The Jeep

We've always talked about getting a Jeep for the boys.  In the last year we have seriously looked at Jeeps and weren't sure if we were going to be a possibility.  The longer we looked, the more we realized we had to let go of some of the things we had hoped to have in our Jeep.  We wanted a 4-door hard top, and they were all so expensive.  Palmer called us one day and told us that his friend Erin's family was going to sell their Jeep before they moved to Canada.  It was also a killer price.  What was even better, was that Josh got his bonus from work in a year that most people didn't get their bonuses and it was exactly the price of the Jeep.  

We bought it for all of the boys, but Palmer was the most excited about it since he was the one who was going to get to drive it right away.  Palmer didn't know when we were going to get the Jeep. He came home from school to see it in the driveway.  He was pretty excited.

The Jeep is a stick shift and Palmer had no idea how to drive that.  He was dying to drive it to school, so he worked on figuring that out all week. When Dad finally felt comfortable with him driving in the parking lot of the high school, we let him take it. 

That is one happy boy (the other boys are pretty excited to).