When It Rains....

It pours.

Or they say everything happens in 3's. 

So earlier this year Vaughn and I had to replace our garage door. It had been in a couple of accidents with a wood mirror, my car and the garbage can. It had finally seen the last of it's days and so we splurged and replaced it. Fast forward 6 months and our new garage door was involved in yet another accident with the garbage can. Except this time, only one accident was enough to do it in. And this time there is no way to "splurge" to fix it. We are hoping to at least before winter to have some money saved up to buy yet another one.

Fast forward a couple of weeks to our vacation in Salt Lake. We've been trying to save up for this vacation and prepare for money being tight. 

After finishing with the 5k we headed back to Bountiful to get ready for the day and then to Costco to get our tires rotated. We have been trying really hard to stay on top of the maintenance so we don't have to replace the tires early and what the guy found made me so sick to my stomach.

Who ever knows when, we hit a nail. It didn't pop the tire, but it made a huge bulge on the side of the tire and caused the rubber to expand and crack. 

Since the rubber was cracked and bulged, there was nothing they could do to fix it. The tire would have to be replaced. Which on any car would have been fine, because Costco insures their tires if it still has wear on it. BUT because our car is a 4x4 if you have to replace one tire you have to replace ALL the tires. Oh boy. This was especially depressing because these tires were less than 2 years old and still had at least a couple more years on them. Grrrrrr. Goodbye to our good day.

The third thing is that our less than a month old windshield got a huge crack across the bottom. We hadn't even noticed that we had any chips in the window, so finding the crack was devastating. We definitely had to take a deep breath and remind ourselves to have faith that everything would be ok.