New Car!

So, to start off this post I must tell you my past experiences with cars. I am 21 and this will be my 4th car! My first car was a Ford Ranger, what a cute truck it was and I really like it! It was a little sketchy in the snow because its so light but other then that it was my favorite! Well once I moved to Washington, after my first year in college, something with the humidity made the engine weird and it would shake really bad when I was at a light or something. It was the worst! So I sold it, and honestly I probably shouldn't have but I just felt like it was the best thing to do.

Well then I bought my VW Beetle and it was the cutest little car and it had leather seats and a sunroof and it was just so cute for a college girl to get around, and it got SO much better gas mileage then my previous car. Well, Grant and I had just started dating and Taely came down to Utah to visit me so we all decided to go to a friends wedding reception in Salt Lake, I was currently living in Layton. Well we get to Bountiful and my "engine is over heating" light came on. I literally started to freak out! So I pulled over to the nearest gas station and called my dad in a complete panic! Of course he had no idea what to do either! Well I found the closest Nappa store and it's pouring rain outside and the guy told me that my engine cooler fluid was low and I just needed to fill it up. So I bought more fluid and filled it up and I was on my way, well for 1 mile that is then my light came on again! So once again im in a panic thinking that he was wrong, so I called the store and he told me that my sensor is broken and not to worry. Well of course I continue to worry because I HATE car problems! Long story short I ended up driving it to the South Town Mall, to Grandma and Grandpa Lyons, then to Herriman for the reception. Well needless to say I was terrified to drive my car by this point because the light is still on so I made Tealy and of course Grant just wanted to make out with me in the back seat. ;) Well we get to Sandy and we look behind us and its PURE SMOKE! We pull off the freeway and call Grandpa Jo to come help us and bring a car because I needed to work a grave yard shift in 2 hours or they said I would lose my job.... so unsympathetic! Well once the mechanic took a look at it I completely blew my engine and my parents had to buy me a new engine and it went down hill from there. Just wasn't the same! We also had other weird problems with it so before Grant and I got married we decided to buy a Honda Accord.

Well I decided that I wanted to invest in a Honda because everyone I know has said how much they love them. Well that lasted two years and in that two years, I bought a new bumper, my motor on my window went out, my power steering went out, my catalytic converter went on, and my brake light and airbag light were constantly on and wouldn't go off. Well needless to say I only fixed about half of those until I decided that I needed a new car because I was already upside down in it not including the $2,000 repairs it still needed! Oh joy right! Well today we decided that we were sick of pouring so much money into my car that we should just get a new one.

So today we bought a 2013 LX CRV!! And I am completely in love! We took it for a test drive and I knew that I wanted it! We had also looked at Nissan Rogues but decided if we could get a good enough deal on a Honda then we wanted to give Honda another try and get a CRV. Well after going back and forth and appraising our car we were $2,300 in the whole on my current car... ugh! Well in the end we ended up getting a good enough deal that we would not be paying too much more for this new car then we were paying for our 2 cars that we had (we just payed Grants off, good timing). We really feel so blessed that we were able to get this car and have our jobs to help us pay for it a provide us with a safe way of travel. This will probably be my car for at least the next 10 years :) And who knows... maybe some day there will be babies in it :)