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!

December almost gone?? Really. Christmas around the corner?? WOW

Where has this December gone? I know I have been slacking in posting this month. We have been busy with school, school functions, going to Ely to see Dave, and the minesite. (Ugh....and I had some neat pictures of the haul trucks, and my camera went nuts. So they are gone. Sad.) Jobs have kept us busy too. You know it can get kindof difficult when you work EARLY mornings, and your hubby goes in at 8 or 9 at night for at least 10 hours, and he's getting off work when you have either just gotten up or are already working for about an hour. The phone call "schedule" can get kindof hectic. LOL. But we are working with it.

Boy it doesn't really "feel" like Christmas. Yeah the songs are on the radio, tv. Yes the decorations are up. Yes some presents are out. Stockings will be up. But it still just doesn't "feel" like it's Christmas time. Well I just had to "vent". MaybeI will get some pictures taken of the tree. Might even try getting some taken of the Christmas lights around town. Maybe that will help make it feel like Christmas.

T.V. and Pumpkin Shooting! Fun, fun, fun!!

This is before we took out our "rage" on the t.v. It quit working last Monday. That's kind of a good thing and a bad thing. Bad thing it went out, now we have to get a new t.v. Good thing is that we won't have to worry about moving in when we move. This bugger was HEAVY. Yes I said "was", when you get to the last pictures you will see why it isn't so heavy any more.

This is about how far away the shooting tables were from the t.v. They have made the shooting area in Panaca so nice now. Oh and yes we cleaned up our mess when we were done.

This was after I took my shots at the t.v. I got to go first because I was the one home when the crazy thing decided it wasn't going to turn on anymore. UGH!

Destiny took this of me shooting. I didn't know she had done this until I got home and was going to post the pictures.

Another picture of me shooting.

This is a close up of the pumpkins and half the t.v. before the shooting began.

Full view of t.v. and pumpkins before shooting.

After my shots. Yo can see the crack in the screen from corner to corner.

After Mike's shots to the t.v. We three got 10 each, then Dave shot it with the 12 gauge. Then it was free for all at the t.v. and pumpkins.

My one shot that went through.

Somehow a 22 bullet went between the two pumpkins and did what you see in the above pictre.

Small hole to the bottom left of the mouth.

Ddestiny looking at the back of the t.v. after her shots.

She made it drop some glass.

I wonder is this the part that stopped the silly t.v. from turning on????

Some grated pumpkins.

Big hole now. Now the thing definately isn't turning on. lol.

This was after a 12 gauge shot.

Dave going to shoot it with the shot gun.

Before he shot the pumpkin with the shot gun.

Destiny checking out the back of the t.v. and pumpkins.

That dark gray sortof rectangle in the middle of the picture is a shot to see how thick t.v. glass really is. Now you know one reason why this thing was so darn heavy.

Dave firing some last shot gun shots at it before we cleaned up our mess, took the t.v. to the dump, and went home.

Close up look at the t.v. screen and through the screen when we were all done.

Close up of the mess.

Some last and final pictures of blowing up the t.v. and pumpkins. Finally knocked them off the top of the t.v.

Look at that. Mike put the pumpkin on the right back on the t.v. after Dave shot it.

Mike putting the pumpkin on the t.v.

You can see through it even from behind. lol.

Halloween 2010

Destiny is a Hippie, Michael is Jack the Pumpkin King!

Austin

Austin was chasing Ms. Kitty around to give her a hug. She ran up on the top bunk thinking she was safe. WRONG! He followed her up there, but she jumped off. So then he was a monkey jumping on the bed.

Cousins!

Destiny, Michael, and little Austin having a ball playing at Pioneer Park. He is such a cutie!!

Labor Day with the Family

Below you will find pictures of the Labor Day Parade in Pioche, Nevada. We were about in the middle of town by the Overland Hotel. Stephen, Stacia and their girls were there. Kenzee had a blast running out for candy. Baby Sydnee must have enjoyed the parade to she was so good and quiet. It was nice to spend time with the girls. Of course when Emmy came in the house she remembered that she calls Dave "Aunt David", and me she called "Uncle Kristi" Silly girl. The parade was nice. Stacia told us the girls get more candy at the parades here in Lincoln County then they do in St. George. Well enjoy the pictures.

Labor Day Parade Pictures!

Michael goofing off before the start of the parade. He wanted me to take this picture. I then had to promptly tell him not to do it again, as his little cousins were watching and I didn't need them to think this was ok.

Destiny is all the way on the right, which actually is the middle of the picture. She's still playing the flute.

Michael, Emmy, Lex, and Rylee running out to pick up candy. Not too many kids where we were at, so I think the big kids each filled a gallon zip lock bag with candy.
This is the Donohue election float.
The Lincoln County High School Cheerleaders. They even stopped and sort of danced on the way down the hill.
There is Destiny way over infront of the rear tire of that car in the picture. They just finished playing their song. The songs they played were Jeremiah was a Bullfrog, Riffs, and the school song.