SPARE KEYS!!!!

Okay so spare keys are a must!!!!(I will try to make this short but its just to funny) I have had a few experiences recently that sent me into a frenzy. My dear sweet brother and sister have been visiting me a little bit this summer while James has been gone. (it has been great but that is for another post) Well one day actually the first day they were here and I had just gotten back from Texas. The extra key to the house was given to a person who was watching our house while I was gone, was stolen or lost we don't know which. I was going to make extras that night after work to hide one and have a few extras. So I only had one key and I had it on my key chain with my car and work keys. Well my brother and sister brought me to work that day so my brother had my keys. I get this phone call around 11:30 am that they locked themselves out. The keys were in the house and cell phones too. They walked around the neighbor hood to find someone to let them borrow a phone to try and get ahold of me or my mom to help them but she was in a meeting. I didn't have a vehicle to get home quick but the doctor I work for let me borrow his truck to at least go get the kids so they weren't in the heat. Well I get out there and we couldn't break in with out actually breaking something. So we sat and thought for awhile what to do and just by some weird luck I decided to check with our builder to see if they had any spares...........They did we got so lucky we just had to wait an hour for the guy to bring them to me.

Another story is my friend and I were together just yesterday and she got locked out of her Yukon and with two hungry and tired kids. YIKES!!!! She only had one set too so that made it that much more fun. We asked for some help from a lot of people but no one would help so we took my car went to my house to find a wire hanger (which I hate using) so we barely found one by the skin of our teeth. When we got back to her car to work on it, some guys walked by and informed us that we were not doing it right so they helped us and finally two hours later we were in. YEA!!!!! Needless to say it was not a very pleasant experience one to laugh at but not so much fun.

Always have SPARE KEYS!!!!

TEXAS the lone star state

I have been fortunate to visit James this year so far twice while he has been in Texas. I had alot of fun even though we didn't do much it was nice just to be together. We went out to eat alot to some places we don't have back at home so that was nice. Lots of movies and a few drives to the area he is working in,a Pecan orchard with Richard and Amber one Sunday afternoon and Fort Bliss the military base El Paso is famous for that was kinda interesting. James lives in the office this year so we didn't really have privacy at all except one sunday out of the almost two weeks I was there.
We spent alot of time with Richard and Amber at night and on Sunday's. During the week while the guys were working I was able to hang out with Amber a little and go shopping, the outlet mall was only 10 minutes away (WooooHoooo). It was nice just to get out of the stinky office apartment once in a while no matter what we did. El Paso is right by the border and only takes 5 minutes to get to from James' apartment, a little crazy!!! Other then that there really isn't much else to do in El Paso. Its brown plots of dirt with one mountain they have to drive through to get to the area they work in, very hot and crazy drivers. Not my favorite place to visit or live we will see what next year brings. I miss you babe.

For James- from Max

This is for James!!! Max our dog had some problems with his paws while I was visiting James in Texas and when I got home I had to take him to the vet the first time for sickness not just a normal checkup. It has been really sad to watch him limp around and lick it all the time to make it feel better. I have had to give him pain pills and antibiotics for it everyday. He is now on the mend but he was pretty miserable for a while.

FAMILY reunions!!!

This last weekend Cheyanna (my sister) and I went up to the Heise area for an extended family reunion on my grandma's side, the DIALS. It was alot of fun but alot of work! Its amazing how much work, thought and planing goes into planning a camping trip let alone a reunion for what seems to be like 300 plus family members. My grandma's sister Inis did and excellent job at holding everything together and having lots to do both for the adults and the kids. Wow what a fun time! This may seem a little weird but I love family reunions maybe because it brings back alot of good memories for me or maybe I'm very sentimental and just like to see everyone once in awhile what ever it is I love them. I will have to post pictures later as I do not have any in my possession right now.

HaPpY 4th of JuLy!!!

Well it seems that every year James and I manage to still spend the summer holiday together even though we don't technically live in the same house for six months. We get the chance to spend 4Th of July together. It actually ends up being an adventure sometimes with some type of memory you can't seem to forget and for years to come you say remember that one year. Well this year was no exception. You would think in the state of Texas there would be great fireworks (maybe its because we are in El Paso, the social lacking city of the world (that's for another post)) but no. We started the night off with the best gift that JD (the sales rep manager of James' office) could give they were done for the night officially by 6:00pm now some of you know this never happens but luckily for us this year it did. So it started great!!! We met up with Richard and Amber (James' brother) We went to dinner at a restaurant called BJ's (Richard's favorite) James and I have never been there and it was fantastic, great food and ooooOOOOHHHH, the desert HEAVEN! Afterwards we had no idea what to do other then we knew we wanted to go to a movie later that night. So we drove around until while we are on the freeway we see fireworks going off. We pulled over to a spot in some what seemed to be a dumpy part of town in a parking lot. Luckily we had our husbands to protect us. As we get out to watch the show, 5 more fireworks go off and that was it. We couldn't believe it Idaho Falls has better ones than this place. However it made it seem more like the 4Th of July then no fireworks at all. Then into the car we go up to a spot Richard found called "scenic drive" the drive was beautiful it was dark and all you could see was the city, of course by the time we get to the pull out spots high up on the hill there is no where to park so we keep driving to the next spot and right as we are getting there someone left so we took their spot. Once again only there maybe 7 minutes and all the sudden Amber is doing a little dance that we have no idea why????? Then she screams owe it bit me! What?? Well there is this little wall barrier that we sat on together as couples to enjoy the view and have a little romantic time we we all started to feel something crawl across our feet, arm, neck, leg, chest, etc.... Well low and behold it was ants, they bit Richard, Amber, and James (Richard got the worst of it, 8 total) Now I'm not talking little tiny ants I'm talking gargantuan ants, The size of TEXAS!!! Needless to say we had a little adventure. On to finding something to help the BURN we end up in downtown El Paso by the clubs yikes scary!!! After that we wen to see the movie GET SMART, this movie is so stinkin funny I thought James and I were going to die of laughter. Go see this movie I would pay to see this movie again. Finally ending our night about 2 am, the usual late night of a technician and his wife. SO HAPPY 4Th of JULY EVERYONE!!!!!