Carless

We have been talking for a few months about selling our minivan and getting me a new one. We have been looking the last couple of weekends at cars. I had about a day debate on whether to get a crossover or another minivan. After thinking about one more kid in preschool and the automatic sliding door on the minivan I was done making my decision.

For two weeks I had asked Bryan to clean the car up and put it for sale on KSL.com, well Saturday I decided to clean it up myself and put it for sale. I was thinking it would take about a month to sell so I would be able to find what I wanted in that amount of time. So at 5:00 on Saturday I post a listing on KSL. At 8:00 I get a phone call wondering if we still have the van. I was laughing saying, yes we still had it. This man, Lyle told me how much he needed it and could he come right now to see it. At this point I remembered to tell Bryan that I had put the car for sale on KSL. So here comes Lyle and he looks and drives the van. The van had a little oil leak so we told him we would get it checked out, we were planning on doing that anyways. He leaves and at 9:20 a lady calls to see if her family can come from Brigham City to look at the van tomorrow. At 10:15 Lyle calls again, but we didn't answer it.

I was blown away by all of the attention my van was getting. Sunday after church was a mad house as Bryan went to show the couple from Brigham City the van, I had 3 texts about it and a voice message. That night we had about 3 other calls and several offers. I was laughing so hard everytime the phone rang.

So Monday morning we take it to our mechanic, get the oil changed and the leak checked on. I get another e-mail and message about the car. Bryan calls Lyle and tells him the oil leak is nothing that has to be fixed and he says he will be there at 6:30 to pay cash!

Wow what a whirlwind of a car sale. It took 3 hours for that thing to sell. As I finished getting all of my stuff out of it I got a little emotional. I had been driving that thing for 6 years which is the longest I have ever had a car. The boys were sad to see their DVD player go, but I wasn't so sad to see the 121,000 miles go.

Now we are looking for my perfect car. I had two requirements, I wanted a sun roof and heated seats. Well I am not getting either of those so I am being picky about the color. I don't want a grey or gold Toyota Sienna, which is what I decided I wanted. If a Honda Odessey comes along in the right color and the right price then I might get that. In the mean time Jonah baby and I are stuck at home. Yesterday he kept saying "bu bye, bu bye" he doesn't like being stuck at home either!