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Purple/blue color with gray interior 

Introducing our new 2013 Hyundai Sonata. We payed it off! We are still going strong on our debt snowball with this being our smallest loan (obviously everything will be smaller than Nate's student loan). If we can stay on track we will have Nate's loans payed off 2 years from now. It would have been from November but our car breaking down changed it a few months.

If you remember my update here on how we returned a car then you should know that our Hyundai is used. After getting buyers remorse of buying a brand spanking new car we decided we needed to stick to our original budget and buy used. The new car was only a couple thousand over our budget, which was why we got it. Patience is key though because this Hyundai is a much better car and we were able to stay $500 under our budget (including interest). I'm still not 100% believer of craigslist but so far our car has been working just fine so I can't complain. :)

Now we realize that we didn't follow all of Dave Ramsey's advice on this purchase, but we did our best. We felt like because we sacrifice with being a one car family we wanted a more reliable car and not just another beater. We had some mula saved when our car broke down but because it was sooner than expected we decided it was worth going into debt for a few months to get a car we can rely on. Utah trips are kind of important to us. :)

When we lived in SLC Nate's dad helped out a LOT with fixing our car. We no longer have his skills to help us and quite frankly Nate doesn't have the time or tools to do it on his own.

It took us a few weeks to decide on a car. We wanted a car big enough to fit Kendrick's car seat rear facing behind the drivers seat, have a big trunk, low mileage, and still get good gas mileage. We set a budget and went to town looking for the car closest to our goals. It was not a easy task! We are already planning out our future cars so that we won't have to decide EVERYTHING in a matter of weeks.

The Sonata has been a great car so far. We truly are happy with our purchase. We loved Toyota so we will see how Hyundai can compare once we run this car into the ground.