Family Birthday Blog

OK - so the secret is out. My secret project is a Family Birthday Blog. We are not always good at letting people in our extended family know that we remember them on their birthday's, so we've created this birthday blog. This way we can wish every member of our family a Happy Birthday and, share our special wishes with everyone.The project is not totally complete yet, but it is up and running and you can expect to see the first birthday wish(es) to appear October 4.

Right now, access to the blog is by invitation only, so if your in my family, and I have your email, you've been invited. If I don't have your email, you can go to my profile on this page and click on the Happy Birthday blog and enter you email then I can give you access.

We hope you enjoy our Birthday Blog as much as we do.

http://mysecretproject-trudi.blogspot.com

Racin' Shoes

This is so good it's worth repeating!

Geek

OK....so I decided that I'm an electronics geek. I bought a new phone the other day, and it is way more complicated than a phone needs to be. It's a blackberry pearl. At first I didn't think I liked it very much. I even packed it up the next day, I was going to return it and get an easier one. But guess what? Now that I have had it a few days, I've decided that I love it. So, this is where the geekyness comes in. I like playing with electronics to see how they work. I didn't know that about me before. They say, admitting it is the first step to recovery.

Happy Birthday Lindsy

Hope you have a great day Daughter-in-law!

We Love you!!!

Secret Project

I have a secret project going on. I think it is going to be so much fun and I can't wait until I can share it with my family.

It should be finished around the 1st of October. Check back for the announcement!!!!!!!

Tent Sale

Saitta Trudeau Chrysler Jeep Dodge is having a tent sale this weekend. It started today in the parking lot at the Pahrump Nugget. Go down, check em out, and get a good deal!

Movies in Pahrump

What a treat!!! We went to the movies last night......here, in Pahrump! Hard to believe huh? We saw Burn after Reading, with George Clooney and Brad Pitt.
The Saddle West has a portable movie theater in their convention center. I wasn't expecting much, but it was really good. The seats were like luxury folding chairs. They were padded and really conformed to your body, I'm not sure but they could have been soft leather. There were two columns of seats with about 10 rows. Each row had 5 seats on each side of the isle. The down side was that all the seats are on the same level, but they had the rows staggered so each seat was situated between two seats in the row before it. That way you weren't sitting directly behind someones head, you are more between the shoulders of two people in front of you.
The movie was pretty good, a little weird, but good. I've never been good at recapping movies or books, so I'm not even going to try. Go see it, you'll like it.

New Blog

I killed my old blog (accidentally), so I spent the day rebuilding. I hope you like the new look. Also, check out broadheadstwobitracing.com all the guys are building pages to let everyone know whats going on in their race world. Racing is about ready to start up again at Death Valley Raceway, so excitement is in the air, you'll see when you visit their pages. Blogging is fun, get your own at blogspot.com.

Happy Birthday Sammy Boy!

Samuel Rex Gunter

Born: September 9, 2007

Happy 1st Birthday Grandson!

Happy Birthday Christopher

Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday dear Christopher, Happy Birthday to you.

Since your turning 8 this year, I thought about getting you the coolest gift. I couldn't afford it, but I thought about it. So here ya go. Happy Birthday Bud, have fun. Love Grandpa and Grandma.

Previous Post Updates

I thought that I would give some updates on some of the stuff I have blogged about.

Racing starts again September 20th. Chad is excited. I don't know for sure what Anthony will do because he usually works on Saturdays. It wasn't going to be a problem for him because the races were scheduled at night and he would be off in time to go, but they changed it to day racing. Hopefully he can get off to go, we'll see.

A while ago, I posted a picture with the title "Pakistani Pauley". Pauley is real, but he is not from Pakistan (surprise, surprise). He works at Saitta Trudeau as a salesman, and provides the business office with much needed laughter. He will be leaving soon, and I'm hoping to get some of his comic relief on video before he goes on to bigger and brighter things in Laughlin, Nevada. That's all I'm going to say for now. If I'm able to get it, you'll see what I'm talking about.

