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We have a van, that’s right after several months of wanting one we finally want one. Okay I’m actually the one who wanted a van, Chris would have been happy to keep the car and buy some after market air conditioning. But not me, I’ve been feeling kinda cramped in our little car but no longer. No I have enough room to run very small laps if I really want to. So how did this happen? Well it was not as evolved as the great car fiasco of 2006. Basically I had my car for sale on Craigslist forever and ever and ever. I kept changing the price and the picture but it just wouldn’t work people would e-mail but then they found out there was no a/c or power locks or power windows (all of which I now have) and they would run the other way. I had given up and was about to accept my fate of spending the rest of this summer hot and cramped when one Saturday I had another yard sale, actually this one was a garage sale, it’s cooler in there. Anyway during the sale this Italian guy stopped buy and asked about the car. I told him our price and he wanted to pay $300 less so I told him no. He came back later with his phone number and his price and I told him no again. Then after I he left I crumpled his number and put it somewhere I still can’t remember. The trash? Maybe. Somewhere in the garage? Maybe. So I went on Craigslist out of curiosity or maybe just to torture myself and see what Caravans were for sale. To my amazement the one I wanted almost three weeks before was still there and listed $700 less for quick sale. I called to see if it was still available and if we could come see it. He said yes and yes. I will tell you to my shame I spent a very long time looking for the phone number of the guy with the low offer because I wanted that Caravan so bad. But it’s still lost and I don’t care if I find it now. Deep down I felt like if God wanted us to have the Caravan it wouldn’t be a financial hardship and coming up with the difference for the van would have been very tough. Well I caught some motivation and posted my car once again on Craigslist but no one wanted it again so I called the nice owners of the Caravan and cancelled our going to see it. I didn’t want to waste their time or ours but later that night I decided I really wanted that Caravan so I posted again with a new picture and our phone number. All of the sudden the phone was ringing so much I felt like we were at a telemarketing convention or something. A guy came over and test drove the car and right after he was done another guy showed up. This was so great because it kept them from trying to talk us down lower than we wanted to go. The first guy decided he wanted it and the other guy said he would be on stand by if it didn’t work out. So Chris went to find the Title. About half an hour later I found it where he had carefully hidden it in an illogical place to look. The nice man gave us cash and I could barely sleep with my excitement. On a side not it was rainy that night, he didn’t ask if it had a/c and Chris didn’t volunteer any information in that regard. Is that wrong? Anyway that night and the next morning I was just hoping they hadn’t sold it yet. I finally got a hold of them and they hadn’t so Chris borrowed a friend’s truck from work since we won’t all fit in his and we went and got a Caravan, finally, I am so happy. Also, the people turned out to be Christians and Chris got to tell them about the Church and some of our doctrine. God is so good at working things out. Also, the van ended up only costing us what we got from the car plus a hundred dollars still I had from buying some speakers and reselling them on ebay. No financial trouble. The rest of the money from the speakers will cover the tags so it’s worked out really great. I have a Caravan with a/c!!! Which is really great since we are driving to the assembly, that’s right we are going to the assembly for the first time as a family!!! I am so excited. We found a room for $135 or so a week that is only five minutes form the Assembly. Biggest of all Chris got the time off of work which is huge because that week is the worst possible week he could have taken off all year. But, God worked it out. Praise God!!! Oh I almost forgot I named the van Snoopy. I call Emilee’s big red van Clifford so it seemed only right to name my two toned white and gray van Snoopy. The interior is two toned too. They let someone borrow it who broke the electric seat and then replaced it with a gray (instead of tan) one. Here are some pictures of you. The first is the one of my car I posted that started the firestorm of calls. The second is Snoopy and the third is of my two toned seats.