Elk Grove 'Super Mom' to Get Free SUV Tuesday

An Elk Grove mom will get a new SUV this week, replacing her minivan that broke down months ago.

But Christina Love won't have to pay for the vehicle that she'll use to transport her five kids: she won the first Elk Grove Auto Mall SUV for Super Mom contest, and will get a free Ford SUV Tuesday.

Love stays busy with her children, including 3-year-old Emily, who has leukemia.

"With a child on daily chemo, monthly steroids, and regular visits to UC Davis for transfusions, intravenous chemo and spinal taps, Christina stays super busy," a biography submitted by Love's sister reads. "Add to that the desire for her other four children to have somewhat 'normal lives,' there is little league, tea parties, hand-made costumes, trips to the park, and of course home-school."

Currently, Love and her husband share a car that can only fit five of their seven family members at once.

"What a blessing it would be if the stress of not having a vehicle big enough for the family was gone," the biography of Love says.

That blessing will come true at 6 p.m. Tuesday, when Love takes delivery of her new car. She received the most votes in an online contest run by the Elk Grove Auto Mall, and won a $25,000 credit toward any vehicle in the auto mall. She chose a Ford Flex from Elk Grove Ford.

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