Out with the Old, In with the New

Hey, guess what?  We bought a new car and we moved!  ...again.  But not far.

First, the car.  We sold our beloved 2009 Subaru Legacy.  Yep, we surely did.  It was a sad day but we knew we needed to.

When we purchased it, we knew that it had a salvaged title.  Scott went over every single detail of the car:  where it got hit, what damages there were, etc.  We felt confident that we were getting a good car based on what the mechanic who fixed it and sold it to us said.  However, over the past year and a half that we had it, we kept finding little issues that would arise.  One of the rims got bent in the accident but instead of buying a new one for the car, the mechanic put that rim onto the back so we wouldn't noticed the wobble.  We found that out when we got the tires rotated, so we had to buy a new rim and get it painted.  The A/C had messed up wiring, the blend doors were stuck, the back window stopped rolling down, the motor in the windshield wiper fluid stopped working, there was a couple random squeaks and rattles, (and we all know how badly Scott hates squeaks and rattles) and the list goes on and on.  But the major reason that we sold it was because the airbag light would occasionally come on, and that worried us.  The mechanic who sold it to us said that the airbags did not deploy in the wreck, but based on the fact that he lied to us about a lot of other things with the car, we were not going to trust him.  Especially since we had a newborn baby.

We had a love/hate relationship with that car.  We loved the AWD, and the look of the car...but the previously mentioned things made us really hate the car.  So when Kaiser arrived and we were breaking our backs getting him out of our lower-to-the-ground car, we decided to upgrade and look for something bigger--along the lines of a small SUV.

We looked into getting a Hyundai Tucsan, a Ford Escape, a Honda CRV, and the Subaru Outback.  Scott looked on KSL to find a few cars in SLC that we could go check out and the Subaru Outback caught our eyes.  It was a trade-in at Henry Day Ford in West Valley City.  When we got to SLC, that was our first stop because we both know that we loved Subaru's so we wanted to see how the Outback fit us.  We fell in love with it the second we started driving it, and that was that.  It was a steal of a deal. With the awesome deal, and all the money we got from selling our Legacy, we were able to get an awesome car for a cheap price!

On August 7th, we bought a 2010 Subaru Outback Limited Edition.  It is in fabulous condition!  We are in love with it, and have been since the day we bought it.  It's also a lot like a small SUV.  Very roomy and it gets great gas mileage.  And you really can't beat the AWD if you live in a place like Logan :)

So, once again...we joined the hippy bandwagon, and went with the Subaru.  And we are proud of it. :)

Now, onto the move.  We were living in Smithfield in an old lady's basement named Ruth.  The apartment was good to us because we did get the most "bang for our buck."  However, the apartment was a dungeon.  The windows were so small that we never really got any natural light.  It was always freezing.  We never felt that we were at home because we couldn't ever decorate or hang pictures on the wall as per Ruth's demand, and we weren't supposed to ever have children while living there, also per Ruth's demand.  So when Kaiser came along we felt super awkward.  Whenever he would cry, I would always worry that Ruth would hear him, instead of focusing on if he was alright.  There are many reasons why we felt the need to move, but Scott's schooling was a big one.  When he decided to go to Utah State again, we looked at apartments closer to USU.  

We moved on August 30th.  Scott's dad, my mom, my sister, Scott and I did the moving.  Then the next day, Scott's mom and siblings came over and helped us unload everything and make our house our home.  So we are now living in Aggie Village.  Right on campus.  The apartment is once again cinder block, just like our apartment in SLC.  It is a 2 bedroom apartment that is quite a bit smaller than Ruth's, but it easily has much more storage space, which is nice.  We also hung our pictures on the wall and decorated our house a little bit :)  It definitely feels much more homey and we are happy with it!  I haven't gotten a chance to snap any photos of our new place yet, but you can imagine what cinder block looks like :)  I will post some soon!