More on the elusive car that I purchased on June 27th

Late Thursday afternoon (July 3rd), I called Tynan's again. I hadn't heard from them. After talking with 3 people, they took my number to call me back. A few minutes later, they did call me. They had found an engine to put in my car. It had 75k miles on it though. I immediately told them I didn't want that engine. If I had wanted a car with 75k miles on it, I would have bought a completely different car with that many miles on it. I told them that the mileage needs to be at most the 55k that the car I bought had. They said that they would continue looking.

So now, it's early Monday afternoon (July 6th). Still no calls. So this time, I called and asked for my salesman (Otto Palmer). I expressed my frustration that I haven't gotten any calls from them unless I initiated the call first. I told him that I've owned a call now for about 10 days and I've only driven it that one day to work. He apologized for the bad service and said that he would notify the service department of my frustrations. He said that the service department continues to look for another engine for me, but he hasn't heard if they have found one or not. I sent him my email so he could pass on the info to the service department so they could even email with updates if they get busy.

In my email to Otto, I included a link to this blog too... maybe they'll read it and see your comments... So comment and let me know what you think that I should do and what Tynan's should do. I'm curious to hear your opinions.
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I just got a call back (I guess that call to Otto put a fire under things a bit). They found an engine with 61.5k miles on it. That's much closer to the 55k that it had. I told them that I would prefer to have a less miles on the engine, so they are going to continue looking. He even told me that he'd call me back this afternoon.
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Tuesday Morning
I got a call yesterday evening and again this morning. They're doing a much better job communicating now. They still haven't found an engine with less than 61.5k miles. They've offered a 12month/12kmile warranty on the engine in addition to the 3month/3kmile warranty on the rest of the power train. I imagine that they'll call me back this afternoon.

"The car's engine needs to be replaced."

"The car's engine needs to be replaced." Ever heard this before? Yeah, it's bad news. Our Saturn finally died last week (Thursday). A piston popped off a rod and bad things happened. The mechanic advised us to just get a new car because that would be cheaper than paying for a new engine on a car will probably need more work soon.

So I spent most of Friday and Saturday shopping for a new car. Saturday afternoon, I was able to limp the Saturn to the Tynan dealership in Ft Collins and get $100 for the trade. Knowing what I know now, maybe I should have asked to a straight across deal.

I traded it for a 2002 Dodge Neon. I noticed that the engine light came and asked them to take care of that. My mistake. I should have shunned the car. But I gave them the benefit of a doubt. After all, they gave it to me in writing that they would fix any issues with the car. If it couldn't be fixed, they would reverse the deal.

So begins the real adventure. On Tuesday, I dropped it off at the appointed time so they could take care of the engine light. They gave me a loaner so I could get to work. Around 3pm I called them (I hadn't heard from them yet). They said that the wiring and spark plugs needed to be changed. They had been pretty busy and had not completed the work yet though. I would be able to pick it up the next day.

I call them late on Wednesday afternoon (again, they didn't call me). After talking with about 4 people who didn't know anything, someone in the service department promised to call me back after they figured out what was happening. When he called back about 15 minutes later, I got the news. They had replaced the plugs and cables. They still saw some issues and did some testing. The compression on the first 2 cylinders was fine, but the third cylinder was very low. They checked that out and found water in the cylinder. They also found leaks. Then came the phrase that was all too familiar. The car's engine needs to be replaced.
So, they're going to replace the engine. They've told me that I should get it back next week sometime. So in the first 10 days that I'll have owned this car, I'll only have it for 2 days. I just hope that this isn't a trend.

It's only Thursday, but I'll let you know what happens next!

To the zoo with Lexa

Two weeks ago we went to the zoo with my friend Steffanie and her daughter's Lexa and Clara. I didn't download the pictures until now so they are a little old but still fun. Ethan and Isaac love playing with Lexa and hopefully in a year or so Lizzie and Clara will be good friends. We saw the baby giraffe wondering what the peacock was doing with his feathers outstretched; the only problem was that I didn't get my camera out in time to get the perfect shot; don't you hate it when that happens.

Girly Lizzie

Today Lizzie woke up from her nap and saw her sparkly pink gloves on her dresser. She immediately wanted to wear them, and she wanted to wear her pink tutu. Then I asked her if she wanted her fairy wings and of coarse she did. Then she wanted to dance on the bed and look at her self in the mirror. So of coarse being the mom that I am I took pictures. A while ago she was wearing my shoes around the house, so cute!

