My dirty little secret...

I have a dirty little secret....i love to go and watch monster trucks. Kenyon, has never been to a monster truck show, and so when I received an email letting me know that the monster trucks were coming to Phoenix, I was so excited! And of course I emailed all of Kenyon's family inviting them to come along with us to the show.

the only problem is that I did not read the email all the way, which said the monster trucks were going to be in Albequerque, and the Gravity Slashers exhibition would be in Phoenix. UGH! It was my first motorcross exhibition, and it was cool, but I really wanted to see the monster trucks. Next time, they come in to town, we are totally going.

These guys are NUTS! They flip and jump without holding on to their bikes. SO CRAZY! One of them had a snow mobile, that he tricked out specifically for making jumps and flipping upside down.

On the way home, after riding the rail for thie first time, we were driving separetly in our cars home, and AV had his head stuck out of the window. So of course the responsible, mature uncles, and aunt that we are started yelling GRAVITY SLASHERS out our window. Kenyon decided to do some tricks. Including driving with one leg sticking out the window....and my personal favorite.....driving with no hands, and one arm out the window. (Please don't try these tricks while driving).

Even though we didn't get to see stuff being run over or actual monster trucks, we still had a fun time together.

Congratulations Shiu and Michelle

On February 12 we drove to San Diego to be with Shiu and Michelle for their sealing. Shiu is being deployed soon to Afghanistan, and will be gone for a 7 month tour. I'm so proud of Shiu and Michelle for making the decision to be sealed in the temple with their family.

When we got in to San Diego we stayed in La Mesa, I love La Mesa. That's where I was living when Kenyon and I first met. We stayed in the Holiday Inn Express about a block away from my old apartment.

Later that evening we caught up with Nick, Titi, and Reggie, they were at the zoo and met us so we could eat at El Azteca. It's still one of the best little hole in the wall taco shops! I think it's awesome that Nick and his little famly flew in from Hawaii for the occassion too.

The next day we of course were late for the session, but didn't know they were waiting for us. Instead we met up with Dinesh and Ben and their family while the session was in progress.

Dinesh and Ben waited outside with all the kids and Kenyon and I were able to join up with the group for the sealing. A sealing is always wonderful and easily reminds me of our marriage. And of course someone has to bring up how Kenyon was very emotional that day until the sealer reminded us we should multiply and replenish the earth. At that moment, Kenyon broke in to a huge grin, which made the sealer and most other people in the room start to chuckle.

Once Shiu and Michelle were sealed, Raoh, Novalynn, and baby Shiu were also brought in to the room. It was beautiful.

It's so nice to get together with everyone, but it's too bad it's so rushed and over so quickly. On Sunday Kenyon and I drove home...I was able to drive the entire trip and get us home in 6 hours. Kenyon had to work in Bagdad the next day and I was worried about him getting enough rest.

Sedona

We have been getting more and more listings in Cornville, Cottonwood and Sedona. We figured that as long as we are paying the fees to be a part of the Board of Realtors there we may as well make it worth our time. Yesterday, Kenyon and I went for a day trip to look at most of the listings in this area and to check out a new listing in Sedona.

The new listing is on Wing Drive and sold for over $900,000 in 2005, according to an old listing sheet, so naturally I was really excited about this listing. This is what it looked like then:

When Kenyon and I pulled up in to the driveway this is what we saw

WHAT IN THE WORLD?!!! No stucco, no interior walls, no appliances, no pool, no fencing....nothing! At first when I saw the house, I was sure we pulled up to the wrong house, and I backed up and went down the street to make sure that we hadn't made a wrong turn or something. Unfortunately, the previous owners were in the process of remodeling....I think?

Once I got over my initial shock and disbelief and we finished photgraphing the property we went to inspect the rest of the properties in the area. We were gone for most of the day, but we had a nice time on our day trip.

Kenyon, Kenyon, Kenyon

Kenyon hates cooking in our house. He tries, but I don't know where he comes up with his ideas. Lately, he has not been working as much because the dental office he is with right now has not been scheduling him with patients. So this week, he had to cook because he was home all day. Let's just say it didn't go over to well the first night. However, the second night he did a great job! and he even went grocery shopping. It's so nice to have a little extra help during the week. Not that he doesn't help me out a lot, but the extra help has been nice.

However, I'm so happy he starts his new job next Monday, well...I'm not happy about the Monday start date, but I am happy he is excited about his new job.

Snow with the Evans

Yesterday afternoon Allison came in to town with Madeleine, Ansel, Johnathan, Harrison and Cash. We had a ball playing with them in the snow. We even went sledding...at one of my foreclosure listings. In order to keep the kids happy while we looked at houses, we brought our sled. The driveway to one of the houses I have listed in the Ranch at Prescott has a really steep driveway and has tons of snow. Perfectly for sledding! Good thing no one crashed into the garage.

O Tannenbaum

It's really sad when you go to the Waste Transfer Station and the attendant there says "Christmas was a month ago". So it wasn't quite a month when we got there, but it was January 16. It's just that we loved our tree, we didn't want to say goodbye, but we finally did. There was no way I was putting the tree on my car though. I didn't want to get any scratches. Good thing we don't live very far and it's a short ride.

Now our Living Room is bare.

SNOOOOOOW

We had a huge snow storm hit. I loved it! I worked from home on Friday and Kenyon was off. It's a good thing, because he needed some time to take care of our drive way and build a snow man.

Saturday morning we were awoken to snowballs being thrown at out house. Dad, Ellen, Brisco and Sophie walked down and started pelting the house. Once we got out there and had a snowball fight my dad's white beard had grown because he had snow covering his face. I promise I didn't pelt him in the face with a snowball, but I did toss a lot of snow at him. It was hilarious!

A new beginning...

It was kind of nice this week that things slowed down a bit for me. This may be contributed to the snow. This was also a week of change for Kenyon. He put in his notice that he will be leaving Bradshaw Family Dental and moving to Mangum Dental on February 15. He will spend 1 day a week in Bagdad, and at least 2 days in the Prescott office. It's a little sad that we won't have lunch together everyday, and I'm afraid he will become thinner as he's already been told he's in charge of making his own lunches, but we'll see what happens. Keep a look out for Dr. Banfield at Mangum Dental.

Some Tenants are disgusting!

Our Tenants have moved out of the Queen Creek house, and this is basically how they left it. I don't even want to clean it, it's so disgusting and filthy.

My poor pool :(

Beneshy

My sister met a guy from Utah and brought him to Prescott to meet all of us...little did we know that Beneshy had already been formed. They were married on January 15th, the day before they came to Prescott. Ben has got to be one of the nicest guys I have ever met. Dinesh is a very lucky woman, and we are so happy for her and Ben and the kids. Congratulations again Nesh! You really are a PAYNE!