Thanksgiving meal.

So I have finished the last minute food shopping for the meal. I think we will make a cheese ball tonight, and maybe the pies. Pumpkin and cheese cake. Tomorrow we will make any other small easy things that we can make, deviled eggs. Have to pick up the rolls we ordered. They are such yummy rolls. We will probably put the turkey in a little early on Thursday that way we can eat and relax. I think we are going to start watching Star Wars, from beginning to end. I might also mention that Destiny and Michael have already done this the week or so before. Maybe they want to see if they missed anything the first time around? I don't know.

Slowly but surely faster towards the end.

So I helped Destiny get her vest fabric cut out, and the patches she is going to put on it and the skirt. It is sitting on my counter all over my cutting mat. We will have to put it together tomorrow. I think this will be a really neat costume. I think she is wearing it to school on Monday to. I want to make them new pillowcase candy bags again.
My aunt who I haven't seen in 12 years, since before my grandma past away, and my grandpa are stopping to visit on their way back to Fresno. They could be here any day after tomorrow. Yippee!

Halloween Costumes.

So Halloween costumes you can buy in stores are so expensive, and so flimsy. I am lucky my kids don't mind us making their costumes. Besides it gives them something to remember. The fun they had thinking up what they wanted to be. Then the fun we had trying to figure out what we were going to do to make that costume. This year Destiny wanted to be the Mad Hatter, and Mike wanted to be a Zombie. This is going to be so much fun. For Mike's costume we can't really put it together on him to see how it will look, because we are using a shroud to make him look zombie like. I don't want it to get all mangled, tangled, and ruined before Halloween. So I hope it will look good. Destiny's we are making a lot of, I think it will be neat. I will of course take pictures on Halloween before they go out, and post them.

Where has the time gone????

It seems like only yesterday I was wondering when it was going to be getting warmer at night so I could put a couple of my house plants outside. It seems like I am just soo busy this summer, and I don't really know what I am busy at. lol. Is that possible? No gardening out back for us this year. It seems to get neglected by us, even when I have the best of intentions. So we have 3 tomato plants growing in planters out front. I am also trying to grow an egg plant plant this year. I don't know how that plant will turn out, but I am giving it a try. I have a few green tomatoes on the plants, and one red one. I had strawberry plants going in two planters, but when we went to pick up Destiny in Salt Lake City they didn't get watered the day before we left, so unfortunately one planter didn't seem to make it. Maybe it was too much sun to, and heat. Anyway, I relocated them to the porch, I am going to baby them, both the ones that look dead, and the ones near death. I hope they survive. I usually don't have this much trouble with stgrawberrys.
So far it has been really warm temperatures, but it hasn't been unbearable, yet. I am glad. Even after having been gone those few days, and the house being closed up, it wasn't hard to cool it down. Oh, how I want to have our own house, and property soon. It would be so nice. To be able to put everything where I want it, and not have to worry about it when we move. I have a few pictures I need to get posted. I wish I had taken some at the water park in Utah, but sadly I didn't. I was pleasantly surprised when Mike went on the Boomerang, at Seven Peaks. You should check out the website and pictures of the park so you can actually see it. He went on it with Dave, I am surprised that Destiny didn't want to go on it. I don't know why, she is usually our adrenaline junkie. Mike and Destiny went on some waterslides to. I knew Destiny would, what amazes me is that Mike went on them too! I am very proud of him though, he found his courage somewhere and did it without second thoughs. I hope the next time he is as excited to do it.
This Saturday, is the Panaca 6th grade Half Marathon/1oK. It is to raise money for the 6th graders going to Washington D.C. in December. Mike and I are going. It will be fun to take this trip again. This time I really want to make it to the National Archives.

I got a NEW baby niece!!

So my little (in age only) brother and his wife had their little baby on the morning of the 15th. They had a little girl, her name is Sophia Grace. Such a pretty name. She's such a cutie! This is the first baby from one of my siblings, so I am excited.

Mine Pictures from Dave's work.

This is a picture of a Haul Truck. We were going down the county road to Dave's work and it crosses the minesite. So we have to wait for them to go. Because they are HUGE, and would squash us like a bug, and think they just ran over a snow berm, also because they only go like 5 or 10 miles an hour.

The other picture is of the minesite where they are working. Those hills are created from the trucks dumping their loads there. Theses are pretty good pictures, having been taken with his Ipod touch, don't you think.

FWD: Coming home from St. George today.

Coming home from St. George today the weather was so nice. It was in the 60's. It was nice for it to not be jacket weather! Lol. Yes that is our van. If your wondering how we got this picture, it was easy. Dave was behind me in a u-haul we were bringing back to Panaca.

Welcome in 2011!

