Our Adventure

9 Days

5 States

2300 Miles with the Trailer in tow

(these took forever to load and are NOT in order, ugghhh)

New Mexico had neat rock formations.
Ice Cream desserts at the RV park in Gallup, NM. Route 66, baby!

Shiprock? I think.

An old mansion in Colorado.

Beautiful country in Colorado.

Our nightly visitor at Grandma and Grandpa's house in Arizona.

Our picnic visitor at the Petrified Forest/Painted Desert in Arizona.

Petrified Wood

Posers!

Painted Desert. Beautiful.

Chinese lunch with Japanese Grandma Yoshi! :)

Visiting with Grandpa Charlie.

Backyard visitors. Baby hummingbirds..the nest was made of spider web!

Jumbo Cactus!

The fruit of the jumbo cactus!

Interesting rocks in Utah!

You could see forever in Arizona!

Saying "good bye" to the great grandparents :(

Grand Canyon North Rim.

Run away Myles, the story of the day. Gave me panic attacks.

This was a great time. I would do it again in a heartbeat. Pictures are taking too long to load, so this is just a sampling of our trip. My baby turns 3 and school starts in a few weeks, where did the summer go???

Awww....Spring!

It is official...I am tired of blogger. Ugghhh...I had a lovely post to go with these pictures, and it is gone. Grrr... So, here is the short version re-typed.

Today I started Week 3 of my workout. I love it! Next week I get to go have a pedi! I had set up rewards for myself before I became so addicted, so now they are just bonuses. I have had tons of support from my friends, and it makes updating fun. Hopefully I can post some before/after pictures some day soon.

Grady spent the past week in Atlanta for training, so yesterday morning we headed to Thermopolis for some fun in the park. I was so happy to be out of the house. Here's a few pictures I wanted to share:

We practiced ball. Stuart starts Tball in June. He loves it!
Grady and Stu on top of the buffalo rock (see below). I LUV this picture!

There is the whole picture!

After lunch, we fed the goldfish our sandwich crusts.

Walking out onto the swinging bridge. I went out until Grady started swinging it...then I was back on solid ground. Such a whimp, I am.

We have more, but they are taking so long to upload, and my babes are home. I hope spring is making memories for all of you too!

Finishing Uppppp.....

In hopes of keeping with a new thought that I have had, I am attempting to *FINISH* projects that I start! (GASP HERE!) I started painting our spindals white last year....yup....remember when we textured the walls and ceiling and painted the trim right along with them? I primed the spindals and was excited for the brightness...but.....never did get around to putting paint on them. Well, Friday I got one coat on!

This came *after* I had started a new project on Thursday. YUP, I am BACKWARDS.... I started pulling the oh-so-lovely-totally-old-ladylike green carpet off of the front porch. I was out there all afternoon with the putty knives scraping away. Friday morning the BRIGHT idea hit me. I need to FINISH these projects! So....while it was to chilly to scrape that morning, I painted. Worked outside that afternoon. Worked outside for a bit on Saturday....AFTER I had started invoicing for storage. Completed invoices Saturday night and scraped a bit more yesterday. Grady came to the rescue with the actual SCRAPER yesterday, so now all I have to do is scrape glue today!

I will finish up the painted on Wednesday when the weather is making a turn to the chilly side. I figure it will be a good time to be indoors.

Now if I could just put some new trim into the budget....this kitchen/entry/dining area would be almost complete. We still need to paint the doors white....when the garage is cleaned and warmer!

In other news, the germies are still lingering. We stared week three, round 2 on Friday night. We were up all night. Well, I crashed at 4 am and left Grady up to tend to Myles. I think the windows will ALL be opened today if we actaully hit that 67 HIGH!

Have a Happy Week All!

Four Years Ago Today....

This day, exactly four years ago, I was busy getting myself all prettied up. I had butterflies in my stomach, and let me tell you, it was a pretty BIG stomach! I had one hour left in our little blue house in Ten Sleep. ONE HOUR until "go time", one hour left to get everything that I needed in order, one hour left of having only two kids. Yah, that was the big issue. One hour left of having a hand for each kid.....my world was aobut to change.

