January Chills

Coche Nuevo

2011 Nissan Altima

This is probably one of the most memorable January's on record of our family (unless Snowmagedon in NJ was in January..)  At any rate, during this LONG month we've all been through a sickness (possibly a light case of the flu),  we've had frigid-- even negative!-- temperatures, big J's car got totaled and now pink eye.  But, there's been some sunshine in there.  Not real, warm, lovely sunshine of course but bursts of fun that have made life cozy regardless.  For one thing, when we were all sick big J got me flowers and took care of us while we laid around.  Maybe I should get sick more often....  Not much to do about the frigid temps but we have gotten together with friends a few times, which has been fun!  And heaven must have been shining down on big J when he got in his accident.  Let this be a lesson to all to not run red lights!  Some lady from down south plowed into the front of our 1-year-old Versa when she ran an obvious red light going 45+ mph and all that big J had was a (pretty nasty looking) airbag burn on his wrist.  He wasn't even that sore.  Granted, I'd given him an incredible heated neck massage that evening that I joke we should charge the insurance for with some amount of seriousness.  And with the pink eye, well, little bug has discovered that eye drops are not as bad as she first feared.  AND, we've even been to a BYU basketball and volleyball game and I started up our community volleyball.  And today we bought the above car--another Nissan but upgraded to an Altima.  Today we had a showdown between a new Elantra and this 2011 Altima and put them side by side because it was such a close race that we needed to see them together.  And fortunately, the dealerships were only a mile or two apart.  The Altima won out largely based on comfort and snow handling ability.  So, a month that is for the record books for good and not so good and beginnings and endings and chill and warmth.  Speaking of warmth.....is it spring yet?!!