Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Room for our luggage AND the double stroller.


Shortly after my big sis, Jessica, had her first little pink bundle of joy she bought a minivan. Her way of embracing motherhood, I guess.

Spencer and I were newly married and didn't have any kids to claim as our own. Or to drive around town, for that matter. It was just the two of us, so we traveled light. "Let's never drive a van," I told Spence. And he agreed, wholeheartedly.

Pssst. . . over the weekend we bought a van. Oh yes we did. And I think its rad.

We tried to talk ourselves into buying a SUV. We read about SUV's, we looked at SUV's, we test drove SUV's; and then as a very last vehicular hope, we drove a van. The kids squealed with delight. All their cool cousins ride backseat of vans.

We drove around town mivivan style. We played with the gadgets. We listened to Brynlee's four-year-old voice of peer-pressuring reason. And then. . . we fell in love. WITH A MINIVAN. We bought it. Just like that. Papered signed. Minivan purchased.

I drove the van home. Spencer told me I looked sexy driving a van. I laughed. Then he said that we needed to have three more kids to fill up all the empty seats. I rolled my eyes.

Later that night, Brynlee and I went grocery shopping. Like a broken record she repeated, over and over and over, how cute our new "band" was.

We worked on saying Vv-Aa-Nn instead of band. No real success. But that's okay, because our BAND is rockin'. And we're proud.

For those of you that want the band details.
We bought it used.
A Toyota Sienna XLE Limited.
It's gray.
With leather seats, a navigation/dvd system
and oodles of cup holders.
And since 98% of my readers are female,
I'm positive that's all the details you were looking for.
Right?

Don't we look like van people?

10 comments:

Jami said...

The picture is great and all and VAN people you are...BUT I want a picture of the here spoken VAN....just one....PLEASE....

Rachel said...

We too are van people, we bought our first minivan about 2 months ago and we love it more every road trip we take. Gotta love the swagger wagon!!!

sarah louise said...

Brynlee is right. All the cool people drive in minivans. Welcome to the cool club!

(Oh yeah and a picture would be nice).

mammabug said...

we all knew it would happen sooner or later. I really wish ours had a dvd system in it though. That will be a needed upgrade hopefully soon. Or at least before the next big road trip.

Kali Jo said...

OK, OK, SO I HAVE TO AGREE THAT WITH KIDS THE VAN IS A GOOD IDEA. I EVEN HAVE TO ADMIT TO USING THE COMPANY VAN FOR MANY A ROAD TRIPS BUT FOR EVERYDAY STUFF, I THINK I WILL HOLD TRUE TO MY HARD CORE COUNTRY GIRL AND STICK WITH A PICKUP TRUCK AND AFTER KID NUMBER 4 THEN A SUBURBAN (NO I'M NOT MAKING AN ANNOUNCMENT) BUT I HAVE TO SAY IF I WERE TO GET A MINIVAN I'D CHOOSE ONE LIKE YOURS.

TraciFree said...

I hear a road trip in the works.

Lindsey Lou said...

Oh man my husband will be so jealous you all have a "swagger wagon". We too bought a van over the weekend. With the new baby on the way and the price it just makes sense. I still feel a little odd driving it, but I love to ride in it and Sawyer is all about being able to see the whole world through his great big window.

Jenni said...

You did buy an SUV (Sport Utility VAN)!

Miranda said...

It's official. You're all grown up.

The Jones Family said...

things that make you go hummmm!

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