So we had been planning on purchasing a van for awhile, and with Madelyn's due date getting so close, we thought we would check out minivan's. I ended up stopping by Roseville Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep on Friday (before Madelyn was born) and had Joe quote me a price for a basic Grand Caravan Crew, and appraising my Golf TDI '05.
The quote for the Crew was good, a couple hundred over Edmund's invoice, the quote for my Golf was a bit less than I thought it should be ($7500). Long story short, we ended up going back on Saturday and buying the van for the price he offered, and $9000 for my trade it. We received $8000 in cash for the trade and financed the van at 0%. I like having the money to invest, and not feeling like I should pay off the car sooner rather than later :)
A happy note as well is that, I had signed up to do a test drive when I went to look at the van, and I received an email for a $50 gift card if I went through with it. We received the gift card today :) So don't just delete those emails.
We have had a very exciting two weeks, we brought home our new baby girl last Wednesday! Jen had a super fast labor we were at the hospital at 05:30 and Madelyn was born at 06:08. Wow! Everyone is doing really well :)