In the last 24 hours....

What do frozen pipes, being rear ended, and google reader have in common? Absolutely nothing!!! Except that the frozen pipes and being rear ended both have happened in the last 24 hours. Here's the story:

We usually give Kyla a bath right before her bedtime as part of her routine. So the shower was working great last night when we did give her one. However, we woke up this morning and the shower wouldn't even turn on. The water was working everywhere else in the apartment except for the shower. If we turned it on the highest and hottest, only little drops of water would come out the spout. We figured the pipes were frozen since it was -15 last night. Because we didn't have the managers emergency number, we had to drive over to her office and get the number. Our car would barely start! SO anyway, we don't have a shower today and we're really hoping we'll have one by tomorrow, otherwise I suggest not coming over or inviting us anywhere because we'll be the family that stinks up anywhere you'll be!! :)

Second story:
We were invited to our friends' house for a family home evening. We were in charge of bringing treats so we went to the store to get something before we headed over their. We stopped at a 4 way stop and then totally unexpectedly, got rear ended! The impact of the hit was pretty strong so I was sure there was damage that had been done. Kyla started crying only because I think it scared her. Hyrum got out of the car and made sure everything was alright with the car and with the person who hit us. The great thing about it was that NOTHING got damaged at all. There isn't even a single mark on our car! The other person's car had a little dent on his license plate but that was all. It was such a blessing! Hyrum and I have never gotten in an accident before so were really jumpy and paranoid the rest of the night. I can't even imagine getting into a worse accident. Being rear ended was scary enough for me!

Third story: Google Reader
As I'm sure all of you know Hyrum is a computer genius, freak, geek, whatever you want to call him. He found this really neat thing called Google reader. This thing is perfect if you have a lot of websites you go to everyday that get updated a lot. Blogs for example. I have a lot of friends who have blogs and sometimes it takes a REALLY long time to click/go to everyone's website just to see if they added or updated anything. All you do is create an account (if you don't have a google or gmail one already) and put in the web address of the site(s) you want. Then Google reader only shows you the sites that have been recently updated. This way you only have to go to one website that checks for updates, instead of 10 or more. It saves a lot of time and really great! Here's the link if you want to check it out. I highly recommend it. www.google.com/reader
Enjoy!

One more thing--American Idol officially started last Tues and Wed!! It's on FOX this week on Tues and Wed at 7 pm if you're interested. It's just the auditions though so it's not as exciting but some of the people auditioning are pretty funny...and weird.