The Mazda

Our Mazda 3 is the first car I ever purchased. It was the biggest purchase I had ever made up to that point, by a landslide. Here we are almost five years ago admiring our brand new car.

It's the first car Lucas ever rode in.

And the first car he pretended to drive.  He loves to "drive", and it all started right here.

Well, we've been debating lately about getting a new car with more room for extra carseats.  No this is not an announcement, but it's going to happen sooner or later so we figured we'd plan ahead.  The back seat of the mazda is so small it didn't really safely fit our one rear facing carseat, and what happens when we have 3 carseats we have to fit in the back?

We're also moving next week and we thought it would make things much simpler for us to sell our car now and not have to take it with us.  And save some money by being a one car family for a few months, or until we can't stand it anymore.  Anyway, so we sold the Mazda.  I'm not super attached to things like cars, but I was a little sad to drive away without it.  These pictures were taken with Ryan's phone because we forgot the camera.  They are pretty crappy but you get the idea.

So now we're looking at what car to get next.  Ryan has been looking at the crash test ratings on cars, and pretty much all of the videos are horrifying.  Seriously, watch some of those pole impact videos.  They are ridiculous.  Safety and the cool gadgets the car comes with are Ryan's criteria when looking for a new car.  My criteria?  The coolest commercials.  I may buy this car based solely on this video.