Sloteriu Sheima: Days 11-18. Kind of.

Wow, I am really really bad at this blogging thing. Well I can't honestly say that I have a picture for every day for the past week. It's been a crazy week. So for these days let me explain exactly what I have been doing and then I will post the pictures that I do have. It's been quite an adventure. First of all, last Thursday we headed to Preston, Id for one of my husbands best friends wedding. Well this kid, Derrik is his name, is awesome however, he has a certain cousin, Ashley, that used to date Preston who kind of sort of wants me dead. So as much as I love his friend, I was completely dreading the two day long wedding festivities just because I was going to have to see her and her mother who always just make me want to crawl into a hole and die. So here we are driving to Preston in my 2000 Plymouth Neon which we had just gotten out of the shop the day before and had brand new tires put on it, needless to say I felt pretty safe driving three hours in this car. Besides our only other option was Preston's car which is a 1990 Chevy Celebrity... so mine being ten years newer, just out of the shop, and having driven this drive many times in this very car we felt it was our best option. Wrong. We made it to Richmond which is about five minutes away from the Idaho border when it died. My precious car just died. We pulled over as best we could once it lost all power and we found ourselves sitting in a huge puddle of antifreeze... (i guess, to me it just looked like green goo but I'm told that's what it was.) That having happened, we then had to have Preston's parents come pick us up and drive us the remainder of the way to the reception (which we were forty minutes late to by the way). So once we do finally get to the reception I look around and.. there is no Ashley. I guess she had come and gone before we even got there! BLESSINGS! So my car died, Heavenly Father was just watching out for me right?!?! Right. So after the reception that night Preston and my Father-in-law drove to Richmond and then towed the Neon back to their house. And I thought to myself, alright so some little thing-mijigger just fell off... it'll be an easy fix, thanks again Heavenly Father, and we're on our way! ..Wrong. They looked at it and thought they had an idea of what happened but we still had to have it taken in to get looked at. Of course, this particular auto shop is not open Saturdays and they couldn't get it until Friday afternoon so therefore, we wouldn't be able to find out what was even wrong with the car until Monday. And my brother Brian had his wedding open house in Nephi Saturday night. Great. So after we spent the day with Derrik and his family and me trying to avoid an awkward confrontation with Ashley and her mom, Preston and his parents had worked out a car situation thankfully. His dad has a Nissan that runs well and is comfortable enough and he loves it to death. Being the most wonderful father-in-law a girl could ask for, he let us take it for the week until we could figure out what to do about my poor dead Neon. So Friday night we get in the Nissan and start heading back to Nephi so we can help with the open house on Saturday and everything was perfect... until we hit salt lake. Then the sun came out... and it was getting hot... and I'm six months pregnant... and I suddenly discover that the air conditioning in this car does not work. So here I am, driving down the freeway hanging my head out the car window like a dog while sweating like a pig. I'm absolutely sure I looked ridiculous. But seriously, so hot. Anyway, we made it back and the open house went great and it was beautiful and la la la. Then on Sunday, did I forget to mention that we had to drive back to Ogden? Yep, our newest niece, Harlie Sue was being blessed at nine in the morning of course. And then there was a big Slaughter get together with all of the extended family in Clearfield at two in the afternoon at a park. So 6am rolls around and were up again getting ready and getting back into the "so nice of John to lend to us but I'm six months pregnant, it's June and there is no AC" car and drive two hours to Ogden for a beautiful blessing. Then we crash my sister-in-laws parents house for 4 hours until the party starts, then we go sit at a park, in the sun, from 2 until about 7:30. So all of these things are wonderful things and it was fun to be around family... but so hot. This day I swear couldn't have been any hotter. Well it could've been but it sure didn't feel like it at the time. I was dying! Enjoying family :) ... just so hot! So anyway after we left we had a 2 hour drive home and even though it was in the evening it was still so hot. I don't get it, the week before we had been having storms and we're all complaining about how it is summer and it shouldn't be stormy and cold and then the one weekend I don't have AC in the car its not only the hottest weekend of the year yet, but of course it is also the weekend where we are having to spend 8 hours in this car! Just my pregnant luck I guess! So after Sunday was over and finally Monday arrived, we found out that the Neon was going to cost about 1,000$ to fix. 1,000!!!! The car itself is only worth 2,000. Maybe! So after some contemplating we just decided we weren't going to fix it since we planned on buying a new car within the next year anyway. Ended up that the mechanic in Preston actually wanted it so we were able to sell it to him which was nice. This then had put us in the place to buy a new car, but we still had my Father-in-law's car and still had to get it back to him. So he told us we could use it until Saturday. So we were then on a deadline to find a new car.... which we finally did! Yesterday! So that has been my past eight days. Driving, car dying, driving, sweating, driving, sweating, driving, car shopping, car shopping, Buying! So there it is. The reasoning behind my lack of blogging. Kind of lame but all true. So here I am again, short on pictures but I still have some to kind of illustrate the past eight days!