Great Day

Well we had a wonderful weekend and my week has started off the same way. The girls had their ballet recital on Saturday and we got to play with Daddy all day on SUnday. We went for a bike ride and drove around in the new car. Oh yeah, for those of you who I haven't told....WE GOT A NEW CAR!!!! YEAH!!! Actually, car is not the right word for it....
Tank, boat, singlewide trailer, blue whale, any of these would be an accurate description but WE LOVE IT!!!
It is a 2008 Chevy Suburban. Yes, a Suburban... even with the soaring gas prices. You see my dears, we have a somewhat large family and we do not fit in anything that gets great, possibly even good, gas mileage. We have to have six seat belts and so we have to go big. Now the next question might be, why SO BIG.....BUT in fact this new ride of ours gets better gas mileage than Chad's old tahoe AND we have more space. With both of our cars over 100k miles (Chad's close to 200k), the new car will be what we travel in so it not only needs to fit us, but all of our superfluous STUFF as well. Chad does not have to continually take the seats in and out any time we want to ride with him AND we get to park my van each weekend and ride with him to save miles on it. Finally, it is simply beautiful and cool and new and who could resist that??? It has EVERYTHING!!!!!
Now you hear all of the excitement in my voice, (actually read all the excitement in my words) but we have not gotten the payment book yet. SO, maybe I should post after we receive that and we can see how we feel but at least for now, I can bask in the trucks beauty!
The WORST part is Chad gets to drive it everyday because it is his new car. Real bummer for me. It was really hard getting back into my trusting OLD minivan after traveling in it for Memorial Day weekend. But hey, at least I will get the NEXT new car....