As we loaded up the big white suburban to head for Worland, we had an empty car seat. One that was just going along for the 25 minute ride. A car seat waiting for the new baby...would it be a boy or girl? We had no idea.... This was the ONLY baby that came as a surprise! With all of the excitement, we left a bit early. Which only meant that we arrived in Worland early. As we drove around waiting for check in time, we had only one more thing to worry about. What were we going to name this child? Oh, we had girls names picked out, but did we agree? Not exactly. I finally gave in to Grady's desire, but not very willingly.

After the surgery was all over, and it wasn't the easiest one, we were blessed with one beautiful baby girl! I am so happy that Grady got his way with the name, I could not have picked a better one to fit her.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FIONA BELLE. I LOVE YOU MORE AND MORE WITH EACH PASSING DAY!

Winter Park

Finally, I am taking the time to post again.

Over President's Day weekend, we took a trip to Colorado for some snowboarding fun at Winter Park. My brother got a new snowboard this year, and it came with a free lesson, lift ticket, and rental; so I jumped on the offer to use them! Thanks, Kaden and Sheila for thinking of me! I took my lesson on Valentine's Day and am hooked. It's alot of work, but soooooo fun! I took our camera, but the spare battery and charger were left at home, so all these came from our blackberry phones. My sister and her three kids followed us up Thursday. We had rented a one bedroom condo before we found out she was coming, so it was a bit cramped the first night. She and her son, Nicholas went up Friday for some fun while Grady and I took care of her two daughters.
After about half of the day, she came back and Grady used the rest of her lift ticket to enjoy some time with Nick. He even took pictures to share! While they were out, we moved to the condo next door which had three bedrooms. A friend from high school and his daughter came up Friday night for some fun.

The top is Nicholas on Saturday with Grady and Rudy. It was not the sunniest day for them, but they managed to wear themselves out anyway! Below is Nick on Friday afternoon with Grady.

Nicholas was such a trooper. I can not believe he managed to ride for two days straight! He was wore out and slept well after those days!

Here's a picture of Grady from Saturday. It was a snowy day. There was a crash on the pass that afternoon, so Rudy and Abbie were "forced" to stay another night. That did not break Macy's heart. She has made a buddy that she can't wait to see again!

Friday afternoon, Myles put on Grady's boots! He is gonna be a rider too!

Here's another from the cramped condo. Sorry they did not load in order. Elisa and Auvrie are such cuties! I am happy that we got to see them!

Here's the backside of Winter Park at the top. Mary Jane is a historic trail. Looks pretty cold and gloomy there. This resort was huge! I rode all day during my lesson, and only manged to use two lifts. I did stay in the learning area all day though!

While the guys were out on Saturday, we took this kids down to the pool and enjoyed some swimming and hot tubs. This is Macy, Fiona, and Abbie.

I'm pretty sure that we are going to make snowboarding an annual President's Day weekend event. We're already working on next year's plans for Vail, hopefully! And then Park City the year after. I just need to get up the hill here and get some more practice in.

A few more from today!

The response from my facebook friends has been AWESOME! I am very happy with the support from you all! THANK YOU! The Outhouse

SOLD

Family House

$20

Coffee Possible

SOLD

Cherish Together

SOLD

One Big Happy Family Tree

$30

Sign Fundraising

Hey All! I am posting some pictures of signs that I am currently making. There is a guy that Grady works with who is very sick. He needs some treatments that insurance is considering "experimental" and will not cover. I have decided to make these and sell them. Every penny of the money that I raise will go directly to his family. I will update more as I make them and as they sell. If there is one that you would like, please let me know.

American Flag Home $25

SOLD

Our Family Tree $30

SOLD

Latte Love $20
SOLD

House Home $25



Coffee World $20
SOLD

Please share these with others that you think may be interested. I am hoping to help them out.

