WHATS BEEN HAPPENING

It has been awhile since I posted so I will try to get caughtup. Toward the end of Feburary I went to Nevada again with Penny. She was taking a lady that she worked with to meet her cousin so that she could fly back to Mexico. We spent the night in Winnemucca and then came back home the next day. It was a long but fast trip. As we came home from Wendover Penny stopped and tried to write her name in the salt flats but found out it was hard to do.

In March, we went to the scrapbook expo. We spent Friday there and Brandi and the baby met us. Seeing them was the highlight of the day. Of coarse we met all the other girls there and went to the Olive Garden for dinner.

The next day Penny and I spent the morning before heading home at the new City Creek Mall. It had just opened the day before. It is really nice. We had alot of fun browsing through all of the new stores. Penny did some shopping at the Disney store for her Grandkids.

A couple of weeks ago, Hank and I went to Winnemucca to visit with his Nephew and his wife. We stayed with them from Wednesday to Sunday. We had a great trip but I didnt get any pictures taken. That is what has been happening and hopefully I wont wait as long to post this next time.

Trip to Arizona

On the 2nd of Feburary we went back down to Arizona to see my Brother and sister-in-law and to go to a gourd festival. We got there the day before so that we could get in a little bit if visiting. I would have liked to stay longer but its really hard to get my husband to set still for very long. Maybe next time I will have to leave my husband home.....My nephew and his family were going to come down to, but at the last minute werent able to. I hope my brother and sister-in-law know how much I love them and thank them for showing us such a good time. Hopefully they are going to come up here this summer to see us. The gourd festival was great. I filled my whole trunk full of differnt sized gourds. There were food venders, and venders for anything pretaining to gourds. It was fun and I think that next year I might get a booth there. We saw a lot of beautiful gourds but none quite like the ones I do. Here is a picture of the gourds that I carve and a knife that my husband made. These next pictures are of some of the venders there.

The Month of January

I took a couple of little trips in January. My husband has been wanting a rock saw He makes arrowheads so he wanted a saw that he can cut slabs of obsidian. There was a rock and gem show in Quartzside Arizona so we decided to go. On the way down we spent the night in Las Vegas. Of coarse we cant just go through that city. We stayed at the New Orleans. Its a couple blocks off the strip but we had gone there for dinner a couple of times, so we decided to stay there this time. We really had a nice room.

The next morning we got up early and headed to quartzside. We got there fairly early and spent the rest of the day looking at all the booths. Hank found his saw and I got a couple of beautiful necklaces. We spent that night in Prescott Arizona and then came on home the next day. A couple of weeks later I was invited to go with my friend Penny to Saint George. She was doing a marathon. This is Penny before the race started. After she finished the marathon we headed for Vegas and spent the night there. We had a blast. She had been past Vegas before but had never been on the strip or spent the night there. We had a blast checking everything out. She had to be back to work Monday morning so we got up the next morning and headed home. It was a fast trip but sure a lot of fun.

CHRISTMAS DAY

I know I am a little slow. We had a wonderful Christmas day. All of the kids were here. Our daughter and her boys came down and spent the night Christmas eve, and then Brandi and Eric and our great grandbaby came down early Christmas morning for our traditional big breakfast.After breakfast and the dishes were all done we opened presents.I think our grandkids had a good day. I know I sure did. I got a Kindle Fire and love it. This is what we got our great grandbaby for Christmas.
He wont be able to ride it for awhile but we couldnt resist. He was spoiled rotton but I say that is what grandkids are for. He got some cute things from his Grammy but one thing he really liked was this He kept giving it big hugs. We had a good day but I am glad its over with for another year.

OH CHRISTMAS TREE!!!!

We had a great Thanksgiving week-end. The Grandkids were in Salt Lake for Thanksgiving but were home on saturday. We were able to get every one together this year to go get trees. It was the first time our Grandbaby had walked in the snow and he had fun. Of coarse Brandi and Eric and me and Hank found our trees right off the bat. Jamie was the hold out for the perfect tree and by being patient she found a beauty. Brandi and I were both jealous but if anyone deserves a perfect tree, its my daughter. I even had help decorating my tree this year. I really appreciated it kids.


After the kids got the tree decorated my Grandson and Great Grandbaby are admiring it.

A Couple of Little Trips

Back in October we went to Albuquerque to see the Balloon Festival. By the time we got to Moab, it was raining and rained on us the rest of the way there. We should have known what would happen, but we went anyway. The two days that we were there the festival was canceled and we didnt get to see one balloon go up. We did some shopping at Old Town, Sportsman Warehouse and Sams Club. Of course we did go to Sandia Casino for their breakfast buffet. The only balloon we saw was in the hotel lobby. The first of November, we invited my brother that lives here and his wife to go with us to Arizona to see our oldest brother who moved there in May. This was the first time we had been down to see him since he moved.Their home is beautiful and I was envious of the weather. We set out on the patio and really enjoyed the sunshine. Of course thats why we waited until November to go. Any thing earlier than that would have been to hot. Here are some pictures of all of us and their new home.

A lot of hard work

As soon as we got back from our vacation we tore right into removing the old tile from our kitchen and dining room. We had the old tile for 15 years and it just didnt look good after we remodeled our kitchen. It was alot of hard work but I absolutly love it now that its finished. It seemed like it took us alot longer but then again we are getting older and I guess slowing down in our old age. Hank did a great job, but then again I have always said that there isnt anything that he cant do. I had pictures of us taking out the old tile but somehow they have disappeared. So until I can find them , this is what the finished product looks like.