We spent a couple weeks a while back getting to know some car mechanics in town. Driving home from church one afternoon, stopped at a stop light, chatting away, and SILENCE! The car just stopped. No warning. Nothing. Just stopped. Great! Well, Chad, being the awesome hubby that he is, pushed the car (with Karmyn in it!) off the main road into a parking lot. After a little wifey-meltdown, we remember- call AAA for a tow truck. Okay, call. Oh-no! Our membership has expired. Okay, renew the membership. Now, call for a tow truck. Wait for Calvin's Low-Cost Towing, hmmm. Soon Calvin arrives (think Southern hillbilly with no teeth), loads up "Greeny" and off we go... only Calvin's Towing is low-cost because his truck is almost in need of a tow itself. The speedometer, odometer, etc don't work, it rattles, is rusty, but it is all okay as he graciously clears enough garbage off the seat for us both to get a ride with him! Our landlords tell us of a good garage right down the street from our house where we leave the car and then our landlords let us use their 2nd car for the couple days it took to repair the bearing that seized and did a bunch of damage! Doh! We get the car back, swallow the huge bill, and all is good for about a day... then Greeny starts sputtering. Great. This time we take it back and it is (thankfully) just the sparkplugs and wires (or something... I'm not really a car person...) [the engine was missing because of a short in one of the spark plug power lines and the plugs were in bad shape so we decided to replace them--Hubby note, think editor's note!] that don't cost too too much and Greeny has been going ever since.
Back to the present. Graduation is in a couple weeks. Chad has the regalia (looks good) de-wrinkling in the closet, and we are looking forward to the 2 day celebration. The commencement will take place outdoors in the new football stadium on campus. It starts at like 8am... I guess to be done before it gets piping hot!![Chad gets to show up at 7:30 at the main campus to register, then walk in regalia to the football stadium to hear an address from Newt Gingrich, then walk to north campus where the graduate students will actually "walk"! Hoy!]
Where has this year gone? We can't hardly believe that it is May and in one week it will be our 2nd wedding anniversary!! We were driving home from church today and I was thinking, "I love being married"! Enough said. [What she meant was: I have such a great husband that I love every day i get to spend with him. He helps me clean and takes me out on dates and is super awesome!]
Things with "Nible" are going wonderfully. Karmyn is pretty sure she has felt Niblet 'kick' a few times (soon it will become very obvious people tell us!) Mostly it is when she starts a jog (and yes! she is still lifting weights, and yes! it is okay!) or leans up against her little (but growing everyday) belly at work. She still feels great and was 21 weeks last Wednesday. We will go for another ultrasound tomorrow where they will check all the anatomy (but we have asked them to skip over a certain area that would reveal the ultimate surprise!!) We will get a recording of the scan and hopefully can post some new pictures!! Karmyn wore her first maternity shirt (Thanks Kirst!) last weekend, although with the styles as they are, it still was not too obvious with every other girl wearing an empire waist shirt! Ha!
Karmyn's work is still going great and it is so nice to have a job you don't dread going to each day. She finally broke the news of Niblet to her boss and it went over as well as to be expected seeing as it will mean that she will loose one of her newly trained employees. There are 7 other pregnant gals on her unit right now so news of the 8th traveled fast! It is fun to share stories and advice back and forth.
We are planning on making our way back to Canada sometime this summer (but not until the snow and rain stops!) We don't have a 'for-sure' date yet, but are getting excited about returning to the land of Timmy's, edible Slurpees, cool evenings, and home.
Last week we had the pleasure of Chad's dad visiting with us for a week. It was fun to show him around our little corner of the world, introducing him to "Sweet Tea" (and it's effects!), Southern buffets, some civil war history, tour around campus, rambling houses, our town, and just spend time visiting [and did we mention buffets? Every night a new sumptuous feast of oversized plates full of steak, prime rib, ham, sirloin roast, fillet minion (sp?)...]. We are still savoring the Canadian treats he 'smuggled' across the boarder for us... Timmy's and Cheesies! After being away from family for 2 years (except short visits) it was such a blessing to have some time together (of course we missed Chad's mom, though!) Karmyn's parents are planning on comming to visit as well (now that they finally got their passports!) and we are looking forward to that time too.
We are anxiously awaiting the arrival of our Nephew who is due in about a week, and praying for his safe arrival. Karmyn has left specific instructions on all the information Chad must collect and then immediately call and pass on if she happens to be at work when the big call comes![so after the phone call, an email with all that information forwarded to Chad's email would be the most beneficial method of communication!]
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