There is a First Time for Everything!

So, for a while now, Derek and I have been on the look out for a new car. We love ours but it is waaaaay too small. For Derek's job we move a lot in the summer and so we need a vehicle that is able to hold all our stuff. So we have been looking around for the past month or so and we haven't found anything that really had caught our eye.

This past weekend, we went into Idaho Falls to do laundry, and we were supposed to be meeting some friends at Red Robin. We had a little bit of time so we decided just to do a little looking in the hour that we had. On Woodruff there are a few car dealerships right in a row and so we went to them. We went to the Nissan dealership and found a couple cars but nothing that really stood out. So, we went to another one and found a few cars that we liked but they were way out of our price range. So, we moved on. The last one we went to was called Stone's and we looked around they had some good cars Derek went in to check the price of a Jeep Compass - he had been looking at some compass's online and so he was curious. It was a 2007 and so Derek was expecting something pretty pricey the guy walked out with him and told him its about 13,9 and Derek was suprised and thought that was a good deal! but then the guy said, oh it's priced wrong at 10,9......we would give it to you for that.

Derek came back to the car where I was sitting I could tell something was good... He told me the news and we test drove it... everything went well, it was exactly the size for the price that we were looking for. It only has 21k miles on it!! I wasn't trying to be too excited because it seemed way too good to be true... We test drove it over to dad, he approved, we showed it to mom, she approved, we called Warren, he approved.... So, WE BOUGHT IT! don't worry it wasn't a whim or anything. But with the money we put down on it, we only have to pay 155 a month... We are both pretty ecstatic about it, and our old car (nissan sentra that derek got for 6k because it was priced wrong at 1/2 off..) is going to Derek's parents.

So, here she is: our new 2007 Jeep Compass!

With plenty of cargo room!

Life in the fast Lane

We had presidents day off and it was also Valentine's Day so Derek and I went down to Utah friday night and had our Valentine's day early. We went to Tucano's (best food ever, especially their cheese bread...its not cheese but its not bread...yum). Then we stayed the night at Liz and Kelvin's where Derek suprised me with BEAUTIFUL flowers (made by Liz herself).

The next morning we got up, got some chic-fil-a and started our travels to Farmington, NM to surprise Terri! it totally worked! She called us when we were a couple hours away and Derek didn't answer, on purpose. He called her back when we were sitting outside her office and told her happy Valentines day... Then we (Derek Warren and I) walked in. Everyone at Terri's work was in on it too, so one of her coworkers called out, "Terri, you've got more flowers!" and she came walking up and saw Derek and started to cry! YAY! Success! so, the trip went well. We had a really good time. We hung out with family all weekend and we even skipped tuesday's classes so we could stay an extra day.

These are the roses Derek got me. They are beautiful, they smell beautiful, Derek is wonderful.

Derek was watching a movie on my laptop and he couldn't see the screen so... he made a makeshift movie theatre. Thats my engineer for ya!

Aren't we cuuuuute??? Don't worry, we were parked whenI took this.

Nothing in life is certain except for death and taxes. Luckily for us taxes at least come easy because both derek's parents do them.

He forgot to shower. he he he
Sassy didn't want us to leave... and we didn't want to leave either. :( But! we'll be back!