a different kind of an adventure

at noon friday we had a meeting with the other construction company to get the numbers for them to build our house. we knew they would be more expensive but didn't realize they would be that much more expensive. for them to build, it costs the same except they are not including the lot. in other words, they would be almost 40 grand more expensive. guess we are going with our first choice. it was just nice to be able to confirm who we wanted to go with plus we have heard nothing but great things about team construction. and now we are just waiting to hear back from the gentlemen who has looked at our house twice. he told his realtor that ours is/was his favorite but his wife to be didn't like all the steps to the house. they had 6 more houses to look at this past week. hopefully they didn't find anything as nice and will be calling us with an offer. fingers- crossed. positive karma flowing.

saturday we headed over to watch my nephew play football. that's him in the number 60 jersey. it was a great game, we won 14 to zero. {he's in the 4th-6th grade league and he's a lineman}

after the game, mike and i along with kaylee decided to head down to lake winona in warsaw for an "adventure", as kaylee was calling it and picnic lunch since we have never been down there before plus its closer than new buffalo. we ended up taking a little detour and was heading back to go the other direction when mike noticed there was something wrong with the car. good thing he wasn't going very fast and we were nearby a shopping plaza and gas station. he lost all control of the car. he could turn the steering wheel but we had no brakes. we ended up stopping on the wrong side of the street but at least we stopped. had to call a towing company and my parents. while waiting for both of them, we ate our lunch in the car. a guy stopped and told us that his buddy would be able to fix her up since he had a shop nearby. we declined because he wasn't sure if he would have the parts to fix her since it was a land rover. he told us it was the tire rod that's broke and that it shouldn't be very expensive to fix which made us feel better. we figured at least a grand. the guy said maybe 50 bucks.

thank goodness my parents weren't too far behind the tow truck because it was hot out there. they took us out for ice cream and we got to see some of the shops before heading back home. {not too much to see but it was really beautiful. definitely need to go back so i can get some pictures} kaylee ended up being a good girl and mike didn't go postal so it ended up being as good as you can get, different kind of an "adventure".