Finally some sun!

We finally have a sunny day, we have awoken to snow almost every morning and if we don't have snow we have had fog and extremely cold Monday by 6:30 it was -4 degrees.
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Every body in the basin has been sick it seems, me included was down in bed for 4 days last week, which I never do. Drue has been home sick since Wed, he is hopefully getting better.
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I got called for Jury duty this week and never expected to be picked, but I did.
Now this is a daunting thing, The fact that you hold some persons future basically in the palm of your hand, And whatever you decide determines whatever happens next. Needless to say it was a learning experience. I may go into details about the case later.
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Christmas is just 3 days away I haven't even had time to get Christmas cards out , maybe today!
So if you don't get a Christmas card from me Merry Christmas

I realized that the pic of my christmas tree just only showed the lights, So here are some of my handmade ornaments on my tree. Most are made by me and a few are made by artistic friends of mine.

The Christmas tree is up, This is my Favorite time of the year, (well other than having to wrap presents, thank god for the bags that you can just put it in and add a little tissue paper) were all getting together Christmas eve, I always cook a huge meal on Christmas eve then Christmas day we can all just lay around and be lazy and play with our Christmas toys.

We have had new snow every morning since Friday, The most snow we have had in years. hopefully it keeps snowing and doesn't get the bitter cold we had last year

Guess who!

Finally have pictures of Kolby and Her man Daniel!(for all of those out there that have heard me talk of him and were wondering if he really existed)
actually these are really nice pics they had taken with Daniel's family a few months ago ( there better in person as the scanner did a rotten job of scanning )

Snow Days!

So Its happened, Snow, snow, and more Snow

That's seem to to be our story this year the last 3 of 4 trips we have taken we awoken to snow, and now we have about 5 or 6 inches here at the house and this morning at 7:55 it was 5 degrees. Hopefully we don't have as cold of winter as we had last year.

Makes me want to put up my Christmas tree, somehow snow and Christmas just seem to go together. But since it stored out to the shop not sure if I have the energy to go dig it out.

The sun is out now and everything looks wonderful with its new coat will gets some pics as soon as the battery for my camera charges.

Were home again!

So we had an uneventful trip home, the traffic wasn't too bad , and the weather wasn't to bad either.
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We had horrible neighbors in the RV park. It was 2 families from another state in identical pop up campers with kids, and dogs, Now this is a first for us, usually the people are always really great and really considerate of every body in the park. These people let their kids run around and climb on the other campers four wheelers, play in there spaces, climb on the picnic tables. They let there dogs just run, and do their business where ever they wanted and never even tried to keep them under control. They froze up the water hydrants. The campground managers had there hands full. We on the other hand were just glad to leave them to it. (ok enough venting)
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All and all we had a good weekend, snow and all, we liked Moab and plan on going back at some point maybe rent some 4-wheelers and do some exploring that way

More from Moab

We had much improved weather today with highs in the lower 50 and the snow is gone.

Here's a couple of pictures I took in Arches. We didn't get to see any bighorn sheep hopefully tomorrow before we head north.

Snow!

Moab

Were here and woke up this morning to you guessed it SNOW!
About 2 inches of Snow
Now as most of you know we left the basin and came south in hopes of not getting in the snow I checked and rechecked the weather forecasts and not one said anything about Snow.
I will have pics later today, we have free and pretty good wifi here so hopefully I will be able to post some.

A warm November

Elizabeth in her warm cloths ready to go bye-bye

Clydes favorite spot in the house (this is the dog we rescued from the desert)

This is where the newer sewer dump for our fifth wheel is going
all the hook ups for the fifth wheel.

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We have had unseasonably warm weather for November and have actually gotten a lot done in the yard. The sprinkling system is done in the front and the hookups for the fifth wheel are almost done. We are actually parking in the new garage. Not to bad for a summer. Next spring we tackle the back yard.

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We are leaving on Wed for Moab for the holiday weekend. We were going to do dinner at the house, but with the kids all having someplace else they need to be we decided we could just take off for the weekend. So I am off to get the fifth wheel packed and ready to go.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYBODY!

Saturday

My shoe fetish Lachelle (yes that's lizzie's bouncer she is in) and her new shoe's and Jacket
Lachelle loves shoe's so grandma bought her some high heels of her own

The new truck needs washed before it can go in the new garage

macky enjoying the sunshine
Odin and Clyde also enjoying the sunshine!

We had an incredible Saturday as the weather was really nice everybody just wanted to be outside. We did get the freezer moved out into the new garage which really gave me so much room in the laundry room. I had forgotten how big that room is.

I guess we have decided that the 06 Dodge and my Durango get the privilege of living in the new garage (at least for now) but they had to be washed before they could go in. Mitch spent most of the afternoon doing that. I on the other hand cleaned the laundry room, YUCK! The freezer hadn't been moved since we moved in here and it was so dirty underneath. anyways I went ahead and washed the walls and such while I was at it. It is now the cleanest room in the house

A change in plans!

We had planned on going to the corn maze today, but as it turns out they are only open by reservations on Wed, So we went to park in Bluebell instead.

As you can see the kids had a really good time including the big kids!

Little Lizzy

This little one is growing like a weed!

Its amazing how quickly they grow and change.

Odin has claimed this baby as his baby and won't let the other dogs get close to her.