Mc King - Picture #23

Chad was crowned king with Zacky.

Bubble Boy - Picture #22

It's not just me that loves bubbles. I think Jaxen does too!

Oh what fun - Picture #21

Are they over yet? I should probably tell you that I don't even really like fire works. I like going to watch the fire works though. It's fun. Especially When a bunch of my family get our chairs together somewhere in the middle of the Desert just before dark to wait for the fireworks. While we're waiting for them to start, we play, and talk, and tease, and sometimes eat and drink, but always have fun. I can't wait until next year.

Gunter Kids - Picture #20

Man I love and miss these babies. I should run and get them right now. They are calling for me.

See? It's Ortega - Picture #19

Per Kaylynn's instructions, I was to get Ortega Nacho Cheese Sauce in the blue can from Costco.
Well this was the only can that said Ortega, and it had a dent. The other cans were labeled all the same except for the word Ortega.
I didn't want to buy the dented can, but I don't get assignments from my kids very often and I didn't want to fail.
So, being the resourceful mom that I am, I took a picture from from my phone to prove it was Ortega and got the un-dented can.
Two points for Mom!

Picture #18

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King Zachary - Picture #17

This picture cracks me up. McDonald's crowned him king.

In the back seat - Picture #16

Mandy girl when they came to visit. She looks just like her mommy in this picture. I never really saw the resemblance before, but those lips are Tiffany all over again.

Ignore this ...Picture #15

Uggg...Here we go again. (Next time I'll delete them!)

Who Knows - Picture #14

I can't remember if I was taking a picture of the empty lot at work on what looks like a rainy day, or Tommasino's across the street.

Or maybe...I was trying to capture Romero's, the Mexican Resturaunt next to Tommasino's , across the street from the empty lot, which would have been empty because of a tent sale.

Could be I was taking a picture of the clouds on this day that looks as though it may have been raining.

I wonder if I was trying to get a picture of that Durango on the empty lot.
Nah, I'm positive thats not it.

Hmmm...I don't know what this is a picture of.
Oh well!

July 4 2009 - Picture #13

Sorry I have so many pictures of fire works from the 4th of July. I only took them to prove that my phone camera could.

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.