More About the New Truck

So, now that I have had some time to cool off and get used to the idea of Jason's new truck (and the accompanying 2nd car payment) I thought I should give some more details and possibly admit that I'm okay with it. It's a grey 2005 Ford F150 with about 40,000 miles on it. It has 4 wheel drive (which is nice since we live on a hill), an extended cab that's large enough to fit the car seats, and some nice upgrades in the interior. We got a really good deal on it too, so I guess there's not much to complain about. I was initially pretty annoyed by the whole thing, but I think 90% of that attitude was caused by the torturous process of buying a car. We spent our whole Saturday on it (and it wasn't part of my plan for that weekend)! I was getting impatient and restless, so you can just imagine how the kids were doing. I was chasing, bouncing, entertaining, wrestling, feeding, glaring, etc. the whole time and was completely exhausted. Plus I hate the part where the sales guy asks "What will it take to make this deal." Then we name our price, he disappears to converse with the financing Gods, we sit and wait, and when he finally comes back it's not the number we agreed to. So then he brings in another guy and we tell him the number, then he goes away for a while and comes back with yet another number (still not the one we said we wanted). Anyway, I don't think I'm like a cut throat negotiator or anything, but I knew how tight the payment would be for us so I wasn't going to break. Eventually they gave us what we wanted. The monthly payment we ended up with was almost $150 less than they originally proposed. So, that's something to think about if any of you are in the market for a new car.

Anyway, we like the new truck. Here's Jason literally kicking his old car to the curb:



And here he is enjoying his new ride:



Oh, and the kids love Daddy's new truck too. We've been playing musical cars a lot lately because even though the car seats are usually in my car the kids keep begging to ride in the truck (and play in it, as you can see).