For the birds - Picture #12

I don't really like birds. I can't remember why I was taking pictures of this bird with my phone. When I saw this picture, I thought I accidentally took a picture of the road. Then I saw it. Oh yeah, the bird.

Do you see it?


I remember trying to get a good picture the bird, but I don't remember why. Did I tell you I don't like birds?
Strange things happen in my world!

Say Cheese - Picture #11

Anytime I see pictures from this day of Mandy, I will here the words of this video.
This girl makes me happy!

Fine Dining - Picture # 10

This is the reason my blog has been neglected. Tommasino's. I started working there last July and finally quit a few weeks ago. This picture was back in June, before the restaurant was completed.

Ka-Boom - Picture #9

July 4 2009.

Hello Grandma - Picture #8

Ahhh....My little Jaxen. Man, how I love this boy! Of course, this was taken in my car when the Gunter kids came for a visit last June.

Please Please Please - Picture #7

Now this is funny! I took this picture of Sheila and Debbie to text to our boss. They were begging to close the office early the day before the Fourth of July weekend. How could he refuse? Ryan tried the same thing and Don told him something along the lines of "Hell No!"

Me and my Buddy - Picture #6

Camron took this picture of me and Christopher one day at the track. Not too bad for a 4 year old photographer!

Smile Sister - Picture #5

And here she is...my big sis Michelle. I sure wish we lived closer to each other.

I should have known

I had Zachary with me last night at the races. He was such a good boy. He sat on the ground playing with his car and some rocks on the bleachers.
I didn't know he could have such a good time with just one car and so many rocks.So I asked him. "Are those race cars too Zacky?"
"No" he said.
puzzled I asked "what are they?"

He just looked up at me and said "ROCKS".

Look what I have - Picture #4

Mmmmm...This is one of my favorite pictures. I took this picture to text to Michelle while her and SinDee were out on the town. They left me home and I thought I could convince them to come back sooner. Doesn't it look good?

Oh, for the love of purple - Picture #3

I love these flowers. They bloom a couple times a year in my back yard and I just love the deep purple. If you can, look past the blury ones in the front and focus on the ones in the back to the left. I never know what I'll end up with on my phone camera.

Hey! Where did they go take 2 - Picture #2

I first told you about this story back in June. I tried and tried to get these two on the golf cart. I finally succeeded.

Something You Should Know

I ditched my oh so cool blackberry. When I first got it, back in September of 08, I really liked it. No...I loved it. But man, it sure took crappy pictures. So it's gone.

Buh bye oh so cool blackberry. I have a beautiful black My Touch now. And guess what? It takes pretty good pictures.

I don't want to show you all of the great pictures that I have taken so far.
Nope, I'm going to save those for later.

But...how about a little preview?

Have you met Elliott yet?

Front Page - Picture #1

I didn't take this picture, but it's included because it was on my phone. My sister took it and sent it to me. She was excited to see the news rack at her work. Both of our local papers, the Mirror and The Pahrump Valley Times had my husband and the re-opening of the track on the front page.

I'm Back

Finally....I'm back to my blog. Now that I'm not so busy with work, I can start blogging again. Are you happy? Did you miss me?

To start, I have a second go round of phone pictures. I did this once before here and had such a great time doing it, I thought I would do it again. Same as last time though, the picture quality is not very good from my blackberry. The subjects of the pictures though, are the absolute best.

All of these pictures were taken several months ago and I love looking back at what was going on then. I hope you enjoy this as much as I do. Here we go, 29 days of fantastic blackberry pictures.

Hello

I just played chicken with a quail. I won, he moved.

I'm eating breakfast at Jack-in-the-box. They have an order here pay here kiosk. What will Jack come up with next?

Maybe when I get home I will have time to un-crypt these cryptic messages.

Now that we are done watering, I think I would like to drive over to pinto and say hi.

Chad and I have been working so much so the only place we get to talk is in the water truck, driving in circles.

But its fun I suppose.

I asked Chad if we could tip over. He said yes. Now I am really freaked out.

That was a nice 10 minute break. But now we are back to the side-ways slidding on the bumpy road.