My Boys are 5!!!

So Ethan and Isaac turned 5 on Wednesday! To celebrate we went to the Drive-in on Tuesday night and saw "Up". Lizzie did not want to go to sleep because there was to much going on around her. So we had to leave right after Up was over at 11:15. The boys love the Drive-in and all the treats that we buy before it.

The next day we Daddy took their birthday off of work, yeah. We went to the Greeley Fun Plex. The boys went a while ago with Daddy, but I was sick and could come with. So, that is what they wanted to do for their special day. They had so much fun and Lizzie actually put her head back in the water and didn't really mind getting splashed by all of the kids above. They loved the water slides.

This week they will have their actual birthday party with family. They wanted to wait until Grandma Moogie was coming up to have cake.

Soccer season ended in a fun note

Ethan's second goal

I think Ethan and Isaac really got into soccer the last two games when they understood the pushing more and started making goals. The Saturday makeup game Isaac scored 3 times and Ethan scored once; then Monday Ethan scored 3 and Isaac scored twice. They are a whole head taller so they can really push their way to the ball. Grandma even came to see them play during Monday's game; and afterwards we went to 7-11 and got some Slurpee's since they did so well. Saturday's game we went to Cold Stone for ice cream.

At the end of the game on Monday (their last game)
Their coach gave them a goody bag and a MVP certificate.

Easter

It took me forever to upload the pictures from Easter but here is a video of Lizzie getting eggs that were left in our living room by the Easter Bunny. She got a beautiful pink dress from Grandma for church that she looked like a beautiful princess but I just couldn't get any cute pictures of her in it. Hopefully soon I can take some with the good camera!

Soccer

This is the way the boys always pose together for pictures!

The boys soccer team is banana yellow close to the yellow shirts they had last year.

Ethan almost getting the ball in front of him. Look at the size of the boy on the right, he's as big as Lizzie.

Last Saturday Ethan and Isaac started spring soccer. Last spring Derek was their coach but we thought maybe they would do better if this year he wasn't. The first Saturday of April was suppose to be their first day but it snowed and today they were suppose to play again but it has been raining continuously since Thursday afternoon; so far only last Saturday they have had a chance to play.

Since the boys are so tall and almost 5 they were a full head taller than some of the other kids on the 3-4 year old league. They were great at getting the ball, but it was keeping it in front of them that was hard. Isaac got the ball once on a straight away and trip on the grass. I promised them ice cream if they got a goal during the game, so Isaac, sneaky little man that he is, took the ball when it was out of bounce near another field's goal and made a goal in that field. I was so proud that they only fell to the ground and cried 3 times each, their getting better. Just like any 4 year old all they need is practice, but that's one thing they don't like to do!


After soccer last Saturday we had Ethan and Isaac's pre-school teachers, Mrs. Holmes and Mrs. Sheppard, over for dinner. They boys wanted pizza so pizza it was. They just get so excited when anyone comes over, so it was doubled because it was their teachers and they love their teachers.

Butterfly Pavilion

Last weekend Derek's sister Ashlee came to town with her husband and 2 boys, Collier and Brennan, that are close to Ethan and Isaac's age. Saturday Derek's family decided to go to the butterfly pavilion in Denver. Last time we went was in August when Derek's sister Megan was visiting and I was not able to do much after the transplant the month before. Where the butterflies are is very humid and I couldn't be in a humid environment then, so I enjoyed it a lot more this time. I even held Rosie the tarantula, since Ethan was excited about me doing it just like him. I had so much fun taking pictures this time of the butterflies.

An Amazing Child

Lizzie is just amazing. She is now 18 months old and talking up a storm. Saturday night I gave her a bath and I always after a bath put lotion on her and sing "Baby Massage" (I made it up for the boys when they were little), this time in the middle of singing I hear, "Baby assage" "Baby assage" she is nodding as she sings too. It was so hilarious. Then she starts laughing because I am laughing and I decide to change the sound of my laugh to see what she does, she then changes her laugh to match mine.

Every morning I also ask her if she is poopy and she usually nods but this time she said very poopy. She just keeps saying things that I didn't know she could say or ever knew.