Meet Bessie!

We bought a new car! Bessie is a 2007 Toyota Corolla CE, and we are more than thrilled to have added her to the family.

After finally selling our Civic (Chuck) in October, we'd been looking around at different cars, trying to find something we liked and would work well for us for a long time. A day or two after we got to my parents for Christmas, I was browsing CarMax online and saw a blue Corolla that looked great and was actually the same price as some older models we had been thinking about. I talked to Darren about it and we decided to have it sent down from the store in Maryland so we could at least look at it and then decide.

It got there pretty fast, so we scrambled around and got auto loans figured out on the off chance that we were going to go through with it. We went down yesterday afternoon to have a look at it, and ended up driving away with it! I kinda freaked out at first, since we hadn't really planned on all of this happening so quickly, but she's the perfect second car for us and we both felt that this was all falling into place for a reason.

I am LOVING having a radio and CD player again, and I no longer feel like I'm going to get stranded at work. (My parents' red car was having major issues and wouldn't start on occasion) Hopefully she'll stick around for a long time!