Apparently Ryan was too tired last night to put up our family photo as well as blog. It was evident in the family photo that we took.
Today we were much more awake:
It is also evident that our tablet takes way better pictures than our phones. I think we'll be using our tablets more often now. The difference is astounding!
So today ended up to be quite an adventure. Ong ba ngoai were coming down to spend the next few days with us to get some baby time in before we go on vacation and to watch him while daycare is closed for President's Day. They were coming at 5 so we decided to sneak in a trip to Salem earlier in the day to hit Best Buy and Babies R Us before coming back to make chicken makhani in the crock pot. On our way to Salem our check engine light turns on. Not only did that indicator turn on, our drive light starts blinking and Ryan felt a shift in gears when he wasn't actively shifting gears. We get into Salem and hit an Oil Can Henry's and they tell us that our (and now you know how ignorant I am of car matters) transmission-sensor-shaft-speed thingie isn't working. They act as though it's no big deal and tells Ryan he can fix it easily himself, that if he brought it to the dealership they would fleece us out of hundreds of dollars. Ryan looks into it and it's not an easy fix. There are YouTube videos explaining how to do it but it's easy if you know cars and we simply do not know cars. We also find out that this could lead to bigger, badder problems that results in a transmission that is shot. Once again, I don't know cars, but I do know that's not good.
We had planned on lunching in Salem but Ryan didn't want to drive around too much with this potential problem so we drove back to Albany (passing a horrible looking accident along the way that seemed like it happened minutes before we arrived, a car had flipped over and people were actively pulling someone out of it), lunched at Red Robin, grabbed swim gear for the boys at Target, and then met Grandma Geri at University Honda in Corvallis. She brought us our Durango so we transferred everything over and are going to keep the Honda there until after we come back from Florida. It reminded us of the last time we went to Hawaii, we left the car at the dealership to look into the alignment issue.
All in all, we are done with this car. We're looking into options and coming up with different scenarios but one thing remains the same, it's time to say goodbye to my spaceship Honda. Besides, it's a 2007, it's no longer the latest and greatest so I can't really call it a spaceship anymore. I'm excited to start looking at new cars but I'm not too excited about having a car payment. It's been years since we've had one, and I personally have been very lucky and never had one at all. But it'll help out our credit score for when we finally buy a house...Which may have to be pushed out a bit again. Sigh, if it's not one thing than it's another. We aren't too excited that this happened right before a big vacation.
But 2 more work days and then it's off to Florida we go!!! I'm going to focus on happy things tonight. Sweet dreams, everybody. I hope you all sleep better than I did last night, with a baby who slept on me the entire time and eventually kicked me off of my own pillow. But that's okay. If night time is the only time I get any baby snuggles then I'm taking it!
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So today ended up to be quite an adventure. Ong ba ngoai were coming down to spend the next few days with us to get some baby time in before we go on vacation and to watch him while daycare is closed for President's Day. They were coming at 5 so we decided to sneak in a trip to Salem earlier in the day to hit Best Buy and Babies R Us before coming back to make chicken makhani in the crock pot. On our way to Salem our check engine light turns on. Not only did that indicator turn on, our drive light starts blinking and Ryan felt a shift in gears when he wasn't actively shifting gears. We get into Salem and hit an Oil Can Henry's and they tell us that our (and now you know how ignorant I am of car matters) transmission-sensor-shaft-speed thingie isn't working. They act as though it's no big deal and tells Ryan he can fix it easily himself, that if he brought it to the dealership they would fleece us out of hundreds of dollars. Ryan looks into it and it's not an easy fix. There are YouTube videos explaining how to do it but it's easy if you know cars and we simply do not know cars. We also find out that this could lead to bigger, badder problems that results in a transmission that is shot. Once again, I don't know cars, but I do know that's not good.
We had planned on lunching in Salem but Ryan didn't want to drive around too much with this potential problem so we drove back to Albany (passing a horrible looking accident along the way that seemed like it happened minutes before we arrived, a car had flipped over and people were actively pulling someone out of it), lunched at Red Robin, grabbed swim gear for the boys at Target, and then met Grandma Geri at University Honda in Corvallis. She brought us our Durango so we transferred everything over and are going to keep the Honda there until after we come back from Florida. It reminded us of the last time we went to Hawaii, we left the car at the dealership to look into the alignment issue.
All in all, we are done with this car. We're looking into options and coming up with different scenarios but one thing remains the same, it's time to say goodbye to my spaceship Honda. Besides, it's a 2007, it's no longer the latest and greatest so I can't really call it a spaceship anymore. I'm excited to start looking at new cars but I'm not too excited about having a car payment. It's been years since we've had one, and I personally have been very lucky and never had one at all. But it'll help out our credit score for when we finally buy a house...Which may have to be pushed out a bit again. Sigh, if it's not one thing than it's another. We aren't too excited that this happened right before a big vacation.
But 2 more work days and then it's off to Florida we go!!! I'm going to focus on happy things tonight. Sweet dreams, everybody. I hope you all sleep better than I did last night, with a baby who slept on me the entire time and eventually kicked me off of my own pillow. But that's okay. If night time is the only time I get any baby snuggles then I'm taking it!
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