first present for baby

the sunfire has a lot of kilometers. the volvo... well, the volvo has seen better days. mom's got the envoy, so we were in the market for a new car. the sunfire and volvo are both on the market - we were trying to trade in the sunfire, but they offered less than $500 for it! so, no. we'll try to sell it ourselves. the most important thing is to get rid of the volvo and clear the space in the garage... hopefully the volvo will be gone within the next 2 weeks or so.

mom's church friend has a son who is the finance manager at the sherwood park toyota. we were initially thinking of buying a mazda 3 sport, but neither jesse nor i have bought a car before and so we were nervous about being dooped by a car salesman. so we looked into the matrix, took it for a test drive, and rather liked it.

we went in wanting a 1.8-L engine FWD automatic with the touring package, but left with a 2.5-L engine XR model automatic. the touring package was everything we wanted, but they didn't have any on the lot and the discount the guy could get us would be less if they had to order one in. the XR is nice, but there are two things i don't like - grey interior and no fog lights. still, we got white, which is what we wanted. but we got a free tint and remote starter, plus a huge huge discount on the extended warranty/different exterior and interior protection packages.

so here you go baby, here is your first present. plenty of room for you, grandma, and reggie in the back.