Just a Little Blue House

the Toyota Yaris

Kellan and I must be attracted to the color bright, electric blue because not only did we paint our two sides of our house bright blue, when it came to buying a car, guess what, its also bright blue! It’s a cute little thing! We got our “little blue car” a couple of months ago, so it may be old news to some of you, but it still feels nice and new to us!

We definitely didn’t have it in our “plans” to buy a car so soon after getting married, but my Altima pretty decided to quit working. It would have been great other than the fact that after running some errands one evening, the engine started smokin’! I got out of that car pretty fast that night. Well, Kellan made some valient attempts at fixing it, but alas we had a decision to make. We had recently dumped some money into repairs and if we proceeded to fix the car again, we would have exceeded the value of the car, thus we started to look for a new car.

We came across our little blue car pretty quickly actually! It was the last week of the year so we think we got a good deal on the car, but that’s what the dealers always make you think,right? Oh well! We ended up with a 2008 Yaris with 25,000 miles on it. AND, its fun to drive ! It’s a very small car, but we both actually would say its pretty spacious on the inside. AND, its blue and cute ! I think the mpg is sitting around 35? An extra bonus for sure. I quite enjoy the car and feel very blessed and thankful that we were able to find a dependable car. Its very interesting making “grown-up” decisions as a couple. While our thoughts were more like, “oh dang it, we have to buy a car…”, it was very comforting to know we were doing it together and that we have each other to bounce ideas off of.

I do have to say this though. The one good thing about the Altima was that it was gold. Which meant I didn’t have to wash it because it just really never looked that dirty! So much for that, blue cars do not stay clean! But it is a great color, so I guess I can deal !