This past Labor Day weekend was a blast

Paul and I headed up to Heber/Overgaard pulling our flat bed trailer with our quads on it and the kids (Daniel, Tiffany, Karl, Geraldine and Izzy) were in our car following us.  They were all coming up to spend the weekend with us quading, shooting, enjoying a campfire at night, etc. We got up to the property Saturday morningish and quickly dropped everything and took off to Bison Ranch to do a little tourist shopping and have a beer at the saloon.  Then went to dinner, and came back to the trailer and built a fire.  So nice...

Saturday we got up and after breakfast took off for the forest to do a little quad riding.  We left at 11:00 and didn't come back till 5:00ish.

Did I mention that Izzy was with us?  Of course didn't do any riding because she couldn't reach the shifter since she is only 7 weeks old.  So naturally, Great Aunt Nancy had to hold her every time we stopped.

Here are some photos of our weekend.

Paul finally wore me down...

A few weeks ago, Paul and I were up in Heber enjoying the nice weather, and Paul noticed a flyer that there would be an auction at the Catholic Church and what actually caught his eye is the church was auctioning off a 20ft. ski boat. We have had boats all our married life from an 18th ft. open bow to a 32 ft Uniflite tri-level boat that we kept docked at one of the local lakes. When we sold that last boat, I was so happy. Do you know what the meaning of boat is? B=break, O=out, A=another, T=thousand dollars. Insurance, gas, food, drinks, etc. was killing us in expenses, not to mention that we had to pay for the slip payment since we could not haul this boat back and forth from the lake. Anyway, sorry, I digressed. At the auction the final item was the boat. The man who was doing the auction said that boat (a 1988 boat) was starting at $4800 and they would not go any lower. That scared off most of the men who were there to bid on the boat, except my husband. After everyone was gone, he approached the auctioneer with a bid of $3,000, the auctioneer asked the Parish Priest, and like I said, he wore me down and we bought a boat.

Paul and a buddy of his went up to Heber and picked it up and took it straight down here to Phoenix and put it on one of the lakes to make sure there were no problems. It ran great. Then the following week, Paul and I took it out to another one of our lakes. It’s a great boat to go to the lake for the day, and Paul has used it every weekend since we got it. He’s a hit with some of the guys he works with since he’s taken them out to the lake.

Good news from Mom’s dr. appointment this past Wednesday

Mom, as everyone knows, has lung cancer and went through radiation treatments.  Recently the doctor had her do another PET scan to see if the cancer has been eliminated or decreased since the treatments.  Wednesday, 9/7/11, mom went to get the results and they were all good!  The spot on her lung has almost disappeared and the doctor says he doesn’t need to see her until December.  Now that’s good news!