Childhood #2....

Hey there :) So i figured I'd finish my last post now with these random stories from my childhood in Michigan. I SO wish that i had more pictures to put up of these things, but i don't... I'm sorry :'(Anyways, here goes!

Here is the setting.

Sledding with Four Wheelers and Riding Go-Carts
Growing up we LOVED to ride the four wheeler and go-cart around our property. We'd ride them over top of the septic mound (old school, right?), around the perimeter of the house, and into the 15 acres of woods behind our house. In the winter, my dad would tie a rope connected to a sled to the back of the four wheeler and pull us around  the snow covered property. It was SO much fun. :) It was kind of like tubing behind a boat, except with snow... So when you'd get "flipped" you'd roll in tons of icy cold snow instead of cool-warm lake water. Brrrr!!!
Haha, this reminds me of a time I decided to "sneak out" with my best friend in the middle of the night....
Well, I guess this calls for an explanation! Meet Haley...

We met in 3rd grade (3ish years since we'd moved to Michigan), and were best friends all the way til I moved to Montana 6 1/2 years later-in the middle of my freshman year of high school. We also had another best friend, Autumn Swift, but she is not pictured here and wasn't involved in this escapade.

Haley was spending the night and we decided that we wanted to go out and ride four wheelers...but it was really late and everyone else was asleep. Our solution? We were going to sneak out!! Her family lived just a few miles from me and owned a couple four wheelers, so we had her brother and his friend drive them over to meet us with them. Haley and I hopped on one, and her brother and his friend on the other. And we were off! We rode down the road and through bumpy dirt field at too high of speeds with the wind in our faces without a care in the world...
That is... til we got back to my house. :S We thought we'd just sneak back in, no problem right? WRONG!!! The door had been locked while we were gone! Ohhhh crap.. we thought. We considered just sleeping outside or something, but that wasn't too safe without a tent in that area... So what did we go? The only thing we could do.We rang the doorbell!!! Hahahahaha....... Howww embarrassing.
Turns out that my dad had heard the four wheelers and knew that we snuck out. I just knew we were done for... But MUCH to my surprise, he didn't even care! I guess it pays to be a kid. :)

Toilet Papering
So...as much as I hate to admit it, growing up we had pretty cool parents. Sometimes.
They would let us up and go toilet paper one of our friend's houses if we wanted to, on occasion. :) There is one particular time that I would like to talk about...
As toilet papering goes, there was a little "war" going on among us and our friends. One night we wanted to go toilet paper one of the people's houses on our "enemy" list. The only problem? They lived like 2-3 miles away from us. So what did we do? We had my mom drive us! =P
Growing up, we owned a variety of different cars at different times in our life. During this time, my mom was driving a station wagon with a rear facing seat in the back. 
We had my mom drive us (me, my brothers, and some friends) to the house and park 100 yards or so down the road. We snuck around the house and threw toilet paper everywhere, listening carefully--afraid we were going to get caught a couple times. Once we were finished, I think as the result of almost being caught, we sprinted towards the station wagon, waiting with the back door open, and jumped in shouting "GO! GO! GO!" to my mom.

Man... I wish times like those could last forever. I've decided that I want to be a cool mom and do that for my kids too--if they want.

Life will be good. :)