So Sad

It's official, Chad sold the Bug.  It really is sad, we've made a lot of great friends because of it.  At least the friends and the memories don't go with the car.  :)

We received a deposit on it about three weeks ago, received the final check about a week and a half ago and the car was finally picked up last week.  It's new home is in Hercules, CA.  The guy who bought it hired a company to come and pick it up for him.  The first truck that they sent was a regular car hauler and because Chad had lowered the Bug, there's no way that it was going to be able to get it up the ramps without doing some serious damage.  The ramps were also too far apart and wouldn't have worked anyway. 

The following day, the same company sent another truck that worked well. The crazy thing is that when Chad was starting up the car to let it warm up, it ran out of gas.  He thought maybe that was a sign that the car wasn't meant to leave.

We're sad to see it go, but we're using that money to pay off some of our debt so that in a year or two, we'll be able to buy another house and add another member to our family.  So technically, the money is going to a really good cause.  :)

Here's one of the last few pictures of Brynn and Chad that we took in the Bug last week:

Family Time

Last night, we all went to a car show in the Bug. It was the first time the three of us rode in it together!!

Here are a few pictures that I attempted to take... they didn't turn out very well but I thought they were pretty funny, so I had to share!!

For Sale

Chad is selling The Bug and is wanting to buy a VW Double Cab truck or Bus.

HERE'S A LINK TO MORE INFO

He still has his Mom's bug in the garage to work on but is getting bored with the Bug since it's finished.

Boys and their toys.

Car Show On The West Side

Yesterday while I was at the Wheel Of Fortune tryouts, Chad and Brynn went to a car show on the west side. He drove the bug there and SHE LOVED IT. Check out her hair:



After WOF, I met them at the show. Here are a few more fun pictures.

My Husband's Third Love

(Or, um, his second child...) Is ALMOST complete! The whole reason behind buying "Kermit" was to save money on gas three years ago. "Kermit" was to be his daily driver. Hmph.

This car lead to he and three other VW friends starting up the Phoenix chapter of D3 (Daily Driven Dubz). They now have 25 members.

Chad's list of things to do:

* Purchase and install new seatbelts
* Fix turn signals and wipers (like he'll ever let rain touch this thing...)
* New exhaust

Chad's list of things completed:

* New transmission and oil cooler (this was project # 1 that lead to project # 4287...)
* Rear body bumper mounts
* Did a complete body overhaul, meaning body work and re-primer
* New carpet
* 1st round of pinstriping by Ol' Sol
* Completely stripped the car down to NOTHING... AGAIN.
* Cut jumbo sized hole in the roof of the car to put in a ragtop sunroof
* Reprimered/repinstriped ENTIRE car including motor fan shroud and new swamp cooler (kind of like a/c)
* Installed new door panels, seats, headliner and 2054cc engine
* Somewhere in there Chad has put about three different exhaust systems on it and it's still not the way he wants it...

Here is a picture history of Kermit (I will fix those HUGE pictures over the weekend if I have a chance, I don't know what the deal is!):

Quick Trip to Tucson

Last Saturday morning, Chad and I met with a bunch of people that are in his car club and we all drove down to Tucson for a VW show. Not too long after we left the house, I realized that we forgot sunscreen. I figured it wouldn't be a big deal since we live in ARIZONA and you can GET SUNBURNT ON CHRISTMAS DAY here, they had to have some at Kmart (where we met). WRONG. I couldn't find any.

We had a lot of fun and we got to hang out with some of Chad's friends that I hadn't seen for a while. It took us about 3 1/2 hours to get there because there were 12 cars total that drove together. On the way there, a few of the cars broke down and we ended up stopping about four times so that they could get them running again. This is where the sunscreen would have came in handy. I looked like an idiot because I was only burnt on the right side of my neck and face. Oh well, it's feeling much better now.

The actual car show was on Sunday and several people from Chad's club got up SUPER EARLY and were there at 4:00AM!! I told Chad he was nuts if he wanted me to get up at early. We got there at 6:15 or so.

I was guessing that there were around 90 cars or so but we found out that at the last count, there were 176!! That is a lot of VW's!!

Our friend Zach brought his grill down with him, so of course, I took over collecting the money for food and Zach and I went shopping. He and Chad did the GRILLING.

They gave out a bunch of awards at the show and D3 (Chad's club) gave out a few as well. The members of D3 all gave Chad an award for this year's show because his car had gone through so much work in the last year! We thought that was pretty cool.

We had to hurry to get home because Chad's mom flew in for the weekend (she watched Brynn) and we had to get her back to the airport (I'll post on that soon!!). We felt bad because we weren't able to drive back with the rest of the group and were crossing our fingers that we didn't break down!! Luckily, we made it home ok.

Here are a few pictures from our quick trip (Jenn - Chad took a picture of the U of A Bug just for you!!):

Mommy And Brynn To The Rescue!

Daddy ran out of gas.

Brynn and Daddy

A while ago, Chad and I decided that we were going to take a picture of Brynn every month in the Bug. I haven't posted many of them but here are some that we took today!!







Does she look like her Daddy or what?!

Fun pictures