16 Years Together!
Last Friday Todd and I celebrated our 16th wedding anniversary! We thank God that He has blessed us with this many years together, and we look forward to many, many more years together!
We typically make plans to do something special for our anniversary celebration. This year, however, Todd was scheduled to work on our anniversary/Father's Day weekend. We were hesitant to make any plans not knowing when exactly he'd be working and if we'd be able to do anything. We had some friends volunteer to keep our kids overnight if we wanted them to, so we went ahead and made those plans hoping something would work out. Well about a week or two before our anniversary weekend, Todd found out that he would not be working after all (it was postponed to a later date because they weren't ready). So, we started looking around for places to stay and things to do. We never really could decide what to do and didn't want to spend a ton of money, so we just kept talking about what to do but not committing to anything. Then the week before our anniversary I was leaving the house in our van and noticed that the speedometer wasn't moving. Then I noticed that gas tank gauge was empty, and I had just filled up. Nothing on the instrument panel was working. So, Todd tried changing out a fuse, but it still wasn't working. So, we took the car to our mechanic to look at. We mentioned that we had been having some coolant leaking from the van recently also. Sometime on Tuesday afternoon, the mechanic called and said that we needed a new instrument panel which would probably cost $700-800 plus labor. He also explained about the coolant leak, but I do not know enough about cars to explain what the problem was. All I know is that he said it would probably be about a $2,000 repair. Well, our van is a 2000 with almost 189,000 miles on it. The value of the van is less than the cost of the repairs. So, we opted to not get the van fixed and to buy a new one. We were really hoping to pay off Todd's car before we bought a new van so we would only have one car payment. But, that is not the plan that God had for us! Todd had already planned to take Friday off from work for our anniversary, so we ended up spending our anniversary car shopping. Car shopping is no fun, but at least Todd and I got to spend two days together! And the kids didn't have to endure the car shopping since we had made plans for them to stay with our friends for our anniversary! We ended up purchasing a 2008 Honda Odyssey with 43,000 miles on it. We hope it will last for a long, long time! The van needed some work done on it, so we still don't have it yet, but here is a picture of the van we bought:
We typically make plans to do something special for our anniversary celebration. This year, however, Todd was scheduled to work on our anniversary/Father's Day weekend. We were hesitant to make any plans not knowing when exactly he'd be working and if we'd be able to do anything. We had some friends volunteer to keep our kids overnight if we wanted them to, so we went ahead and made those plans hoping something would work out. Well about a week or two before our anniversary weekend, Todd found out that he would not be working after all (it was postponed to a later date because they weren't ready). So, we started looking around for places to stay and things to do. We never really could decide what to do and didn't want to spend a ton of money, so we just kept talking about what to do but not committing to anything. Then the week before our anniversary I was leaving the house in our van and noticed that the speedometer wasn't moving. Then I noticed that gas tank gauge was empty, and I had just filled up. Nothing on the instrument panel was working. So, Todd tried changing out a fuse, but it still wasn't working. So, we took the car to our mechanic to look at. We mentioned that we had been having some coolant leaking from the van recently also. Sometime on Tuesday afternoon, the mechanic called and said that we needed a new instrument panel which would probably cost $700-800 plus labor. He also explained about the coolant leak, but I do not know enough about cars to explain what the problem was. All I know is that he said it would probably be about a $2,000 repair. Well, our van is a 2000 with almost 189,000 miles on it. The value of the van is less than the cost of the repairs. So, we opted to not get the van fixed and to buy a new one. We were really hoping to pay off Todd's car before we bought a new van so we would only have one car payment. But, that is not the plan that God had for us! Todd had already planned to take Friday off from work for our anniversary, so we ended up spending our anniversary car shopping. Car shopping is no fun, but at least Todd and I got to spend two days together! And the kids didn't have to endure the car shopping since we had made plans for them to stay with our friends for our anniversary! We ended up purchasing a 2008 Honda Odyssey with 43,000 miles on it. We hope it will last for a long, long time! The van needed some work done on it, so we still don't have it yet, but here is a picture of the van we bought:
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