{vroom baby}

So because Pierce has been crazy busy lately and driving downtown practically everyday for school, work or lacrosse....we came to the realization that his Jeep Commander was just too much money in gas and not worth all the gas money. We already got my "family" car back in October and while we loved our Commander, we decided to make a financial adult decision for the baby and get a less expensive car (in payments & gas). After a HORRIBLE experience with Honda, we walked into the Mitsubishi/Hyundai dealership to see what they could do for us and the first car they pulled out for us to test drive was this bad boy (minus the fin on the back)! And we ended up getting this one! Pierce loves it and sort of thinks it's a racing car, but I told him red cars get pulled over more than any other colored car so he better be careful! We love it and it gets such better gas mileage!

{my new car}

So last week, we were looking over how much it would cost to get some new tires for winter and fix the power steering that had started going out and then got our car appraised.... and it was not worth anything! We would have been putting over 50% into our car by replacing the tires and power steering and then not even get it back out.....so we decided to get a new car!!! I got a 2007 Nissian Murano- it's in really great condition and has leather seats and a warranty still on it and they gave us a KILLER price! It will last us for the next 5-6 years once Pierce is out of school and then we can a get a new car but for now, this is a pretty sweet car!!

{Pierce & the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day}

Thursday I get a call from my husband...

P: "Hi, I got a crack in my windshield and a flat tire from driving over a nail"

Now, those who know Pierce well and even not so well know he likes to tease and there was just no way that could happen to a person all in 1 day.

K: "hahahahaha, ya right"

P: "no seriously"

K: "Oh.... that sucks. (trying to make him sound a little happier) Why did you drive over a nail?"

P: click.

So needless to say, it was a horrible day for my husband....and he didn't drive over a nail, but he drove over a bolt....a big bolt.



Please notice how many fingers that bolt covers- HUGE.



After hearing amounts of $500-$800 because it is AWD (meaning you usually replace all 4 tires- something I didn't know and was not thrilled about), the lovely Jeep dealership took care of us and only had to replace 1! That was lucky.

And the crack in the windshield= not so lucky- it spread like wildfire across the bottom of the windshield and we will be leaving that for a while until we can't see to drive because replacing those are expensive!

Moral of the story: When it rains, it POURS- but everything works out in the end. Now if we could get a magic fairy to fix the crack then it would really work out :)