Old Cars, New Romance, Rain and Shiners

I thought I would take a few minutes and type while I have all babies and tots down for a nap.

We had a great weekend working on Paige's car. It's a 98 Ford Escort and is falling apart piece by piece. On Saturday Scott replaced the O2 sensor and the spark plugs. We thought that would fix it but unfortunately there is more to be done. Her radiator is now leaking and she may need a new alternator. Not too much on the money side. About $100 for each, but after $500 deductible for our lightning strike victim Uplander we are groaning. A new car is not in the near future so we'll have to do what we can with her car.

The biggest news on the Paige front is her romantic life. She has two boys interested in her right now. She's allowed to date now after reaching the ripe old age of 16.

First contestant, Zac, has had a crush on our darling freckle sprinkled girl since the 5th grade.

Second contestant, Glen, more affectionately nick-named Tater, met her last Halloween when they worked together at the haunted house.

We, Scott and I, have only met Glen (I'm not calling him Tater) over the weekend. He took Paige 4-wheeling and helped with repairing her car a bit. He is 18 and graduated from HS last year and is working toward becoming a fire fighter. He's a volunteer right now. He is handy with cars... says yes Ma'am and no Ma'am to me and Sir to Scott. Great manners, which you don't find very often anymore... let's hope he's not Eddie Haskell incarnate.

We had to go out to his house last night to rescue Paige and her car (this is when we realized the radiator was leaking) I got to meet his mother and see their gorgeous home. When we got ready to leave Glen asked Paige to call when she got home so he was sure she made it OK.
Melted this mom's heart. :)

Next weekend Zac will be stopping by with his parents to meet us. He would like to take Paige on a day trip to the beach with his family. He is just now able to date as well since he just turned 16 and his parents are active in their church and wanted to make sure, like we did, that our kids had some maturity and wisdom under their belts before heading out into the big bad dating world.

We'll keep everyone updated. We did make sure to remind her to be honest and forthright with both boys that she was spending some time with each of them.

Kourtney is doing great. Full into cheerleading right now... I will post pics as soon as we get some and Ricky into football.

On the weather front...only a sprinkle of rain from the great Tropical Storm.

Such a bummer.

Crazy thing happened last night. I was taking a shower and apparently after Paige washed off after 4-wheeling there was still some soap left on the shower floor. I turned in the shower then slipped and fell pretty hard. My hands went scrambling for the shower curtain and of course didn't catch hold. I crashed out and cracked my left eye on the toilet seat. Yeah I know laugh it up... I sure did... I know I must have looked ridiculous. I racked my shin pretty hard too, but all in all, I've only got a shiner and a bruised shin.

Scott lost his mind. He was so scared that I hurt myself more than I did, but really I am fine, and I love that he was so worried about me. Now I am just getting joked a lot and having to explain that I am just clumsy and not a victim of domestic abuse.

Hope you are all having a great day!!
Love to All