The Soule/Davis/Garrett family curse

I have believed for a long time that my family when I was growing up had a curse on their vehicles. It seemed like they were always breaking down. So I have massive anxiety about my cars breaking down. So this is how my car experience has been over the last year. My husband left for a six month deployment last October and shortly after I find out that the brakes need to be completely replaced along with a few belts ($$$$). So over a few months I finally get all the repairs done. Then every few months I have to put oil in it because our oil just disappears. So then he gets home and everything is fine for a few months. Then the battery light comes on but this time he is home and he has the car so he gets to deal with it. So he sees that we have a bunch of corrosion on the battery terminals, so he buys a bottle of coke and pours it on. It ate away enough corrosion for the the battery light to turn off. So then about 2 months later the car starts to overheat, for 3 weeks my husband drives around with the heat on full blast because it keeps it from overheating, the only problem with this is that it is already 100 degrees outside but because its working he keeps doing it. I finally get frustrated with it because the heat thing doesn't always work and it dies on us and then we have to let it cool down so we find out it could be the thermostat, which is a really cheap fix and you can do it on your own, he fixes it, it took only an hour. So everything is just fine for a month. I take him to work one day because he is leaving for a week and on my way home the battery light comes on. I freak out because I can't fix things and I really don't want to be stranded. I call my hubby who is getting ready to ship out. He tells me go home, let it cool off and do the coke thing. well it works but this seems like a band aid and not a real fix. So here we are all caught up. Today I take him to work because he is leaving for a month. On the way to work the check engine light comes on, he immediately tells me not to freak out and that it is probably a sensor on the fritz. We get to base and we get out and he kisses me goodbye and all that mooshy crap, and then walks to the boat. He didn't even give the car a second thought. So I drive home setting small goals for the car like, please make it to I-5, and then ok we made it to I-5 now please make it to the 94, ok we made it now please make it to the 805, woohoo we made it now just make it to olympic parkway, oh lord almost home, come on baby, now make it to the next light and then only 2 more lights to go, oh yeah I am home free, now just make it to the parking spot, BINGO, I win. ok so i am home and my hubby tells me that I probably just need to reset the sensor, so turn the car off and when I start it again it will reset and turn off. So I try it and guess what...................he was .......................................................... ...WRONG. Light still on. So is there anyone out there in cyberland that wants to donate money to me and my curse. I accept cash or check. LOL. I should of married a mechanic. Hmm....... I did. If I drove a submarine I would be in great hands. I swear it will be the anxiety from broke down vehicles that will kill me one day. I can deal with a lot of crap but broke down vehicles is not one of them, and I really don't want to hear that I just need to buy a new car because its not a possibility right now unless someone wants to buy it for me. So here it to all the people out their with the same car woe's as me. We just need to learn to fly. Good night.

The sign, the lake and the cliff

Sorry its been so long, school work and life have had me bogged down. So last weekend we took a trip to Lake Martinez with some friends. We had a really good time, it was quiet and relaxing and the best thing was there was no tv or xbox. So on the way to lake Martinez which by the way is in Arizona, we are driving and we start to get close to our destination. Now mind you that I have never been here so Angie tells me that we should be there in about 15 minutes. Well I start to get a little freaked because we are in the middle of nowhere. This place looks like the setting for the movie The hills have eyes and then we pass this sign:

I was like, where the hell is this woman taking me, to some hills have eyes military testing ground with radiation poisoned rock dwelling hillbilly's. So now I am on the look out for eyes peering out from around the rock formations and watching for a fricken tank to run us over because I'm sure the hillbilly's have acquired one just so they could terrorize some unsuspecting travelers with children and no men to protect them around. Oh . . . wait. . . that sounds like us. So its pretty dark by now and we are driving down a two lane paved road with street lights and then of course we turn down, what I like to call "bobs road", dirt and gravel no lights. You know the kind of road that the stupid teenagers always take because it is suppose to be a short cut or it would be a good place to get their boom boom on and then they end up cut into pieces or with some gardening tool jabbed through their bodies, that's the road. So then like any good horror movie, we come to a fork in the road but I cant complain because it has a street light, a very dim yellow hazed street light. So we go right for about 5 seconds and Angie doesn't think its right so she backs up and we go left but then she doesn't think that's right either so we back up again and we go right again. Holy cow, bobs rad right leads us to the Davis's Beast(woohoo we have men). So we get their and our husbands come out to helps us unload and Keith(Angie's husband) starts talking about the lake that is attached to this river and he calls it Crystal lake, now of course flags go up in my brain because I know Crystal lake is the same lake that Jason Voorhees killed all the camp councilors in Friday the 13Th. I know I am such a freak, but I like my horror movies and I have a wild imagination. Ok so obviously no hillbilly reject or hockey mask wearing psycho killed me because I am writing this...................or am I. Lol just kidding, it is me.

The next day we go out on the river/lake and John thinks that he can fly. I have tried to tell him that he can't but he wont listen.

As if pretending he was an airplane wasn't enough.

Keith and John climbed this cliff, it may not look that high but it is pretty high.

Quality guy time!
Keith had enough!!!
Uh Oh!! he's all alone and just realized that there is only one way down!

It only took about 15 minutes to get him to jump, and this is the way he thought was best, which landed him in the water on his back. Angie has the video of it so when I get that I will post it. We had a really good time, the kids fed some raccoons, Dylan went swimming for the first time, the sunsets are beautiful out there. Here are some more picts of our adventure in Arizona
Sunset

Raccoons that think they are dogs

The kids actually getting along

I have more stories from the lake but I will post about it again. For now I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend.