One Last....

One last car payment in the mail!!! We paid off Pearl 2 years early! Casey's "big account" that he broke in the fall has kind of leveled off in the past few months, so it was all we could do to make ourselves send those last few huge chunks of money- but it will be so worth it when I take an income-less maternity leave, and then when Dax starts school in the fall! (Which is like 2.5 car payments in addition to Ada's... so when they are both out of daycare, we're going to treat ourselves to 5 new cars! Just kidding...) One last try at the garden! Not sure if you remember our fruitless season last year (literally)- but Casey decided he wanted to give it one more try. So, here we go again! We painted the bed white, so it looks cuter on the stone, too. So far, so good!

In addition to our typical array of tomatoes and peppers, we added an avacado and lemon tree, and this thing:

A citronella plant! (Called a mosquito plant at Garden Center.) It supposedly repels mosquitos- plus I've always wanted an excuse to buy one of these giant coffee cup flower pots at Wal-Mart!

Did that really happen?

So.... our Trailblazer was stolen right from our driveway last night. POOF. It just vanished. We are in the works of dealing with the cops and insurance for now, we'll keep ya posted. Let's pray it gets recovered (in the same condition we left it), with Ada's carseat and stroller, so we can just all be on our merry way!

UPDATE: The car was recovered- in the ghetto of South Houston late Saturday night/early Sunday morning. We assumed it was just taken for a joy ride and dumped in a parking lot, but the friendly officer who called to tell us where it was being towed mentioned there was SOMEONE IN IT! Boo-yeah! That dude's in jail for Grand Theft Auto!! When we picked it up, everything was still in the car (except a $75 insurance reimbursement that was going towards HOA and Christmas savings, but whatever); but it was TRASHED. Any identification (A&M decal, dealership decals) were scratched off; the back windshield wiper was snapped off; there was beer EVERYWHERE (including Ada's carseat- we are just going to keep the new one Grandma and Grandpa bought for us, and they are going to take Ada's old one and get it cleaned off- I just get too irked knowing that thugs were sitting right next to my baby's safe haven with pink flowers on it!); and it reeks of smoke and "miscellaneous" substances. The cops were very interested to know if we kept any weapons in the car, so I'm convinced these were more than just kids who came upon a car with a hide-a-key- I think they were being very naughty in our Trailblazer. We're just so blessed they didn't use the garage door opener to open the garage and walk right into the hallway with Ada's room attached to it. Pray that there are no underlying mechanical problems- but it appears to be OK!! Whew!