Sunday, September 28, 2008

Wow

I was catching up on everyone's blogs and looked at mine and couldn't believe it's been 10 days since I posted. But (there's always a but) it's been so crazy around here that it doesn't surprise me. Thurs. I took Zac's class up Laimolle Canyon on a field trip, it was a bunch of fun. The whole second grade from Sage Elem. went. The other driver was Mathew's mom Lori. Mathew & Zac are in the same class. It kind of sucked that the teacher wouldn't let Mathew ride Lori's bus since I was driving the one with their class. I didn't understand it but I'm not the teacher. We still had a lot of fun. The kids had a list of leaves and wilderness stuff to collect. So you have 60 some odd 2nd graders stripping the forest for their project....... hmmmmm. Still it was a beautiful fall day in the canyon and a good time was had by all.
It's been so crazy with field trips this week I am now officially sleep deprived and I told the dispatcher not to call me monday morning even if they do need me. Friday I took Elko football to Sparks. We left Elko 8:00 fri. morning and I got back to the bus yard at 3:00 sat. morning. In fact when I walked in my door sat. morning I had been up for 25 hrs. And I turned around and headed back to Fernley (which is 30 miles from Reno/Sparks) for a relief drive. The nice part was I got to be the chauffeur, meaning I drove the 2 drivers that were relieving the original drivers and I drove back to Elko by myself. I still didn't get home till almost 3:00 AM however. So needless to say I'm pretty tired. Zac has a buddy over and they're playing Wii games so I'm having just a restful afternoon.

Friday, September 19, 2008

Here's to you

Yesterday was Dad's birthday. We sure miss him. So here's to you Pop...................

Next stop

It's hard to believe it's friday already. It's been a hard week. Stupid me took a KT run yesterday morning. Even though I got back form Fallon by about 9:00 PM wed. night I though I should work as much as I can so I took a 10 hr. Barrick run. My alarm went off at 2:30 yesterday morning and I did not want to get up. So I reset it for 3:30 AM and did the quick get ready. Consisting of brushing my teeth getting dressed and just a quick makeup thing so I wouldn't look too horrible. The nice part was since it was a 10 hr. run they leave the buses at the mine sight and just drive one back so I got to rest on the drive home. Then I did a few things around the house before going to the vet in the afternoon. Seven needed his next shots and Chance has broke out with a rash. Hopefully it's just a skin infection. The vet told me the other option is that it could be an auto immune disease. I think it's an infection but boy is he sure miserable. He itches everywhere! I have to run to the store and get him some benedryl for the itching. By the way the pic is of Zac and Seven sleeping on the way back last week...... cute huh?

Sunday, September 14, 2008

around & around we go

I started this post on Sunday I think and here I am on Tues. night sitting in a Choice Hotel, hotel room in Fallon, NV. Why am I sitting in a Choice Hotel room you ask? I brought Spring Creek High School FFA (Future Farmers of America) here for a freshman green conference. So what's happened in the last 5 days? Friday afternoon we headed to SLC to add the latest addition to our family. May I welcome 'Prestige Seven of Eight? AKA Seven. We spent Fri. night with Courtney and Alexis and Conner. Conner is really starting to come out of his shell. He spent a lot of time sitting in my lap and talking to me! It was great. Poor Lexi has had a tummy ache most of the week so she was pretty tired but she did tell me all about not feeling good. Sat. morning we went down to Lehi so Michael could change the oil in Rick's truck.... oh yea we took Rick's truck this trip. Sat. afternoon was spent with Mom & Eric. Eric ended up giving us the idea for Seven's name which was a really good thing cause I kept telling Rick that his name was NOT going to be 'puppy'. We had decided that we really needed to go home sat. night as there was lots that needed to be caught up with at home. Then we headed to John & Ashleigh's to visit with Greyson. I can't believe how big he's getting, oh and we wanted to spend time with John & Ashleigh also! Lonaka had gone to see her sister so we missed seeing her and Brianna and Skyler and Jordan.............. sure missed getting to see them. We got back to Spring Creek at about 1:00 AM, up again at 7:00 AM, funny how a puppy will get you up in the morning. He did really well during the ride home. His breeder was a bit concerned since he hadn't liked the car ride to meet us and make the change but he curled up on the back seat with Zac and Chance and had a good ride home. SO Sunday was catch up day. We got most of what we'd planned done, in between playing with Seven of course. Chance is thrilled to have a puppy friend to play with and Seven is holding his own. We're still working on the potty training issue but if I keep a close eye on him he does alright. You notice I said 'I'? Hmmmmmm anyway after Sunday comes Monday. I drove for KT in the morning and the Schools for the afternoon. And now here I am sitting in a Choice Hotel room. My original post was way cooler than this and a bit more weird and scatter brained but the computer had a 'glitch' saving it and there it went into cyber space so I tried to recreate it at least in spirit.
So? how was your week?

