Our New Baby

As many of you know, I have been complaining about needing to get a bigger car since we installed Nolan's car seat in my Honda Civic (A.K.A. Pretty). Well after our last road trip Pat finally agreed with me and we started our car search. Our criteria was a car that we could grow into knowing/hoping that there will be another baby Clingman in a few years. High safety ratings, low miles, capable of towing a small boat (for future plans), and under $15,000...big shoes to fill. The problem is I'm on Team Honda and Pat is on Team Toyota. So we narrowed it down to a Honda Pilot, Toyota Highlander or a Toyota Forerunner and decided whichever car we could get the best deal on would be ours. Well we went to all the dealerships in the Seattle/Northwest region and just couldn't find our perfect match. This is when Pat turned to EBay. I'm not a huge fan of buying things from the Internet as I like to touch, inspect and analyze every detail before I purchase but there were some great deals on there! After a few weeks of bidding and losing we finally won! Unfortunately it was in Cleveland, Ohio. So Pat flew out early Friday morning and returned early Tuesday morning with this...It's a 2006 Honda Pilot EX, it has 40,000 (or at least it did when we first bought it, after the drive from Cleveland it's closer to 43,000), has seating for 8, keyless entry and my favorite new thing, radio controls on the steering wheel! We are really happy with it, I started driving it around town today and it is a TANK, it will definitely take some time for me to get used to this beefy vehicle. Here is our full Honda lineup, Pretty in the background and new car (name TBD) in the forefront. Our family is complete...for now!