We still have the buying bug! Now we want bikes, yikes!

-Francisco

We are now members of the "Perot museum of Science"

We didn't get to do much since Luke and Sam decided to be on their best behavior. Sam just wanted to press the buttons for the elevator, he managed to push the emergency call button, not once but TWICE! Then Luke decided to be the first person out of the elevator once the doors opened and we lost him for good 5 min. It felt like forever!! I started screaming and running around like a headless chicken. I love the these kids and hopefully next time we will see more of the Perot museum. I think I have memorized the children's section already. 

Life is good.

Francisco

Proud minivan owners

We had a pretty eventful day today! We bought our first car together! I am just so excited about it and want to show it off and post pictures on Facebook but Francisco says that we shouldn't, so I am just bragging about it on the blog! 

We bought a 2008 toyota sienna xle. It is beautiful. I originally said that I would not buy a white van because they look like polar bears, but I caved and of course the one we got is white! But I really don't mind, it doesn't look too polar bearish... Haha 

Features include leather heated seats, DVD, dual a/c, automatic doors, 6 disc cd. I don't know what else... We had fun trying to figure out how everything works.

We are happy. I hope that this car will only bring smiles and won't have any underlying mechanical issues.  It is risky to buy used cars and you never really know, so I hope we made a good choice. 

I still can't believe it is mine!

Buying Bug

Do you ever get the urge to spend money? Like you really just need to go spend money. Sometimes it's clothes, sometimes electronics, sometimes baby stuff.

Well, as most of you know, we are poor students who have very little money to spend. Usually, Francisco and I take turns holding each other back and talking sense into each other when the other gets the urge. So if Francisco gets the desire to go buy something, I tell him, well it would be nice to have that, but we can't afford it right now, or maybe we can find something similar that is a little cheaper...

We are always, (well I am always) fighting myself to not over spend on things that we don't really need.

Right now both of us have the buying "bug" pretty bad. In one day we thought seriously about buying a car and even almost applied for a loan, browsed bigger houses to rent, went out to buy new scrubs, went out to dinner, bid on an ipad on ebay, and tried to sign up for a new/better phone plan for smart phones.

Lol. Thankfully (I guess) NONE of these things worked out and the only money we actually spent was about $10 for fast food. We are planning to move to a house at the end of our lease thought (in July!) and we do REALLY want to buy a minivan and we will hopefully be proud owners of one within the next 6 months. Maybe sooner. Just not today. Francisco does need new scrubs for school, he just didn't like the place that we went to, so he will have to go to a different place another day. We really were going to sign up for the new phone plan because it would be saving us money and we would both get Iphones, but they stopped selling that plan just 3 days before! lame!!! So anyway, we decided to wait until Francisco's contract is up in October and get a different plan which is a lot cheaper than what we pay now and we decided that we would get cheaper smart phones and buy an ipad with the saved money (still cheaper than buying 2 iphones). but again, that won't happen 'till next fall.

So, we come out empty handed. Again. Man, I really want to buy something... Anybody want to give me money? ;)