Thursday, April 16, 2009

Being adults


Holy cow we bought a car! For months we've been looking around, trying to find an Odyssey that had the features I wanted, that I was willing to pay for. And on Tuesday we accidentally stumbled upon one. It was not so much love at first sight, the color is not what I was looking for. But, everything else is pretty much exactly what I wanted. You'll notice that Lee is not mentioned much in this car deciding process. This is because he didn't want a minivan and says it's my car and I have to do the decision making. He's secretly in love with it though I think. How could he not be? The most I can get out of him is that it's 'comfortable'. I haven't been able to drive it much because Mitchell and I left for Boise the day after we bought it, but the little driving I did do was a pleasure. Yes, I know it's not glamorous and I look like a soccer mom or something, but in my opinion it's the perfect family car.(Disclaimer: I already know that a few of you have strong angry feelings about minivans, sssshhh!) I'm pretty proud of myself for walking into a car dealership and doing a little bargaining to get them to lower the price. That's something that grown ups do! I'm sure we probably didn't get a super deal, we are clueless after all, but I'm happy with where we ended up. My only real concern is whether or not it's bad luck to buy a car that you got pulled over in while test driving? Oops!

6 comments:

Natalie said...

Welcome to the world of the minivan mom. And an Odyssey was an excellent choice.

Bethany said...

Hey, I felt great when I became a van lady. You know you're ready for van-dom when you don't care about style, only about comfort and practicality. (SO much better to buckle kids in and out of car seats in a van!)

Congrats.

The Teagan Times said...

Look again at this huge thing you fail to mention. I wouldn't have given you that much crap really :). Ian is far more opinionated about minivans than I am. For once huh! I think you and Adena may be matchers now. I'm pretty sure that is what she has too. I will secretly envy your abundant cupholders and ability to fit six kids in your car.

jayna said...

YOU GOT PULLED OVER WHILE YOU WERE TEST DRIVING A MINI VAN?

I will let the caps speak for themselves.

Carrie said...

Congrats on the minivan... even though I might have to side with Lee on this one, me being one of those anti-mini-van-ers, I still think it's awesome that you got one! (I'm only anti because I had to drive our family's old ghetto van in high school. And that was NOT awesome.) But the Odyssey is sweet! :)

The Bowldens said...

rofl! we went through the same thing. rhett said he never wanted ours, but he LOVE it now. lee will warm up to it. hurray for mini vans! =)