My new ride!

For the last 7 years, this has been my ride.


It's been a great car/van. We have made many wonderful trips and memories in this van. It has served us very well.

But, Bailey is getting older and will be driving soon. We will eventually let Bailey drive our Honda CR-V and Rominal will drive the van. So, that meant I needed to get a new car.

Meet my new Honda Pilot!

We brought it home last night.

One of the things I wanted was to be up a bit higher than my van, and you can see the Pilot is slightly higher up.

I have the next 7 years to learn what all of these buttons do. It also responds to voice commands, should I get tired of pushing buttons. Hee hee - love that!

Rominal is checking out the cargo area.

Bailey will appreciate the window shades during Texas summers.

My van had seats for 7 people, while the Pilot has seats for 8. The people in the third row have to be really small or really good friends though.

I often have that many people in my car for work lunches, so that was important to me.

Here's Rominal checking out the third row seats.

I actually woke up really early this morning, just to go for a ride in my new car. Of course, I made good use of my trip and got Starbucks while I was out too.

Have a great day!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year Everyone! We had a wonderful New Year's Eve at our house with good friends. We had a great time!

I have been quite busy - with the usual stuff - laundry, washing dishes, etc. And now I'm looking at having to return to work after some time off. Ugh.

What did I do while I was off from work? Well, I have to admit, we got into the bad habit of staying up really late and then sleeping in really late the next day. And, I'm not the only one.


We had some snow again - which meant a snow fight. Luckily for me, I was holding my new camera and was "safe."

Bailey and Kenzie made a snow man, after they had pummeled Rominal with snow.


We took down Christmas on New Year's Day. This meant that the cars would need to be moved out of the garage to put the stuff away. Hmmm, who could we get to move one of the cars?

Anyone?

Bailey will be 14 next month (I can hardly believe that - where did all of those years go?), so Rominal has been letting her back the car out of the garage every now and then. Normally I prefer to stay inside and not watch, but I bravely went outside to take pictures.


Almost there! So far no bumps.


Way to go Bailey!


On top of all of this excitement, I did quite a lot more baking - so I'll be posting more recipes later on.

Guess what my car did today?

Look what my car did today! It went from this:

To this:

Sorry these pictures aren't very clear - they were taken with my cell phone. And, not to worry, Rominal was driving when I took the pictures.

It's hard to believe my van has reached 100,000 miles. It's been a long time since I had a car reach that high in mileage. It's been a good car for us, so I hope to see 200,000 miles in the future.