Hello ALL!!! It's the Smiths again. Ryan and had the pleasure of taking a mini vacation down to San Diego last weekend for Carla Kopotic's (my first roommate here in St. G) wedding to David S? I can't spell his last name...it's polish or something?!? Any who, while we were there we got to spend the afternoon together with the Aird family...little Easton is adorable! I think he really liked hanging out with his Aunt Brooke:-) It was so nice to catch up with Katie and Rob too!!! After Carla's reception Saturday night we drove back to LV and then the next morning we drove all the way up to SLC to see Ryan's family for a couple days. Ryan just turned 30 last Monday on the 23rd. It was long trip but it was nice to have some vacation time together. We are doing great, working hard but having fun at the same time. It seems like we have been either very lucky or very un-lucky lately...here are some of the things we have faced...
Bad Luck- Ryan's truck broke down
Good Luck - It cost $5000.00 to fix, which was covered under some weird warrant, we didn't even have to pay the deductable
Bad Luck - My Jeep quick working
Good Luck - Ryan got the battery re-placed for free and did the labor him self
Bad Luck - Ryan and Huggy have been fishing the AVA bass fishing tournament and the boat caught on fire...
Good Luck - no one got hurt, and the damage was minimal, it took a couple days to do some of the electrical work and once again Ry did it all...after all he thinks it was his fault the boat started on fire....oops! :-)
Bad Luck - Our washing machine quit working
Good Luck - Ryan's mom happened to have a spare washing and drying machine in their garage (another reason we went up to salt lake city over the last weekend)
(Bad Luck - I now have to start doing laundry again!!!)
Bad Luck - My credit card number was stolen and I bought $500 dollars worth of Prescription drugs in NYC
Good Luck - My c/c company froze the account and I don't have to pay for the prescriptions
Bad Luck - Ryan's nice big screen TV stopped working...
Good luck - (for me anyway) the TV is in our bed room so now Ry doesn't keep me up late while he is watching TV...maybe I should tell him to plug it back in?!? Just kidding
Now, I understand that bad things happen to good people, and typically one would be able to handle anyone of these things that have been mentioned...the problem I have is that this all happened in about a 48 hour time period (except for Ry truck, we have been dealing with that for a couple weeks).
Other then that we have been doing pretty good. My sister Calli, Matt and baby Dixon just moved to Philly to go to Dental School. I miss them tremendously!!! I added the last picture I had with Dixon as they were getting ready to pack up their apartment!
I miss you guys and LOVE you all! Love, Brooke and Ryan Smith