January

Wow! This month has gone by fast! We celebrated Stuart's 6th Birthday in dinosaur style! I have pictures on the camera, and I can not get them off.

The desktop was very, very sick. It has since been fixed for the most part, but it very moody on the days it decides to turn on. This laptop is GREAT, but I can not get it to accept my memory stick from the camera or the connection for the camcorder. Dang. Guess I will have to eventually call in the help of my husband.

We FINALLY finished the texturing of the ceiling and walls in the kitchen, dining, entry, and hall! It is painted, except for a few spindals that are still sitting covered in primer. I'll get to it eventually! And, I still need to get to the lumberyard to purchase some new baseboard, but I'm happy to be out of the mess.

We visited the dinosaur museum in Thermopolis on Saturday. That was amazing! Myles was the only kid that was absolutely amused with it. The others were more interested in playing on the few toys they had.

We have been blessed with snow! I love it! Stuart received a snowblock for his birthday (thanks LePage Family) and they were out blocking the porch off igloo style this past weekend. Myles took it upon himself to knock down the wall, so I guess we'll try again with the next storm.

We have two weeks until our big snowboard trip to Colorado! We are very excited for it. Our condo has an indoor pool and four hot tubs, so the kids should stay entertained! I have ordered a bingo game for them to play too; and we will be making pizza for dinner one night. I can hardly wait to see my nephew and neices, and my sister! Hopefully we'll get the camera thing figured out before hand!

Well, that's our excitement so far this month. Sorry I am not posting much, it just isn't the same without photos!

Happy 2010!

Well, it has snuck up on us again. The end to another year went out in style with the Blue Moon. Absolutely amazing! We spent last year so busily, and I really didn't put any thought into it until I sat down to write out my Christmas letter. And, since most of my followers already received that letter, I will spare you all in reading it again. Let's just say I hope that we don't have to write out another one with the word "move" in it again anytime soon!

We are kicking off this year with the final phrase of the kitchen updating. I have spent the last three days removing wallpaper glue so that Grady can get those walls textured this weekend, and maybe....just maybe....we can get some paint up. The popcorn is off the ceiling (MESS), and it has a pretty new texture. We have hung 3 of the new lights we received from my parents! I am getting excited for it to be done and look more like our home!

We did get a puppy (which most of you already know). She's a pretty sweet little girl and it melts my heart to watch Stuart play with her. I just think, "A Boy and His Dog" everytime. He's getting so excited to celebrate his sixth birthday and is counting down the days! He just told me this morning that he wants a dinosaur one.....and I can't figure out where that came from!

Well, I just wanted to wish you all a very Happy New Year! I hope that you are all blessed with good things this year!

Santa & Mrs. Claus Photos

Here it goes...

The craft fair was a HUGE success! I sold more than I had thought, and even sold more afterwards thanks to these pictures that I posted on facebook. I had four orders for more of some things that I had made, and those are finally complete. It was a lot of work, but so worth it. I think that I may just go this route next year.

Friday I was able to spend the day with all of the kindergarteners in town for their bee finale! It was a great time and I was so sore afterwards. Grady's mom is here and she has been a huge help with the kids. I think that I could handle a nanny on call! I wore my Danskos and hadn't in a while, so my feet hurt, and so did my legs and bum.

Last Saturday I had the craft day at church. It was fun, but I left early because I had to do some storage work. We had the TCT company holiday party that night. Great times!

Sunday I cut out those orders from the fair, and then took Myles to the ER. He had gotten a steak knife off of the counter and sliced into a banana, but also go his finger. He has three stitches and we are having a heck of a time keeping a bandaid on his poor little finger now. He's a tough one! Grady hung Christmas lights on the house.

Today I finished up invoicing and can now get back to the Christmas gifts that I am making. I'll try to post some pictures of them when I get finished....well, some. I don't want to spoil the gift giving for those of you who follow me on here!

Well, there's a quick update. This house needs some attention before I can continue on the crafting! Have a very Happy Thanksgiving!