New CAR for the Dicksons!

Or should I say SUV? Yes, it's official. I have my OWN car! Wow, at 23... it feels PERTY good... ha ha... let me tell ya. =) Alright, well here goes the story. Aaron has been faithfully and very diligently searching through Craig's list every night this last week. He probably emailed at least 30 people. We literally were google-ing any kind of SUV ever made. It was kind of funny (and a little repetitive.) Anywho... we got many responses, and probably 85% of them were scams. Let's see... "my husband died," "i'm moving to my parents who are old now," "I'm a sergeant in Iraq"... etc.... "We can use the EXTREMELY safe E-Bay payment online so we are BOTH protected"... "and the car will be shipped from CANADA (or Texas, or something crazy)." Hm... No thank you! Aaron proceeds to email these people back and say, "you're a loser." Oh husband.

Saturday morning we proceed to sleep in until 10:30 or so, and first thing Aaron does is check his e-mail. And yes, there was a response to a Dodge Durango in Renton, WA. Next thing I know I'm flying out of bed and driving 2 hours South to check out this car. It was quite an excuse for getting out of an outside work day at the in-laws. But man was it random! The man who was selling it picks up abandoned cars all the time. It's his job. Sounds a little sketch? YES. Well it was worth the drive! Turns out the guy is pretty legit. We take the Durango to a sweet little body shop, of which the staff was 95% Asian and pretty hard to understand. But they were awesome. A thorough check up was originally quoted at $70 and we walked away handing them a 20! Praise the Lord!

Aaron had quite the experience getting two different opinions from two different mechanics, and going on two different test drives. It was a LONG day. So enough of the nitty gritty, we got the guy to drop $500 off his price and we walked away with a beautiful FIRE ENGINE red Dodge Durango! Seats 7, or the back seat folds down to give our little Eli LOTS of room to grow! Has AC, a CD player, all wheel drive and has a tow package (for our imaginary boat we are pulling around)! Perfect for MUAH! We are praying the work that does need to be done will be successful and allow us to use the car for quite a few years. It is ten years old but for the price, we had to take it. I'll have pictures up soon! Right now Aaron is having fun and working hard to fix it up and make it all clean and sparkly for me =) What a sweet hubby.

Off to California we go! This Wednesday I leave to return to The Master's College to attend my graduation!! Praise God for strengthening me and providing a way for me to complete my education. We have plans to hang out and catch up with friends (and babies!) so hopefully I'll have many pictures to post when I return!!