I'm the youngest of my parents seven children. If you ever have seven children in your family,

you'll start to see that there are certain expenses and costs that many other families with fewer children don't get to enjoy.

Those costs would range from the cost of going out to eat.

Just about any restaurant visited automatically turns into a hundred dollar meal if you have

seven kids and you're trying to go out to eat. One of the costs is transportation because

you need didn't want a vehicle

you have three four five kids you can there are lots of options but when you get to seven

all of a sudden now you have nine people total that you've got a card around

and that requires a larger vehicle. When I was growing up all during

my younger years my parents had a 1985 Chevy 12 passenger van. We used that van for many many years, drove it all over the United States, had a lot of

great memories in that van. My dad fixed it up and it was repainted a couple times and

just was a great vehicle for us. But sometime, probably about the late 90s we needed an up needed

to upgrade and so my parents were looking around and trying to figure out if they

could switch to a different kind of vehicle. They were shopping, they knew they

probably needed a van. At one point I have a clear vivid memory of going and

looking at the Chevy Astro. The Chevy Astro had three rows, but at that point in time they put me in the back seat and I probably wasn't as big then as I am now, but I'm about 6-5-66 and I'm not skinny.

And they put me in the back seat and realized they needed something a little bit bigger.

So after a while they found a 1995 Chevy conversion van and bought that. I found it used and bought that and we had a lot of great

memories in that vehicle as well. It was very very useful, very comfortable. It was a great

car. One of the problems though of driving a

full-size van is it's not the most fuel-efficient vehicle. Well my parents

kept that vehicle for many years and when I was in college most of the needs of

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