Changes

James and I have been doing a lot of talking, fasting and praying and with all of this we have come to a conclusion. this conclusion is going to bring a lot of changes to us but will be for the best down the road. For awhile James has been thinking of going back to school and until recently it's just been that...a thought. Well he has recently applied to the LDS Business College for the Fall 2010 Semester and he is pretty excited about it. We are not sure when/if our family will be growing soon so he feels very strongly that now is the perfect time for him to get his degree. We toyed with night class options and how things would work out but nothing seemed to fall into place. Then James prayed about putting in a transfer request at work to change from day shift to Swing shift. Again after talking about it and praying and fasting about it we felt like this is the best option. So last week James went and talked to his boss and after that everything has seemed to fall into place. The transfer went through and he is just waiting to hear when he'll be officially making the switch. the we started talking about the need for another car. So last week we researched a bunch of different cars in our price range online. We called dealers, went into different dealerships and talked A LOT with salesmen...pushy and laid back. We have been asking a lot of questions running a lot of numbers and basically just trying to figure out what we can afford, what we want and all the other little details. On Sat we had an appointment to go talk to a salesman we've been working with. the appointment got bumped up till later so we decided to go look at this little truck we found online. So we went in and it was completely different from some of the other dealerships we went to. First off we weren't bombarded with salespeople we actually had to go in and then no one came up to us. We went to the little front desk area they had and the guy asked if he could help us. we showed him the printed off information about the truck and said we wanted to look at it. So he started to look it up on his computer when a salesman came up to us. After awhile sitting listening to Journey blaring on the sound system. :p Our salesman (Drew) came in a said it was out front, it was a cute little truck, clean, in good condition. we looked it over and asked if we could get a car fax report on it and asked more questions. Then we took it for a test drive. It's only a single cab so the 3 of us squished into this little truck and took it for a little ride. I drove first and then James drove it. Drew didn't say a lot about the truck he was asking us where we were from and all that. turns out he use to live ion our stake and went to the ward we were suppose to be going to. :p (long story) Anyway it wasn't till we got back to the lot that he started talking about the truck asking if we liked it. Well James and I felt really good about it and once again after a lot of talking and looking over the car fax report we decided that it was our little truck and that we needed to get it. So here is the newest member of the Armstrong family...
James' dad has had 4 of these little Mazda trucks and loves them. It's an 02 Mazda B..something or other it has 94k miles on it and we were able to get it for a little less than $5,000. We are really excited about these changes, they will be hard at times being away from each other so much and all the things going to school comes with...but we are excited.