Wednesday, September 26, 2012

New Car

We finally purchased a new car! 
YAY!
We have been looking for months now! 
Nothing up to this point felt right for our growing family!

This is why we needed a new car...
  • The car I have been driving is a Toyota Camary that is well on it's way to having 225,000 miles on it.
  • You can no longer open the drivers side door from the outside so you either have to leave the window down or crawl through to open it.
  • The worst part, there is no AC so this summer we roasted! I really thought I was inside an oven cooking on really hot days! No Joke! 
  • and...I'm pretty sure our car has been running on prayers for the past several months!
    Let me explain...
    It runs fine for us, but then it has these "moments" when it doesn't want to work at all so we tow it to get it looked at! Once we get it there and get it looked at they can't find anything keeping it from not starting! It starts right up so we drive home and it runs just fine for another 3 or 4 months before it decides to have another "moment"!

     Braeden thinks our car had "car PMS"! hahaha
Impressive right? : )
For a 1993, a 20 year old car, it has done our family good!


As you can tell though it was just time to get a more reliable car especially with kiddo number two going to be here any day now!

Here's the best part about the new car...
We have been saving for quite some time now so we could pay cash for the car and we were able to accomplish our goal! We spent a little bit more than we wanted to, but we were still able to go the bank and get a cashiers check right out of our account without taking out a loan! (A pretty big accomplishment since Brae is the only one who works! At least I think it is!) We now have zero extra money : ) , but what a great feeling it is to be able to cut a check and pay for a car! It's pretty exciting for us! This is the biggest purchase that we have ever made apart or together and it's very exciting! I can't imagine what it's going to feel like to buy our first home! : )

OK OK so for the exciting part! : )
The car we got is a 2006 Nissan Altima with only 91000 miles on it!
Our goal was to try and find a nice, reliable car, with less than 100,000 miles on it that will fit four comfortably, and we did it! : ) 
The car search day after day for several months paid off!(Braeden did most the searching I can't take much credit for that!) I'm so glad it's over and I'm so happy with the car we got! It has everything we need plus some things that are just nice to have!
Here it is! : ) 





If you can't tell I'm excited! : ) 
Now hopefully people wont be embarrassed to ride in our car now! 
Hahaha! 
Such is life! 

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