We Did It!?!?

We did it. We became a, not one, but a two Mini van family. Yes, we traded in Denita (our Toyota Camry). Old blue was a faithful vehicle for 8 years but the family grew and Denita (Megan named it when she was 3 yrs old) did not. We found out when our current van was in the shop that a family of six was a tight fit. We had been talking about it for awhile and finally did some serious shopping the last 2 weeks.

Friday Janelle and I test drove a Dodge Caravan, Town & Country, and a Toyota Sienna. We decided on a Caravan and jokingly made a comment about the vehicle in the showroom to the sales person. He asked "what do we have to do to get you to drive it home tonight?" We made a low offer and he joked he couldn't do that. This was at about 6:30pm and they closed at 6:00pm. We left there at 9:00 pm in a new Dodge Caravan with a H*ll of a deal. The secret is to keep the sales person, the sales manager, and the finance person all 3 hours late on a Friday night. We think they finally got to the point of "we just want this over with".

The van is a very nice model with all the features we wanted and a few "bells and whistles" extra. I will post some pictures later.

Any ideas on a name?

Gatorade Boy

Jordan was playing down stairs alone when Janelle heard him crying and calling for help. Janelle rushed down to find him stuck in a Gatorade container (the kind you see being dumped on coaches after a big win). Jordan had sat down in the container and found that he could not move. Janelle, with a smile on her face, reached down and picked him up but he was stuck. She tried again but found that she could not get him out all the while Jordan continued to cry. Realizing this was not going to be as easy as expected Janelle thought she better calm him down so she picked up the container and held it(him) before continuing(stop here and paint yourself a visual image of this). After he was calmed down Janelle worked hard and after several minutes was finally able to release him. Think of that the next time your team wins a big game.

Proud Dad

A few weeks ago I was ironing a shirt while watching TV and Megan came into the room. As she entered a commercial for a new show "My Dad is Better than Your Dad" came on showing Dads competing in different events. Megan watched the commercial and when it was done said, "Dad, you should be in that show, you'd "rock"." I couldn't leave the room for several hours because my head was too big.