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Randy at our camping trip at
Palisades State Park in Utah

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Randy and me with our new grandson, Kelby Carrillo (born May 3,
2010)
So much has happened since I last wrote. Randy and I finally went on a couple of camping trips in April. The weather was fair but still not warm enough to camp in the mountains. We are planning a trip to Arizona the last part of May. We will camp in our Trailer near the South Rim, take the train. We also want to go to the Mesa area and visit friends. Later in the summer we plan to camp in the beautiful mountains of Utah.

I have a new grandson, Kelby Carrillo, he makes my 22nd. I consider Randy as his grandson and he has lots of inherited grandchildren. They love their Grandpa Randy.

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Randy and I enjoyed a very Merry Christmas visiting with Jennifer in Seattle. Randy suprised me with a new wedding set. For now, we are waiting anxiously for Spring and Summer. We plan to travel in our new trailer to the South Rim in Arizona, Crystal Hot Springs in Utah and camping in the moutains of Utah.

We are also awaiting the birth of one grandchild and one great grandchild in May. One is a girl and the other a boy. We are expecting another great grandchild in July and another in August. Randy has been officially adopted into our family and he is Grandpa Randy to my grandchildren now. I wish their real grandpa could be here to see them (he does not live here on earth any longer.) Not all of them got to see their other grandpa as he left before they were born. I am glad that my grandchildren do have a grandpa here with Randy.

For now, we just spending our time at home and going out to eat and the movies occasionally. Our cats are doing fine and are or course they rule the house!

News of Randy and Me

It has been a long time since I have written in this blog.

Randy and I enjoyed an awesome summer camping and traveling. We went to California wine country. We enjoyed many camping trips to the mountains and lakes. We visited Zion's National Park. We got a new trailer and can't wait for spring to go camping and traveling some more.
Randy and I have been together for over two years and we have been married 6 months now. We are doing quite well but of course, we have aches and pains that come with getting older. Our minds still feel young, it's just our bodies that are going downhill. LOL

We are having Thanksgiving at our house with Tammy and her family and John and Kathy. For Christmas, we are giving each other a Christmas gift of going to Seattle and spending Christmas with Jennifer and her family.

We had fun on Halloween at Matt's house and even Randy got into the spirit by dying his hair green.

We want to wish you all a very happy Thanksgiving and a very Merry Christmas.

There's Always Something

Well, we did go on our first RV trip and Randy was sick but we kind of had a little fun. We did have to replace a tire on the trailer though because the rubber came off one of them. So Randy said we should just replace all the tires as they were all pretty bad. That makes me mad because if I had known the tires were bad I would have gotten the price down a little more on the trailer.

Randy has been a little sick with his usual IBS syndrome and his blood sugar. Today it was much better though. He has a Dr. appointment on Friday and I hope they do tests to find out why he has to suffer with these problems all the time.

I have had trouble with my stupid lan line phone from Comcast. Sometimes when people call they can't get me and it says I am not taking calls which is not true. I called Comcast and they don't know why it is happening. I am thinking of just using my cell phone and getting rid of my lan line phone altogether. I am also going to get a different internet with MSTAR using Randy's account and just get a router for the two computers.

The cats keep us busy and they are very expensive to feed and care for but they are our family. We were going to go to Bear Lake on May 8-12 but now we probably change and go to Contessa's graduation on the 21 and then on to Yellowstone Park in our trailer. Randy has never been there.

Our Changing Life

Big Changes

Well, yesterday I traded my van for an Elantra. I am getting almost $6000 back because the van was worth more than the Elantra. The Elantra is brand new. It is metallic blue. The van was too much vehicle for me. But I sure will miss that van with all it's features and comfort. And Randy bought a used Suburban to pull the travel trailer with because we just decided old Brownie wasn't really up to it. So we certainly don't need a Suburban and a van. The Elantra will get much better mileage than the van. The suburban will get bad mileage because it has a big engine but we will only use it for camping and use the Elantra for everything else. I will soon post photos of the new vehicles. The Suburban is a 2002 and was a really good price for Randy to afford. We thought of getting something newer and in diesel because even though diesel costs more, it gets better mileage when pulling a trailer. But the amount we saved by buying the Suburban was $9000 so the difference in mileage will make up for in the savings of the purchase price.

As for Brownie, she is still here. She belongs to Randy and he is probably going to sell to Marty for the amount he has paid for it so far. Brownie has new windshield wiper blades and a brand new battery. So I guess we are really crazy these days with all the things we have been doing.

New Trailer

I bought a used 1986 travel trailer. It's really nice. The people who had it kept it up and it's just like new. It's 25 ft long. Maybe it's too big for the brown truck but according to the people we bought it from, they used it with the same type of truck. Randy is an experienced camper and he used to drive much bigger trailers and 5th wheels.

We are not going to drive it far. We will just use it for camping here in Utah. We decided with the price of gasoline that we won't be able to take a lot of road trips to various states so we will just go camping during the weekdays when the camping spots are not so crowded. Hopefully, Old Brownie will be ok with these short trips. If not, then we will have to put the trailer up for sale because I won't buy another truck and I sold Brownie to Randy and if another truck is needed to pull the trailer then he will have to get it.

Randy is handy around the house. He dusted everything in the house and cleaned all the light covers while I was on my cruise. I do appreciate it. Both of us have not been feeling too well lately so I do hope we will be up to speed again soon so we can enjoy the new trailer.