Flat Tire and Steak!

On Friday we went to Louisville (surprise, surprise!). We went to celebrate Clyde's birthday. Well, thirty minutes into the drive, Josh and I are surprised by a really load noise....it sounded like we passed some sort of noisy construction site....but we didn't. We soon realized that our tire blew out!

We were in the far left lane on 71, and had to make it over to the other side of the highway. We made it to an exist. There we proceeded to try and figure out how to change the tire. Josh figured out that the tools to change the tire are stored under the back seats (GENIOUS!) so we had to get the girls out of the backseat, and unhook the car seats. Mind you that we are on the side of a very busy highway. So I stayed in the front with the girls and Josh went to try and get the spare down. We are parked so that traffic is coming to the left of us (on the highway) and to the right of us (exiting). It was very noisy and scary! Well Josh had no luck with the spare, so we decided to drive down the exit and see if there was any place that could help us, or at least park in a parking lot to fix the tire. Amazingly there was a tire discounters just a block from the exit. We get there and Josh runs in. They have our tire, and they fix it in like 10 minutes. AMAZING! Josh tells me later (once we get back on the road) that we got there one minute before they closed! What a blessing! A horrible thing like getting a flat tire, turned into such a blessing, and even though we were running a little late, Josh and I felt so good, and grateful, and happy! Well we got to Louisville, and on Saturday we had a nice steak dinner. Adra had some too, and really liked it! (There is a video of it below).

Adra working on a small piece of steak.

Adra eats steak and potatoes! from Chelsea Childress on Vimeo.

Suzanne got Clyde a Wii, so we all had fun taking turns playing the different sports games (of course the guys liked the golf game best!). That thing is so fun and addicting! The girls liked watching us play.

We came home Saturday night. Sunday I had a teacher appreciation linger longer for Primary, which went very well, I had to teach the teachers how to effectively teach with the spirit. My mom came back from Washington Saturday night, but we didn't get to see her till Sunday. Monday Mom and I spent the day shopping....it was a lot of fun, and the girls did so well! Tuesday I finally spent my last year mother's day gift card, and got a Facial at Hausfeld's Spa, and it was amazing! Wednesday the girls got their pictures taken at Portrait Innovations....they did so well. Farrah was shy at first, but soon got into it, and loved posing and getting her picture taken. The pictures are amazing! I couldn't stop smiling because I was afraid Farrah would freak out (like she did at her 1 year pictures). The pictures are seriously the most beautiful things I have ever seen...the girls did so good. I got pictures of them separately and pictures of them together.....they are so gorgeous!

Thursday I went to the dentist (the first time in four years!) Amazingly my teeth are good, I just need to get one filling replaced today. Well that was our busy week! Adra on Wednesday got a fat lip. She tries to climb the stairs and hit her mouth on the banister....she is ok though. In this picture she is sneezing, but it is a good picture of her poor lip (luckily she did this after the pictures were taken!)