The new child

A few weeks ago I was working in the yard when I heard a cat, I usually ignore them, however this time I had to acknowledge it. Our 2 cats we had both died within 2 years of each other and we have been cat free for nearly 2 years. It's been nice, no litter box, saving $ on cat feed (science diet isn't cheap), not to mention the dreaded furball hacking.
Anyway, this small, very malnourished, skin and bones kitten approached me, walked right up to Pirate our dog and rubbed all over him purring away. She was so sweet, and so friendly. I couldn't turn her away and Mark bought her some Tuna (its all we had for a cat). Yes, Mark has a soft spot for kittys - but I didn't tell you that. We decided that if she was still here after a week of camping we would keep her. My neighbour watched out for her and gave some kitten food Mark bought. After 5 days of camping we came home to a kitten who was starting to put some weight on and we opened the door and in she came! We got her spayed, she will be declawed soon and we are going to try to toilet train her. Yes, you heard correctly, no more litter box, the cost of litter has gone way high. She has been quite fun!

Our camping trip

We took 5 days off to camp up in Logan Canyon. We went to the Egan/Franklin Basin turnoff which is 11 miles off the highway. It was quite fun hauling such a large trailer down a narrow dirt road..... :o We found a great site that was somewhat isolated which made it really nice. We saw more Buck than Does this trip and found a great new trail. At one point we had a nice 4 point Buck running along side of us for about a 1/4 of a mile and about 15 feet to the side of our ATV's, it was really cool. The weather was nice with a little wind one evening as "Dean" moved in over the mountains. It was really hard to come home and look forward to our next trip!

playing on the piute trail

We spent a day playing and riding 126 miles of the Piute Trail. It was hot, dusty, long, and just a lot of fun!!! We are looking forward to going back next summer and spending more time on the hot, dusty trail. Live long, love life and ride, ride, ride!!! We saw lots of deer, bucks and does, gorgeous views, everything from the pinyon pine to aspen groves. The trails never seemed to end and one could spend weeks riding there.

We are staying in the Bear Valley!!

After a very long, hot, hot summer, we have decided not to sell the house!! We have decided to stay in the Bear River Valley for now. Mark has been gone working in St. George and is burnt out working down there. It is way too hot, way to stressful, way to expensive to live there. I was however, looking forward to the winters there. We will be keeping our snowshovel after all and will look forward to the county fair!! Fair time is a huge event here, lots of great food, hangin with friends, dancin, rodeo, entertainment and did I mention dancing!! Country style here!! We will also be spending a few days on the Piute trail, a week camping and enjoying the rest of our summer together.

can't believe we are moving!

We moved to Tremonton in 1996 and bought a new 4 level split home. Never thought we would move to another area. Always knew we would stay in Tremonton and possibly downsize to a smaller new home. Mark had been looking for something different and something to make more income. He has been looking, but I never really thought it would happen. We were suppose to attend the wedding of his oldest son which got cancelled, so we took the time to go visit fam in near St. George. There he interviewed for a job and we looked at homes with a realtor just to see what was available. We planned on spending a few days and never thought Mark would get offered a job so quick and leave after making an offer on a very cute home. N0w we have go get our house on the market and wait for the seller to hopefully accept our offer on the new home we want. This is totally crazy!!! We are headed home today and I really can't wait to get home to start packing.
I will really miss Tremonton, I really like it there and the ward we attend is really great. It will be very hard to leave and miss the county fair this year!
We both have loved living there and have met many wonderful people and will miss our friends a lot! But, we invite them to come visit when those winter snowy days are too much and St. George winters can be really nice!! Also we can ATV all year long now!!

PS: to the buyers of our home, we will glady leave you our snowshovel!

our life

We are Mark and Kim. We have been married for nearly 18 yrs and are best friends. We have 5 great kids and 3 grandchildren. We love our life and enjoy spending time with each other and our family. We love to travel, camp with our Toy Hauler RV and ride the mountain trails with our ATV's. We love to cook outdoors with our camp chef and enjoy the serenity of the outdoors.
We have lived in Calif where we had a little farm with all kinds of farm animals. We had a great time there and loved every minute. We rode our horses, enjoyed rodeos, team penning and ropings. Job change took us away to Utah where we traded the horses for ATV's. The winters were way too hard to keep horses. We love Utah and have made many great friends here. We loved raising our kids and now enjoy the empty nest which gives us freedom to enjoy a lot more than we could before. We enjoy visiting our kids and wish we could see them more. They live in different states and are in different stages of life. We will be here for them when they need us, but realize they have to find their way in this life and with their own families. We look forward to retirement someday and being able to travel and relax!