Martin's Roasting Party

Darla and Ken put together a wonderful party for our dear friend Martin who has contacted colon cancer. A bunch of friends gathered together to honor him and tell so many stories of Martin and his crazy things he would do. This is Corilee peeking through the chip basket. Everybody brought Mexican Pot Luck. It was a great night visiting old friends.
Julie and Marvin, great friends who had moved out of the ward.
This is Martin getting the "last word" in like he normally does.
This is a group shot of everyone that came.

Birthday Trip

We met our good friends in Las Vegas - Shawn and Jane from Calif. and celebrated Ricks birthday and their anniversary. We stayed in the very modern and lovely "Aria" which is pictured below. I enjoyed it very much.


Jane and I were kissing up to our dear friend Elvis.
This is the newest hotel "The Cosmepolitan" which is very glittery and different.
This was taken at the Belogio. Anything horsey I gravitate to.
We visited the little know outpost called the "Mormon Fort". A historical state park at the north end of the strip. This is where the mormons came and settled Las Vegas. The first white people to do so.

My highlight of the trip was to visit the Pawn Shop where my favorite TV show is filmed called "Pawn Stars". I got a glimpse of Chummlie, and Big Hoss, and Rick and the "Old Man" out in the parking lot. We waited in line for 20 min before we could go in. Then when we got in they told us to get out because they were going to film inside the store.Here is Rick and Shawn looking at a motorcycle (of course) in the pawn shop. I got a T shirt.
This is a very expensive and priceless sculpture done by the famous Henry Moore which was positioned outside our hotel.

This is outfront our hotel "Aria" we had a really great time, eating lots of Buffets and walking our feet off shopping and talking. Happy Birthday Rick....

My Pummelvision

Horsin Around

Kenzie having fun on a friends horse up at Tyler Farm. I even got to ride it. But it was such a slow pokey horse it wasn't any fun.

Jon and the hosp.

Jon thought he was having a heart attack and went to the ER to get checked out. This happened about 2 weeks ago and he's perfectly alright. But this is a funny picture of his sympathetic brothers looking in on him. I think they were looking at funny videos to cheer him up. Doctors couldn't find anything wrong but said because he had ridden on a 6 hour bike ride the day before and a 5 hr. bike ride that day a little bit of enzymes could leak out of the heart to make it feel like and look like a heart attack. He's also been under stress from finals too. I think stress has so much to do with our health. I love to do yoga as my main exercise and I feel so much better and it's such a great stress reducer.

Choo-Choos

Carson is really into trains lately. Especially ones like Thomas the Train. We went to McCormick Railroad Park last night and waited in line for 1hr. and 15 min. in the cold to ride the
kiddie train. But it was so much fun and wasn't bad since we weren't the ones waiting in the long line. We got the fun job of taking Carson around looking at all the sights while Danny and Lachelle did the standing.
It cost $2.00 per person to ride and they pack them in about 100 people per train. Notice the one box car is called "Carson" and Colorado. The train goes around the park and they have alot of Christmas scenes all lit up. The ride takes about 5 min. from start to finish.
They also have toy trains that go around a track indoors with landscape scenery and little buildings.
Lots of animated characters walking around to keep the kids happy.
Carson was in Train Heaven.

Mesa Temple Christmas Lights 2010

Every year we visit the temple at Christmas to see the beautiful lights. This year we took some of Kenzie's non mormon friends to see the lights and met up with Ricks Singles Ward for their FHE night.
Here's a reflection in the pool of the temple.


Merry Christmas