My Wheels

It's Wednesday already???

yikes.

Soooo I just love living on a busy road. The loud traffic 24/7 is just amazing. Especially when you're up at 5am to feed your little angel and try to get her to fall back asleep afterwards. The sound of tractor trailers and cars barreling by going way over the speed limit is really just heaven. OH and when it rains it just adds to the harmonious sounds of rain splashing on all 18 wheels.  Then there's always the extremely loud kid that lives across the street whose car sounds like a lawn mower. Damn kids.

*If you don't know that I'm sarcastic by now, we can't be friends.*

I'm not saying I never speed or never did...I mean how can you tame a new driver in her '96 Cavalier that has a '95 engine?! I mean, really!

Well this was my first car of 6 in the last ten years I've been driving, legally.

Before you think I'm a real rebel or something, let me explain. I used to drive on my dads lap, back in the day when you could do safe stuff like that. Lap driving turned to our road driving (basically the lane he lived on), which turned to field driving. So technically an '85 Nissan Pulsar was my very first car. I was a seasoned driver by the time I was twelve.

It looked something like this:

Diamond in the rough.

Leading up to when it was my time to drive legally, I would sit in the car my dad bought me in the driveway and listen to music. If you can think of something cooler than that to do, please, amuse me! Well I was more ready then ever. We got to the driving course, mirrors properly adjusted so I could get that car parallel parked ;) sneaky sneaky, and ...
WHAT?
My paperwork is wrong?
WHAT?

Heartbreak.

Well. The next time I could take my test was in a month. Again,
 WHAT?

All I know is that my step dad went down after work to talk to the driving instructor and I was taking the test on this guys lunch break the next day.

Now I was free.

You need milk at the store? I'll go!

The Mall for the 4th day in a row? Yup!

You need a ride to work? Sure!

Minus the super star parking.

She was complete with a "head unit" and ...red lights in the bottom by your feet. Obviously, I did not add that feature.

Here is someone I found while looking for car pictures that realllllyyy loves their Cavalier



No words.

When it came time to trade that Cavy in (as we called her) I was just praying that it would stay running and the guy wouldn't notice the extreme fuel smell.

Introducing my 2nd car, 2000 Mercury Cougar.

I loved that thing, even though the sunroof didn't work. And I obviously loved maroon?
My friend Mande had the exact car, but in silver. We, to this day, call each other "CC".
(Cougar Club, duh).

Wellll Jane, the ever so "pleasant" lady that worked at  Dunkin Donuts, either didn't like me or didn't like to look in her mirrors.
One day I was leaving work and she was backing out of her spot. BAM. Backed into my passenger side door.
Totaled.
RIP Coug.

I had been driving for a few solid years now and so I thought it was time for me to purchase a brand new car. That brand new car was a 2008 white Honda Civic. Because everyone needs to own a Civic in their lifetime.

This was definitely my favorite pre-momma car. White, tan seats, sunroof (which is now a standard requirement for me), 5 speed...
Loved it. Miss it. Wah.

After some quality time with my Civic it was time to move on.
 Move on to 4 doors. An SUV.
Because....we were expecting a baby!

Nathan :)

So had to trade my first baby in for my first ever Swagger Wagon!

I actually liked my first mom car because it didn't really look like a mom car. It also looked like a Jeep Liberty, which is what I really wanted ;-)

The Nitro worked for a little while, until I got a job that I had to travel about 60 miles a day for. the 15mpg wasn't cuttin it.

Next up- 2006 Saab!

This car was sweet. ...(except for all the things that eventually would go wrong over time)
I had my sunroof back, it was fast (i never drove fast, of course) and it got 31mpg. Holla!  Those Swedes know what their doing...except for the whole Saab claiming bankruptcy thing.

Driving home one day from said job, I got in a fender bender and my passenger airbag deployed:


this is actually one of my pictures

And, they totalled it. Which actually worked out in my benefit. We needed another swagger wagon becauuuuuseeee...baby #2 was coming!

Ava Grace :)

Which leads us to the wheels I drive now! (Aren't you so excited to be almost done reading about my car timeline??)

they see me rollin', they hatin'

The kids love it!
OK, in real life this is the newest swagger wagon:

It's cute. It gets the job done...kind of. We just  pack everyone in.

a newborn, toddler and a mastiff. #brave.

And that's that! Until my next car. Which may be a real swagger wagon. Ha...

(This is the funniest video ever, if you've never watched it, you need to right now!)

Where my mothafathas at?!

XO-SP

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