Another Car?

If you have been reading my blog longer than 6 months you will perhaps have remembered THIS post about our "new" car.


I mentioned in that post that the black honda was the seventh car Trevor and I have owned since getting married.


Can you believe that since then we sold Louis (the black honda)? 
It's because Trevor hit an air-pump on the freeway (it fell out of a guys truck) and did a bit of damage. 


One thing about Trevor is that he LOVES cars! And the best thing about that is that he is really good at fixing and working on cars. When he looks under a cars hood, he knows what he's looking at. 


Well he knew it would take too much time and money to fix the honda and it wasn't worth it to him so we sold it. 


He told me that I could pick out the car this time since I would be driving it. 
I told him I just wanted something that had a bench seat in the front, a roomy backseat, and good trunk space.... I like my space. 


So when he came home from work one day and I told him I had found the most perfect car for exactly the right price. He could tell I was really excited about it. 


Here is where we learned a little bit about April, and a little bit about Trevor:


I pulled up the listing on KSL.com:

A 1986 Cadillac Deville 

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His face fell.

Trev: Are you serious?

Ape: Yeah! Of Course! Look how great it is, it has the room I want and only 75,000 miles and it's only $1,500!

Trev: But it's a grandma car. 

Ape: Exactly! Don't you love it?!

Trev: It doesn't look very good.

Ape: It looks great.

Trev: No, it's not good looking.

Ape: So?

That's when we both realized that Trevor cared what a car looked like on the outside and April did not. 

Somehow, Trevor thought that the beautiful big truck he drove when we dated / got married played a factor in my attraction to him. 

I think it was a little devastating to him to figure out that it did not. 

I tried to console him:

Ape: Aren't you glad I am not high maintenance with cars? I mean as long as it runs I am pretty much a happy camper.

Trev: Yeah, I guess so. But you really don't care what it looks like?

Ape: I care if it has 4 doors. 

At that point I left so I could give him some time to process it. 

In the end we made a compromise and bought Hector:

A 2000 Chevy Impala

(I was too cold to go scrape off the snow)

It still has my grandma elements with a bench-seat, a wonderfully spacious backseat, and a fantastic trunk. But I guess it looks better than the deville.

And guess what? the other day we were driving around town when we were on a road with a lot of construction and Trevor said:

"You know, watching that truck in front of us bounce around on this road with all the potholes makes me realize how smooth the drive is with this car."

I just smiled. 

It may have been a smug smile.

The New Addition To Our Family

No. Thank goodness Bridget is still in my belly.... she has a lot of growing to do in the next three months.

So who's this new addition you ask? Well since Trevor has been working in Provo and myself in Lehi, to save on gas I drive the Truck to work and he drives our red car.

I totally just realized I have never even introduced you all to Tabitha! Last November I wrote a huge sob post about how we sold my Honda, Twanda (and Jimmy) but I never let you meet Tabi our Oldsmobile Alero who replaced her, I promise we do love her.

Anyway back to the present. Trevor and I talked about it and realizing when the baby comes I will need to drive Tabitha seeing as anywhere I would put a car seat in the truck would most likely be frowned upon and would probably get me a huge ticket. Can I just interject here and say, most of us survived the 80's, heck we survived the 90's too and I totally remember running up and down the isle's of our astro van, sleeping on floor, driving on my dad's lap, making beds in the back window. In fact I don't even know if I knew what a seat belt or a car seat was for many years.

Again, back to the present. Long story now getting to the point: If Trevor drove the truck everyday to Riverton, Provo, and back to Draper we would be spending a large fortune in gas every week. We decided we should probably look into buying him a commuter car, and that's where Louis comes in!

You may notice that it is exactly the same car that we sold back in November. Yes it is a '96 Honda Accord, Twanda and Louise are... Siblings? Twins? (fraternal of course, their coloring is different, and Louis is a little more developed with automatic locks and windows).
Sorry, what was that? Why didn't we just keep Twanda? That is a very good question and I asked Trevor the same thing, he said if we kept her we would still be in the same predicament we found ourselves in anyway. And to be honest, Tabitha, the Alero we got for a steal and is a fantastic car.

But now our "driveway" looks like this: So please meet our family:

(and it's Louis as in "Louis XIV" Well actually it's Louis as in "Louis VII" This car is literally the seventh car we have owned since we have been married.) Also Trevor considers his dune-buggy a vehicle because it is "street-legal." Although when I asked him why he didn't drive that to Provo everyday then? He said a semi truck would probably blow him off the road if it passed him... point proven.

SOLD!!! :(

That's right, my dear sweet TWANDA is GONE!!! If you have known me at all in the past 8 years, you have known my best buddy, Twanda. That's right, we have been together for 8 years!!
She has been with my family her entire life. In fact my bother-in-law won her in a work drawing!

I am sorry to say goodbye, dear sweet friend. After 220,000+ miles and a lot of great memories I bid you adue.




But that's not all!!!
Trevor's GMC K5 Jimmy no longer belongs to us.
What were we thinking selling two cars in one week?

Their undrivable conditions probably did us in:

-Sever overheating (Twanda)

-Dropped Transmition (Jimmy)

- warped, blown, destroyed head gaskets (Twanda)

-A whole lot of mumbo jumbo technical terms I don't have the slightest idea what it means but the exact definition is: $$$

(Jimmy & Twanda)

Dear Santa,

I would like a reliable car for Christmas.

I have done my fare share of sitting on the side of the road.

That's not too much to ask, is it?

Frustrated and Stranded,

April