privilege of feeling OLD. HA
Three times in fact.

The first time... My sister and her roommate came into town and i went down town with them to the clubs... We wanted to go dancing so we went to a club that has 2 dance floors... the first being 80's music... then upstairs Hip Hop. Is it bad that i wanted to stay downstairs?? the music was great. Fun dance songs. However, we did go upstairs and stayed there until almost 2 am!!
I got home at 2:30am and had to work the next morning. i am way to old to do that very often.

2nd time I felt old... I am in the Young Women's presidency at church... One of the girls there wanted to "hang out with me" She actually text me and said "Let's get crunk!"
WHAT THE HECK IS THAT"
Apparently that is the new term to use... Originally it was "crazy drunk" however, now the termed is used loosely for - go have a good time! How can i be so out of the loop?

The 3rd time that i really felt old is on Sunday. We were driving downtown to watch the fireworks (in Knoxville they have a huge display for Labor Day) We turned the popular radio station on who were MCing the firework display to find out about traffic and a song came on that both of my boys starting singing. They knew every word. They knew who sang it, the lyrics, and even what the guy looked like!!!!! I NEVER heard for it. It was the Jonas Brothers Now granted they know it from listening to him on the Disney Channel.... but still!

Before this weekend i thought i was in the know... apparently i'm just an old mom who isn't really as cool as she thinks.

Vampires

August 1st i started reading Stephanie Myer's TWILIGHT series... As of Tuesday this week (12th of August) i was done with the entire series. (4 books) Now, granted they are an easy read... but there is like 700 pages in each book. So, needless to say i either A. had more free time then i thought i had or B: I neglected the things i should've been doing to read the stupid books. Chances are the later of the two actually happened. Here is my opinion of the series...
I did not want to read the books... First off because EVERYONE is reading the series. Just like say- Harry Potter.... it seemed to be the popular thing to do. I mean, seriously there are even church groups in Tennessee who are having book clubs, and renting out theaters for when the movie comes out... It's not even a church author. Sure, Stephanie went to school at BYU, but clearly the book is not a LDS novel... There is cussing, and sex ... not to mention Vampires and Werewolves... Anyway...And since i'm clearly a non conformist i did not want to be seen reading these books. Not to mention, i have plenty of other things i need to be doing besides ready some Youth Fiction. PLEASE!
But, I had a good friend who let me borrow a copy and said I had to read it... so i did...
The outcome -I read the series in 12 days, I enjoyed them thoroughly and worse of them all....

I'm completely in love with a vampire!!! LOL