We got our new car on Thursday. It's a 2002 Nissan Altima, and it's is definitely a gift from God. A man that Rob works with is going back home to Japan - Rob works for a Japanese company - and he needed to sell his car. It was an incredible deal - about $1500 less than wholesale. If we had purchased this car at a dealer it would have been several thousand dollars more!

An interesting fact that we've learned through this is that in Japan most people buy new cars because used cars are "looked down on." Their fear of man is our gain!

We moved the boys' car seats to the new car so they could go for a spin. But with gas prices pushing $3.00 a gallon, we may be moving them to the car every weekend instead of driving the van around town.