Driving Miss Dena

Well, the time has finally come! Rea started Drivers Education today and will get her learner's permit next week. She is well past getting her driver's license, but she has decided that she is ready and willing to hit the road on her own!

She has a 5 week course (3 days/week) and has to log 50 hours of driving time with her parents and wait 9 months before she can get her license. Since she will be getting her permit next week, I assume that she will be driving us (by us, I mean ME) everywhere we need to go. It is a scary thought, but she has proved to be a good driver in the past when we took her and let her drive around the neighborhood before we moved.

However, in Texas, kids only have to wait 6 months after getting their permit before they can get their license. Here in Illinois, it's 9 months, which means she won't get her license until February 2009. By that time she will be well over 17!! Hopefully her more mature nature will help her be a better driver.

One thing I was suprised to find out today when I called our insurance company, is that our rates will not go up when she gets her learner's permit, only when she gets her license. Now, that was good news!

For now, and I guess until February, she will surely be doing nothing but Driving Miss Dena!! Hee Hee!! I am going to kick back and be chauffered for a while while I bite my nails and try to push my feet through the floor board.

Boy, it's bad enough when Dan drives since I like to be in control when I'm in a car. I can only imagine how it will be with a teenager at the wheel!!!

Choncho

Bubsy has named his dirt bike Choncho. Here is a picture of it and in the background you can see (you have to read thie rest of this really fast for it to be funny...) the only Harley that we now own becuase Hubby thought it would be fun to be a dirt bike racer so he traded in his beloved HD for some Yamahas and now he has to ask permission to ride my Harley because it is MINE, yes it is MINE and he can't ride it without permission because he traded in the big HD bike on the Yamahas even though it was supposed to be my upgrade bike because I can ride it better than the peanut tank, but he doesn't have me fooled because I know he has plans to get a HD Fat Boy in a few months, no he doesn't have me fooled, but I signed the title away on the big HD and I will still be riding the peanut tank so I am the loser in all of this and all I wanted was a 1937 Chevrolet pick-up truck but will probably never get one because it won't fit in the garage with all the motorcycles. Hee Hee!

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Bubsy's New Toy

I never thought, in a million years, that I would let Bubsy get a dirt bike!! But yesterday, it finally happened!!

We have been going to the dirt bike races here in Illinois and have had such a good time as a family enjoying our time together and watching the kids (and adults) race their bikes.

This weekend Hubby made the ultimate sacrifice when he traded in his Harley-Davidson for 3 dirtbikes (Troy's, Hubby's and Piggy's). Troy's was in stock and was delivered yesterday. Hubby's will be here in a week and Piggy's will be here in a few weeks. Bubsy and Piggy are going to start racing!! He He!!

Here are a few pics from Bubsy's "clutch" lesson today.