Sunday, February 3, 2008

Baby's Got New Wheels!

Thanks to the grace of God, and the amazing finance guy at Luther Honda in Hopkins, Minnesota, we have another new addition to our family. Meet the 2005 Chrysler Town and Country "MINI-VAN" ...that's right, we are now the proud owners of a mini-van!


Of course this excitment could never match the excitment of our first addition to the family...but we are none-the-less very excited and still a bit in shock (not sticker shock), but good old fashioned "I can't believe that really just happened" shock.

We started out Saturday morning thinking we would just "go look" and perhaps ask a few questions for clarification. Then we decided..."maybe we should wait"..then we thought, "ok...but we know we're not going to get one today"..."we don't have enough down"..."we don't have the proper paperwork together"...etc..etc. Finally we decided to head to the dealership and just get our questions answered. You can guess the rest of the story. Before we knew it, they were handing us the keys and saying "Congratulations". Except this time (thanks to our having both worked at a Honda Dealership in Tennessee) we knew what we wanted and how to not get taken. Yes, we got exactly the deal and the price we wanted.

We are still in a period of serious disbelief. We are LOVIN' the vehicle and now baby Lily can travel in style with all her gear. Now we just need to make four more friends, or have four more kids.

Sunday, January 20, 2008

Mom & Dad Portraits

During their recent visit to Minnesota, Tom shot these portraits of Mom & Dad Archibald. He's been keeping them a secret and not sharing them because they are being given as Christmas Gifts. Though they haven't actually been given yet (they're on the way), we figured we would share them here. Don't worry, there are more Lillianna videos on the way too.