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It has been such a long time since I have posted any photos. All of my posts lately haven't really required any. I wish I could put pictures to our happenings this morning. We got ready for church this morning.....early in fact....but when we went out and drove down the driveway we noticed another flat tire. We were driving on the rim. So we backed up the driveway and Don attempted to change the tire. Well the tire wouldn't come off. The center of the rim was bent a little making it super hard to get off. And then as he was using the jack a piece of the handle broke off into the jack. SO there was no way we were getting to church in the truck. So Don told me to just put the kids in his car so we could go to church.

Rachel had a talk and since it was our last Sunday they Primary wanted all the kids to tell a favorite scripture story. SO we had a lot to do today and I didn't want to miss church.

Well a couple of days ago Don was out running some errands. He had taken a back road and met a deer on his route. A deer jumped the guard rail right into the side of his car. It's head hit the front windshield and cracked it in three places and then its body rammed up again the passengers side.....shattering both windows and breaking the mirror off and putting a nice dent in the side. You can still see deer hair all over the car. Glass got everywhere. Don just happened to be wearing his sunglasses even though the sun had gone down by that time. PLUS....he really tried to get Caleb to ride with him but Caleb was busy in the kitchen making cookies and he didn't want to go. THANK GOODNESS.....he would have been sitting where the deer hit and that would have been UGLY.

So we jumped in the windowless car and drove to church. CAN I SAY BRRRRRRRR. It snowed last night. But we were smart enough to take blankets. We were late but we were there. I was so glad to get to go since it was my last Sunday in this ward.

As we were driving to church Rachel brought up the fact that she was so glad that Dad had vacuumed up all the broken glass. We had just had a flat tire on the way home from my sisters a couple of weeks ago. I was so GLAD Don had just taken the tire in yesterday to get it fixed. We ended up having to buy a new one. PHEW....we had a tire to put on the car now. Don finally was able to get the tire off and use a different jack to fix it.

No matter what happens or what trials we go through there are always blessings and things to be thankful if we will just look.