Horse Ride

This picture is at our Lodge. They had fun things around to take pictures of.

another part of the lodge.

We did a 1/2 day ride on horses into the Capital Reef State Park. It was amazing to see this park on horseback. I had the white horse and Sid had the brown horse in the middle. My hose always wanted to eat and stop. I had to pull on the reins all morning. The weather held off until the last 5 minutes

Here is Sid in his "riding" clothes (hee hee) His wranglers and cowboy shirt!! I was so embarrassed to be seen with him in this stuff! He does look cute though don't you think??? Don't forget the binoculars around his neck. He won't ever leave those at home!!

The Lodge

We stayed at this amazing place for our 34th anniversary. It even had buffalo in the front pasture to gaze out each morning and evening during breakfast. I still want one on my wall!

This is our private little patio out our room. The view was beautiful with the stream and red rock formations.

We ate at a local little place and had a great big hamburger and onion rings! Sid and I both enjoyed this great little place.

This is the front of the lodge where we stayed. It has 15 rooms that are all different and a great little restaurant that serves breakfast during the week and dinner on the weekends.

Trip to Utah

This was our first look at Zip from his kennel. We were thrilled to finally see him and see what a great looking dog he is. He came right out and went straight for Sid and gave us a friendly greeting!

Zip is shorter than Rusty but much more muscular in build. He is a very sweet dog and does not growl or bite at things. He will just lick you to death!!

We stopped at Kandis and Nic's place before we picked up Zip and had some fun with Nixon. He is getting so big and laughs and chuckles so cute. Very healthy little guy!! A delight to play with.

A New Baby Girl!!!

Ava has a new little girl to share her toys with now!!! You are looking at our new little baby schnauzer! I got her for our 34th Anniversary present. Call me crazy but I could not resist this cute little girl. Ava likes watching her run around and chase her toys. I still have not heard her bark yet so I hope that is a good sign.

Here is another shot of her. She is really small and I am sure she will be smaller than Pepper. She has a really small head and feet. She weighs 3 pounds now and she is 9 weeks old. She was born on April 6th.

She is black with a little white on her chest and the tips of her feet. I am trying to decided on a name but so far I think I will call her "Betty Boop". Little Betty is so excited for all of you to come and visit and see her in July!!

Many of you already know we are going to Utah Sunday to see Kandis and Nic and then pick up Sid's new dog "Zip" the yellow pointing lab. We are excited to see him and hope he is a good match for Sid. He is already trained and turned 2 in May of this year. We will let you know how that goes when we return next Saturday. In the mean time Christy and Mike will be watching my new little girl and trying to teach her good things!!! Like not going potty in the house!!

Working Hard in the Yard

The last couple of weeks we have been working really hard in the yard to plant the beautiful flowers that give me so much joy to look at out our windows. I just love driving up to my home and seeing all the wonderful color!! Mark and Judy McKinney are quite the experts in helping me with picking out the flowers and they even came and worked really hard with me to plant all the flats of flowers. Mark adjusted the sprinklers and checks them when he drives by and taught me how to kill all the snails and bugs that attack my plants. Mark and Judy are wonderful~!!

I think this is kind of patriotic!! They should be really big by the 4th of July.

Don't you just want to walk up this path and read a book if I just had a chair to sit on! I think I should be on the cover of Sunset Magazine! thanks Mark and Judy.

A couple of trips

OK, these are totally backwards from when we traveled but here goes anyway. The first pictures are of our trip to Anaheim for the dental convention. It was beautiful weather and just fun to be able to sit by the pool and relax all day while Sid went and learned a bunch about dentistry!! I did go to some classes with him and found them to be very interesting but for the most part I just lazed around all day and just had fun. At night we would walk to Disney Walk and find a good place to eat. We saw the movie Star Trek on the IMAX theater and that was really great. I had the honor of sitting next to a true start trek fan and he was obsessed with every bit of the movie. He made sounds of delightment (I just made up that word!) through the whole thing!! It was fun! This tree is by the convention center and across from Disneyland. It is HUGE!! Sid had to climb up it to give you the perspective of the size of this thing. Seriously HUGE!

We went to Utah to bless Nixon and these are some shots that are on my camera of Nixon. Sid has some really good ones that he needs to load on the computer so I can blog them for you. Enjoy!

I thought this was a funny look on Nixons face with grandpa!! He looks surprised for some reason.

We went to lunch at the Riverwoods and this was a picture of Nixon and I outside enjoying the sunshine. He is such a chunk!

Mexico Trip 2009

A couple of weeks ago Sid and I took the office staff to Mexico for a week of rest and relaxation. I am just now getting to post about some of the things that we did. I, in no way have all of the wonderful pictures to show you but thought I better get some of the things on this blog for all of you to enjoy. We had such a wonderful time and the girls were so delighted to go and be pampered the whole week. They all enjoyed the manicure, pedicure and massages. The 24 hour room service, the non stop poolside drinks, food and what ever they wanted. I think what I enjoyed most was the tours and the non stop laughing and good times. What a treat to see Mike speak Spanish to everyone and seem so comfortable. It had been 5 years since his mission in this area but he slipped right back into Spanish mode and it was great watching him feel so comfortable. We loved the beautiful weather and the people in the Mayan Riviera are so wonderful. We did make it to Cozomel so Sid and Mike could dive. The girls just relaxed by the pool at the Palace in Cozomel and rested. The shopping in Playa was fun and we saw the worlds smallest monkey!! For $5 they would LET you take a picture of it with your own camera!! Mike got some great buys on some hammocks which we enjoyed laying in at the resort! We ate at the Playa Del Carmen Palace resort and watched the sun set on the beach. We spent a day at the Moon Palace which is closer to the downtown part of Cancun. The resort was HUGE and we were glad we spent the week at Aventura which is about an hour south of Cancun. We had a chance to zipline so we did that one day and loved it. It was kind of scary for me but I did it!! I truly think this is one of my favorite places to vacation. Sid just loves the fun and the relaxing so I am so glad we have a favorite place that we can go together. I hope you enjoy the pictures and seeing what a great time we had in Cancun. Anyone up for a trip next year???