Give Thanks: Day 6~ Cars

My mother-in-law, Marcia, described cars so perfectly. She said isn't a car weird. It is like sitting in a recliner in a box that takes you wherever you want to go and you can listen to music and eat with little noise.

I have had several cars over the years and I am extremely thankful for all of them. Some of them built character (my first car!) and all of them have many memories attached. I am grateful that they get me from point A to point B and make my life so much easier!

Here is a little history of my life through cars!

When I was 15 I learned to drive in the "Bini Bus" ~ a 1992 Ford Econoline 12 passenger van. My parents had 5 kids and generally drove the neighborhood around. You can imagine I was really popular when it was time to take kids to away football games on Friday nights. We could really pile in here...



When I turned 16 my great-grandmother decided she was too old to drive so I inherited her 1984 (the year I was born) Ford LTD...This thing was BRIGHT blue with a white top. My parents upgraded the dial radio to a CD player for my birthday. This was the Morgan-Mobile also called the LaBamba:



A year later the LaBamba died and I got my dad's hand-me down 1989 Nissan Maxima, until the clutch blew while I was driving with a cast on my left leg (which I think might be illegal), so that car only lasted about 6 months:



My parent's decided to buy a "NICE" car when I was a senior (of course, just in time for me to graduate and let the other kids get the car) so we finally got a normal car, a 2001 Honda Civic:



Then I went to college and bought my first car for myself. I bought a 1995 Jeep Grand Cherokee. I LOVED that car, but after I graduated the muffler had a hole in it, the windows didn't roll down and the air conditioner stopped working. Phil finally convinced me it was time to move on although I was so sad:



Phil did some AWESOME hunting and found my first "big girl car" on e-bay...I have to say I loved this car too. It was a 2003 C320 and we tinted out the windows and put big chrome rims on it. I looked like a drug dealer, but I loved it:


Three years later we found out we were pregnant and since the C320 didn't do so well in the snow and barely fit a stroller in the trunk we went for a 'Mom-mobile'. I have to say, getting groceries out of the back of this thing is MUCH easier!!!

(my brother took this picture and edited it so it looked like it was out of a magazine)