In the past month, God has given us a new car!
And subsequently, we got ready to sell beloved Cliff (a.k.a. Cliff the she-goat)
to James, my (Rachel's) brother.
Cliff got cleaned out (even vacuumed)....
and ready to go.
Then Josh and I each needed to take one last spin around the neighborhood. Cliff is a great car! (Aside from not being up for 10,000 more miles on the road in the next 9 months...)
Signing the papers
Signing the papers
Got the keys
On the road!
This post isn't just about saying goodbye to Cliff, though.
It's to memorialize the great role Cliff's had in our lives and relationship...
Josh bought the little red car in 2005, so he could drive between Boulder and Fort Collins once or twice a week to come see me. :)
That fall, he and Ed Eng took a spur of the moment trip out to Memphis...
...armed with pizza and oatmeal cookies...
...to see the U.S. Open for racquetball.
At about 2am on the drive home, somewhere near Limon, CO, the little red car was named "Cliff the she-goat" after a racquetball player... and a goat, apparently.
On October 16, 2006, Josh proposed to me outside of Gold Hill, CO.
He proposed in an aspen grove by the glow Christmas lights, but we took the first pictures inside Cliff (see the ring?), before driving back down the mountain to call our families.
On June 30, 2007, we were married.
And then drove away in a duly decorated (and shiny, thanks to Angela Burrows!) Cliff.
In March 2009, Matt and Shannon Norman, Shawn Thayer, (and others?) gave Cliff a good "forking!"
These are the first ever posted pictures of that historic event.
In spring 2011 (see earlier blog posts), Cliff went on the longest road trip of his life: almost 10,000 miles in two months. This picture was taken with Cliff's Cows in Lafayette, IN.
This summer, we took Cliff on his last "four-wheeling" trip up a mountain.
When he grows up, he wants to be a big truck.
And in honor of all of these years with Cliff,
we celebrated our birthdays last week with the little red car in mind.
Cliff is in great hands with James. And now we'd like to introduce...
...Eddie.
The Cows are settling in nicely, and will be back soon to report on their experiences in the northwestern U.S.
