a little car trouble

so as previously mentioned, priscilla was in an accident. she got banged up pretty badly, but lucky for us, tyrell knows how to fix things.

he and our friend john worked on it and slowly but surely, got everything bent back into shape. thanks a lot john for all your help!! and once tyrell found all the parts...

he put her back together again. she looks as good as new. and my king of cheap (thank you heather) wants me to add, that his car fixing skills turned this $4,500 budget buster into a $360 repair (hopefully this is a big enough savings to make the smith family christmas letter:).

in the mean time.... we also had a problem with the truck. it had had starter trouble since it nearly left us stranded on our honey moon (i have since discovered that car trouble on the honey moon is a smith boy tradition). but this trouble was few and very far between. there were just a few times in the last year that it wouldn't start, and each time, ty would quickly have us back on our way.

but then it started to do it more and more often after priscilla got hit. it was our only vehicle, and for a while there, i had to push start it every where i went. i was getting really good at doing it by myself. i learned to always park on a slant. and there were several times where a good samaritan detected my need for help and gave me a push. so after a week or so, (which had allowed me ample time to accumulate a long list of hilarious/embarrassing pushing the truck all over detroit stories. and to learn a valuable lesson on push starting, according to tyrell) ty finally got in there to fix the problem he thought would be quick and easy. but to make a long story short after buying new tools, lifting the engine, and lowering the front axel he was able to replace the starter.

so for a while there we had gone from 3 working vehicles to 0 working vehicles in a matter of months. but thanks to ty, we are all back up and running:)