++New Car Smell++

After months and months of talking about it, and about two hours of looking (because I hate car dealerships), and many more hours of Mark putting the screws to the guys (because he likes that stuff) we finally bought a new car.  We wanted something with a third row a seats for when we need them...but not huge all the time.  We landed on this:

I think it suits our family well.  It's actually really fun to drive and so far...it smells so good inside!

 Neither one of us has ever had a BRAND NEW car before.  I had to take the picture of the odometer showing less than 100 miles. 

 Of course, it meant saying goodbye to a member of our family that had been there longer than our kids and through three states.  I was sad.  Here we were on it's day of arrival when it was dubbed "Bruiser's Chariot". 

 Here we were on it's day of departure.  Bruiser's got a buddy...who for some reason is wearing a cowboy hat.   Oh--and our Bruiser sure didn't turn out to be much of a bruiser did he?

Time flies.