Time for Mom's visit

Mom is making her way cross country tomorrow for her two week visit with us.. It should be fun, as much fun as the two of us can handle.  We hit the 100 mark today but it's dropping back into the 80's on Wed for a few days. I don't think she'll like those temps but we'll be inside most of the time.
Another week of the same.. My weeks are pretty consistent. We take the drive into Vegas on Sunday for Church and we stopped at JCPenney's on the way home and then had a salad for lunch..
Today was the gym, Walmart for a few groceries, then my pedicure..I love to have my tired feet pampered.. I've heard it's good for your over all health to have healthy pampered feet so that's my story and I'm sticking to it.
 The girls are as precious as ever. Lady doesn't get all bent out of shape when Molly is too close anymore and they both share the bed on the occasional nap day..

What to say what to say

When we're moving around there's a lot to say cause each couple of weeks it's usually a different town or activity going on but when I'm staying put for the entire summer I don't want to repeat the same old stuff so I'll try to keep my weekly updates interesting. April seems to be going by pretty quickly.. It's been a much cooler April than last year that's for sure but I believe we're heading into the hot time of the season.. The next 10 days are calling for mid 80's to low 90's.. That's my comfort zone.. I'm usually good till it hits the 100 degree mark then I get warm..
 I'm trying to get over to the gym 4-5 times a week, to get out of the house and keep myself busy and limber.. I also like to walk whenever I can out at the lake. Once we hit 100 I wont be able to walk to much unless I go real early (not happening) or real late. I can walk on the treadmill at the gym but I'd rather be outside enjoying the sunshine and breeze.
 Steph and I went bowling last week and had a great time so I see us doing that more and more this summer. If I could  get Reid to go with me that would be fun too.. Sprinkle in pet grooming's, color therapy for me (aka: wash that gray right out of my hair)  and a pedicure and that's pretty much my month.
We've also found a Church that we like in Vegas so our Sundays have been busy with driving around the mountain for Church, stopping for lunch or running errands then heading back to the valley and the girls..
 Mom's coming for a visit next week so we'll be entertaining her. I see some competitive games of Yahtzee coming our way.
 That's all for now.

Settling In

We've been back over a week and I guess we're getting settled in.  The weather, the main reason we "settled" in this part of the country has been beautiful.. Sunny days with cool nights.. It's door and window opening weather where no heat or air is needed right now.
 Reid seems to love it here so I try to keep busy so I don't get too bored..
I joined the gym again and I'm taking an aerobic class that meets three times a week, a Zumba class that meets twice a week and the there a PACE program that I can do at my on "pace" it's very similar to the curves concept (they just can't us the name "curves") I'm getting out of the house daily doing those activities.. Of course the girls keep me busy too so if I'm at home I'm usually tossing a ball for Molly. In the evenings I have Braves baseball to cheer for and I have my crocheting and reading too. Sounds like I'm busy so why does it feel like I have so much free time. Steph stops by at least once on her days off and I give her our left overs so on her work days she'll have something other than fast food to eat. It works out pretty good since we don't eat a lot of leftovers any more the food doesn't go to waste.
 I guess that's all I have to talk about for now.. The sun is out and my patio is empty so I guess I'll go set outside for a bit.. I want to go to aerobic at noon but Reid and Lonnie are installing a swamp cooler (similar to an air conditioner but not really) so I might be needed for puppy patrol while they are doing it.. I'll go do the pace later if I have to miss the noon class..
 chat later.

Back in Nevada

After a couple of days in Apache Junction visiting with Bob and Nancy we headed out about 7am this morning for Nevada.. It was a good travel day with perfect weather--no wind.
 It was a long day but a good day.. (Reid and the girls are crashed out already)
 We arrived at the house around 2 pm and got some unpacking done but we really didn't do much today.. we've got all summer to get it done.
Speaking of work to do, when we arrived back at the house we couldn't believe how much grass had grown on our rocked area.. the dirt area didn't have any grass..go figure..
 Steph stopped by after work to see the girls.. not us just the girls..
 Everyone had a good summer, keep in touch.

More sunny skies

We left Las Cruces on Friday morning early hoping to stay ahead of some of the stronger winds. We had another wonderful travel day and arrived in our park in the Mesa/Apache Junction area around 4 which was really 3 cause we didn't realize we'd change to Pacific time till we reach NV but we did.
 We got set up and after Bob and Nancy arrived we went to the Sundance Restaurant and Bar across the street from the campground.. We'd never tried it before but it was close and since Reid was tired of driving we decided to check it out.. It was pretty good.. We all tried something different: Reid had steak, I had ribs, Bob had the fish and Nancy had a chef salad that looked very good. I tried the bread pudding, it wasn't the best but it wasn't the worse either..
 Today I was was awake and alert before 8. The sun was shinning in my window by 7am and that helps me to get going in the mornings.. Our weather is going to be sunny and 77 which is a little cooler than Missions 100 but it's calm and full sun with a "dry heat" so I'll be loving it.
 We're going to be meeting Bob and Nancy for a late lunch at Garcia's Mexican Restaurant around two then sit around and visit some more this afternoon. We'll have another travel day tomorrow heading through Phoenix then through Las Vegas and around the mountains into Pahrump.

Long travel day today.

We left Kerrville planning on stopping at Van Horn Tx for the night then going through El Paso in the morning but as we were traveling we discovered that the winds were going to get really high later in the afternoon in El Paso and also tomorrow was going to be a very windy day too and since we were going to be stopping around 1pm we decided to keep going and try to get here before the winds got too bad.. It work out really well and we arrived in Las Cruces, NM about 3pm. We got all set up and got the girls fed.. they lost an hour so they were wanting to be fed on TX time not NM time.. They will be another hour off on Sunday so it will take several days to get them back on the 5:00 schedule.
 We headed to our favorite Mexican restaurant which is in Old Mesilla and had their sour cream chicken enchiladas. They are the best..
 We're making it an early night and we'll be going into Apache Junction tomorrow where we'll get with Nancy and Bob..We'll be spending two days there before heading into Pahrump on Sunday.

Kerrville TX

We left the valley this morning and had a great travel day.. At first it didn't look like that would be the case cause it was overcast and breezy. By the time we were in Edinburg it was drizzling but that always happens around that part of the trip each year.. It only lasted a few minutes and by 10ish it was sunny.. The winds calmed down also so the rest of the trip was great. We hit San Antonio around 1:30 and the traffic was super lite for that city.. We drove right through the center of town and made our way northwest.. We stopped in Kerrvile (known as Hill Country) about an hour outside of San Antonio for the night and will get started on our second day of travel in the morning.
 It's cooler here than our last couple of days were in Mission.. I've felt cold all day knowing that it's only in the 70's and not 100 degrees..
 The girls did great today. They actually slept side by side between Reid and me most of the way here. Usually Lady wont sit by us if Molly's there but today they shared the space nicely. Molly gets a little nervous around cities wilh all the traffic buzzing past so when we got close the city I opened her crate and she walked in a took a nice nap..
 More to come tomorrow.