We miss our buddies,

Our bestest friends in the whole wide world have moved. We are sad. Brooklyn is seriously devastated. She swears up and down that she is marrying Triston and says she will be ok. I am sad for her though. This is her 3rd friend that has moved. I am ready to not see anymore friends move :)

The last 2 months we have played with Dani and her kids nearly every single day. It was wonderful. We miss them. Thankfully we will probably get to see them every month or every other month.

Here are some park and Spoonful pictures from Brooklyn's bday. Plus I have an experience I need to document.

I promised my dad I would document this experience. I really don't have anywhere else to do it but here. I don't really keep a hand written journal, although I really need to for personal experiences. Anyway. When we moved here we got sold our nice car and the car payment :) So we have been a one car fam with a 1994 trooper with 240, 000 miles on it. It has been an excellent car for us, but I wasn't comfortable driving it to Reno and back this summer, for many reasons. Wade wasn't in agreement about this and thought we should drive it to the ground. I think it is nearly there already. But in order for me to head to Reno (I really wanted to stay here for the summer) we agreed to buy a car. So the 2 week search began.

We were searching and searching for vans. We thought that is what we should be looking at. I hate vans though. So we searched and searched. Then we couldn't find anything in our price range with lower then 130,000 miles. So we focused on an expedition. For some reason older ones are so cheap! We pretty much thought we had found one. Then one day I randomly opened craigslist and randomly typed in 2002 Tahoe. And there it was. It fit all of our needs: low miles, 8 seater, tiny bit over our price range, one owner. So we went to look, fell in love and made an offer that thy accepted. So we agreed to meet them Saturday with cash. Meanwhile we looked everywhere in Texas for a Tahoe, to make sure we were getting a deal and it was a good purchase.

Saturday morning I woke up and felt uneasy. We both talked to our parents about our upcoming purchase. My dad told me to pray about it. I told him I didn't think the Lord cared whether I bought a car. He told me I was right, but that he does care about me and my future and our situation and the one the lies ahead. So I prayed. I felt better. Then went back and forth feeling uneasy to feeling good. We get ready and head to the bank. When I worked at the bank they closed at 1pm. So we get to the bank at 12:13 and they were closed. We were so disappointed. Then we spent the next few hours exhausting all of our options on how to transfer our money out and even called a few family members to ask for help. Nothing worked. So we were out of luck. But I felt calm the rest of the day.

Sunday comes and I feel uneasy again. Sunday night I called Jena. She told me she often feels anxious when making a big purchase but that sometimes the uneasiness is so strong she knows it is wrong. I felt better after talking with her. So we stay up till 1 in the morning discussing this Tahoe and how tight it will be making this purchase work. We prayed and felt really good about it. So Monday Wade heads to work early with plans to buy the car before school. We called the seller one more time to see if he could come down in price. Buying it at that price was still over our price range but we could have made it work. He said he couldn't and Wade started to feel overwhelmed by it.

Then one last time I look on Craigslist. I knew there weren't going to be anything I hadn't looked at, but I thought I'd check. Sure enough Sunday night, someone had posted the EXACT same Tahoe, same miles, one owner, leather, seats 8, same color inside and out, new tires, SAME thing...2000 cheaper. No way. Absolutely crazy. Wade calls on it immediately, and heads over to see it. He calls me telling me he is buying it. Immediately I feel peace. I gave the ok, even though I hadn't seen it. So wade leaves to school with plans on going back to buy it. He is in the Trooper and tells me, "I am so thankful that bank was closed on Saturday. We would have spent 2000 more and exhausted all our money." I felt immediate thankfulness to my Heavenly Father for watching out for me. What a blessing.

Also on the way to school the unthinkable happens. The trooper's transmisson starts to go out. Wade calls me and tells me this and I again felt immediate thankfulness. Heavenly Father was aware of our situation and blessed us. The very day we purchase a new car is the day our old one craps out. So funny how things work out. And I should note that I was right and Wade was wrong about the trooper ;) jk

So now we are excited by or new big car. We plan on driving it to the ground as well. It will seat 4 more kids, although we plan to just fill 2 more seats someday ;) It will hopefully be a car we own for a long time. It is super nice and even nicer that we aren't be in debt for it. What a blessing.

So the reason my dad wanted me to document this story was so I could look back and learn from this situation. He explained that even though I was feeling good about the other car, I never felt peace about it. The spirit creates peace. Immediately once I found the car we own, I felt peace and comfort in knowing this was the right thing for us. And now I know, like Jena told me, what too much uneasiness feels like and I hope if I ever feel like that again I will know to turn away from it!

And I realize this was way too much info to share. It isn't for you, it is for me to look back on when I need it in the future :) Who knows who is reading this with a similar situation!

Our kids LOVE our new car. Weston constantly begs to get in it and cries when we take him out. And yesterday after I picked up Brooklyn from school we headed to the car and her teacher was behind us. As she was getting in the car she yelled out to her teacher to look at her new car(I was kind of embarrassed!). So cute how excited the kids are about it.

So now Dani and Debbie....we won't have to rent a car to come see you! WAHOOOOOO!