Glad that April is over.

Even thought April was a shorter month, I am glad it's over. Too bad May is starting to turn out like April...expensive! We got our slab leak all fixed and under control, now all I have to do to wrap that up is send a copy of our receipts from the plumber to the water department and they will reimburse us a little for the leak. We have a little of a drip, drip, drip, dripping water in the refrigerator, looking into having someone come and fix that, too bad we didn't buy the extended warranty for the fridge we bought just over a year ago. Our AC is on the fritz. I noticed last week that it wasn't cooling the house, even after running non stop for over 5 hours. Well, come to find out that has a leak too! We had the AC people out last year to fill the unit with refrigerant since it hadn't been serviced since we moved in, and we were surprised that this summer that it needed 6 more pounds of refrigerant. Which meant that there was a leak. A rather large leak. So we will wait until the refrigerant leaks all out, we are hoping that we can ride out what's left and that it will take us through the summer (I know, that's asking a lot!). After there is no more, we will be replacing the AC unit. We could have just replaced the part that was leaking and with the new part, had a 1 year warranty, but for a little bit more, we get a whole new unit with a 5 year warranty. And knowing our luck, and the fact that we will be here for a few more years, we are going with the 5 year warranty! Things come in three's, yes?! Well, you would think then that we have paid our dues and we should be done for a while....wrong! We were on our way home Saturday and we had a tire blow out! It sounded loud and we thought that there was one of those supped up cars or something with a huge muffler problem, but when a little PT Cruiser passed us and the noise was still there we pulled over and surveyed the damage. So, we got 4 new tires for the car (that means that with in the last 6 months we have replaced 6 of the 8 tires on our cars). I guess the fact that we needed new tired anyway makes it a little easier to swallow, and we were just glad that it didn't happen on Michael's way to work, because today he started his commute to Farmers Branch (a little over an hour each way), and we were glad that it wasn't raining, or snowing, or dark, and that we did have the spare in good condition, and that everyone was okay, yada, yada, yada...And people ask me if I get bored all day at home...nope, not with all that has been going on here!

But... I am happy to report that other things are going well here, Luke is just getting cuter everyday (I will get to posting pictures soon, we have to back up the computer before that has problems too!) and we are really enjoying having him in our family. Luke really likes Ender and Ender is learning fast to stay away from Luke's little fingers that are now grabbing everything in sight! And Luke is working on learning how to sit up all by himself!