I tried making my blog private for like a week, but was just having too many problems with family members who do not have a blogger account not being able to access it so... no more private blog. Oh well

We are cutting every possible financial corner we can so as to keep our student loans as low as we can. The first thing we wanted to do was eliminate as much debt and monthly costs possible. Getting rid of a car payment was the first item of business. The best option was to sell my already paid off car, to help pay off our newer more reliable car. Jeff got an Auto Trader estimate of 3100, and we were pleased with that because we would only have to take about 2000 out of savings to pay it off.
Low Book Sales called us, telling us they usually like to beat Auto Trader by at least a couple of hundred dollars. We made an appointment and took our car in. The sales person (who was not aware of Low Book's new deal with Auto Trader) offered us 2200, take it or leave it. We were outraged, especially since they called us saying they wanted to try and beat it. My car was in GREAT condition and I was not about to sell it for 900 dollars less that what we had originally planned. I told the sales person there was absolutely no way, and that I would just sell it on KSL. He told me while you can always get more selling it yourself, you have to wait quite a while for it to sell. We decided to take our chances and we listed it for 4500 online. Before Jeff even had time to post pictures of the car we had 3 calls and someone on their way with cash to take a look, and yes 1 hour later SOLD... double the price.
A few days later that same sales person called us, and told us he was just made aware of their deal with auto trader and would offer the full 3100 we originally planned, to which we responded TOO LATE :)
Jeff's grandmother passed away a while ago, and his family was just recently able to sell her home and so Jeff's parents gave some money to their kids.
Here's the good part: With the money we sold my car for and the money Jeff's family had given us we only had 1.26 left to pay, and so we rummaged through some coins and took it all to the bank. Not a single dime out of savings.
We thought being a one car family would be annoying so Jeff found a good scooter for a great deal and purchased that, took a test to get his motorcycle endorsement. He plans on taking that to school in good weather, which will also help us save on gas since it gets 80 miles to the gallon.
We're feeling blessed!!! Things are working out and I am so thankful, all I can say is the church is true and it is a blessing to pay our tithing :)

Whew, that may have been boring to some but quite exciting for us. Now past the boring part and on to some fun spring pictures. Unfortunately all of the pictures from our Easter egg hunts are on our extended family member's cameras, thanks to our SD card that decided to go corrupt. But here's what I do have:

My mother-in-law made matching Easter dresses for the girls :)

The scooter

Katie and Kylee had a fun time playing the boxes from our shed .Fortunately it entertained them long enough for us to finish (with a nap in there somewhere too).

It was fun to watch them. Honestly that was more entertainment than any toy has been EVER