Our family has reached a milestone....we bought a minivan!!

I know, I know what you are thinking, "they only have one child, what do they need a minivan for?" Well, Joe's car has been giving her all to us and has finally decided she's done. When Joe was still in Washington, his newly paid off truck quit on him. What was he going to do? He was a poor poor college student, barely making it by. I am not sure if he had his part time job at the bank or not yet. He needed a miracle, and he got it. He bought this 1990 Buick Le Sabre for $325 from a widow. She is not a beauty, that's for sure. Joe's dad was going to pass her up, but Joe asked him to just take her for a drive. And she purred like a kitten. She is Joe's "faithful tithe miracle" and he has enjoyed her since!!

This is her the day we sold her to the garage.

When he told me about his purchase, I told him he needed to give her a name. And he came up with "Linda" (not knowing my mom's name yet). And she has been amazing! We kept saying, "if only Linda can make it until we graduate, we will be happy."And it was around June that she started really having issues and we started to look for a car. Around 5 1/2 years later, and she fulfilled our request.

Joe saying goodbye to his old friend.

I am not going to lie, I got teary eyed! So silly, crying over a car! But hey, we get attached! We name them....

We want to have more children anyways, so why not plan ahead and buy a minivan? Mon Cherie (my 2000 Cavalier that I have had since I was 19, Jan 2001) is too cramped in the back seat. When I am back there, trying to take care of Addie, it's a bit frustrating. So we thought it would be nice to get more space.

And we bought our first car that we looked at!! LOL, Joe researched online, we made a budget and named what were deal breakers. Needless to say there weren't a lot of cars available that fit that list! So we bought a 2006 Toyota Siena for $9500. We were really excited, took her for a drive and felt like this was a perfect deal for us. We have loved her so far! We still need to come up with a name. She is white, has 8 seats, the back 2 rows fold down flat, and I have so much room next to Addie who sits in the middle of the row. It's wonderful!!

Well, and just to add some more fun,

Promoted to Big Sister!! 2+2=4

We are expecting another baby!! LOL, Joe and I found out June 26th, our 4 year anniversary! Anyways, we are so excited. Addie has been a tremendous joy for us. We want to have around 4 kids, so we thought why wait? It would be fun to have them close in age. And that way we have a few more years to plan the next 2, in case one of them is a handful. And because people have already guessed/found out we were pregnant, I thought why not just add a post here.

This is the shirt that I made to share the news the weekend of the Fourth. I thought it was a fun idea, but it didn't land that well. LOL, I needed to pick of the supplies for the shirt when we headed to town,but that weekend was when we were going to Arimo. So when we went shopping for the supplies, I told mom I was just working on a project. I put it together Monday night, so I could let it dry for in the morning. Well dad had already headed out to work by the time we got up. So I thought, well, we will put it on Wednesday so the Bare's can join in the fun too. But I accidentally grabbed it Tuesday instead of a plain white shirt to put on under her swimming suit. Stephanie was there, ok, so I folded it back up and asked her to give it to Joe and he would get me another white shirt.

I was not there, but I guess she took it to Joe, and held it up wondering why this shirt wouldn't work. A conversation later, and she knew our secret. Oh well, we still wanted to do it. So Wednesday morning I put Addie in it and gave her to mom. She commented on it being the shirt I made, said it was cute, and nothing more. Seriously!? That's all we get! So I said, "Mom, if Addie is being promoted to Big Sister, what does that mean?" Then it clicked!! Like I said, it didn't land very well. But we tried! And Rachel had to admit that she saw it in Arimo in our room when she went to grab something. SO our secret wasn't so much of a secret by then.

Surprise, we are expecting March 6th!! Stay tuned for further developments!!