He's given them each a car, the engine and the tires and then left it to them to work on it with him . . . and being kids they've worked on them sporadically. I'll put pictures and updates of each of them later but this thread is about Terri.
Oh about 15 or so years ago Mark gave Terri a 1964 Chevy Pickup. Terri worked on it a lot over the years but never really got it going; some of the old timers around here still laugh and tell stories about pulling in the driveway and seeing Terri's little girl legs sticking out from under that truck while she was working on it. Then Terri got busy growing up, and getting married, and starting a family . . . and the old truck got put on the back burner.
Well, times got a little rough around here when Mark's first wife left. Mark was spread pretty thin; running the house, doing the laundry and the cooking, raising the kids, running a business and being the main worker for that business. But, Terri stepped in, and taking time out of her busy new life and was there for her dad. She helped in so many ways, taking Gus to lessons & helping with tutoring him, and she took over the paper work end of the business. She never asked for a thing in return and was always there when Mark needed her, she really proved what a good girl she is.
Sooo . . . after I came along and realized all she had been doing, Mark and I talked and we decided that as a big thank you, Mark would finish her truck for her. All the kids worked on it all summer and winter, and we almost pulled it off as a surprise. And now she has a really cool classic Truck to haul her three little boys camping and fishing in. There were tears in every one's eyes the day we gave it to her.
Mark and Terri the day the truck was done, look at that grin on her face!
I finally have a use for all of my college photography classes!
From Terri's first fishing trip with her boys in the truck . . .
