Super Bowl and Life Lately

Life around the Bast household has been a little busy and stressful as of late.  Josh learned that he needs to submit a bit of paperwork before we are cleared to go to Morocco.  This process usually takes about a month and we are trying to do it in 10 days.  Please pray that the paperwork gets processed quickly and we can head out on our honeymoon in a week.  

This week our car also took a turn for the worse.  For those of you who have kept up with my blog you know that Lucy, our car, has a bit of a temperament.  She chooses to work when she wants and when she breaks, she breaks.  After Josh rolled the car in 2010, we have had to replace doors, suspensions, transmissions, etc.  Our latest repair was a complete over hall of the transmission.  This week we had a mechanic come in from Nairobi to work on a few minor issues.  While the car was in his car it stopped working.  After a lot of frustration, we learned that the oil pump in the transmission failed.  We should be able to get it fixed but this requires us to bring our other transmission back from Nairobi. (It was there for people to look at it.  We're hoping to sell it.) Needless to say this can't happen till Thursday at the earliest.  You can see our frustration.  With only a few more months left here we are again pouring more money into her.  Please pray that this goes as smoothly as possible and isn't a major dent to our wallet.  

The Super Bowl was this weekend and I'm sure many of you have already seen it.  Us on the other hand, have not.  We had these big plans of staying up to do so but sleep got the best of us.  I made some Super Bowl treats (meatballs and queso dip) and we watched the pregame stuff up till about 1am.  At one we decided a short nap was in order and Josh set the alarm for the start of the game.  3 hours later we finally wake up and the game is already in the third quarter.  Fail!  Instead of catching the end we decided to try to catch it today.  A bit of a stretch as people are posting a ton about the winner and the highlights online.  I'm ok with knowing but Josh hates it. The game is currently on but Josh had to head to work so we will be waiting till 8 pm tonight.  I'm just hoping no one spoils it for him.  

Life has its ups and downs and its in these trials that we learn and grow.  Even though its been a bit of a stressful week, life is good.  And I think that's all I have to say about that...