The New Year: January 2011

Sept. 2010-- The Utah State Fair

I finally did it! I went and worked at the fair with my BFF Zanette! I was so excited but also very nervous about leaving my kids. I made these two scrapbook pages so far of the pictures I loved. I met a new friend named Daren and he took a lot of these pictures. To give him credit, I will mention his name for the ones he took.

Daren took all of these pictures and I thought they were sooooo cool!

Here is a picture of the butter cows. Everything is made of pure butter!! Awesome!!

Here is the carnival-- no I didn't go on any rides-- even if I would have wanted to, Zanette would not have let me. She said that NO one should ride a ride put up in one day. I agreed with her.

There were many things I loved about the fair. The very best thing was getting to spend A LOT of time with my bff. I also loved people watching and believe me, the fair is an awesome place to do that. Daren took this photo

Joann, Ernie and Zanette on night shift

Grace, Joann, Donna and me-taken by Daren. Don't you love the red vests we had to wear?

Here is a list of other things I loved at the fair:

smelling the cotton candy

shopping at the booths

watching the rodeo and listening to the concerts

being in the summer sun all day and night

meeting so many cool people

the hymotist

getting all the free stuff from the vendors (Zanette and I really worked the system and got sooo much for free from food to sunglasses)

My family really suffered while I was gone so I don't know if I will go again year. I had to get 5 or more people to take care of my responsibilities. It didn't help that Kyra and Abbey got the throat flu while I was gone. We'll see when the time comes I guess.

Aug 2010-- The Cache County Fair

Abbey and Trevor were intrigued by the goats!!

Going to the Cache County Fair is a family tradition. Abbey, Trevor and Bobby were going to a Real Soccer game so they only stayed awhile but we did get to see all the animals. Every year my kids beg me to take home a bunny and I do admit they are very cute but we don't need a bunny!!

After the other kids left, I let Kyra and Jakie ride some rides. It is definitely not my most favorite part of the fair, in fact we usually don't let them ride but I did this time since they didn't get to go to the soccer game.

I think they had fun cuz they didn't want to stop but the money ran out eventually!!

Aug 2010-- who is more nervous?? ME

I can't believe it- my baby is starting middle school ( he would be mad if he heard me call him that)!!! How did he grow up so fast. I was really nervous for it all to start but I'm glad they let us come early to check everything out. I helped Trevor figure out his combination and find all his classes. He also got his picture taken that day. After it was all done I was less nervous. Because Trevor was in Discovery he got this huge special locker. The other 6 graders had these skinny half lockers so he lucked out.

Look at that determination!!

Aug 2010- Our new RV

Here is one picture of the inside of our new RV

Here it is!! It is a 1973 Eldorado--isn't it pretty!!

My uncle lives in Cheyenne, Wyoming and he had an RV that he was just going to give us. The only catch is that we had to drive his car (my aunt had it) there and drive the RV back. It was a 6-7 hour drive depending how much you stop. We decided to take a Saturday and drive there and back in one day. We left the kids at my moms house and set off. We actually had a really enjoyable trip there but the trip home was the most scary experience of my life so far. My uncle said he had gone through the whole RV so it should have driven fine. We also brought back with us a jet boat and 2- 3 wheeler's. We had a full load for sure. The RV seemed to drive good at first. About an hour out of Cheyenne is when all the trouble started. I was practicing driving because I was going to drive the RV by myself to Park City the next weekend for a soccer tournament so I thought this long drive would be a good chance for me to practice. We made it to Laramie and stopped at a rest stop. When we tried to leave the RV wouldn't start. Bobby thought it was just the battery so he adjusted them and off we went again. We made it quite this far until we had to pull over to change gas tanks. The RV died again in the middle of NOWHERE- seriously NOWHERE. The only cars passing us were truckers and I knew they wouldn't stop to give us a jump. Poor Bobby had to stand out there and flag someone down. Finally, a young guy in a jeep stopped. You could tell he felt sorry for us and he jumped us. At this point Bobby still felt it was the battery cables. The next part of the journey seemed to take forever. By this time we have figured out that it was the alternator that was bad. We figured this out because we had no power. It was starting to get dark and we had NO lights. NONE!! We called a checker auto parts in Rock Springs to see if they had what we needed and see if they would stay open late if we got there late. We were 1 exit away from our destination before we got pulled over, on a hill no less. We left the RV running cuz we figured it would not start again. The policeman was kind of a jerk. He was going to take Bobby to jail and impound the RV because we had no bill of sales, which means both the boat and RV could have been stolen. SERIOUSLY dude the RV isn't even running- who would steal it. We also had no registration or proof of insurance. He gave us a $400 ticket so we weren't very happy. My mom called right at this time very worried about us but I didn't answer the phone or tell her what was happening. When we got back on the road, the RV died right in the middle of the on ramp and the policeman had to jump us, which he told us was against the law also. Anyway, we coasted down this hill and died at the stop light. A teenager gave us a jump and we made it to checker. They were close to closing but they were very, very nice!! One of the guys stayed there and helped us until the alternator was installed and we were on our way. We stopped at Walmart to get some red tape to fix on the red lights on the back, we did not want to get pulled over again. We were both saying some fervent prayers at this point. We still had a long way to go to get back to SL and we needed to hurry and get there to get our kids. We made it home about 2 am in the morning and just stayed in SL for the night. When we went back to Logan we took EVERY single back road Bobby knew to avoid the police. We saw about 6 different ones that day too!! Here are some pictures of the gem ($400+ gem)!!

This is the Lincoln monument we saw on the way there!!

It needs a little work inside, but it is really good shape for it's age!!

P.S. One reason it took me so long to write about getting the RV was that is really was so scary. We had good times with it after that though so in the long run it was worth it!! AND, we got out of the ticket because you have 2 weeks to get a vehicle legal after you buy it before they can impound it or ticket you!!