Leavin' Hot Lanta ??????

Well, Saturday morning proved to be our most exciting day at the Helton's. With our bags packed, we ate breakfast before heading out. Well, before we left, Traci was going to get Ethan a snack out of the pantry when disaster struck. There was a new bottle of pancake syrup sitting on the shelf and Ethan accidentally knocked it over. Syrup was everrrryyyyy where. I picked up the bottle to carry it to the sink - naturally dropping syrup throughout the kitchen. With everyone's help, we finally got the mess cleaned up.

With that drama over, Paul helped me load the suitcases for our trek back home. Good bye kisses where given and Tanner wanted to stay and Ethan wanted to go. Everyone was in the van and guess what happened - the stupid van would not start. Paul had to go next door to borrow some jumper cables and try to jump the car off. (Oh yea - it was soooo cold!) Yep - didn't work at first. Joyce called Timmy and he said to leave the cables on the van while Paul's car was running for about 10 minutes. Thank goodness - it started this time. Thankfully, because Paul and I were going to buy a new battery.

Well, finally we were loaded up and ready for the drive home. Just to be on the safe side, we went to Advance Auto and had my battery checked out. A OK! On the road we are!!!