Good thing that we're not like cars, and parts just fall off.

Well, coming down the Donner Pass over to Sacramento, the road was so torn up that it shook all the bolts on my tires loose until the front one came off. Luckily there weren't any cars to worry about running into as I pulled off onto the shoulder. I didn't have a wrench to tighten the bolts or the bar to raise up my jack. But luckily someone stopped who had what I needed. so I put the tire back on and then tightened all of the other bolts that had come undone. eventually I had to stop one more time to do it again. then right after that the engine got really hot, even though it was really cold outside. And by the time I pulled into the apartments the needle was buried way past red and reaching for high heaven. and then after all of that, I realized that I should have taken a picture of the wheel when it came off and of the road. oh well, but that the story.

We were pretty amazed to see a bunch of conservatives in Jackson trying to spread around the common sense that most of the Americans today lack, but we think that they came over from Driggs. however that would be really cool if these conservatives were from a town full of Liberals.
Here is the final phase of my transformer heads, the blue one is cast in plastic.
Charles caught a huge Coy at a hotspot that is now chilling i his huge fish tank at home.
Alie and I slept in a mummy bag on our camp out. She slept great, but if my hip wasn't falling asleep then one of my arms were.
All I can say is, you have to find the adventure in life to enjoy it.

These are Blue Convict Cichlids that Charles caught at one of the hot pots. this one however has a complimentary color scheme.
This is Alie trying to catch some of the fish.
during the night a big windstorm started up and would occasionally blow the tent invertedly driving the poles into my head.
just something that had to be made. I was going to throw the piece of clay away because it had plaster in it, which would explode if any of it found its way into the recycling bin. but I noticed that it looked like a pumpkin so I had to carve a Jock-o-lantern.
Monster gets pretty worked up just before bedtime and goes al crazy, though I've seen his eyes dilate bigger than this.

This is Mark and Elizabeth Parsons' oldest daughter holding Jelly. She really liked them and so did Elizabeth, and Mark was pretty neutral.

We're on Vacation!

We finally have some time off. We both worked all of Christmas break and I was doing my internship, so it's the first time in a long time I don't have to think about homework. We decided to take the week and do stuff we've wanted to do for a while, and enjoy the time we have before Troy leaves to sell security in California. So far we've done some house projects, cleaned up the yard a bit. Saturday we got to spend time with Troy's family.
Troy got to ride the "mule" with the boys around the South Butte.
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Me on some rocks. Never mind "go green" how about "go black" Save the lava rocks!
This is Troy's belt buckle he designed and is going to probably make this week.
So far it's been the best vaca ever! I try so hard not to think about homework that I think about homework. Our plans for next week include going to Jackson Hole, going to the temple, haveing a "Pirates" marathon, sleeping in every day, visiting our friends, more yard work and house projects and basically whatever else comes into our heads. Hooray for a week off!