We're back!

We had so much fun camping! I think this has been the best camping trip ever. Almost all of our church families came. What with fishing, playing games (dare-base, soccer, tag, etc.), pulling a fish hook out of Pepper's leg (THAT was interesting), swimming, sleeping with eight girls in a 4-man tent (that was interesting too. ;D) sitting around the campfire, and singing, we had a full time of it, too!! The weather was gorgeous, too...a little cool at night (I think it was in the 30s, which in TX is chilly. ;)) but definitly bearable. Oh, and I forgot: we got leeches from the swimming!! OH YUCK!!! One of my friends came out of the water saying "something bit me"....and then she and I were checking her feet and these things were stuck all over them. :o Yikes! We got them pulled off....then I checked my feet and found some on me, too. :P We had gone out towards the middle of the lake were there was a lot of squishy mud/leaves, and I"m guessing that's where we picked them up. Ewww!! Anyway...hope everyone had as fun of a weekend as I did!!

~E

On Friday, God once again showed me how much He cares for me. I was driving my sister and I to HEB and Supercuts and noticed my red temperature light was on in my car. Hmmm....was that thing on all the time as a normal light or was something wrong? (Forgive me good ppl and have patience; I'm no car expert! I barely know how to put gas in it. :D) I kept drving. Then it was time to go to work. The light didn't come on when I turned the car on. SO, that light WASN'T supposed to be on. About halfway to work, it came on....and the temperature in the car was getting high, even to my inexperianced eye. I knew that thing had a radiator problem, and figured I was running out of water. I planned to call my brother when I got to work. Sadly, the car never made it to work that day It quit on me about 1/8-1/4 of a mile away. Just died at a stoplight. WHAT DO I DO NOW!!? Lord please help me! I called mom, and a very kind gentleman (who, BTW, had run out of gas at the same time. Like I said, God once again showed how much He cares for me. :D) came to help me push it off the road. Thankfully, seeing as I was so close to work, I was able to just walk there and was only a few minutes late. Mom and dad came to get the car and take it to the mechanic. (Dad put some water in the car and managed to get it started and running again...) The mechanic replaced the water pump (I think....) and also repaired the right turn signal, which for some reason decided to conk out when dad was driving to the mechanic. All in all, I spent about $450, which is waay better than the $650 we were told it was going to cost!!

So, lessons learned? 1) Watch the tempurature gauge and know when the temperature is getting dangerous (I knew to watch it, but didn't know what was dangerous....until it was too late and that light had already come on. I also regret not pulling over....:P) in your car, especially when it has a known radiator problem. 2) Keep some distilled water in your back seat or trunk just in case. 3) God always provides for us, even when the predicament we're in is the result of our stupidity. (As is usually the case. :D)

This weekend we also went camping, as I posted last. We had sooo much fun!! Ate some treat foods (chips, soda, granola bars) waded around in the veeerrry slippery river (which right now isn't much of a river. :P It's too dry!) hiked and also rested! Here are some pics of my sisters climbing trees:

Take a look at the video I embedded at the bottom of the page...it's pretty cute, especially for we horse lovers. :D

In Christ,
~E

camping...

Today, I don't have to go to work until 3...so I had some time to spend on here.

This weekend my family's going to go camping!! The rest of my fam will leave on Friday; I'll be going at about 9:30 or so, seeing as that's when I'll be home on Friday. (Closing night. I'm going to get it changed soon, hopefully!!) We'll stay through Sunday. It should be lots of fun! The weather is pretty nice; we had 5" of rain last wk, and that cooled the temp down considerably. We'll still get to go swimming there though. It's not too cool for that yet. The park we're going to also has hiking trails. And, of course, the boys will fish. :P They always do; it dominates them. heehee. Oh well!!

This morning I did a lot with my fish; changed some water in the 65 gal, treated a betta spawn that seems to be dying (ugh!) and fed them all frozen food. Cleaned a couple betta tanks too. Oh, and then I altered little sister's skirt; it was huuuge on her. :D I don't enjoy altering. :P It's kind of tedious. At least skirts don't take too long....

In Christ,
~E