new class,new car, only 11 days left!

This has been a big week,
I started my statistics class this week, and so far I understand what I am doing, although this class has more homework than any class I have ever taken in my life, literally.  One week down, 7 to go!

On wednesday on my way to work our altima, which has had a terrible high pitched screaching noise off and on for weeks changed to a terrible grinding noise.  It figures, you make your last mission payment and everything starts to break that has been held together by the blessing of having missionaries (our heater is making funny noises too).   I decided we could wait no longer to make our decision, that was the day we needed to get a new car.  Bob has been looking for quite a while, originally we were going to buy an almost new car, so he was prepared for that, but I decided I would rather have a couple older cars, than just one new car, because I don't think his car is going to make it much longer either, so he had to switch gears.  We found a 2002 Honda Accord Coupe that is in excellent condition.  It has all the extras and only 70000 miles.  It is a little older than we were looking at, but I fell in love with it when I saw the inside, it is very comfortable and it drives well.  It's a little sportier than I like on the outside, but what I see is the inside, not the outside when I drive, so I'm good with that.  I have heard Honda's last a really long time, so we'll see how it goes.  There was a litttle bit of buyers remorse, I think that is natural anytime you spend thousands of dollar on something, but I feel good about it now.  We got it for just under Kelly blue book, so I think that is fair.

Michael only has 11 days left ( I say 11 because he doesn't come home until 7:45 on Thursday the 11th, so we have to wait that entire day too).  I am really excited, I have started crying on a regular basis.  The emotions with a return missionary are huge.  I am scheduled to teach the Sunday he gets home, so I have asked several people to help give parts of the lesson, because I expect to be very emotional and cry a lot that day.  I want the sisters to still have a lesson:).