What really happened on Saturday.......

We had Saturday planned out so perfectly.......funny, it never really goes how you planned!

THE PLAN// WHAT REALLY HAPPENED:
7:00 am- wake up, shower, get kids ready to go // still sleeping.......
8:00 am- head out, go to atm, go to Autozone for parts for the Taurus (since the "fixing it" all day the day before didn't really do the trick)// finally dragged ourselves out of bed and realized Kelly had puked all over her bed in the night. (we came home the night before to the sound of Steve being sick, and knew it was probably coming, but didn't think it would be so soon)
9:00 am- show up at Chris and Stephanie's, have the car fixed, pay the guy// finally getting out the door and trying to find our bank, then finally getting the parts at Autozone. We finally got to Chris and Stephanie's and the guy took a LOT longer than we thought to fix the car.
10:30 am- (while listening to conference) leave to go to Pam's// I left Nate and 4 kids with the unfixed car while Noah and I drove up to Pam's
11:00 am- Sell the Stove at Pam's house// I did sell the Stove- the first thing that went according to plan, and Pam let me keep the money!! So nice! And I got the tour of her house and hung out for a while....
11:30 am- leave to drive up to the Baby Shower in Eagle Mountain// the baby shower was out since we didn't want to get the cousins all sick (nor did we want to clean up vomit out of the ridges of the floor mats in our car.....SO GROSS!!) I'm so sad that I missed it Leah!!
12:30 pm- get to the baby shower, Nate and the kids get to Jared and Paulette's to hang out// no go, AND we paid the guy $200 to NOT fix our car (not to mention all that we've already paid and put into it) only to find out it needs a new gasket or something which will cost WAY too much, so basically our car just sucked up a bunch of money only to be undriveable. We decided it had been sitting in Chris and Stephanie's driveway long enough though and decided to tow it to my Grandpa's house (there's no room here) And I do have to point out that we had a completely uneventful towing trip!! NO RED LIGHTS, it was a straight shot on redwood road, and only had to slow down a few times!!! COMPLETE MIRACLE!!! I feel very blessed!
2:00 pm- watch conference at Jared and Paulette's house// we finally got the car to Grandpa's, I got to hold my cousin's cute little baby girl, and hear about her delivery and then we got home in time to actually WATCH some of conference (I SO HATE missing conference). Everyone was pretty wasted though.
4:00 pm- drive to Nate's parents' house for dinner// Nate and I slept while the kids tore the house apart
5:00 pm- dinner and visit with the fam// barely woke up in time to get Nate out the door for the Priesthood session here.
6:00 pm- Nate goes to Priesthood session with the guys, Moms talk and make hot fudge for ice cream, kids play and play// the kids and I had dinner and made caramel popcorn for a movie night (yes I fed my sick daughter caramel popcorn.....and nothing happened. Not to mention nobody else has thrown up ????? don't ask me)
8:00 pm- Nate home, eat ice cream, head on home.// Nate came home, we finished our movie night, and got the kids in bed by 9:00 pm

It wasn't all bad. But it's way hard for me when things don't go according to plan. Especially when traditions are involved. But could have been worse I guess. I really hate that Nate's car isn't going to be useable. I hate cars. And I'm starting to think that our little fixit guy is not as fabulous as I once thought. At least he's not too good at diagnosing. We've learned our lesson!! The very expensive lesson that it was.