Luck

Auston and I hit a terrible patch of bad luck the last week. On the way home from Vegas (we got married) our flight was about 25 min early. We were so excited because both of us were exhausted and we still had a 45 minute drive ahead of us. We land, get on the road and Stella starts to scream bloody murder. I don't think I've ever met a kid who hated their car seat as much as Stella does. As we drive home we stumble upon a car accident. We sat in stopped traffic forever. Stella screaming every second. No soothing technique worked. We finally make it past the accident and roll into road construction. I started to smell something fowl and had Auston pull over. Turns out Stella had pooped ALL OVER HERSELF. I felt like the worst mother in the world. There I was extremely frustrated and borderline anger with her crying and she's sitting in her own poop probably burning her bottom. I get her changed and hold her for a good long while to tell her how sorry I was for not knowing. Long story, and drive, short it took us 2 1/2+ to get home.

The Taber family finally gets through the door and Stella's crying under control. We were so excited to see our wedding pictures, so we popped in the disc and find out all but 9 of the pictures were downloaded wrong so the files were empty. All I could think was "Fffff I have no wedding pictures!". I felt sick to my stomach and there was nothing I could do at the time. Call the next morning and all I got was the run around.

Auston and I had appointments to look at houses in Bakersfield that morning so we headed there. We noticed the element was making a funny noise on the way there but thought it would be fine. We looked at the first rental house and it was so scary. No thank you. Went to a delicious breakfast then to the second house. GORGEOUS. Built in 1954 it has all the cute details. I fell in love. We go to get in our car and it won't start. I started to ball uncontrollably. Could the last couple hours get any worse? Called a tow truck, he convinced Auston that the jump would get us through the 1 1/2 hour drove home. Thank God it did but it was the most tense ride home. $384 later we had our alternator replaced.

Thankfully we landed the beautiful house and everything turned out fine. Including the wedding pictures.

I just need to remind myself that God is in control and to let go. Everything always works out the way it should. Life is good.

Especially with this girl by my side.















You didn't think I was going sign off a post without a few pictures of Stella, did you?