Thanksgiving Point Lights!!!

So Friday was a CRAZY day, most anything that could go wrong did, lol. First Joe had to take his car in to get the Heater fixed, the know wouldn't turn to heat and with the cold coming this weekend we REALLY needed to finally get it fixed... So he took the car in first thing when it opened Friday morning. After a couple hours they finally had it looked at and told him it was 1 of 2 things but they couldn't be 100% sure, but if we took the car to their Sp. Fork garage they are more specialized for heaters there or something. So while Joe waited for his mom to come over to follow him to Sp Fork to drop it off (i was here with the kiddos) I google'd both of the things the guy said that could be wrong to see if i could get some kind of idea for the cost. I found someone who actually had the same problem with the same year and model car as Joe, and a guy had replied to his question with what the problem was, he had the same thin happen to him.

So I called Joe back and had him tell the guy to check the air flow vent cable. Meanwhile i decided to call the dealership and explain to them what was going on with it (since it seems to be a common thing with this car) and he knew right what I was talking about and said oh yeah, its about $600 to fix. And right about then i had a small mental breakdown in my head! Who on Earth has an extra $600 laying around 2 weeks before Christmas!! Not us, we're done shopping its all wrapped, no going back now!! lol. So for the next 15 minutes i was sitting on the verge of crying while the kiddos were coloring, and then Joe called me back and said it was the cable that needed to be replaced after all and they could replace it (and the non working headlight) for $138.. DONE! apparently the cable is snagging on something when it is moved back and forth from the cool to the heat and that is what caused it to break, and to figure out what is wrong with that requires them to take the whole dashboard out, and so that is what would cost $600... so he showed Joe how to manually move the cable underneath the dash so it isn't snagging to buy us some time, thank heavens for them!

If anyone is looking for a good, honest mechanic definitely call Clegg's Automotive, they have a garage in Provo, and Sp. Fork and they are FANTASTIC!!

So basically they had told us the car would be done by 2:30 and we were planning on going over to pick it up, then do a quick grocery trip and leave at 5 to head up to Salt Lake to take Zach to see the lights at Temple Square. Well 2:30 rolls around, and Joe called to check on the car.... they still hadn't received the part from Salt Lake... so we decided to go grocery shopping and then hopefully the car would be done by 4:45 and we could be on the road by 5... well, 5 rolls around and still nothing, so we called again and they apologized and apologized, they had JUST gotten the part from Salt Lake and they were going to stay late and would be done with it by 5:30 and we could pick it up then... So we got there at 5:30, and by the time we got back up to Orem, dropped off the other car at home and got on the freeway it was about 6 and we were in bumper to bumper traffic.. so frustrating!

So as we were finally rolling up to Thanksgiving Point (40 min later!) i remembered that they have a driving through lights show there! So we got off the freeway and drove over, and found where to go, and it was THE CUTEST thing I've been to. Basically its a good half hours worth of driving through all these lights, HUGE set up lights Zach just LOVED it, so we listened to our Christmas music and looked at lights all from the warmth of our newly fixed heater! It ended up completely making up for the rest of the craziness of the day! We decided its going to have to be a new Christmas tradition to do that! And it was only $7 per car! SO worth it, i recommend it to anyone!! it goes through the 27th of Dec i think. We're hoping to make it up to see the Temple Square lights this coming week :)