Our little Sarah Beth turned 15 in May. She is such a fun girl who LOVES to laugh, take pictures and videos, and enjoy life.
Saturday she started Driver's Ed. She came home that day with so much new information about driving. She was detailing out to us the dangers of driving. She seemed fairly confident that she knew most of what there is to know!
When she got finished on Sunday her friend Haley had her dad pick them up. We were still at Mamaw Clara's house eating pizza with her and so they just dropped her off there. We visited a little longer and when it was time to leave Sarah Beth begged her daddy to let her drive the short distance to our house. After all, she was an expert golf cart driver and had 2 days of driver's ed. She was practically an expert!
So, off we go. Daddy is in the front seat with her and I am behind the passenger's seat with the rest of the girls scattered in the back seat.
All was well.........until we pulled into the driveway. As we pulled into the garage for some reason Sarah Beth was going back and forth between the brake and the gas.
All of a sudden she stomped the GAS! definitely not the break. We jerked forward and crashed into the freezer which is directly in front of my parking spot.
If it looks like the hinges are broken off the door..........that's because they are!!! She bowed not just the entire door, but the freezer itself, too. The freezer even crashed into the sheet rock and broke it in the shape of the freezer.
Oh, yes.............I screamed. Emma and I both did.............loud.
There were tears, promises never to drive again, embarrassment, and refusal to get out of the car. At least she was sufficiently humble:/
(Emma went inside with Lily and told her not to ask SB about it and not to laugh....sweet).
After Zack's initial comment, "well that was a nice $1000 drive home........" we set to work assuring her that she would drive again and we did love her. She might as well laugh because she was going to be teased for a long time! Zack had her pose with the freezer and write a message right on the freezer.
She was smiling in short order. And planning a facebook post! And what a story we had to tell Taylor in the next morning's letter.
Here are the comments received on facebook........Zack's is a favorite!
And she did pull the car back into the garage......after an emergency trip to Gwen's to store all our frozen food.