A New car?

We sold our sonata! We are so excited at the opportunity to finally get a bigger vehicle now the question will be what we get. First lets talk about the car selling experience. We got a phone call during an intense speed scrabble game. This phone call lead to a trip to Salt Lake to show a family of Iraq refugees our car. What a very nice family they we're. The Dad who had just had open heart surgery 2 months earlier was very kind and invited us to dinner. It was late though and we needed to get our girls who were still at Grandma and Grandpa Jones. This family has only been in the US for 4 months. One son will be attending the U of U in January to get an ESL degree. They also have one other son and a daughter here. They were such a kind and generous family I truly pray that we fixed everything on the car so that it gives them the years of service that they need. 

Now comes the car shopping. We have looked a little at Honda Oddesy's and Toyota Sienna's and Sequioa's. While we would love to have a SUV we will probably end up with a van as they get better gas mileage and are cheaper to insure. My wonderful father-in-law hopped on the car auction website to check things out for us and we could get a 2006 oddesy or sienna right around 10K or less. He told us the 2 weeks before Christmas are great times to car shop as no one else is so the deals are hot! We are now ready to buy!