Four Corners Fun

Is Animal Planet On Yet?? How about some room service here!

We took another road trip, this time to New Mexico to check out the area. Yes, it's true, Mark has been offered a transfer. We haven't made a decision yet, we will by Monday. We stopped at Four Corners and got pictures, of course we had to include Allie in the fun. We stayed in Farmington and drove all over, found some nice area and not so nice. North East into Aztec and Bloomfield is nice farmland with open space. We found a nice new house on a hill in Farmington, it has a nice view and 3/4 acres. Then we tripped over to Hurricane and stayed the day there. Allie travelled really well in her crate while we tripped all over San Juan County.

Allie takes a bow

I've been working with Allie and this is her newest trick. Last week we had Shane come and visit us, we enjoyed having him here and it was a nice surprise when he said he was coming. Thanks for coming up Shane!

2008 in Review

When 2008 started for us, well, actually one of us was asleep! In 2008 we flew out of the Salt Lake Airport in a Blizzard. By the time the plane was
de-iced we were over a hour late to take off. We had a layover in Phoenix which gave us plenty of time to land in North Carolina. We went to bless Shana and Chuck's newest son, Cooper. We had a blast visiting Charleston, Marks mission area and a civil war battlefield. The only regret was there wasn't enough time to see more. While there we got a phone call that church had been cancelled due to another blizzard leaving Tremonton buried! In June our garden got pounded by a huge hail storm and Mark's store where he works moved into the new building. In July we added a new addition to our family, A mini Aussie we named Allie. We bought a new trailer, went camping and in Sept took a road trip to see Trevor, Summer and Madi in Portland. We had fun time seeing the coast, touring the Air Museum where Marks dad served during the war and playing with Madi. In August we saw Kristy off to Alabama to get her Masters Degree!! With the high gas prices we bought Mark a new ride, visited with the Hatches in Idaho, took a few trips to Hurricane to see the parents,
knocked out the back wall in the Kitchen and added French Doors. The deck will be a 2009 project! Hope everyone has a great 2009 filled with some great memories!!

Blizzard Update

Yep it snowed all day today! The power went out for almost 2 hours, while we cooking dinner, so we went outside to shovel, throw snowballs to Allie and visit with other shovelling neighbors. This is what it looked like at 6:00 tonight, yes it's still snowing. We can't sing "Dreaming of a White Christmas" we can sing "Walking in a Winterland"!! We love it, it's true. The forcast just said we might get "Thunder Snow" tonigt. Who knows what we will wake up to.

The Christmas Morning Blizzard

We heard last night we were getting a big storm and I guess the weatherman got it right. We woke up to quite a blizzard. The Dog loved it, she ran and crashed right into a snowbank, got up and did it again. Guess we'll have to bundle up and go out and play with her. Her are a few pics of this mornings blizzard. The dip in the snow at the door is from the dog!

Merry Christmas

Snowday

Let's Play!

We have had some snow off and on, today was the first big storm of the season. It started last night, we could see the snow amber glow when we went to bed and by morning it was snowing hard with big fluffy flakes! Fun.... Allie loved it, she ran and tried to catch the falling snow and had a great time in the field chasing snowballs. We had the police scanner on and was very glad to be at home today. It was just a perfect day to stay in and chill (or warm up!)

Finally, I got my door!

Yeah turn the heat back on! It's done


There's a big hole in the house and it's cold!!


Staring time, better be sure now!




Before the remodel


I have always wanted a back door and a deck, finally we got her done!! Except for the snow flurries and the wind, it went well. We just need to add the trim and do some touch up to finish it off.
In the spring we'll start on the deck and I can't wait to BBQ and watch the sunsets. Mark says he will stay inside because of the mosquito's, I say he is a wimp. Maybe a screened in porch?? They have them in the south, so why not here. Then we could sit in our rocking chairs and watch the sunsets together. Hint, Hint Mark??

condolences....

Our heart goes out to the sudden loss of Al Christoffersen the Tooele UPS Driver that was killed. His wife, Karen was my college roommate and we knew both of them.
We send out deepest condolences and well wishes to his family. Words alone cannot express the sorrow we feel for them at this time.

Some pics

Thanksgiving Fun

As always getting away is great, especially when it involves food and 5 days away, which by the way was great.
It rained all day on Thursday, the rest of the weekend was nice. Kristy even came to visit all the way from Alabama. Most of the fam was there, except we missed Kerry and Fam, he had Fire Station Duty where they cooked dinner there. Marks Bro Layne and his wife Linda came to join us as well.
Allie tormented Cricket, we went shopping at Costco where found our Christmas gift from the parents! We ate at In-Out Burger and had to hover over tables to get one. It was packed! We took Allie out to the desert to play, she had a great time jumping over rocks and chasing tumbleweeds in the wind. With gas prices a lot cheaper, it made it nicer to travel the hoiday weekend. The best part, I blogged while we travelled home!

Southern Trippin

Playing with Kerry's toys in the backyard!

Waking up Tyler!

Jordan Teaching Allie to jump

Wow, I am behind in our blog. A few weeks ago we tripped South to Hurricane for a few days of fun in the sun. Kerry, Misty, Jordan and Tyler went the same weekend, so it was really fun to visit with them. Allie loved the kids and would tell me that she needed to go out to potty in the night. She was bluffing, stinkin dog wanted to wake up the kids and play with Cricket. I caught on to that really fast! We had a great time and loved the belgian waffles with strawberries Dad made. (hoping to have them at Thanksgiving, hint...) Jordan is quite a little dog trainer, I guess she takes after her Aunt!!

Tagged by Shana!

Okay 7 random facts about us??????ummmmmmmmmmmmm

1. Mark loves brand new Levis, Kim likes older worn ones.
2. Mark has more clothes than Kim!
3. Mark likes to sleep in, Kim likes to get up early.
4. We both hate shopping malls.
5. We both love roller coasters.
6. Mark hate snakes, Kim likes Snakes.
7. We are both animal lovin people (no surpise here!)

We will tag Shane/Jenny, Carrie,not sure who else.......

Just for fun................

Our little Allie is now 5 months and we had a breakthrough with her training today! We have been working on the stop command and today was the test! We were out in the field today and pigeon lady let her birds out again! Last time Allie followed those silly pigeons all around the field with her little head in the air. She got too far and wasn't listening. Today she saw those stinkin pigeons and went after them, I yelled Allie Stop and she did! Then later we were in the park throwing a ball and something caught her eye and she started to run across the park, I yelled Allie Stop and she did! It's nice to have those training moments pay off. The Allie picture is after a workout in the field chasing sticks!
The flowers were sent from Kristy for my birthday. They are so pretty! Thanks Kristy. Hope all is well in Alabama.