my little rav 4

i wrote last week about the impending changes necessary for welcoming a third kid to our family.  and how for maybe the past two months, i've been getting so nostalgic about letting go of replacing my rav 4 with another car.  i'm a sentimental person to begin with and it's a fun car to drive and it's got a lot of memories.  well... saturday morning, honey sold it to a craigslist buyer while i was at steph's baby shower and that night, we bought a new minivan.  it's super nice, but of course i'm still missing the familiarity of the rav 4... so here's a post with some crappy pictures i took of it while cleaning it out thursday evening...

first, i had to get real life pictures of it.

the tassels in the top left are from our graduation hats (two yellow from byu and one black from stanford), my makeup in the ziploc bag in the cupholder, my lipglosses in the other little compartment, and the passenger side filled with library books, mail and grocery store ads, my purse, and abigail's preschool tote bag.  typical thursday.

my everyday view.

the two carseats in the back with toys.

and the mess underneath the carseats.  i just gave these seats a scrub down two months ago... that's how fast and easily they get dirty.  that's why honey kept insisting that i needed to get a car that wasn't very nice... because our kids would trash it.  but that's also why i told honey i needed a dark color car that had leather seats... so it wouldn't look dirty so fast.  i won.  ; )  although i will say that honey didn't really put up a fight at all after i explained the reasoning of it all.  he's a good guy.

the car looked so much better after removed all the carseats and kid crap and it felt so much bigger too.  honey was shocked at how much better it looked and was even pretending to be hesitant about selling it.

but that wasn't an option.  and in the daylight, it showed more of its true colors.  ha.

it served us well.  and a nice little couple bought it for their teenagers to share so i'm sure it'll serve them well too.

so long to my little rav 4...