a LONG week

We had an emotional...crazy week and I figured I should start documenting...not for you, but rather for me and for Chris. With two weeks until show time I am a bit crazy as it is and on top of that I have midterms starting on the 18th...so school is a bit hectic as well.

With Chris leaving on the 14th after spending the weekend with us, Logan had a really hard time. I figured that he was just having separation anxiety due to the fact that he didn't want to leave my side and kept asking "Where Daddy go? Why Daddy in Vegas?" Needless to say we were up until 4:30 when I finally brought him to bed with me, turned on a movie and he zonked. That was just the beginning of a fun week! I kept him home Monday and then he started coughing so I had my mom watch him on Tuesday. When I picked him up, he felt warm. That night when I put him to bed, he still was a little warm and so I gave him Tyenol and set to doing my work. Around 11:30 I went in to check on him and he was BURNING up! I took his temp.....104 degrees! It freaked me out, I called Chris and he told me to wait til the morning and take him in to the doctor. We went the next day only for the doctor to tell me that we needed to go take Chest x-rays! It was the saddest thing...he cried and cried and I had to hold his arms above his head as he look at me like, "what are you doing to me, mom?"
This obviously isn't him...but that's what the thing looks like and Logan is quite a bit chunkier than this boy so his poor little belly was squished by the plastic around his abdomen! Sad day! Needless to say...he is fine and everything came out alright...but that was SUPER Stress#1!

A few months back, Chris' step mom gave us a run-down van that we fixed up and have been driving. Well in the past few weeks I have noticed different things about it. When Chris came home last weekend and felt the way it was driving he was nervous and we decided that we were going to start looking for a used car that would get us through residency, but would be more reliable than the van. We have been saving and we decided we didn't want a car payment and would pay cash. I was ALWAYS researching different cars and prices...then I got a great idea to search in Vegan and needless to say, things are a bit cheaper down there. I would always send Chris different cars to look at, but we never pursued any of them.

Well, this weekend I found a couple and Chris had a free Saturday so I told him that he should go check them out. Well...they didn't end up having the ones I had originally liked, but Chris found a 2001 Mitsubishi Monterro and really liked it. He called said he thought he could get them to drop the price for us and that he really liked it. I did a bunch of research...car fax, consumer reviews, we called Chris' cousins that own the same car, but an older version. And we decided to go for it. I insisted that Chris have a mechanic check out the car, but being in Vegas it was a bit of a hassle and the dealership showed Chris their recent inspection of the car with all of the paper work and it seemed to check out. After many hours of bartering Chris got us our car for a super good price...

The interior...it seats 7

Has a DVD player! YAY for long road trips!

Here it is!!!

Or so we thought....I convinced Chris to drive the car to Reno Saturday night even though he wouldn't get in til late. I did this mostly because I wanted to see him, but I played it off as I wanted the car. At about 12:30 I got a phone care and Chris told me..."Sara, I am in real trouble...I had a feeling that I needed to pull off in Tonopah and its a good thing because I am leaking oil BAD!" GREAT!!!! SUPER Stressor #2

So sweet Chris had to stay in the NASTIEST run-down hotel Saturday night and we ended up towing the car to RENO 250 miles! Uggggh! So much for a good deal. We don't know what is going to happen at this point, but I am praying that it is just a little issue that will be resolved and we can put this all behind us.

I normally don't like to talk about things like this, however I feel like we did everything right! Surprisingly, I have been super calm through the whole ordeal and I just feel like it is all going to work itself out and we will love the car! I got to go see it today and I think it is SUPER CUTE!!!! Chris says it reminds him of me and knew that I would LOVE it and he loves it becasue it is 100 times better than the van and is super comfortable.

So that is my life in a nutshell...it has been the LONGEST week ever! So here's to hoping that this next week...though crazy.... works out in all aspects! And I will actually get to see and spend time with Chris this time! He is amazing!!!