When it rains, it pours...

To me it always seems that when one thing goes wrong, there are numerous other things that begin to fall apart. I would have to say it all started when my vacuum began to no longer be a working vacuum. We need to take it to Hoover to have them look at it, and haven't made it yet, so I am borrowing my mother-in-laws old one until ours can be fixed. I hated not having a working vacuum!


Then our microwave died. Unbeknownst to Caitie the microwave was on the fritz and died after she popped two bags of popcorn in it. Needless to say, my brother and sister-in-law who has the same (Emerson) had their's die a few months ago. Be forewarned, do not purchase the Emerson brand of microwave from Walmart, it will eventually overheat and stop working.


Next, we paid the truck off back in March and have been planning to get new tires on it and finally decided it was the time to do so. Thanks to Big-O and Courtney for their help we are now paying for tires. Doesn't it always seem that you begin to have vehicle problems after you pay it off? Only a day after we got the new tires on the truck we were traveling to Ferron. On the hill just north of Ferron we ran into a problem with the truck. The truck started to slow down on its own and there was a weird grinding sound, then the ABS and emergency brake light came on. After calling Daniel's dad and trying to figure out what the problem was for 3 hours it was concluded that the wheel barring that we had been warned about a year ago finally gave out. We called a tow truck because we could not drive the truck forward more than 4 feet and had it towed to J&D in Castle Dale. Amongst angry tears from me, and Daniel trying to always make me laugh, we had a day of all days. We now get to pay to have the wheel barring replaced, and while at it have them replace the ball joints that are wearing out.

It just seems that when you are ahead of the game, Heavenly Father likes to give trials to help us grow and learn from.

Here is an older picture of a predicament that we were put in when Daniel failed to listen to his wife and decided to straddle two sink holes... we sank anyway :) Oh the joys and surprises that life brings!