I fought the garage (and the garage won)

This is what happens when you only let the garage up half way on the way to taking Ethan to school Tuesday morning.

I ran around all day Tuesday and Wednesday without a back window until the nice glass fairies came to fix it.

And the sad thing is the only "good" car after this incident was the '72 VW Bug.

Two weeks ago I was taking kids home from play practice when I saw an accident out side of the Wal-Mart entrance. "Oh no! It looks like the same car that JaDee drives. Oh my gosh! JaDee is in that car!"

It was totaled.

A teenage driver pulled out too soon and JaDee smashed into him. The good news is no one was hurt and it was the other guys fault. Now, JaDee gets to buy a truck. Hopefully we will have it this weekend and I can post pictures.

So the bug has been what JaDee takes to work. It doesn't have any heat, but it does have all its windows. So it was a really toss up when the van window busted which was the better car.

Since JaDee and I have been married we have owned a plethora of cars. Here is the list:

Merker XR4TI
(until another teenage driver ran a light and totaled that one.)
Hyundai
(without an engine that JaDee replaced)
Saturn
(the only brand new car we ever owned with our first job in Delaware)
Jeep Cherokee
(good little car. I was sad when we had to trade it in when JaDee drove from Provo to Ogden every day for work).
'68 Volkswagen bug
(JaDee restored it in high school. Mitch drove it and we got it back. It evetually died and sat on 4 flat tires in front of our Perry house. We sold it to a guy who changed it into a dune buggy)
Chevy Malibu
(we rolled it on I-70 outside of Edwards, CO.)
Chevy Tahoe
(Still my favorite car and being used in UT by, you guessed it, Mitch)
Merker XR4TI (again)
(we got this back after JaDee's dad and the Lovell auto shop class got it all fixed and both Mitch and Jana drove it in college)
Ford Taurus
(sold it to my Mom) Toyota Sienna
(the one now sporting a brand new back window) Saturn
(it was like our first one reincarnated)
'72 Bug
(this one has 4 good tires and only needed a new transmission this summer. You know, an easy 4 day job.)
And Coming soon A Chevy one ton pick up with extra long bed, and a full size quad cab.

JaDee also has his great grandfather's '62 Cadillac fully which he fully restored and is sitting under tarps and a roof in Wyoming.

So there you have it. All you have ever wanted to know about the vehicular history of the Moncur fam!

But this post doesn't stop here. Here are 2 stories of adventures in cars in addition to the 2 we already mentioned that started the day of the accident.

#1 JaDee was picking up Ethan from piano in the Bug. They ran out of gas. Luckily it was down hill to a friend's house and Ethan steered while JaDee pushed it. They got just enough gas from them to make it home and we had just enough in our lawn mower gas can to make it to the gas station.

#2 Also picking up Ethan from piano. I pull up onto their steep driveway and Piano Teacher's Husband opened the garage and started backing out, not seeing me. I hurried down the driveway in reverse only to misjudge the snow bank and got stuck. Piano Teacher's Husband had to use his truck to PUSH me off the drift since I was high centered.

I am done with adventure.