a not so good day...

besides being a totally yucky rainy day today, its also been a terrible day financially for us. we went out at lunch time to get some lunch and to grocery shop. 10 minutes from our house, it felt like we had run over something, something flat like...or maybe felt like we had skimmed over something....i don't know. we just felt something so slight, you would have missed it. then andy realized that he had no acceleration but the brakes worked. we slowed down to turn onto the next road and andy realized that there was no power sterring either. we stopped along the side, he turned the engine off and it then wouldn't start again.

ofcourse, we have no break-down cover. terrible terrible terrible. our friend steve came and picked us up and took us home so andy could make some phone calls and see what we could do. so £130 later, RAC met andy at the car, (where andy had to cycle to as steve had to go to work!) told him the cam belt had broken or whatever and that it would cost £1500 to fix. yea. right. we don't have that just sitting around.

so we think we'll just sell it for £500 that is being offered and go without a car for a few weeks/ months until we can save some somehow and buy a new used car. or really i should say, just a used car. yuck, yuck and yuck. i hate money, i hate being a grown-up and everything else!

going to bed now and try not to think about what it all means....

i fancy some...

i had this photo from the 4th of july last year. andy brought me home some things that would remind me of home!! but at this very moment, i could so eat some phish food! this is what i requested when i was pregnant with noah =) yummy!
this was the other thing he brought home. american classic flavours! fun stuff =)

one year on...

inspired by my friend erin's blog, here is a photo of noah on his *birth*day* and on his *1st*birthday*

and micah at 2yrs and 3/4 and 3yrs and 3/4...from toddler to little boy! wow =)

an empty house

mimi and pop-pop left early this morning...so it was an almost empty house that micah woke up too! don't know what to do with ourselves, but eat the lollipops that mimi left behind!! mimi left some dum-dums, yet i can't find any rootbeer flavour ones!! so sad =)

mimi and pop-pop bought micah a new bike/trike/chopper. chopper is what we/they (americans) call the low rider or big wheels is what i remember having. but the seat flips over to be like a tricycle. its pretty cool.... micah can reach the petals, but only barely, so its not being peddled at the moment! but he loves it!! *as you can see* its a radio flyer which are *known* for their red wagons! would love to have one of those too some day!!

well, can't think of anything else to say at the moment, so we'll just leave it here! have a good day everyone!

saturday in photos...with a few captions

we had a bbq saturday night. a little bit for noah's birthday as my mom and micah made a swimming pool birthday cake and a little just b/c my mom and dad are here!

dad of course was the bbq-er. and it all tasted wonderful!!
micah with his hotdog, all cuddled up
playing with the balloons that shiela brought over
having a good giggle
mommy blowing up the balloons

dad trying to stick balloons onto noah's head
the balloons working
trying to stop noah from biting and popping the balloon

the swimming pool cake

noah enjoying his cake!

we had a good time and i was glad that kim got to meet my parents. kim flew out sunday night for home and we won't see her again till the end of september =) so kim, have a great summer!!!

friday in photos

something

mimi and pop-pop have arrived!

great day out!

we had a great time yesterday at drayton manor!! micah and noah were great and we all took turns watching watching them so i could go on the rides too! i loved it! the downside? it was hot and muggy and some of the rides we had to climb so*many*stairs!

micah on the other hand, didn't want to ride any*thing! ok, but the carousel! horses! do you want to ride the elephants? no. the cars? no. the green dragon? no. the helicopters? no. *you get the point?*

we saw the penquins

Noah loved them and tried to climb over the fence!!

we saw 3 types of monkey, but this one here was by far the cutest

Kim was a big help and we had fun together!

*and we'll miss her when she goes home to malayasia*

and of course a trip is never complete without our resident

clown*whose head was really stuck for a few minutes*

we also saw tigers and birds and meerkats and tamrans? maybe? something like that that was cottoned topped and one was red-clawed!!

lots going on

we are getting ready to go out for the day...going to drayton manor!!! i so cannot wait =) it is a theme park with some very awesome rides! i haven't been in almost 2 years so it'll be good fun! we are going with some other young folk from our meeting and 2 others...there is also a zoo there so i'm sure micah and noah will have fun too!

*also* getting ready for my mom and dad!!! yippee! they fly out tonight and land tomorrow morning!! we can't wait! they are renting a car in manchester and driving down!! yippee skippee

and i should also add that andy is in the middle of writing up his reports which take ever so long to do!! its taken up almost all of his time! yuck!

caught in the rain

micah and i went to the park this afternoon. we weren't even there for 5 minutes when it started raining! just a little shower so we thought we'd stay put..and it was fine. then another 5-10 minutes later, it was pouring! chucking it down!! we tried to hide under a tree, but were still getting wet! so andy came to the rescue and picked us up...i had on sandals and that always is gross to get so wet!! all slimy and stuff!

here are some photos of noah this morning. he decided to walk down the stairs instead of crawling! he held on to the posts the whole way down and never stumbled! i was amazed...he isn't walking yet but he does down the stairs!!

its been raining and raining here. started wednesday afternoon, all day thursday and then friday afternoon as well. we managed to get out friday morning and back home again before the rain! what a relief!

in other news, my mom and dad are coming to visit this week! they'll be here on wednesday morning!! we can't wait!

our saturday outing...

i know, i know...5days late! but i hadn't gotten around to editing photos. but here are some of the photos from our saturday evening..we went for a stroll around stratford-upon-avon.