Flashback Friday - Moab

Back when gas was still a little more affordable, we liked to take a road trip every now and again. One memorable trip was our first out of state truck show that we went to. September of 2006 we made a bit of an excursion to Farmington, NM. Along the way we stopped in Moab, UT for a scenic diversion, and a chance to stretch out our legs.

We saw quite a lot of scenery before the trip was done, making our way threw NM and parts of CO. Even taking the narrow gage railroad to Silverton, CO.

Week in Review

What can you say about the cutest kids in town? Well I can sure say a lot...since they just happen to be my nephews. Look how adorable...I know I'm partial. We were just hanging out at Grandma & Grandpa Pockets house after going to the movie to see Monsters vs. Aliens on Easter Sunday!

Easter was a little different this year, with Sam working about 40 hours in 3 days for the Search and Rescue, and me playing sick to this darn cough that is still holding on. We just had to play it all by a new set of rules.

I got a whole bunch of yard work done Saturday in the rain, and then tucked in early and watched movies in bed. By the way how long has it been since you watched your favorite childhood movie? I watched The Never ending Story, I forgot how cheesy the graphics were. But I still loved it.

Sam bribed the Highway Patrol for a helicopter ride Sunday. I can't believe that he got to go, they usually just tour the 'big wigs' around. From what I gathered he was left in charge at the Sheriff's post and the guys came in to try out the 4-wheelers on the sand dunes. Sam got them all unloaded and cooked up the guys a steak for lunch, when they got all finished up he talked the pilot into a ride. He told me that that is definitely the best way to go up Sand Mountain. I tried to talk him into a photo in his uniform, but you all know how shy the big guy is. But let me just tell ya how handsome he is in his get up.

We can't wait to get this week all over with. Our trip to California is just around the corner!

Friday Flashback - The Easter Bunny

It's OK...I know what your going to say. I've been wondering it for quite sometime.

What crazy person dresses up as a Bunny and then adds pimp clothing to it?

I really have no idea, I would like to presume that it was all a costuming error and that the bunny really had nothing else to wear to the photo shoot. I try to use that one all the time with other photos of myself so we'll give the bunny a break today.


This is my big brother James with me by the way. And if I know anything about the smile on my brothers face... He has his arm around the back side of the bunny and has figured out how it works. While he knows that this alarming large pimp rabbit is just some poor collage guy trying to make a buck, he never tells me. So that innocent smile on my face is pure imagination. I was thinking all along...Do you think that the Easter Bunny and Santa are friends?


Happy Easter!

Week in review

Sometimes when your loved one is feeling under the weather you forget all the little things that they do all week long to keep your home moving along the right track. But when it strikes the whole family all at once you see the unraveling happen quite a bit faster.

With the weather playing all the tricks that spring can pull, both Sam and I caught a cold. Everything that we thought we 'had' to do this week just got put on the back burner. While we both got in a full week of work (and Sam his little extra) we both broke down on Sunday and took the day to relax and enjoy the rays of sunlight creeping threw the blinds.

As you can see, the buggy didn't get a whole lot done. The parts that we needed to put the old gal back together are getting harder and harder to come by. An afternoon spent calling around you soon find that we live in quite a geological oddity...we seem to be about 5 days from anywhere that can get us parts.

Even Steele and Marilyn came by to help us wish the thing back together. A ingenious idea that seldom works around here.

On a good note thought...with Easter creeping up on us next week, Sam finished up his qualifications for his new gun to carry on duty at the sand dune.

As terrifying as it is to think of the other guys that finished up this training as well, I will feel much safer knowing that Sam will be prepared for anything crazy that could happen while he is on duty.

Flashback Friday - Grandpa Harold

I always thought that everyone had a family like mine. Before I was ever a twinkle in my parents eyes, both of my grandfather’s had passed on. I was luck to have two very loving grandmothers that spent loads of time with me. Where the unusual part rolls in…my paternal grandmother had married and divorced multiple time after grandpa was gone. I don’t blame her…raising 6 children (the youngest was only 3) after you lose your husband would be hard, and I’m sure very lonely.

One of the men that grandma married stuck around even long after the divorce. And boy howdy…I had the best grandpa ever!


My grandpa stopped by our home every Sunday morning for coffee, a smoke (always Pall Mall cigarettes) and Fig Newtons. Unless my mom had made his favorite, lemon meringue pie.
Dad and him would argue about everything, mostly driving truck. They could one up any story the other ever told. But the best part was, we had all heard the same stories a hundred times before. Grandpa had one of those husky smokers voices though, you could listen to him for hours at a time.

I was his little girl though. I remember his huge hands grabbing me under my arms and swinging me up for a hug and a whisker rub across my cheeks. He was always clean shaving, so I really don’t know how his whiskers always seemed so ruff.
I think this photo was following a birthday for me. Grandpa, dad and me always celebrated our birthdays together, we only lacked 8 days between them all. I can honestly say that the care bear in that photo is still in my possession to this day.
Unfortunately Grandpa is not with us still, but I’m sure glad of the memories that we shared.