Spending Money

It's been a big spending week around here. We've known for quite a while that we're up against selling my truck as it has nealry 85,000 miles on it. As much as we want to let it go before it loses too much value the realization that we will have to be making a car payment for the first time in our marriage has been hard to swallow. Funnily enough, as we draw nearer to making said payment I'm more nad more excited about getting my new car.
Here's how the story of this past week goes...On the eve of our first car shopping trip I spied a living room set that I kind of liked and thought would fit our needs. More importantly it was decently affordable...much more so than we were thinking we'd have to spend. Chris and I decided, in the interest of being good stewards of what we've been given, not to make hte impulse buy and to look around a little first. So we took off for Fort Dodge to check out some cars on Thursday and discovered a HUGE rebate on the Pacifica. Huge enough, in fact to bring it into our price range. The Pacifica was originally the car we were wanting, but thought it was too expensive....funny how God provides in His own way....Instead of providing the cash flow to afford a purchase, He simply took away from the cost of said purchase. Amen.
So with ambitions of a nicer car than we'd imagined we took our kids and the money we were saving due to a larger than expected trade-in value on the Trailblazer and went furniture shopping. We bought a sofa, loveseat, and chair w/ ottoman. Soon enough this house will look like adults actually live here....not just the kids.
On Friday Chris went ot eh local car dealership to see if they could offer us something int eh same price range that we were looking at on our Pacifica....they couldn't but sent us to another dealer in their family - where we went today. After an hour plus drive to Algona, IA we discovered that the dealership had no internet access, and thusly couldn't find us what we were looking for. Before I completely freaked out the salesman took it upon himself to use a friends home computer and make some phone calls in order to track down some options for us. The hope is that on Monday morning they will call Chris and be able to finalize things, so as to be able to go pick up my new Pacifica (black w/ leather interior....wow!!!) in COuncil Bluffs and transport it back to Algona, where the girls and I will at some point go get it. Woo Hoo!!!!!!!!! It's been a long trek, but I am faithful it will all work out really well. I am amzed at the Lord's provision and how He makes it available.

The girls have been great as of late. Chris took Thursday and Friday off and we've spent lots of time playing together and playing with friends. We spent most all of Tuesday evening at the Tesdahl's, Heidi and Addie came over here Wednesday evening, Thursday was a trip to the Bargfrede's so the girls could entertain each other whilst we zoned out on Grey's (still going strong if you ask me). And last night ws quiet before all three girls, Heidi, Jim and Meredith came over tonight for Chili, toys and baths. The girls were great and Ella is wiped. Mia, however is happy to watch the Michigan game with daddy. I'd much rather she watched that....the Husker's, it turns out, are horrible.