Emergency Prepardness

It is that time of the year again. Time to start canning and getting the food storage built up for the winter. Check out the two links on my blog spot. The Food Storage Analyzer is awsome, it really opened my eyes to what things I need to focus on this year and will help with our planning over the next few months. Emergency Essentials has lots of good food and great ideas to add variety to our food storage and a plan to get a little here and there so it isn't a huge financial burden all at once. Be sure to check them out!

Our new family member, Rocky.

One year later!

Here it is one year later and we are off on a new adventure. We leave in about 7 hours for our first cruise! Dave and I will fly to Seattle, Washington and meet up with one of my dearest friends, Val. It has been 12 years since I last saw her. We have been friends for about 30 years when we lived back in Cheyenne, Wyoming at the start of our Military career.

Anway, our cruise is to Alaska and I will try to post every day and add some pictures. Love to all my family. I hope to be able to send postcards to everyone while I am gone.

Today is Friday, the 15th of May. We went to monument valley today. It was so beautiful. I was trying to figure out names for the different monuments that we saw. One of them I named the "Three Sisters" and then when we got out there, that was the official name. I also saw one that looked like someone doing the "Peace" sign. Then when we got around to the side of it, it looked like three fingers making a "W". Someof the different monuments looked like a bunch of people standing close together. It was a great day. Tomorrow we will be going on the river trip. I am looking forward to that.

We have also been buying some silver jewelry. I will probably be wearing lots of it from now on. I did get one bracelet that has juniper seeds on it. The Navajo say that if you wear it all the time it will keep the bad spirits, or bad dreams, away.

Well, I better go for tonight. I am still trying to catch a lizard! I have seen quite a few lizards but they have all been too fast for me. I am still trying. Mr. 'T' needs a friend!

Today we went to the Painted Desert and the Petrified Forest. It was amazing! The colors were beautiful and it was unbelievable that there used to be a swamp and forest in the area. We watched a movie about the area and how the petrified forest was created over 25000 years ago. We will download the pictures later so I can post some of them. We also got a call from Wes, he was offered a job at the Temple Police Department today. He goes in tomorrow to sign the paperwork. Congratulations to Wes. I am sure he is so excited to have his dream job. We are so proud of him. Jeremy also called. Him, Marcie and Alana just got home from Disneyland. They got a free trip when they bought new tires for their car. It sounds like they had a great time. Now we just have to get Tiff and Dan to Disneyland with Hyrum and McKayla. Then I can make scrapbooks for all the families. I certainly have all the stuff, just need the pictures. Love to you all.