We have had quite the week Tuesday Mike and I celebrated our 8th Anniversary and on Monday we picked up our new to us car. A 2004 Toyota Sienna, 69,000 Miles on it. Leather interior, seat warmers, Airconditioning, automatic sliding doors... AND SO MUCH MORE!! When we got this car we had to say GOOD BYE TO our Jeep. The Jeep has so much history and so many stories I thought I would blog the Memory of our Beloved and Yet Hated Jeep.
Let's start at the beginning.... The day the Jeep was bought...
Summer going into my Sr. Year I was traveling for Eastern Nazarene College Summer Ministries Program. Now during my off days (one afternoon a week) I would call Mike well... One week Mike inquires saying he's thinking about buying a car. I personally didn't think he was serious. Maybe I hoped he was trying to throw me off for what I really wanted him to purchase... YES a diamond ring! Anyways we talked about it, and my only requirement is that it not be a sports car... (I am usually the forward thinker and I knew what ever car he bought would have to last awhile including the start of a family... I KNOW I didn't even have a ring) All this to say I thought we were just talking about it didn't anticipate what was to come...
Sure enough... It was My birthday and Mike was going to drive up to Windsor Hills to see me for my birthday... Oh the anticipation... (Could this be it?? Could the ring be coming??) Well he was late getting there and He met me in the chapel. He took me outside to get my present... (Oh the excitement)... And what do I see A Green 96 Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo. Mike proceeds to say, "LOOK WHAT I BOUGHT US" (my thoughts: us? oh there is no us I don't have a ring on my finger?)
Follow up story... So Several months later... October to be exact. Mike has purchased the much anticpated ring... He gets the call it's ready and desides he will pick it up on his way to work. Well after he picks it up he is heading to work in "Our" beloved Jeep. Well sure enough someone stops short in front of him and sure enough Mike hits the car smashing the front left side of "Our" Green Jeep Grand Cherokee. So when Mike comes to pick me up for our date he is driving his parents Previa... And that Night he finally asked me to be his wife... He'd want you all to know that I said, "NO", but in my defense I didn't believe it was actually happening cause I had waited so long!! hahahaha
Other Crazy things that happened to this Jeep...
- Weeks after purchasing this vehical Mike was parked in the ENC Gym parking lot and when he came out he found that the lock on the Front passengers side had been tampered with Someone was trying to break into the jeep but mike was playing with the alarm and scared the guy off. (yea that was never fixed hahaha)
- Had to spend a fortune on something with the Gas Tank or Fuel Line... (I still don't know just know it was a lot of money)
- Bumper got Yanked off as mike hastily backed out of the Caldwell's driveway. And he didn't even notice until I called him at ENC and said "are you missing something on the JEEP??" hahaha
- Cameron had his first febral siezure in the Jeep cause it was a summer day and the stinking car didn't have AC. Actualy a total of 2 seizures in the Jeep.
- As we traded her in... Cameron's window no longer closed... The Back Trunk door had no Cover on the interior exposing Wires and Lightbulbs... No AC (haven't had that in like 4years) Power Locks were all messed up some doors locked Some doors didn't.
With all these crazy things...I must give Credit where Credit is due...Mike WAS thinking ahead and he did buy "US", OUR first FAMILY CAR!!! (yes I'm tearing up) This Green Jeep brought us home as a newly married Bride and Groom, it carried home our two beautiful babies, and has taken us to Maine, the Cape, Niney's house, Auntie Anne's Pool, Cook outs at Uncle Bob and Auntie Jes' house, the park, and so much more. Who knew that The Green Jeep Grand Charokee purchased by a 22 year old bachelor would take us to so many places where FABULOUS FAMILY memories have been made!
So GOOD BYE JEEP!!! And Thanks MIKE For being the Best Husband! God has certainly used you to make all my dreams come true. I'm grateful to God for giving me, YOU!!
Who knew a car could drudge up so much emotion... If you have a Mike and Megan Jeep Memory Share we'd love to hear it.
