Now, for the rest of the story. Nathan and I went to bed the night before leaving late. Before we had a chance to fall asleep I hear this very pitiful, "Mommy" come from the other room. Nathan got up to tuck her back in bed. Then Nathan quickly called me into the room. Meredith and the stomach flu. Nathan had Meredith in his arms so he took her to clean her up while I started changing the bedding. He came back in (he doesn't have his contacts in) and I told him he had to give her a bath because it was ALL in her hair. We get up and do this at least 2 more times. I took Emily to her last day of school and finished packing and cleaned the house and loaded the car. After picking her up we got in the car to go. Meredith was doing well. Nathan was in the passenger seat studying (for the lovely testing he is currently doing which takes 2 days. The dreaded core exam.) and Meredith starts acting sick. I brought along a bib to take to Grandma's house (which I LOVE because of it's big pocket to catch everything.) and Nathan put it on her. Meredith threw up in the car and the bib thankfully caught almost everything. Just a little bit got on the car seat. After getting to my Mom's house we went to Graduation. Waited an hour for it to start, waited another hour for them to get to the point, and Mandy was the very first to graduate. Now, you're asking why in the world "Jones" would start first. They say it's because they just wanted to do it differently. I said it was because they finally wanted to start with the most important person first. Then I began to say it was an answer to a prayer that would be said by me at graduation. We quickly left after Mandy walked because we were quite frankly scared. Meredith threw up 2 more times when she went to bed (maybe 3). Then she was on the mend. We went to sleep the next night and had barely fallen asleep when we started the whole process with Emily. After she was up the first time I just made a little bed in the bathroom. It made the whole thing so much more simple and clean. She was up for a minimum of 5 times. I could still say I LOVE being a Mommy right after the experience and in the middle of a LOT of sleep deprivation. So the next day after church I find out Dallin went home early. Then Matthew kept my parents up that night (of course my Mom is a light sleeper so I'm sure we woke her up a LOT during the previous two nights. Sorry, Mom.) My Dad, and Sister quickly joined the list. Anyhow.
We finally left Monday afternoon. We went through the canyon, got halfway through before Nathan smelled something burning. I saw smoke and we pulled over. It was our brakes. It was so hot that Nathan ended up breaking 3 posts trying to see if he could do something. After putting the wheel back on we decided to try and find a police man or keep driving until we had a signal. At one point we had a signal but nowhere to pull over so as I finally hear the emergency line pickup I lost the call. Then I had a signal, we pulled over and lost it. I look up, and there is a police car at the side of the road who had just pulled someone over. We pull up across the street from them and decide we can make it to Globe. We get to Globe and we decide we can make it (very, very slowly to Tucson.) Then we had an undisturbed nights rest. :) Nathan took the car into the shop the next morning and studied for the core exam while he was there. Couple hundred dollars later we now have a working vehicle. Of course, sadly, we had to miss our playgroup (hope you guys had fun). It was supposed to be our letter "D" day with dinosaurs and whatever else anyone could think of. Can wait for next weeks Letter "I" though. (We're doing ice cream of course.) And the weather outside is HOT!
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