Jor Gets a Job and a Car!

Jor started her first day of work at Osh Gosh on June 4th.

so excited....to earn money!

yet so sad....has to grow up and work.

Terry told Jor as soon as she got a job we would start looking for a car.  We had been looking for a cheap (2000.00 and under) car for a couple of weeks. I had shown Jor a couple cars on kKSL but she really didn't like any of them.  She kept saying she would love a little light blue car.  We told her that probably wouldn't happen and the car would be old for the price we were looking at.  While Jor was at dance camp I happened  to look at the KSL sight at about 4:45 pm (I had already looked that day and there was nothing new on it).  A 2003 Saturn Ion with 111,000 miles for 1695.00 was posted by a dealer.  So I called right then to see if they still had it.  The guys said someone was looking at it but they still had it.  I asked why it was so cheap first of all and then said my husband would be home in 15 mins we would like to see it.  He told me they had just taken it in on trade and they marked it up $150 and decided to just sell it as is.  He also told me the person looking had to leave until the next day and the first person to pay would get it.  So as soon as Terry got home we went.  They had just put it in to detail it but they covered the wet seats and let us test drive it.  While we test drove it we went to the bank to get some money and called Dad Losee and Jake's dad (who is also a mechanic) and asked them what they thought.  They both said for the price we probably can't go wrong.  So we drove it back to the dealership (when we pulled up they told us there was a lady waiting in the lobby that came 5 mins after us that wanted it if we didn't and the phones hadn't stopped ringing).  We felt pretty lucky that we came when we did.

They finished detailing it for us and we picked it up the next day before Jor got home from dance camp.  Terry had to go home teaching so we parked it at my moms and dads to hide and told Jor to come home around 9, that dad and I wanted to talk to her for a minute.  We got the car and parked it in the drive way.  We were our front when she pulled up with about 4 friends.   I think one of the boys asked whose car that was.  The look on Jor's face was priceless and when she got out the van and started fist pumping and dancing it the street it was so funny (i wish i would of had the video for that). She was so excited and kept asking how we were able to get such a nice car for the price we had told her we wouldn't go over.  Then she kept saying "its even blue like i wanted".  It was a fun surprise and I think she will always remember the day she got her first car.

Jor took all of her friends for a spin around the church.  They said she kept screaming and squealing with delight and they said when she realized it had a sun roof she screamed and squealed even louder.

While I am telling Jor car stories I have one more to tell.  The first night she got to drive it (after getting it insured) so got pulled over for doing donuts in the SC High parking lot.  We also discovered i put the wrong part of the insurance card in the car too.  I talked with the police officer that told me "that because she was a minor he could suspend her license for a year, impound the car, give us some kind of ticket for $320.00 and that it was also trespassing since it was at the school.  But he asked since she was a minor that he would ask me what i would like to do.  I let him know it was her first night and she was a little excited.  I apologized for putting the wrong part of the insurance in.  He was very nice and said he would put it as an official warning.  Jor came home in tears and told us she didn't know it was illegal to do donuts (either did I).  We told her she wasn't in trouble, but we hoped she learned something and would be more careful with her car.  She promised she would (and i think the cop scared her bad enough we won't have to worry about it).  I did make sure and write him a thank you email.  He could have been a jerk but chose to give her and the others she was with the benefit of the doubt that they are good kids.