My husband is AWESOME

Our vacuum died. My 800 dollar vacuum. Yes I paid that much for it, and totally worth it. Best. Vacuum. Ever. I've had it for 10 years, and it has served me faithfully. But Sylas decided to give it a hug while standing on it, leaned on it and SNAP. Something inside broke, and its mighty suction power was no more. I was mourning the loss of a true friend and contemplating the purchase of a less worthy Red Devil (aka red wimp) when Lohn did some googling and decided he would try to fix it. He ordered the part and put it back together. I took this picture because he wanted me to see what he was up against. But my wonderful brilliant AMAZING husband put it together again, every bolt, and it WORKS! I was giddy to be vacuuming my house again after two weeks.

Our van has been a great source of embarrassment to me lately. The poor thing has over 200,000 miles on it and it sounded like a Harley. Vrmmmmm VRMMMMM!  So once again, my fantabulous, brilliant husband did some Googling, and decided he could replace the muffler by himself. Here is the new part.

And here is the muffler he took off. What a rusted piece of junk! FYI, my van is now as silent as a mouse, and my neighbors no longer know when I'm coming home :D

And here is a project my husband took on after helping Tamsyn with her science homework about circuits (she was struggling with it) and after reading a school book to Gunnar about magnets and how you can make electric motors from them.  He decided to make a practical lesson about motors and magnets and this is what he made. Our kids were fascinated by it, and Tamsyn even took it to school to show her science class, and hopefully got some extra credit points from it.

In short, my husband is so wonderful. He's a car mechanic, repairman, and scientist. He's the best dad ever, I couldn't have picked a better man. Also I am thankful to my Heavenly Father for giving my husband the ambition and knowledge to fix these necessities.  We have saved thousands because he fixed them himself.  Life is good!