The infamous weed-tree. OK, so I know I'm not getting much support on this, but I seriously doubt it's a tree. Chad is a little nervous about it too, because he is already setting it up to say I killed it when it dies this winter (like weeds do). This has been the conversation about it lately (several times now):

C: I know it's a tree.

T: It's not Chad, it's a weed.

C: I know your gonna kill it.

T: Why would I want to kill it?

C: Because then you could say "see, it wasn't a tree"

T: No Chad, your trying to set it up so when it dies, I can be blamed.

C: No, it's a tree. I know your gonna kill it.

T: Whatever.

C: Yeah, whatever.

Tiffany has trees in her back yard, that I will admit, look similar to Chad's weed-tree. But there are very distinct differences. One being; hers is a tree, Chads is a weed. Hers has wood, Chads has stalk. Her branches are brown, Chads are purple (what kind of tree has purple branches?). Check out the pictures I took (a little proof).

So, Chad says Tiff's trees have fur because of where they live. That they know it's going to be winter there soon, so they have to get ready for it. Ours don't have the fur because we live in the desert and they don't need it. I'm not making this up....it's really what he said. I think he was just teasing me, but he really did say it.

So, on to School. I didn't start this semester. I didn't get my placement testing and essay writing done soon enough to start this August. The day of my essay, they told me that all of the Internet English classes were filled up and I didn't really want to do a live class right now, so I'll just wait until the next semester in January. Anyway, I didn't hear from them about which class they were going to put me in. I'm kind of nervous about what they thought about my essay though because it was pretty bad. They gave choices about what to write about. Something like, "Why do you want to go to college?", "Write about a favorite teacher you had.", "How will you balance your college schedule with your life?" Well, I don't really have a good answer about going to college, and I don't really know how I'll balance my schedule until I try, and if you know me, you know my school history, so I don't really have a favorite teacher. So, I used CJ's Mr. Monson. The only problem with that was I couldn't remember what I wrote and couldn't duplicate it very well. I'm sure it was really bad. Even my punctuation, which I'm not very good at anyway. They probably looked at it and said "Wow, that's bad. We don't have an English class that starts at the beginning basics. Don't call her maybe she'll go away." Too bad...so sad. I won't. Maybe I could anonymously send them a link to my blog, then they could get a better sample of my writing and let me in. hahaha.

That's pretty much all the updates I have. Except for what we did today at Christopher's Birthday. I'll save that for later.

More on our Labor Day Weekend with the Kids

The first night there, we went to dinner with CJ and his family. It was a new restaurant a few miles out of town. We waited outside for about an hour for our table, then we had to wait another hour before the waitress told us that our ticket didn't print so now the cooks were trying to cook our food as quick as possible. So finally after about 2 1/2 hours of waiting, we finally got to eat. We thought about leaving and going somewhere else, but in Duchesne, Utah, there is no somewhere else.
I played on the tramp with Jaxen and Mandy. Jaxen wanted me to bounce them really high. I told him I couldn't jump too high because I might pee my pants. He thought that was really funny. I heard him tell some of the other kids later, that grandma was jumping with him and that he almost made her pee her pants. It was funny.

CJ lives just behind the park so we walked over with all the kids. Here, Grandpa and CJ are swinging with the kids. CJ is in charge of maintaining the parks in Duchesne, so he has to test all of the equipment on a weekly basis. We gave him an early start this week. I think he was just really showing off for his dad. Karley is impressed with how high her dad is swinging.

Labor Day Weekend

We went to Duchesne, UT to visit CJ and Tiffany. It was so good to see them and the kids, we had a great time.
We wanted to take Jaxen and Mandy with us while Tiffany went to work, so Tiffany had to get them ready to go. Wow, what a chore that is. As soon as Tiff got the brush out for Mandy's hair, the fight was on. We laughed, but Tiff didn't think it was too funny, she also didn't think it was funny that I was snapping these pictures. And I'm sure she is going to think it is even less funny when she sees them posted on my blog.
I just couldn't resist. Sorry Tiff. By the way, no kids (mine or hers) were hurt during this demonstration.