Well we are glad for the New Year to be in. Not too glad about how it rolled in. To start off with, and I am not complaining, I am just telling what has happened. Anyway, to start off with Friday the 31st, I go to work in Pioche with 2 clients, come back to Panaca and work with another client. Which is a pretty normal Friday for me. Then the fun begins, for those of you who don't know, we take care, as best we can, of David's brothers' car wash here in Panaca. His brother lives in Utah, and it is a little easier with us here to help him out. Although I am not sure with Dave being up in Ely I alone have made it any easier or him, but I hope so. So I go over to make sure the car wash is clean and things are running the way they should be. I find that one of the self serve bays, there are 2, the water gun is frozen and not dripping water as it should be. I found this out as I was putting down some rock salt to melt the ice from the water dripping off the roof. So I took this nozzle and placed it on the ground, out of the way of any car that would drive into that bay, in the sun. So it could melt the ice in it. Then I went over to the automatic and took of some plugs on the rocker arms for the tire blasters. (Sounds so technical, huh?) So they wouldn't freeze.

All this time I had move a U Haul truck back out of the way of a trailer that was going out, and left them both running to warm up. In case they would be going out soon, I needed to make sure they would start. This was the real reason I had gone there,this and taking out that plug thing. and since I was there I did the other things before it got to cold. One of the trailers that was blocked was going out the next morning at 8 a.m.

So I finally get home, we eat dinner, and I am tired from a long day. I wasn't planning on being up for welcoming in the New Year. It was just me and the two kids home anyway, (Dave works up in Ely, Nevada Sunday night through Thursday morning) they were gonna stay up to see the ball drop. You know though how even though your tired with all the excitement of going, going, going, when I got home I wasn't so tired anymore. So I ended up being up for the ball drop. Which was nice. The last time I remember seeing on the clock was 1 a.m., knowing I had to be up at 8 a.m. But it was the weekend, so no big deal.

Well then 730 a.m. I get a call from the people renting the trailer that morning, they are friends, so it's no problem that they called me. Once again, I am not complaining, just telling things as they happened. So I am up, I tell them they need to call his brother and do the contract and then he will call me and we can go down there and hook it all up and go. So we get off the phone so they can call him.

I go to the restroom to do the things you normally do when you first get up in the morning. Like go to the restroom, and wash your face, brush teeth and such. So after flushing the toilet I notice that it kindof was slower then normal to fill back up, and actually kindof stopped before filling fully. I kindof brushed it off, and went to the bathroom sink to turn on the water......but no water came out. UGH!! Now it has been getting down into the low temperatures the last few nights, and I hadn't left the water trickle those previous nights, and it was just fine. But of course, this is New Years day, and I guess it had gotten COLDER last night so it was enough for them to freeze.

So I had Destiny empty out under the counters of the bathroom and kitchen sink, and put the little heaters on in then to heat it up. I know better then this, I know to leave the faucet farthest from the water coming into the house on and trickling. With everything that had gone on the day before I just plain forgot. So I went and told the landlords, told them I had put the heaters on there, asked if there was anything else I should do. They told me just try that for awhile, and if it didn't work to let them know. I did tell them that I had access to this super heater thing at the car wash, yes we are back to the carwash, lol. Because last winter the pipes to the self serve in the attic had frozen and Stephen brought this over to thaw the pipes, and left it here. For that I am so greatful. I tried that for about 3 hours, no results.

By this time I needed to use the restroom again, and there were only a few options with quick access and not a lot of explanation. First thought was Grandma and Grandpa Hill's house, oh wait the water was turned off there and the pipes blown out. Forget that idea. Next thought, the car wash, besides that's where that super cool heater is anyways. Off to the car wash in a hurry, lol. Since we were there and its cold out we brought the heater back with us. Got back home and by that time the landlord was walking over to ask if they had thawed, which they hadn't. I told him I had brought the heater over, so we got that thing pointed at the area under the house where the water comes into the house. Turned that puppy on and my goodness it was blowing heat out right from the get go. Once that bad boy was working it only took about 2 hours to thaw the freeze and get water flowing again.

Well that is my first adventurous post for the New Year! Once again I was not complaining about anything that happened in it. I was just telling things as they happened and how. Then the next day, January 2, was David's birthday. He is now halfway to 70, yes that's right. That has been our joke for this whole last year, and now he is finally there.

Well this has been a L-O-N-G post for me. I will leave you with that for now. I will try to get some pictures of the little bit of snow we have posted. The week before Christmas we had rain for a week. We even had some flooding as a result of it, all the way into Utah. If you are interested in reading about it, it was in our little local newspaper The Lincoln County Record, www.lincolncountyrecord.com . You can also try clicking on the last blog I follow on my list, it says Blogger Login to read, you may be able to see the pictures she posted. Some were of here and some were in Beryl, Utah. Enjoy!