Mommy's new ride

How excited am I?! Eric is getting a new car soon. His car is 8 years old and will not pass inspection this year. With all the driving back and forth into the city for work our cars get a beating. Cayden slept over my mom's Friday so we decided to take advantage of our Friday and Saturday and get some things done that we haven't been able to. We decided to go looking at cars. Eric has a few SUV's in mind that he wants to look at before next month and I've been wanting to stop by the Saturn dealer and look at used SUV's there. I've been thinking about trading my little Saturn Ion in for a used Saturn Vue if it was affordable and my payments were going to be about the same. It is just too small having 2 kids in car seats. Cayden's little legs touch the back of the seat and it's very cramped. It just happened that the Saturn dealership was the first we passed.

We started looking around and I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw a bunch of Vue's in my price range. Long story short - we did some test driving, and talked to someone about what would happen if I traded my car in since I was only 2 yrs into payments, what I would get for it, and what payments would be for the Vue. The Vue I was liking happened to be fully loaded and even had heated seats! Well we figured it wasn't happening but we'd just check. We just couldn't afford to have payments any higher then what I was paying on my car. I was shocked to find out it was going to be doable! So a few hours later I left with a *new* car! I traded my 2004 Ion in for a 2003 Vue and I absolutely love it! The kids have plenty of room and so do I. I feel a little bad since we were suppose to be shopping for a new car for Eric & I'm the one who got one all because we happened to pass the Saturn dealership first! YAY!