On February 15th the girls and I headed to Boise for the annual dance competition. Oakley decided since it was her car she got to drive. (Can you see me rolling my eyes?!?!) I told her since it was a clear sunny day she could drive to Pocatello where we were going to stop for lunch. When we got to Pocatello though she insisted on still driving. I, of course, gave in. She is actually a really good driver for the most part. About an hour of so outside of Pocatello we hit a TERRIBLE snow storm. It was blowing snow like crazy. We passed several cars off the rode and a semi on its side. The road was covered in slush that was constantly jerking us around. Oakley wanted to continue to drive so I said a little prayer and let her. She did amazing through the storm....she did scare me to death one time passing a semi when the slush about jerked her off the road and she jerked back. AHHHH!!! But she really did a great job.
We stopped in Jerome to use the bathroom and I asked her if the car needed gas. She said no, that it didn't. To tell you the truth I'm not sure if she even checked the gauge. She had gassed up that morning so I think she assumed we were fine. About 20 minutes outside of Mountain Home I heard a "Ding" and asked her what it was. IT WAS HER GAS GAUGE SAYING WE HAD ONLY 20 MILES OF GAS LEFT! What?!?! We were seriously in the middle of no where. We were too far past Mountain Home and still 40ish miles from Boise. Oakley was FREAKING OUT! I did get a pretty hilarious video of her freak out! Hahaha. She said, "I think we need to pray." I kind of giggled and she said, "No Mom, I'm Serious, I think we need to pray!" HAHAHA! Heavenly Father was watching over us that day and all of the sudden in the middle of no where when we were down to 12 miles left in the tank there was this little gas station. A definite tender mercy of the Lord. Once we got to the gas station she was ready to let me drive. About running out of gas scared her far more than the snow storm. :) Poor girl!
When we pulled into the hotel parking lot I asked Laiklie if she remembered to bring up her leatherish pants that she had tried on that morning and needed for her long duet with Ellie? We started digging through the bags, and NOPE, they were still on her bedroom floor at home. So we ran to Walmart as quick as we could and found a pair of leggings for her and Ellie that we made work for that night. We've learned with this kind of thing we just have to improvise. The girls danced well. It was a great first competition of the new year. Oakley lost her tap part way through her freestyle and was suppose to be on stage to do her acapella just after. I ran to the car looking for another pair of clogging shoes while her and Kasandra tried putting the tap back on the pair she was wearing. They successfully got it back on just in time for her turn on stage, only to have it fly off part way through the acapella. So sad! She didn't even finish the acapella, just kind of walked off the stage. Such a bummer! She got a 4th overall on her freestyle even with losing a tap so that was great! Such a fun weekend to be together. I love being the mom of these girls.