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Waiting

So here I am sitting in West Wendover, NV waiting for the Carlin volleyball team. Yes a lot of my job is hurry up & wait. Hurry up and pick them up.... hurry up and get to the game and hurry up and wait for them to be finished. Then hurry up and get them fed and home. Tough job huh? Now I have a myspace and a facebook and this blog. Can you believe that? I did the myspace so I could see the pic's Ashleigh put there of Greyson and found a few people I know and a friend of mine has facebook and she told me that it's the best way to stay in touch with her! Is there any other one I can join? Oh brother!

Sunday, September 7, 2008

Home again, home again, jiggidy jigg.....

I'm back home again after a very short trip to Las Vegas. I got to be a passenger there and back and spent most of the day friday shuttling the teams to the various places they needed to be. It was really hot there and every time I saw a Clark county school bus I was very envious of their AC! Luckily after I was finished my sister Margaret picked me up and we went to her Condo and I took a shower to wash off all the sweat. We spent the evening visiting and having Chinese for dinner which was wonderful. That's why I took the trip so I could see my sister. Mean while Rick and Zac had fun at home. Rick fell back to sleep after getting Zac ready for school so Zac got to play hooky friday and hang out with Dad! They were both happy to see me when I finally got home early sat. morning. Man is that a long ride! I was happy to be off the bus and home as well.

Thursday, September 4, 2008

2:45 AM

So what am I doing up at this early hour? I just got back form Reno where the Elko High boys Soccer played at Diamonte Ranch High... they won! Yeah. And now I have to get some sleep so I can go to Las Vegas with Spring Creek High Football. It won't be bad cause I don't have to drive down there. I get to be Chauffeur when we get there. They are sending 4 drivers and 2 buses but because of DOT regulations we can't drive that many hours. Did I mention it's an 8 hr. driver from here? Am I making any sense? Good night all..................................

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

New puppy name pool!

Here's a pic of the new puppy we're going to be adding to the family. His breeder, Prestige Aussie's, is in Riverton (Utah) and it looks like we're going either the weekend of the 13-14 or 20-21 to get him. His breeder has shows both weekends and we're going to have to work it in around her schedule. Hmmm it will be interesting. I have to go to Reno on Wed. with Soccer and to Las Vegas with football for thurs. & fri. so I don't know if going this weekend will be an option. Hmmm again..... now the important next step is picking a name. What do you think? I do like meeting a dog first and getting to know the personality but what do you think for a name just on his looks? Keep in mind that most breeder's require their kennel name to be part of the registered name. Also you have the registered name and the call name. The call name being the one you actually use. So Chance's name is...... Megabucks Chance of a Lifetime..... and Chance is his call name. Katie was...... Barking Frogs Buddha Belly...... when we got her her name was Buddhee. I quickly changed it to Katie. Red was.... Annie's Red Merlin Mountain...... Red. So help me pick a name and you get bragging rights!