Our new Wheels!

So, I haven't blogged all week. It's seriously been a very boring week. There really has been nothing to post...until Thursday night. But from then on, I've been super busy and not had one second to post anything. Really. That's true. Not an excuse. So here I am, friday night, waiting for some brownies to bake, at 11pm. Everyone has gone to bed but me. This sucks because I am really tired. I have a lot of baking to do. I will have to get up early in the morning. That's okay though. Tomorrow is my sis-in-law's baby shower. That's what all the baking is for. Anyway, sooooooooo.
Thursday night we bought a car. Just from some ad we saw on ksl.com. I saw it a last week and thought...we should really call on this one. But we didn't. Then when we finally got the money...we looked at more ads. We actually went and looked at three or four of them on Wednesday. One was a piece, the others had all been rebuilt and we weren't sure we wanted a rebuilt car. Back to the drawing board. We came home and I was looking online again. And I saw this car again. I told Matt, we really should call on this one. From the pics, it looked emaculate, like brand new. We called the girl. She told us some history of the car. There were two very minor flaws. Both of which have easy fixes. One of which was that the Check Engine light had come on after she posted the ad. The diagnostic said something about an evaporative leak or something. (We had two people tell us all she needed to do was replace her gas cap) So, she dropped the price $300 just like that. (By the way, the light has never come on since we've bought it! Hee hee!) It all seemed too good to be true but we had prayed and felt soooo good about it. We actually went to the bank before we even saw the car, and got $2500 in cash. Thinking that if this car was as in perfect condition as it sounded like...we would take it right then and there. We test drove it just around the parking lot of Fashion Place Mall. I felt like we should have at least taken it out on the road but we didn't have to. We had prayed again on our way there. We had asked for a confirmation that this car was the one we should buy. Matt and I both felt such a calm assurance when we got into that car. It sounds so silly that buying a car could be such a spiritual experience but it was! We knew our prayer was being answered. We went right back and offered them the cash. She had all the paperwork ready to go and it was a done deal. Seriously the whole process took like twenty minutes. I know I should have been scared to death of doing something like that. In fact, it seems we have made very quick decisions before and I often regretted them immediately afterward. But the feeling was SO srong, we couldn't ignore it. I have felt nothing but peace and happiness about this car. I feel like we were guided to this car and it was saved just for us. Since I have been so super busy I really haven't even taken a pic of the car. It's a 2001 Saturn SL. These are pictures from the ad on ksl.com. The only difference is now there is a yellow Temporary Operating Permit in the back window.



This whole post probably sounds like I am a loony-toon. People buy cars everyday and all the time. It's not that big a deal. To that I say this. We haven't always made the best decisions about major purchases. We have often "gone it alone" and not inquired of the Lord which way to go. In fact, sadly I can't ever remember doing that. We have been very foolish. Over the last few months we have making some major changes to our personal and spiritual lives, and we have been blessed enormously. This whole "accident" thing, has seemed less and less like one, and more like someone's plan for us. We ended up with a newer, nicer, more reliable car then we started out with. And money left over to fix up our other car and get that one running great too. We are humbled. I don't know what else to say. Wow! I didn't mean for this post to get all churchy. It's just what's in my heart right now. By the way, the brownies are done. Right when I took them out I pushed Peanut Butter cups into them, they started to melt. They look so good! Tomorrow I am going to drizzle melted PB chips on top. They are going to be FANTASTIC!!
This post is dedicated to Miranda. She knows why. :o)