pulling my hair out.

see?  literally.

this is what this whole car buying experience has been for us.  never in my whole life would i have imagined it would be so hard to get someone to take money off our hands & give us the car we want.

maybe our problem is that we're too picky.  but i figure when you're making a big purchase like a car, you should be.  we have a very specific car in mind.  certain color, certain options.  is that too much to ask for?  apparently.  are you ready for me to quit blogging about stupid car buying & resume cute pictures of parker & pretty photography?  me too.  believe-you-me... me too.

i'm ready to be done driving our silly rental car, too.

ok.  it's time to start thinking optimistically... because it always could be worse, right?  parker & sam weren't hurt in the accident.  big positive.  we just got word that we don't have to turn in the rental car until next monday... that's almost a week later than we expected.  hallelujah.  eventually {on some far off day} we will be the proud owners of a new car & i'll get to inhale new-car-smell for a week or two before parker fills it up with goldfish & cheerios.    see?  things are lookin' up already.

but i promise, i do have other things to blog about.  like how inspired i am by my sister's ironman & how i want to train for a race in the fall.  or how i stuffed my face full of ice cream & cheesecake over our vacay & i'm ready to give this clean eating thing a real shot.  or how parker is still not walking but he's getting cuter by the day & has started signing words like "please" & "more" & it kills me every time.

so, yes, there are other things going on in our lives.  and i promise this blog will resume to normal life eventually.  well, i kinda promise.  what the h is normal life anyway?

and now, to reward you for reading an unloading of my feelings {or maybe you didn't & are just checking out the pictures... either way is cool with me}, here is your moment of zen.  a picture of p-ray in his pack-n-play while we were on v-cay.

who sleeps like that?  parker.  that's who.

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