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Photos of the Disappearing Wall Bed

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Baby Breeding #2 is inheriting Caden’s Dr. Seuss room and Caden is inheriting our former “guest” bedroom.  We had we had a really nice big Queen size bed in this room, and we hated to lose it.  The solution we came up with was for me to build a Murphy style bed.  The one I selected is called Disappearing Wall Bed.

Although it is not 100% complete, it is ready to go. I still have some touch up paint a few other minor adjustments to make on the bed.  As for Caden’s room, I still have some additional painting and new baseboards that I need to install.

Here are few photos from earlier in the week and yesterday.

 

 

Enjoy!

I’ve Got time, Don’t I???

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In the beginning of the movie The Incredibles, Mr. Incredible sees a police chase, he checks his watch and says “Yeah, I’ve got time.” That is what I’ve been saying in preparation for Baby Breeding #2, aka Baby Y (Caden was Baby X).

Jennifer’s has had a great pregnancy with no major issues, no high blood pressure like last time and we are well on our way to the March 2, 2011 C-section date… so I thought until today!  Because of the inability for the hospital to give a time to our doctor to preform the C-section on March 2, we’ve been moved up a day until March 1.  One day, not a big deal right? Really it isn’t, we’ve just been making plans with March 1 in mind.

I’ve not done as well as I did last time in documenting Jen’s pregnancy, but a 3+ year old does keep me busy, as well as some side web work I do.  I hope to be better the rest of this year, ha!

We are WAY ahead of where we were this time last time (especially with Caden coming 3 weeks early).

  1. We’ve already installed the car seat (didn’t do this last time until the day we went to pick him up, and after the day we had (skip down to June 13), I couldn’t remember how to operate the thing!  We are old pros this time, right?
  2. We have a name!  Caden was born on June 6, 2007, he was Baby Breeding until the morning of June 8, 2007.  What is the name you ask? Well I have to have some secrets! lol Yea, mom and sister aren’t happy about this, but I told them, “Hey we know it is a boy!”
  3. His room is 99% complete, of course it is Caden’s old room and we are moving Caden to the former guest bedroom (which will still double as a guest bedroom, when it is done) is not done!I’m currently building a Murphy Bed, make that a Disappearing wall bed, Murphy is a trade marked name, ha!  I’m making progress, and hopefully I’ll have things wrapped up on it this weekend.  Of course we’ve painted Caden’s room and we’ll have a space theme going on in it eventually.  Photos are coming soon!  Check back on the blog next week for updates on Baby Y and photos!

Too Many Irons…

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So too many irons in the fire, so it has been too long since the last post and this one is a short one, but just incase you have been living under a rock, we are having a BABY in March 2011!

We found out last week that it is a BOY and are really excited.  If I’ve been too busy to post in the last few months, I can’t imagine how busy I’ll be after March!  We’ll see!

The FEET!

A not so great, but still cool 4D photo.

Ford says “Drive One.” — I wish I could

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So here are the Facts as of today, September 24, 2009:

We bought a Ford Freestyle in May of 2007.  We changed the oil and performed the routine maintenance according to the maintenance schedule.

July 2009 - Vehicle’s transmission light came on when starting it, vehicle died, restarted, light went off.

August 2009 – Vehicle’s transmission light came on when starting it, vehicle did not drive correctly until it was restarted.

September 2, 2009 – Brought the vehicle in for service, local Ford dealership could not get the vehicle to mess up; recommend bringing it back when it is messed up, without shutting it off. (I don’t fault them for this, they had good advice to bring it straight there)

September 18, 2009 – Vehicle’s transmission light came on when starting it; took it to the dealership for them to diagnose the problem

September 21, 2009 – Informed the bad part was the “Throttle Body” and that it was not covered under the 60k power train warranty.

September 23, 2009 – Talked to local dealership and told the part is NATIONALLY back ordered UNTIL DECEMBER 2009.

Praise to Ford for offering to:

  • cover the cost of a rental car
  • trying to expedite the part replacement
  • cover all but $150 of the repair

Major Criticism to Ford for:

  • Not covering a rental car for the entire time we are without our car. They will pay only up to $550, translation not much more than two weeks.
  • Trying to expedite the replacement part – sounds good, but the millions of Freestyle owners having the same problem are probably being told the same thing?
  • Not covering the cost of the entire repair.  This part was so poorly designed the supplier went out of business.  The new supplier is redesigning the part. I would call this a defective part. I was told because it is not a safety issue; there can’t be a recall on it. I understand that, but this same car had crappy brakes, and Ford extended the warranty for them, they could do the same.

More details:

  • Ford has killed the Freestyle (which was renamed the Taurus-X for 2008 and 2009 models).  The 2010 line up does not include the Taurus-X, which has killed the resale/trade-in value. This problem leaves us up-side down in our payments if we wanted to try to replace this vehicle.
  • This vehicle was our 6th (and our last) Ford between Jennifer and myself (others including Escort, Explorer Sport, Explorer Sport Trac, Explorer, & a F150).  None ever had any major problems and routine maintenance was done on all of them.
  • While I appreciate what Ford has offered to do to help us, it is not enough when we are paying a $500 note for a vehicle to sit at the dealership and continue to depreciate for the next 3 months.
  • Please feel free to share my experience with anyone you know.