Nutter butters always make me feel better.

This is a bumpy ride and I just drank a Pepsi so my insides are getting all fuzzy.

Slidding side-ways really freaks me out.

***Birthday Alert******Birthday Alert***

July is a busy month -
Lookey here
It's Birthday Time again
Click here to see who is getting older

Birthday alert
We have a birthday today. Go check it out.

Dear Blog,
I'm sorry I haven't been here in a while. I will see you for sure this weekend.
Love Trudi

Not really mine - Picture #36

I didn't take this picture, my sister did. But technically, it was on my phone. I saved it after she sent it to me in a text message. These lilacs had just bloomed at her house and she felt like sharing. Thanks SinDee.

In case you wanted to know

By the way - I checked all the Love it-s on this page. You can too, if you do, of course.

Birthday 30 take 2 - Picture #35

Kaylynn had cheese cake for dessert for her birthday at the Steak House in the Nugget.

Your how old? - Picture #34

This is my beautiful daughter Kaylynn on her 30th birthday. I think she looks so much like her little sister Misty in this photo.

Start your engines - Picture #33

Christopher trying out his dads car. He looks like a natural.

CJ jr - Picture #32

Preston looks so much like his daddy. This was taken in March 2009.

It's a bugs life - Picture # 31

Bailey in the back seat when they were visiting in March. I sure take a lot of pictures in the car.

Head for the hills - Picture #30

I love days like this. Oh, and I love him too!

Say Cheese Camron

Remember a while ago when I told you how I love to let the kids play with my camera? How I love the shots I end up with when I look back at the pictures they took. What you can't see in the pictures they take, is the drama that goes on in order to get those great pictures.

I hope you enjoy this as much as I do.

I see you - Picture #29

Here is another picture taking Zacky home. Only this time, the sun was in his bear's eyes.

Texting training - Picture #28

Sorry. Here is another not-so-cool picture of Chad texting Kristy from his oh-so-cool blackberry flip.
I hope his new phone takes better pictures than mine. I so wanted this to be a good picture. That's why there were 2 of them (pictures).

Hair cut - Picture # 27

I gave Zachary a hair cut and took this picture to send to his mom so she could see how cute he was.

Little Pink Bike - Picture #26

I took this picture to send to Mandy. I wanted to show her what we bought for her to play with when she came to visit. We don't really have any outdoor toys to play with, so we went to yard sales and 2nd hand stores to find some. This is the 1st thing we found. Not bad for 5 bucks.

Riding in the Desert - Picture # 25

I took this picture way out in the middle of nowhere. It's a long ride to there, but worth every second.

Hey! Where did they go? - Picture #24

This is what I do on my way to work. I take pictures out the window, along the side of the road, of nothing. Actually, I was trying to get something, I just wasn't fast enough.
Look in the center of the picture, hiding behind the frame rail of my car. Can you see that small tire and just the very back of a golf cart?
A little girl about 10 or 11 drives this golf cart to the bus stop every morning. In the passenger seat sits an older man, who I think is her Grandpa. Sometimes I go by early enough and I get to see her driving along. Other times they are already parked and Grandpa is sitting back, with his feet up on the dashboard, all relaxed, just waiting for the bus.
I wonder what they talk about. I bet that girl is going to have some great memories.

Wanna try this phone? - Picture #23

After sending this 2nd picture to Kristy, she decided that maybe she would like to try using this phone. So, of course Grandpa and Grandma ran right over there to deliver it to her.
I tried to erase all of Chad's contacts and pictures so she could start fresh with it. Instead of erasing just his, I erased all of hers too.
I'm sorry Kristy.
I'm glad she is only 10. I don't think she has a lot of contacts yet.

Say Cheese - Picture # 22

This is the same picture that I used when I told you this story.

Oh and we have a patio too! - Picture #21

This is the back of our house. I love the patio without the wall.

Close up - Picture #20

Taco-bell flower take 2. I use this as my home screen on my oh-so-cool blackberry.

X-ray Vision - Picture # 19

This could come in handy. In case I ever become a radiologist.