New 4-wheelers!

Everyone who lives in the mountains of North Idaho has 4 wheelers. Living here my whole entire life, I've never owned my "own" 4-wheeler. My dad always had one, my mom even has one, my sister has 4! But we never
got around to getting one...until now!

See last winter was straight out of Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer cartoon; The Big One. We had feet and feet of snow and it snowed until June, no kidding. (I always say it was Idaho's way of purging the Californians! HAHA! We did lose some Cs after last winter!) Well, with snow comes shoveling. Now I don't mind shoveling but every hour for months on end?? It was crazy!! Tony works out of state so that left me shoveling thruout the day, then Tommy helped me when he got out of school.

I made the executive decision that this was the year we got a 4-wheeler, WITH a plow. And since we were getting one, we decided to get 3. Up here we use them to play in the mountains, hunt, heck we can even drive them on the roads legally! Now I'm the kind of person that HATES having debt, of any kind. I FREAKED when I bought our house. Great investment and I dont regret it at all, but I tend to be a commitment phobic type person and being tied down for 30 years was a bit overwhelming. I'm so bad that I freaked out when we had to buy a new dishwasher when ours went T.U.

So here we are with 3 4-wheelers. Tommy bought his own. We have some friends who are IMMACULATE and they had a 2001 Yamaha Kodiak 400 with only 2k miles on it. Tommy bought that one. The first one we bought is the 2007 Honda. Its brand new, the dealer had a few left over from last year. 400 Rancher (was ATV of the year!). The plow will be on that one. Then we decided to buy (and this is the one I stress over the most) another guys 2008 Yamaha Grizzly 700 with power steering. It was the most expensive but it was such a great deal we couldnt pass it up. The silver one is the 700, the blue one is my Honda and the red is Tommys.

Of course, I still lose sleep over it. Not sure why. We can afford the payments for 2. The only bills we have is a house payment and the Jeep. Like I said, I hate being in debt and I'm a commitphobic. But we are already having a blast on them. Tony and I each take one of the little kids and off we go. Now if we can only get our elk this year!