Happy Birthday Zac

Yes the day has arrived! Zac is 7 today. And what better day than Friday the 13th. We've been counting down the days for months now. Zac is still learning time frames in 'how many bedtimes?' At school they learned the days of the week but for Zac it is still 'how many bedtimes' until the desired event. Zac awoke early and came in happy as could be and announced 'It's my birthday!' He crawled up in bed with me and we chatted for a few minutes and then both went back to sleep for an hour. It was really cute when he woke up because he looked at me like 'is this a dream? Is it really my birthday?' We had a pretty quiet day. Zac went to a friends house to play while I ran some errands and got his b-day stuff. He's having a water games party tomorrow, it's finally hot enough to have one so he's going to really like it, besides the fact that he loves paying in the water. And as you can tell from the pic we got him a trampoline for his present. He loves it! He's got quite a few friends here that have them and he has a blast when he goes to their respective houses to play. By the way that's Zac's Hulk imitation. Yes we got the tramp put together this evening and tested it out before it got too dark.

Fate steps in

So last week was an incredible let down, after driving over 900 miles we returned home with no motorcycle for Rick. We spent a quiet weekend doing what we always do after a long trip....... catching up...... the laundry.....sleep........

luckily the house was clean when we left so there wasn't much of that to do. And then Monday rolled around. We set off to run a few errands and happened to pass Ship Cycles. They had numerous 4-wheelers and such out front but there in the big display window was..........

you guessed it..... a motorcycle. And not just any motorcycle..... A Harley. So we went in to look and dream. Then we got to talking to the owner about our adventure and his reaction was the same as everyone else we'd talked to...... you gotta been kidding! He showed us a Harley Davidson Sportster 883, Rick fell in love. Yes after all that stuff over the week we ended up buying a motorcycle in our own backyard!

So enjoy a few pic's of Rick's new bike sitting in our very own driveway

After it was all over and done with I told Rick he should have taken a hint from the mud flaps on my truck from the very start........ you guessed it, they say........ Harley Davidson.

Spring Creek or Bust

We left here wed. night excited for an adventure of a lifetime (ok, so this year's adventure) Rick had found the motorcycle he wants for the right price so we went on a road trip to Cedar City, Utah,about 400 miles from Spring Creek. I packed everything and Rick took off early from work so we could get there earlier. We had a room reserved at the Cedar City Days Inn. Now Zac has never stayed at a hotel before so he was curious about how that all worked. We stopped in Ely, NV which is the halfway point for a potty break and snacks. Rick called George the owner of his Yamaha 1100 and told him we were on the way, that we were staying in Cedar City and what time could Rick call him in the morning? So the phone rings about 20 min. later... it was George.... he says to Rick 'I have a predicament' the guy had sold the motorcycle after telling Rick he wouldn't show it to anyone else before thurs. afternoon. I can not begin to explain how upset Rick was! Here we were over half way to Cedar City, it was too late to call the hotel and cancel the reservation..... you get the picture? So we went to Cedar City, stayed what was left of the night, had breakfast and headed to SLC. The adventure of the year had turned into a nightmare. We stayed with Courtney. We looked thurs. afternoon and most of Fri. but the bikes we looked at were just that much more $ than we planned on spending. On top of all this Katie went into heat the day before we left............ and Chance discovered he is a male dog. So during all of this I am trying to keep them apart! Needless to say after all the stress.... not sleeping.... not finding a motorcycle.... I told Rick I wanted to just go home. There were a lot of reasons why and I was really tired and the whole reason for going had been busted so lets go home and have the rest of the weekend. So we did and here we are spending a quiet sat. just the 3 of us... and Katie the dog in heat and Chance the boy dog going after her every 'chance' he gets! So how was your week?

Motorcycle road trip!

Well we're off to Cedar City in about 3 hrs. Rick has finally found the motorcycle he wants for the right price. He's been looking for the last month after working all that overtime on the shut down. Did I mention what a 'shut down' is? It's when they do all the work on the gold processing machines that can't be done while the mine is working it's normal processing process. Now is that clear? Anyway the pic I just posted is the one from the KSL.com add. It's a Yamaha V-Star 1100 custom. I googled our trip and it's about 400 miles to Cedar City from here and then we're heading to SLC for the weekend. So I'll keep you all updated!

Spring Creek Marina

Today the Southside Elem. tutor kids went to the Spring Creek Marina to go fishing. Quite a few of them had never been fishing before so Joe the wildlife guy explained the finer points of putting worms on a hook and not eating the powerbait. A great time was had by all and even some fishies got caught!

Even the ducks had fun watching the kids and looking for handouts from the hot dog lunch.

Success.........finaly

Of course after posting about being frustrated I finaly got it to load! Yea!!!!!!!!!!

Blogger frustration

I spent most of the day Thurs. trying to upload a new template for my blog. I had used an outside template for the longest time and wanted to put a new one up. I kept getting an error code....... then I went to the various help places to try and figure it out.................... to no avail! I have been SO frustrated. It was the same site I got a template from back in jan. or feb. but now the program wouldn't let me load it. AARRGGHH! I tried again fri. still no luck. I emailed the error code to blogger like it told me to but they don't give you any help, just report it. So now it's back to the old template till I can hopefully figure it out. Oh well