Time Flies When You Are Having Fun!

The last few months have been fun and eventful.........

San Juan County Fair-Kids' Rodeo (Aug. 14)
Here are some of the kids waiting for their turn to ride!

Look at Ladd "the Cowboy," bustin' that muttin'! It looks like he's about to fall off, but he rode that muttin' for a long time!

Javen "the Cowboy" rode a steer, he fell off and then got stepped on. The ambulance took him to the hospital and he ended up being flown to Grand Junction. He had some cracked vertebra and a broken shoulder blade. He wore a neck brace for weeks. He's lucky. He's as good as new now.

.....even after Javen's drama, Jessie and Taylor "cowboyed-up" and rode. They both did good. Jessie even placed in her division. Here is Justin congratulating Jessie on a good ride.

Trent and his motorcycle gang went on a trip in September. They went to Yosemite (half dome in the background) and Lake Tahoe.

Trent and I had our 1 year anniversary!! I was up in SLC for work, Trent came up for the weekend and we went shopping, went to Lagoon and stayed at Anniversary Inn. We stayed in the Mississippi Serenade room. We had breakfast in bed the next morning : )

Trent and I had a day off together, so we went fishing on the San Juan River....we didn't catch anything. But we had a good time.
Tis' the Season for Hunting! (Oct.) Elk Camp up on the La Sal Mts. "The only thing that could ruin this trip is if someone got an elk." -Cole Holliday

October has always been a busy month in the cattle business. Everyone made the annual mecca to Colorado to ship the calves. (No pictues : ( I had to leave early for work) And then on Oct. 21 Shawn and Tyler had their first shipping day since they made their big purchase. (A cattle ranch) Here are all the ladies, running the manual scales.


Trent's aunt Kathy hooked us up with Jazz tickets. We had dinner before the game and we had sweet seats. Jazz won by 2 points in the second overtime.

GO JAZZ!
Kathy also hooked us up with "Bear" for pictures.

A Holliday Holiday

Thirty-eight Hollidays loaded up for a summer holiday. Grandma Joey rented a nice big beach house for all of us, so we took 10 days off of work and went to San Diego.

We caravanned through the desert, and one of the cars was over heating....

And here's why! Holy Moly, that's HOT!!!

We went to the Mormon Battalion Museum

We went for a cruise on the hogs.....

on the PCH.

We played on the beach

We went to Sea World.....I love Shamu!

We went to the Price Is Right! Tanner got called down!

We went to the Wild Animal Park

It was a great HOLIDAY. Packed with GOOD times, FUN places, DELICIOUS food and GREAT people!!!

We did it!

We are HOME OWNERS! We took the plunge! We are deeper in debt. We bought a house. As my sister-in-law likes to call it, we bought "a cabin." We closed on June 7th! Woo Hoo! It was an exciting day. Scary, nerve racking, but exciting.

"The Cabin"

We got everything moved in......

Then we decided to get new carpet upstairs.....

Ta Daa!!

Then we finally unpacked everything!

Wheeew. I don't want to move again for a loooooong time. : )

Ragnasty!

Me and 11 other ladies did the Wasatch Back relay race. (aka, Ragnar. aka, Ragnasty) It was.......it was.....well there are so many words you could use to describe it. It was fun, funny, tiring, hot, brutal, long, exciting, hard, creative, busy, crowded, annoying, nasty, but overall it really was a good time.

Together we ran 188 miles, from Logan to Park City. We each ran 3 legs. Our finishing time was 33 hours 8 mins.

Christian, Adrienne, Mandy and Sunny. Getting ready to head to our starting line.

Let the running begin! Go Sunny Go!

Passing the baton to Holly......

We had a few hour break....we rested in the park with about 5,000 other runners.

We had to wear these flashy vests after dark.

Mandy finishes one of her legs, Christian starts one of her legs.

One of the many "creative" runners.

Heather finishes the "Ragnar" leg. 4 miles. 1678 ft. elevation gain. 52:48.3 Way to go Heath!

The scenery was AWESOME!

Heather thought she was a professional flagger.

On our next few hour break we had a camper to crash in, but with only 2 hours of sleep, only junk food to eat, and no shower, you wake up feeling pretty crappy.

Oh the sweet sweet honey bucket, my home away from home for a few days.

We did it!!! We finished!!!

Way to go team!!!

4 Days - 6 States - 1,749 Miles

And it was all on a motorcycle!!!

T minus 2 days: Clean the bike. Must be nice and shiny for the big trip. We cleaned the bike on Wed. because it was the only time we had before we left on Fri. morning.

Day 1: Blanding, UT - Roswell, NM. 580 miles. I got off work @ 6am, we left @ 6:30am. (Who knew you could sleep on a motorcycle?) We were all bundled up, me in my snow pants and winter coat, Trent in his leather coat and new leather chaps that he got the day before. We stopped somewhere in NM for lunch, by then it was so HOT! We all peeled off some layers.

We went through Lincoln county, which is "Billy the Kid" country. There was a museum but we got there about 20 mins. after closing time. So we just walked around the little town and read the signs and looked through the windows of the buildings.

Trent, J.J. Bradford, John Imlay, Cole Holliday

If you've seen "Young Guns" or any other Billy the Kid movie, you'll recognize these names and places.

By the end of day 1 we were hot and tired and pretty sun burned. Trent was very sun burned. We stayed in Roswell, NM, alien capital. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_UFO_Incident

I'm sad I didn't get any pictures of the alien museum and all the alien shops.

Day 2: Roswell, NM - Guymon, OK. 378 miles. We went through Fort Sumner. We went to a big Billy the Kid museum. There was so much stuff to see and read. Fort Sumner is where Billy the Kid is buried.

The head stone is all caged up because......

From Fort Sumner we went through Texas and ended up in Oklahoma.

This was my view for 4 days.....

...this was my view if I leaned to the side.

Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas are flat and windy. Not much to look at, except for cows and big green fields.

This is one of the many feed lots we passed. Right when we crossed the border into TX, there were a couple HUGE feed lots. I am talking 1,000s and 1,000s of cows in pen after pen. It's was crazy and quite potent.

Not much scenery, but pretty at times.

Day 3: Guymon, OK - Walsenburg, CO. 425 miles. We made it to Dodge City, KS on day 3. One of our main destinations. An old western town that was at one time or another, home to Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and Trent's relative, Doc Holliday.

Trent standing by an old jail cell.

Me standing in the Boot Hill cemetery.

To escape the heat, we took a break and a cold drink in the dance hall/saloon.

The boys were pretty excited about this dance hall girl.

They went to church and repented of their many sins.

Trent watching an old time "movie."

Trent thought this was funny. (The gift shop sold paper that was made from cow manure.)

After riding across the flats plains for 3 days we were glad to see this.....

Mountains!!

We got to our hotel and watched the news. There were tornado warnings in Kansas and baseball-sized hail in one of the towns we had just gone through. Yikes!

Day 4: Walsenburg, CO - Blanding, UT. 366 miles. We were excited to get back to the mountains, but the closer to the mountains we got, the colder it got. We went over Wolf Creek Pass (elv. 10,863 ft.). Brrrrrrr! It was bitter bitter cold. It was really pretty but hard to enjoy because it was so cold.This is on the way up to the summit of the pass, up on top there was a lot more snow and it was windy. Very cold!

Looking back at the mountains we just rode through.

We stopped in Pagosa Springs to warm up and eat some lunch. Lunch was good, but we never warmed up. I was chilled for a few days.

It was a fun trip. Lots of miles, lots of states, hot weather, cold weather. Good times. I was glad that Trent let me go on their "boys trip." I can't wait to hear where the next trip will be.