Car Problems

so last week i noticed that my car was making these really high pitched noises when i drove at slower speeds…and since then it has been getting worse! UGH! i hate when our cars are having issues as steve and i are completely clueless about what it could be. its scary as we could totally be ripped off by a mechanic and not know. well, i left my car on base last night after working out and drove home with steve so im stranded here. it wouldnt be so bad except that today is FRIGGIN hot (especially for germany) and im wishing i could go to a pool with brynn and cool off. yes, i said i wish was i at a pool! and those who know me know that i hate being at pools! but im desperate and want to cool off…good thing steve is off tomorrow and friday as i’ll have that option.

this past week was insane! steve and i volunteered to watch the schmidbauer kids (4 of them ages 16,15,10 and 8) as their parents were in paris on a little getaway. well, i also had told a friend of mine from indiana that he could come and visit us too thinking it would be the week after our babysitting gig. well, NO! it was all the same week so we were all over the place making sure everyone else was taken care of and happy. its a good thing we have a WII as that entertainted the three boys the whole week! although i feel guilty as we didnt do a whole lot with them…it was hard as i was needed in two places at the same time. steve did take the boys away for a few hours to see KISS at the brickhouse on base (as mentioned below) and during that time i took the girl (kelly) to cascades pool with brynn and i. that place was rad! i had never been there before as i HATE pools and having anything to do with a bathing suit. i worried that brynn wouldn’t be loving it but she had a blast! this place is full of different pools, hot tubs, and children’s area’s so it was impossible to get bored. the children’s area was pretty fun as they had a slide and lots of different water spouts that brynn kept trying to plug up with her chubby fingers! i wish i had brought my camera but i didn’t…(so i grabbed a picture from their website)

steve spent the night at the house with the kids every night so we didn’t see him too much here. it really affected brynn as he normally puts her to bed every night (nice huh? he loves doing it) so she was crying for him at night until she fell asleep.

so as for the car, we are taking it into a shop in binsfeld in hopes that they may be able to help us. steve has heard good things about this shop so i hope they don’t rip us off. im praying that its nothing too expensive!

i bought the 3rd season of “arrested development” so steve and i have been watching a few episodes a night. it is the funniest show i have ever seen! i have no idea why the show was cancelled…last night we watched an episode where tobias makes business cards with his “new” job title; analrapist (he considers himself a therapist and an analyst so decided to put them together to make it sound catchy). its flippin‘ hilarious!!! if you watch it, then you’ll know what im talking about.

today brynn found a pen and decided to draw all over her legs. i panicked as i was sure she had drawn all over the furniture but luckily her legs were the only things marked up. this picture hardly shows the damage as it was taken a few hours after she “colored” herself. she was pretty proud of her artwork.

our cat mango HATES to be bothered while relaxin‘ in her window but brynn LOVES to brush her and bring her toys. its pretty funny as mango hisses the whole time but brynn laughs and squeals with each unfriendly outburst! this picture was taken last week on one of our daily visits to mango to fix her unruly hair.

hope everyone is doing well and making fun plans for the 4th! we wish we were in the states so we could buy fireworks and let them off! obviously we can’t buy those out here…

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