July/August and the New Car

So the end of July and beginning of August has been a busy one for us. My wonderful friends from college threw a shower for my friend Lisa (who is also pregnant with a little girl and is due 4 days after me!) and I at our old golf teammate Tanner's house. Have I mentioned how much I love baby showers? If not, here you go...I really love baby showers! You get all of this super cute and useful stuff and everyone oohs and aahs at clothes and burp cloths and towels that will soon be used to clean spit-up. Everything I got was so adorable that I'm almost afraid to use it!

Us with the shower hostesses and Lisa's mom, sister, and mother-in-law. So sweet of them to let us sit down :)

Got my friend Kate to take a side shot of me (30 weeks) and Ive decided that I no longer need to wear this shirt as a result

So in August I woke up one Saturday morning and decided that I wanted to go baby furniture shopping so I could finally pick out something for Abby's room. Dustin decided that he wanted to come with me so that on the way back we could stop at this thing called Car Wars, which is basically like a big parking lot full of dealerships trying to liquidate their inventories as fast as possible. Somehow I get talked into going to Car Wars first before baby furniture stores. Go figure.

So my husband also likes to do this thing anytime we go shopping for big items where he acts all interested in buying something to the salesman when he really has no intention of buying at all, just to see what kind of deal he can get. We walked around for about 30 minutes and didn't see any cars that were to his or my liking, and were headed back to our car when a glint of sunlight fatefully caught a new Ford Explorer displayed nearby. Dustin wanted to go check it out really quick, so we did. Unfortunately, there was no info sheet on it that said mileage, list price, etc., so of course he had to go find a salesman to help him. And with the salesman came the fun little "I'm gonna see what the best deal I can get is" game. As the game went on, and we took the car for a test drive, and found out how much my car was worth in trade-in value, and talked about ideal monthly payments, I began to realize that somewhere along the way the game had gone and we were actually in the middle of real-live negotiations to buy this car. Very long story short, we never did make it to look at baby furniture, but did go home with something new.

Yes, I did make the salesman take a picture of us in front of my old car. It was actually a very emotional moment for me because I do get attached to things, and I had this car for 5 1/2 great years! I teared up a little bit when I watched the salesman switch the keys from my chain to a dealership chain:(

However, after about a week of driving the new car around, I've gotten over it

Last but not least, I got my fantastic coworker Mrs. Dawne Carroll to take my monthly side shot pic (34 weeks) and decided that this shirt is a keeper:)

Only 5 more weeks to go!