Our new SUV!

I keep wanting to call it a truck, but its not its a SUV!


And I drive it!



:0)

 Im so excited!
It's not brand new, but its new to me and thats all that matters


On Monday night we went to a Dodge dealership that [1st] totally ignored us [2nd] kept trying to push cars on us that we didn't want and kept telling us that we couldnt get the car we wanted for the monthly payment we wanted (they didnt know we were putting money down) so after being ignored and lied too (I called about a specific car, when we got there they gave us the run around as to where it was), we decided to give up. John Watson Chevrolet is on the way home and was having a sale so we decided to stop there. After telling the sales guy what we (I) wanted:


4X4
Low Miles
Fit 2 dogs and {one day} a kiddo or two


He showed us the trailblazers first, and we just kept walking cause we wern't crazy about the way they looked on the outside. After showing us an awesome Equinox and realizing it was out of our price range, I agreed to look at the Trailblazers the 1st one was an '08 and it was ok, but the 2nd one had dual control A/C! It was an '09 and had all the bells and whistles. After arguing with my practical side (the '08 had 2K less miles and cost 2K less thant the '09) we decided to take the newer one for a test drive. It was really fun and we decided to take it! I love love love the dual control ac/heater (that eliminates the argument that always happens on trips, I want cold, Gary wants warm), leather seats, and all kindsa cool stuff. Plus it meets all my requirements!
And it helped that we had an awesome non-pushy sales guy (but he also didnt ignore us).




P.S. to the dodge dealership...we ended up spending more than we planned on and still got the payment we wanted!!

New Mexico Trip

The two women in my life who I admire and love the most! My mom and my Nana.

The three of us, I miss nights like this when we were all able to just hang out and goof around.

My birthday dinner with my mom, brother and fried ice cream! I look awful cause I just had gotten off a plane!! What am I talking about? I went on a makeup strike the whole time I was down there, so ignore my zits please.

My trip was wonderful, I love my family and I love spending time with them. Nothing makes you appreciate what you have until its not there anymore. I even had a great time with my brother I love him so much, Im just waiting for him to get out of his rebellious teen thing.

Yellowstone!

For our anniversary we went to Yellowstone! We stayed at a really nice hotel and they upgraded us to a suite...it was soo nice. I absolutely love it there! I want to move there and have a pet buffalo! We had a great time, took lots of pictures and learned a lot!!

Gary with Snaggletooth at the Yellowstone Museum.

Me in front of something steaming...I think this was part of the lower geyser trail.

My fancy anniversary dinner, it was yummy...wasn't worth $30 a plate though.

I love how the river runs through the geothermal stuff.

This was called Emerald pool (or lake?) anyway, it was so beautiful!

A pan of the lower geyser area.

My buffalo!

I named him "Jack". He was next to our truck!

Old Faithful

We were lucky we didn't have to wait long, maybe 5 minutes. But there were so many people there!!

An Elk herd near Mammoth Falls.

At our hotel in West Yellowstone, there was a section of the "Yellowstone Special" which used to service Yellowstone back in the day. It was really neat, they had the original bed with linens set up, original tables with the plates they used on the train! I wish I could post all the pictures.

Overall we had a great time and finally got to go on a vacation where it was just us. On the way home we went through part of Wyoming and I saw all these cute little towns. Makes me kinda miss home...a little lol.

FishFish swimming in heaven and other updates

So I have been awful at taking pictures lately, so Im just going to give a quick recap of whats been going on in our 'excititng' lives.

FishFish died and went to fishy heaven while I was in New Mexcio. Im sad, and feel somewhat guilty because I wasn't a very good fishy mom these last few months of his life. Maybe he died of neglect? We had him for 3 years though, I guess thats a long time to live for a Beta. Gary forgot about him while I was gone for 3 weeks, so I think the poor lil guy starved. FishFish...may you swim in peace :)

We sold the chickens! Not that we didnt enjoy the fresh eggs, but the hens stunk so bad! We had a wave of rainy weather that lasted about a month. And during that time it smelled like chicken doo all over the place, if we opened the window it would stink, if we were sitting in the front yard we could still smell them! Gary said the lady that bought them knew nothing about chickens, but I hope they are in good hands. It's a lot cheaper for me to pay $3 for a dozen organic eggs then to buy $16 worth of chicken feed. So Im ok with this.

Its almost our anniversary!! Were going to Yellowstone for 2 days and sightsee part of Wyoming the other two days! I know everyone goes camping at Yellowstone, but I will be camping at the Holiday Inn! Gary wants to take the tent and sleeping bags just incase...I have a feeling we will camp at least 1 night!!

I joined a gym! And got a trainer! I have never been a fan of the gym, mostly cause I get bored in them. But having a trainer has made everything a lot more fun! I havent lost any weight. But Im sure it will come off soon enough. Having PCOS makes it hard to lose weight, so I think once my body figures out whats going on, things will take off!

Thats all I can think of for now...

Our weekend trip 1/24/08

On the 23rd we headed out to Prescott, AZ so we could pick up some left over materials from when Gary was working down there. Friday night the weather wasn't to bad, until we hit Beaver, UT. From there the road was really foggy, so we decided to stay the night in Kanab, UT. I LOVE that place!! I wish we could move there, it's so beautiful and small. We made it to Prescott the next day and Gary loaded up and we planned on driving back home, well again, as we were driving it got insanely foggy and we had to stay the night in Kanab (darn! lol). The next morning we headed home and it was the most beautiful drive! Here are some pics.

This is where Gary was in the accident before Christmas...he found his license plate!
A Tom turkey and 5 hens on a golf course in Kenab

The Lake Powell Dam The river that feeds into lake Powell, the canyons were beautiful!