Goodbye Subaru. Hello Honda.

When we found out we were adding the twins to our family, everyone asked "When are you getting a minivan?" I confidently said "NEVER!" I never pictured us as a minivan family. Now, there is nothing wrong with a minivan....I understand why people get them. But, I just never saw MYSELF driving a minivan. They are so big.....I know, that is the appeal. 

When we found out we were having twins we seriously had just paid off our Subaru. That was supposed to be our family car! I loved my Subaru. But last summer, the air conditioner started acting crazy. We took it in to the dealership to see if they could fix it. They couldn't find out exactly what was wrong with it. The dealership said that they could replace a part that MIGHT fix it and it would cost around $1000. Whoa! $1000 isn't chump change, especially when you have three kiddos. And it would have been a different story if they knew for sure that this $1000 part would fix our air conditioner for sure. But when your car has almost 180,000 miles on it and you've had it for 7 years it might be time to move on. 

Is it weird to be attached to a car? Last year when we got rid of the Toyota I thought that was hard. It was the first car I bought with my own moola! I was proud that I was able to do that on my own.....well with my dad as a co-signer! But I think that it was harder to get rid of the Subaru. There is a commercial out right now that sums it up pretty well.

Georgia grew up in the back of our Subaru. We bought it a couple of months before she was born. We brought her home from the hospital in that car. We took family vacations in that car. I cried my eyes out when my baby died in that car. We went to dance class in that car. We sang songs in that car. Nolan and I went on dates in that car. We squeezed Georgia and the twins in the back of that car. We had a lot of memories in the back of that car! Sniff, sniff! Excuse me while I wipe my eyes!

When we would talk about getting a new car and I would joke with Nolan and tell him that he would have to get me one of those on the commercial with the panther and fire works going off.

And whatayaknow, that's what we got. Now, I don't have a with panther mine....just a double stroller!