Rest In Peace, Honda-girl

On August 4, 2010, we finally laid to rest my 1997 Honda Civic. My wonderful parents gave me this car when I was 17, and she has been such a good car for the last11 years! But it was finally time to say goodbye...

...and say hello to my new car!

2008 GMC Acadia

Bryan and I bought our first car last week, which was a much better experience than I anticipated!

Last Wednesday morning I was leaving for work, and my car (Honda) didn't start. Bryan and I had been doing our homework on small to mid-size SUVs the last few weeks, because with a baby on the way, we were looking for something a bit safer for our family. We just weren't anticipating making our decision quite this quickly. After making sure it wasn't just a dead battery, we made the decision that it was going to cost more to get the car fixed than what it was worth. So we headed to a GMC dealership Wednesday afternoon, only anticipating test-driving some used Acadias (which was our front runner at the time for car choices). When we got to the dealership, the Acadias that were advertised on their website had been traded to another dealership earlier that day, but they had ONE used Acadia that had just been traded in that same afternoon (it happened to be the owners mother-in-law's car). The car had not even been detailed or cleaned, but we decided to look at and test drive it anyways. It had all the features we were looking for, however, we still were not planning on making a purchase that same day. As we were starting our "goodbye, we're not going to buy tonight" speech, the manager came to us asking what he needed to do to make a sale tonight. Luckily, Bryan has a good friend with a Chevy dealership in Abilene, who gave us some numbers of what would be a good deal on a 2008 Acadia, and what he could probably get us a used Acadia for. So we basically told the guy he needed to be about $1000 less than what our friend told us was a good deal, and the manager gave us a final sales price of $1200 less than that! I started thinking about how ironic it seemed that on the same day my car of 11 years died this Acadia had been traded in that afternoon, and no one else had even been able to look at it yet because it hadn't even been cleaned or detailed. And with such a good price, I thought to myself, "God, are you putting this opportunity right in front of me that's too good to pass up?" Not that we had been dragging our feet, but we had been talking about buying a new car for months now, but doing nothing about it.

Although it may seem superficial, I really do believe that God situated all the events of Wednesday, August 4, to help us make a decision about retiring my pseudo-unsafe car for our new "family" car! And I LOVE my NEW (used) car!

Oh yeah....I forgot to mention we were in the middle of moving out of our apartment and into our house last week! Needless to say, it was an eventful/busy/fun week! More on the move and our new house later!