After 4 years of wondering which one of our cars would go first Conor's bit the dust about a month ago! The red 1994 pathfinder had over 200,000 miles on it, no side mirror on the passenger side, burn holes in the seat (it was old when Conor got it) and no reverse. Thats right you heard me! NO REVERSE! My poor husband has spend the past nine months driving up the hill past our house, putting the car in neutral and rolling back down into the driveway! I guess God knew his reverse was going to go when he put us in a house on a hill! I don't know what we would have done otherwise! When we had the pathfinder towed by AAA we were thinking it neede a new transmission and we were highly stressing how we were going to pay for that, but then we got the call from K & A Automotive telling use that the engine was locked up and it needed a new engine at the least! We knew that was it and there would be no more pathfinder! We have been sharing a car for the past couple of weeks trying to decide whether to lease or buy or just share a car for a while. Anyway after church today we decided that we were going to have to bite the bullet and buy a new at some point so we might as well go look around and see whats out there! 5 hours later we I followed Conor and Walker home in our new car! (Its new to us, but its actually a 2004)
We did it! We bought a new car and it is more than we ever thought we could get for what we can pay a month, but God had the perfect car waiting for us! It was acutally the premier of the week! Sounds like a movie doesn't it?!? We are so excited! Neither of us have ever had such a nice car and we are so relieved that we now have a nice and reliable family car with low mileage and a 4 year warranty! Thats right! A used car with a 4 year warranty! Awesome! As you all know Conor and I have worked through school and trying to care for Walker and our parents have helped in countless ways both financially and with child care, and just giving us advice. We felt so proud that God allowed us to do this on our own and not have to have any help from our parents! What a blessing!
Anyway I better get to bed! But I was so excited I had to share the news! Now all I have to do is convince Conor to let me drive it and let him drive my old beat up piece! ha ha ha (J/K he deserves every minute of being behind that wheel under that sunroof!)
2 comments:
How exciting!!! I love your new car!!!!! It is so HUGE the first time you do something that big without parental help. Congrats! It was great getting to see you today! Hope we can hang out more now that it is summer. YEAH!!!
Congratulations! I know how good it feels to get something new. And, goodness, y'all sure did hold on to the Pathfinder a lot longer than most people would.
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