Ode to a Kia

I came across these pictures we took back in May when we were going to sell the Kia.  Its still in our driveway, we just can't seem to part with it.  We have loved this car.  Jake and I bought it when we were first married back in June of 2003.  It was $10,600 and brand spanking new, with no features.  No power locks, windows, or cruise control. 

When it was just a few months old we got rear ended in Utah by a drunk driver.  It did over 6000 worth of damage to the car, but we were all OK.

We loaded the car full of all our stuff as we headed out for life in Utah.  We would pack the car fuller than full every summer as we would drive all over the country for jobs, since we could only take what we could fit in the car for our four months of summer selling.  Poor Emma would be packed in the backseat with stuff stacked so high around her that she couldn't see out the windows and would have to climb into her carseat through the front seats. 

There were crayons melted in the back seat and camping expeditions, road trips and lots of grocery trips.  It drove 2 babies home from the hospitals, moved us from Roseville to Antelope to Citrus Heights to Wymount to the tree streets to Carmel, IN to Provo to Albuquerque, NM to Citrus Heights to Provo to Citrus Heights to Provo to Austin to San Antonio and now we prepare to say goodbye.

If we can ever make ourselves sell her. 

Oh and we replaced her with a Kia Sedona - Yes, we love KIA