Josh and Becca Thrap and Family

What a day I had yesterday! Fighting children, pounding headache, strict diet so no comfort from food, last minute changes in our weekend plans (which, really is fine, but anyone who knows me should know that I am a big fan of plans and can get flustered when they change at the last minute), …BUT it was worth it. Because at the end of the day we came home in our brand new used Chrysler Town & Country LE! Jacob started to cry when we told him we were switching vans, and then all the kids (exception: Elena) started arguing about who had to sit in the all-the-way-back and who got to sit in the middle-back. I didn’t tell them that it didn’t matter because I had the coolest seat there was–DRIVER’S! So, I’m not uber-excited that our new van is gold, or that we are going to have a monthly loan payment (which we haven’t had for at least a year now) but, our old van was sooo on its last leg and I am WAY excited to have something newer and hopefully safer/more reliable. It’s also got lots of fun upgrades from our old van like: a driver’s seat in one piece, properly functioning winshield wipers, functioning rear wiper spray, working tape deck (with a feature that if you put in a tape but you need to rewind it or something the radio can still play while the tape rewinds! Love it!), working cruise control–destined to be Josh’s new favorite feature! Not to mention the automatic garage door buttons, heated seats, and 6-disc cd changer! I am so pumped about driving to Muscatine today. It’s gonna be a fun ride! I’ll try (probably after this weekend) to post some pictures here of the new van, and the kids saying good-bye to the old one. BTW, in case you are interested, the final mileage on our old van when we traded it was appx 228, 620! It was a good van, we rode it hard, may it now rest peacefully.