Julia's request

At the insistence of my sister Julia, I'm writing a post earlier in the week. Why?

The Killion family has purchased another car!

Drum roll please...


We are now the proud owners of a 2007 Saturn Vue, a hybrid. We call it "The Dark Knight: the Roja Braun." That's an interesting name, you say. Well, we shall explain it to you.
Our white Ford Taurus is called "White Chocolate: the Juergen Maria." White Chocolate refers to its color. Juergen Maria refers to the names Chris and I had in our respective high school German and Spanish classes; Chris was called Juergen and I was called Maria.
Now "The Dark Knight" refers to the Vue's color, obviously. We wanted to tie in the girls somehow, because we used a reference for us with the Taurus. Using their names in either German or Spanish would be lengthy, so Chris came up with the idea to use Roja (red in Spanish) to describe Cate and her red hair and Braun (brown in German) to represent Lizzie's brown hair. So there you have it! "The Dark Knight: the Roja Braun."

The Dark Knight was too good of a deal to pass up. It has only 24,000 miles on it!

We've been discussing the idea of a second car for awhile now, especially since Chris is at work and school for the majority of the day. During this semester we've let him take the Taurus a lot because of the dismal weather and the cold temperatures. That left the girls and me in the house...all the time. Now, he can take the Taurus and we ladies will have the Vue. We can run our errands, go to our appts, etc. without Chris having to wait for us to get ready in the mornings. Now he can take off in White Chocolate as early as he needs to. The Dark Knight will take us girls wherever we want to go!

Dark Knight, welcome to the Killion family! We look forward to having you around for a long time :)