It's A Girl!!

Now that I have your attention......

It's a Girls' Trip!!!! That's right, our 3rd annual girls' trip. A few months ago me and my friends from high school (we always say high school, but we've actually been friends since elementary or before, so I'm going to say my elementary friends from now on) took a trip up to SLC for the weekend. We'd had it planned many many months beforehand and we all look forward to it. We got a couple big joining hotel rooms and had a big party. Well it was a party for us 30 year olds. We went to our usual dinner spot, Olive Garden. We hit the hot tub a couple times. We did a lot of shopping. We laughed and talked into the wee hours of the morning. We went to see a comedian, Brian Regan. It was a grand ole time. Can't wait till next year.

Lisa, Tamia, Cindy, Erin, Me and Heather

Waiting for the hot tub......

Got the hot tub.

Heather and I playing in the pool.

Testing out some new lipstick.....

Lovely (not so much)

We went to a beauty salon and got "beautified."

Lisa and I were the only ones that dared get "beautified." But everyone was there to support, of course.

Lisa was a brave little soul, not without tears, but she was brave. She said she will never get "beautified" again.

At the Brian Regan show......it was fun and funny.

(I didn't realize that we were matching nerds with our nerdy glasses till I saw this picture. Glad I wasn't the only one.) ; ) The comedy show was fun, but I guess it wasn't fun enough to keep everyone awake. It was in the afternoon, in a nice, warm, dark theater, after going all day and staying up till the wee hours of the morning.....some of us just couldn't keep our eyes open. Well I did, but Heather didn't, Lisa didn't, Cindy didn't....did Tamia? Erin and I had some head bobs, but never fully fell asleep. Anyways, I thought it was funny, the comedian and the sleepers.

Well that's it for this year. Can't wait till our 4th annual girls' trip!!! Love you gals!!!!

Garth Brooks in Las Vegas!

Trent is such a sweetheart. He got me Garth Brooks tickets for my birthday. It only took us about 5 hours on line, waiting and waiting and waiting. And several phone calls that never went through. But we finally got connected and Trent got some tickets for April 11th. I was so excited when he told me, then I remembered that his sister was getting married on the 10th. I wondered if he even thought about that when he was booking the tickets......he didn't. But it all worked out. We left right after the wedding and stayed in St. George, then got up the next morning and went to Vegas! It was awesome! We stayed at the Excalibur, the concert was at the Wynn. It was so cool to see Garth live,again! (I went to his concert about 17 years ago) He sounded so good. It was very casual, he looked like he had just come from a construction site, work boots, hoodie, baseball cap. It was just him and his guitar. Except when Miss Yearwood (that's what Garth called her) joined him on stage. It was awesome. I loved it!!!

The next morning before we left for home, we went to a Titanic exhibit. It was pretty cool. They had it set up like you were walking through a ship and there were all sorts of things that have been recovered from the wreck site over the years. Lots of dishes, some clothes, jewelry, shoes, parts of the ship. There was a HUGE piece of the ship, it weighs about 15 tons. No pictures though : (

We weren't supposed to take phones or cameras into the concert, so we didn't, but when we got there, lots of people had cameras and were snapping away. I wished I had my camera.......this is the only picture we got of Garth.

Here we are at our castle.

In the lobby at the Wynn. (Trent's not big on smiling.)

Me and Elvis

SURPRISE!

Happy Birthday to my sister Michele!!!! That's right, it was her 40th birthday. You would never know it would you? She got 40 black balloons, a few bouquets of flowers, some new cowboy boots, but her best present was a surprise visit from her mom and dad and ALL her siblings and spouses. Michael knew she would love it, so we all made our way up to SLC for a quick weekend. We all met at our meeting place, then were going to go to Payton's baseball game, where Michele was going to be. We were just about to head to the baseball game in our 5 distinguishable cars when Michael calls and says that Michele is leaving the game to go home for a minute....she will be driving RIGHT BY US in our 5 distinguishable cars. We quickly drive to a big parking lot across the street to "hide." David, in his big distinguishable truck, was last to cross the street and just as he was about to do so, Michele drives right in front of him......wheew, she didn't see him. So when she passes, we all drive to the baseball game. We park our 5 distinguishable cars in the corner, hopefully she won't notice. We go and find Michael, cheer on Payton, embarrass him and wait for Michele to come back.......

