thar she blows!

Thanks to everyone who gave ideas for a name for our van. We have decided to go with "Moby." The kids think it is hilarious to pretend they are driving around in the belly of a whale! (you'll get quite a reaction if you tell them they smell like whale next time you see them!)

Other great ideas that I am going to file away if we ever have to get another van!
Vanzilla
the family truckster
Vanapalooza
the circus mobile
shamu
the giant marshmallow

Name that Van!

We are now the owners of a ridiculously enormous van! Yes folks, check out this lovely FIFTEEN passenger beauty!



I am so proud of my dear husband for giving up his CRV - quite a trade for this beast, but I know he did it out of love for his big family!


The kids love it of course- it's like a new playroom, practically an addition on our house!

For those of you who are wondering...
No, we do not need to get a special license to drive this thing!
And no, we are not making it our mission to fill the entire thing up with children! :) Though Eldon is an awfully good little baby, once tempting us to ask, "what's ONE more?"
( hahaha just trying to scare my mom to death!)

So I need some help here- our van needs a name! Our SUV is Bubba, a name we once thought was fitting for such a huge vehicle. Now Bubba is the small vehicle! What kind of name is befitting this huge thing? Josh suggested "the Silver Bullet," but I think that name is much too cool for this ridiculous thing. In my head I keep calling it the big-a** van, but that is not appropriate to share with the children!

Other suggestions:
The Beast
The Keg
the beer can
Frank
b'donk'a donk

Votes? other ideas?

Goodbye twenties... hello full sized van!

Yesterday was a rare treat- a family day on a Tuesday! Josh took Tuesday off to recover from his crazy week last week with church and the new baby and everything else.

Josh and I were feeling extra ambitious in the morning (must have been the good coffee you left for us mom!) so we packed up all five kids for our very first outing together- first breakfast at Bob Evans, then to the children's museum in Indianapolis!

It was a fun afternoon, despite the busloads of other children at the museum, but the drive there and back was.... let's just say not so fun. Our wonderful SUV is technically a seven passenger vehicle, but I think car manufacturers are allowed to test these standards using dwarfs- and dwarfs with no car seat laws to follow! Just getting everyone in there was a workout in itself! Once they were squished in there like clowns in a volkswagen, getting along and staying in their own space seemed impossible.

So my husband is a thinking....
Thinking of giving up his last ounce of "cool" (his CRV) and buying one of these.....



Seriously, can you really see me driving this?
(Why do I suspect most people out there are going to say yes?)