Sooooo... we had some issues creep up on us the last few weeks and we were just sick of it! Our beloved 4 runner just kept needing repairs and this year alone we were planning on spending about $2,000 in maintenance alone! Then... oh my the engine started knocking and we were just done. It was just worthless to keep putting money into a car that was getting old and we had no promises that nothing would go wrong even after we fixed up the engine and tires and windshield and belts and muffler and whatever else was wrong with it.
So we did our research all weekend long, looked at good deals, figured out what we could afford, and what cars were rated best in reliability. So Monday came around and we drove down to Ogden and spent the whole day looking for these few specific cars. It was almost completely pointless and super tiring and we were making one last drive through a ford dealership to see if they maybe had any good used cars (that are NOT fords) and almost drove out of there when drew's little brother preston stopped us and made us look at this one car again.
Upon closer inspection drew fell in love! we then got in and drove it and we felt better and better about it. It was on our list of ones to look at, it was in our price range, it ran super smooth (something we NEVER got in the 4 runner) and there were less than 100,000 miles on it!
so after some pondering, small prayers and talking amongst ourselves we both felt really good about it and we got it!
It's a 2003 Mazda 6 and it's sooo pretty! It has everything we wanted and more plus it even has anchors for the car seat which will be so nice! plus we feel better putting porter in this car and not having to climb up to put him in the 4 runner that will probably give him shaken baby syndrome just riding in it.
so first... a little tribute to the fun times in the wonderful 4 runner that we miss
and man now we can show you our new beauty :)
mmm. we love her, but we can't seem to name her yet.
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