Here we all are....cheering.....waiting.......

Here she comes!!!!!! (Look how happy Michael is)

WHAT?!? She was so confused, happy, surprised, emotional....

Michele said when she drove up, she saw a big (beautiful) bald head sitting in the stands and thought, "hey, that looks like Trent." But she didn't think anything more of it. She was also surprised to see Mom and Dad, they had been staying at her house that whole week, but they "left" on Friday. They actually just went up the road a few miles and stayed with Uncle Jim and Aunt Kay. They met us on Sat. and went to the baseball game with us.

We went to dinner @ the Texas Road House.

Yum!

"Attention Texas Road House!!! We have Michele here and she's turning 40. Let's all give her a nice loud YEE HAW!"

Back in the saddle again...............It was Keith's birthday the next day. The big 70!

Then we went BoWLiNg! (for Kathryn)

Some of us were good.....

......some of us were not so good.

Some of us needed lots of help.......

Some of us tore it up........

Some of us were more interested in other things.......

......... and I tore it up in skeet ball!

It was a quick, up & back trip. Trent and I had to drive back to Blanding early Sunday morning so I could work a 16 hour shift. It was totally worth it though. We had so much fun!! Happy Birthday to Michele, the best oldest sister I've ever had!!!! Lots of love!!!!!

Bike Trip

This past weekend I headed out on yet another motorcycle trip. Thursday afternoon we headed out of town and spent the night at my great aunts house in Eager Arizona. Being march madness as soon as we arrived at the house we all sat in front of the TV and watched college basketball and drank Mountain Dew all night. The next morning we got up loaded the motorcycle and made our way to Tombstone Arizona. The first few hours of the day were extremely cold as we had to go up and over a snowy, windy mountain. That we made it to tombstone that evening and toured the old town and old buildings. It was pretty cool to see the old stuff and think of what life would have been like back then. We found ourselves getting up way early the next morning as we had a very long day ahead of us. We headed up to Tuscan to take in the Pima Air & space museum and lunch at Famous Dave's. Its pretty sad that we plan our whole trips around what city's have a Famous Dave's Restaurant. Anyway the air museum was way awesome and and thousands of awesome airplanes. With the coolest of them all the SR-71 Blackbird. That night we arrived in Yuma Arizona. Another night of sitting in our motel eating pizza and drinking MT Dew and watching more college basketball. (Dang BYU). The following morning we went and toured the old Yuma Territorial Prison. I sure wish we would treat prisoners now a days as they were treated back then lol. If your ever in the area I would recommend taking the time to tour this old prison. After the prison we headed for the Hover Damn making a stop in Lake Havasu. Havasu was a little crazy being college spring break. The reason for the stop in Havasu was to see the London Bridge. Yes the actual London Bridge. With plans to build a new bridge in London the auctioned off the old bridge. some dude bought it and it was taken down piece by piece and assembled in Lake Havasu. We spent longer In Havasu then planned so we had to ride really fast to make it up to Boulder City Nevada to see the hoover damn before it got dark. As we were dropping off the hill into the dam I was thinking it was going to be to dark to see anything then I remembered that I still had my sunglasses on haha. We rode over the dam and stopped on the other side. It was dark by now and we decided to keep on going and to try and make it to Kingman Arizona.. Spent the night in Kingman and got up early and headed back to Blanding. On the way home we stopped at the Grand Canyon. I gotta say I didn't think there was anything Gran about it it. It was pretty ugly and not very impressive. I would rather go look at Dark Canyon on Elk ridge. After the stop at the canyon we booked it home so we could be home before dark. thanks to John, Cole, and J.J for making the trip a great one. After five days with the guys it sure was good to get back and see my wife;)

A few headstones in the Boothill graveyard
Old Downtown Tombstone These are the rooms for the prostitutes. These rooms would cost25 bucks a night
Doc Holliday's Table. Yes we are related

Tombstone's Original Hearse Prison Tower and water tank Notice the Toilet (can). It would get emptied once a week The London Bridge