After I got home from Jackson, Dave and I got talking about his car, which he hadn't driven for about a month because the heater quit working and it had been cold. We decided that it might be time to try and get into a more practical car. It was hard not having two cars that we could all fit into. So we decided that in order to get a new car we would have to sell the car that we had and we expected that to take a while so we posted an ad for it on craigslist.com and not even ten minutes later I had three calls on it. We posted it on a Wednesday afternoon and Saturday afternoon it was sold. So after we started getting all the calls we thought that we had better start looking for a new car. We originally wanted to get a truck to pull the trailer and to just have the convenience of our own truck but after the first dozen that we looked at we realized that for the money that we would be getting out of our car we couldn't afford a nice enough truck to buy and we didn't want a new car payment. So we shifted gears and started looking at smaller suv's and van's. And I made a couple of calls and Friday morning I got a call back from one of the van's we had called about. It just so happened that he lived one street over from my parents so I new exactly where to go to look at it. It turns out to be a very small world, Brian and his family are in my parents ward and they know each other well and Dave went to school with Brian's wife Brooke. Brian had a couple people coming to look at it that afternoon but he told me if we could come right then he would let me take a look at it first. Dave was at work so I thought I would go and take a look and if I liked it I would take Dave to see it after he got off work. Well, it was in great shape. I asked Brian if I could take it to Dave's work and show him. So we took it for a test drive and fell in love with it. The kids absolutely love it and I absolutely love the kids in it. It is so nice for everyone to have their own space. I think Landon is the happiest because he has his very own seat without little heads peeking in to see if he is awake. We hadn't sold the car at this point but we had so many calls on it that we were sure that it was going to go soon and we really liked the van and didn't want to miss out on it so we bought the van and the very next day we sold our car. It all worked out perfectly. We also found out that the transmission was going out in the Cougar and it was only a matter of time before we didn't have a car to sell. So the whole thing turned out to be a big blessing.
