Austin was very proud of himself for putting together this firefighter costume. He got new rubber boots last night which spurred the idea of this get up.

Blessings

Aaron and I have tried to make it a habit in our married life to not have a car payment as well as a lot of other payments that a person can aquire, but as some of you know that has not always been the easiest choice for me when you try to ,for instance , take off to Greenwood for a day of shopping with family only to end up getting back to wherever it takes (home,Aarons work)to fix an issue with the vehicle that has decided not to cooperate for this trip.(I'm sure I didn't need to spend the money anyhow:)So after a couple of years of me being ready to upgrade but needing to sell what we had first to make it happen without a loan God blessed us last week with a buyer for our '96 suburban that we have had for six years and 180,000 miles. We've known for some time what we wanted our next vehicle to be so were planning to take our time in finding one in the right price range for us. Just within hours of us selling the suburban we got a phone call from Aarons uncle who knew what we were wanting but didn't even know we had sold yet,telling us about a deal he had found. On monday we went to check out a slightly damaged in the front '02 ford excursion and found that we could get it for a right enough price that even after fixing it we still have the deal we wanted. So here is our upgraded set of wheels after one week of my husbands magic on a few of the body parts on the front of it.It is loaded with a lot of options,such as a dvd player, that to us are new and fancy and I did not think we would be getting for our budget even as desperately as I hoped. When you ride as many as 50,000 miles in a vehicle in a year with three(soon to be four)children that is an awesome feature.



I also got a new computer this week with a lot of cool features that many of you have enjoyed for a long time so I am jazzed!