Family Time

We decided to go to This Is The Place Heritage Park instead of the zoo this year. We had fun walking around and looking at all the farm animals. Here they are coming out of one of the barns.








They had this train that you could ride all through the park, which made it nice since it was hot. Here is Adam waiting for the train.









Noah waiting for the train.











and sooo handsome CJ waiting for the train. Look at that adorable smile.












Here's Sarah and Noah checking out the Llama, which is one of Sarah's favorite animals.
It was really fun walking around and spending time with the kids.

Getting Closer

I am excited because Sarah, Noah and Adam, are coming to spend time with us again at the end of the month. I can't wait!!! I just wish Aaron would come too, but after he got so sick last time, I don't think he will. I have been trying to think of fun, cheap things to do with them this time, and found a book at DI that is called Utah Mommas. I know I am not a Momma, but there are a lot of really cool things to do in there. I think we will go to Red Butte Gardens, and a few other things. I am sure we will make our yearly pilgrimage to the Hogle Zoo. We always have fun there. Well, not much else going on. But I will post while they are here

Bored

I really am in need of some fun!! LOL!! Other than going to work, the gym, or the store...We don't go many places. Mostly it's because we work opposite hours. Deon works from 5am-6pm Monday thru Thursday, and I work 3pm-10pm whenever they want to schedule me. I really think that it is time for us to take some time and go camping. I really would like to get out of this crazy valley and head up to see some beauty. Even if it is just a day of fishing. It's terrible that we went from going fishing, camping, etc every chance we could to not really going at all. This year has been tough, but we will make it. I have the 18th and 19th off, so I think I am going to convince Deon to at least go fishing. I will let you know if that happens, and will post some pics.
Now....I am excited and just want to go fish!!!!!!!!!!!

A day away

Deon and I finally got a day off together and decided to head up to the mountains and see his parents and grandma who were staying at a condo in Midway, Utah. The guys decided to go fishing and so us girls decided to go over to the Homestead Resort and walk around and check out the sites. Here is Jolene (my mother in law) and grandma taking a rest break. Grandma has been really sick lately (cancer) and hasn't even been able to get out of bed. But here she is, looking cute and walking around with us.

This is one of the walkways at the Homestead. It's really pretty up there. There are a lot of individual buildings with rooms in them, like the Milkhouse, Barn, etc etc. But it is really cool. You can play golf, rent horses, scuba dive in a crater....fun stuff!!






we decided after walking around a little bit, we would go up the road and check on the guys who were fishing a little pond at the rangers station. Here are a couple ducks enjoying the pond!!






as we are getting out of the car, there is a family yelling "look at the deer". So of course, I grab my camera and catch a family of deer coming across the street. It's a doe and her twins babies from last year. Which is cool!! The little one in the back, behind the tree is a little spike (boy) and the other are two does (mom and baby girl). I thought it was pretty cool how with all the people that were running around the area, that they were comfortable enough to come walking in.
Kinda makes me feel guilty, cause this year, I drew out for the deer hunt and want to shoot a nice Buck (male). But anyways, I am hoping that Deon and I get a few more days off together this summer to go fishing, hiking, and just spend some time together. It sucks cause he works days, and I pretty much work all night shifts.

40th!!

Well, when I woke up on Friday morning, and looked outside, I saw this sign, my neighbor made, sitting in the front yard. Along with pictures of me on the camper, my front entryway, and even down the street on a pole. She is so fun!! There was also a homemade pie and a gift on my front door when I looked there.




This is our camper (we are selling it) and she decorated it too












one of the pics on my car













Here is me, next to my sign. I wasn't really happy at this moment, cause I was headed to work. I think all companies should give you a paid day off for you birthday. Right??

Oh Crap!!

okay, so I have never stressed about a birthday before or even growing older, but OH CRAP....I am going to be 4o in 13 days. Everybody keeps telling me not to worry...40 is the new 30....I don't think so. 40 is 40!!! and it SUCKS!!!! Plus...when that statement comes from somebody who is maybe 20-25 years old....well....what do they know about being 40??? LOL...Deon has been teasing me about being worried over turning 40. I guess it is easier for guys to turn 40. Oh well... I guess I can't stop turning 40, but I am NOT happy about it.



The first picture of us, is when I was 17 years old...I have such a dorky smile...and huge eyebrows...LOL

This one of me and Stormy is last fall. Back when I was ONLY 39 years old.
I tried to add a pic from when I was younger...but I couldn't edit just me out of it for the picture. Oh well...

Blogging

It's been a while since I have spent any time on our blog, and I am sorry. I just really haven't had much to write about. But I thought, who cares, just put something on here. LOL!!!

For Memorial Day weekend, I got to spend all 3 days at work. Which kind of made me mad, because on the Friday before, at 5 pm, my boss walks up to me and hands me a piece of paper and says "Here's your schedule for this next week, hope you don't mind" Mind? Mind? Less than 24 hours before a Saturday off and he changed the whole weekend for us. Crape!! Oh well....I need the money. We were able to squeeze in a BBQ with our friends, Jason and Suzi and kids on Sunday night. Which was nice. We haven't seen them for a while.
I did get Tuesday and Wednesday off, and had so many things that I wanted to get done, and well....I didn't get them all done, because I decided to relax a bit, and since my allergies have been bad the last little bit, it was nice to just chill.
Deon and I did get the lawn mowed. And we have been working on the flower bed out front. It's been in a shambles, because the people who lived here before us, just tore it apart. We are digging up all the daffodil and tulip bulbs, tilling the beds and are going to spread the bulbs out and re-plant. Plus we are going to add the mums that we take to his grandparents' and brother's grave every memorial day. We like to have them, kind of as a "Memory Garden" and yes, I will be adding lots of plants for Mom.
Well.....I will see what they do to my schedule tomorrow when I go into work. Let's hope for a Saturday off, so I can have Deon help me get more stuff done.
Isn't life GRAND?? LOL