new wheels!

Ahhh...I'm on vacation!! Unfortunately, Elvis's vacation doesn't start until Thursday, but we are soo looking forward to the long weekend coming up! It will be the first time since before Suzy was born that we will have 4 whole days together as a family!

This week has been hectic but rewarding...I was preparing all week to share at our monthly women's group on Saturday, Elvis was preparing to preach tonight, and we got a new car (well, new to us)!! It was time to sell ol' Cecilia the Sentra and get something a little newer and more reliable. You see, we started saving up 5 years ago, when we were still dating, with an account where the bank automatically sets aside our money for us. I decided to ask about that money a few weeks ago, and it turns out that they closed all of those accounts last MAY when our local bank was bought out by Citibank. However, they failed to mention to us that they had closed it, so if I hadn't asked about it, who knows where that money would be now!!

After wrestling with bank a bit, we finally got our own money in our possession and therefore had a bit to invest in a newer car. I spent 2.5 hours in the bank yesterday trying to do some other transactions, and again had to rely on persistence (had to talk to the bank manager) and tearfilled blue eyes to get through some sticky red tape. But finally it all worked out, and we now have a 2003 Honda Civic, midnight blue (not to be confused with Duke blue). We are still looking for names for him (Elvis seems to think it is a boy), so please let us know your suggestions. Here he is with Suzy, who turned 4 months yesterday! Not a bad gift, eh?

We have a couple of new Sunday traditions which we really enjoy....the first is going to our favorite park here in the city. You've already seen lots of pictures from this park, but I just had to share these new ones as well!

Another Sunday tradition is that since it is the only day that Elvis is here in the mornings to give Suzy a bath, he puts on his swimming trunks and bathes her in the shower instead of her little bathtub, and she loves it! The hard part is keeping her from sucking on her hands since she can't drink the water here, but as you can tell from the picture, it's tough to do that!