Gate Guarding

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Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Merry Christmas from Texas!



I'll post a year in review soon!
Love y'all


Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Looking back at 2012

Here’s a little look at our 2012 adventures….
Dec 31st 2011 in Yuma….
Me & Phyllis…
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Fun at the Moose in Yuma
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and Mac & Bob
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In February, we lost a very dear friend. Kevin Sullivan...
We Love & Miss you Kev...
Kevin & Arlene on a Dolphin Watching Tour in 2010













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While we were in Yuma, we spent some great times in Mexico with friends…

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Fajita Dinner that we made for Yuma friends
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Friends come visiting to Yuma…Chuck & Kathy..a day in Mexico
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Donnie & Karen..
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A day at Mike & Bette’s with friends in Yuma
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We left Yuma in April and headed to Amarillo, TX to see Christie & Dusty..had a great time with them..sorry I didn’t even take one photo there.. Mac & Dusty went on a Golfing trip with some of the relatives for a few days while Christie & I stayed in Amarillo...

Chris & I did a little shopping, had a few lunches out, and a couple of Dinners out. Lots of visiting...

We left Amarillo and headed to Waynoka, OK to see my sister & her family….here is their business…
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We left Waynoka and went to Emporia, KS to see our daughter Jenni, and family for a couple of days…Here’s a photo of Natalie with the bag I made for her…
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While we were in Waynoka we found out that our Storage Unit in Garnett was broken in to and almost everything was stolen…
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We took care of that problem with the help of our daughter, Teri, son-in-law Lynnie and grandson, Ryan…moved everything from the other unit to Kingman, KS…
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Now we are ready to celebrate Samantha’s High School Graduation…first her Party…Samantha with the table that our daughter, Teri set up with lots of memories…
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and then on to the Graduation..
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We had a great time in Kingman, but it was time to move on to Plains, KS for Britny & Cody’s wedding…
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Grandpa & Jaelynn dancing…
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Our daughter’s Christie & Teri at Britny & Cody’s Party…
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During all of this fun we were helping Dana & Russell remodel a building for Russell’s new Law Office…
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Too soon it was time to head south for our next adventure…a couple of days in Weatherford, TX visiting our friends Donnie & Karen..
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then on to Willis, TX to the Thousand Trails Park to see Arlene, and to meet a Chatroom friend Penny…
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We stayed and spent about 2 weeks visiting with Arlene and helping her with some things that needed taken care of…also, we purchased a (old)2000,  new to us Honda CRV…
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Our next stop was  Aransas Pass, TX for a few days to relax and head over to Port Aransas for a couple trips to the beach….
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On July 2nd, we drove over to Corpus Christi to the Gate Guard Services Office and filled out our paperwork for our new Gate Guard Job…
On July 5th, we headed to Whitsett, TX to start this new adventure in our lives…
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September took us to Victoria, TX for me to try to recover from a serious Upper Respiratory Infection…while we were there we finally go to meet, my sisters good friends & my Facebook Friend, Larry & Nora…
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we were back to to work soon for a short job and back to the Karnes City Gate Guard Services Yard….where we found this little guy almost starved to death…Meet Jynx..
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We took him to the Vet and got him all fixed up with medicines and some food…
We have been back working on another Gate and we spent Christmas working but a very quiet day that allowed me to fix a nice Turkey dinner with all the trimmings…
New Years Eve was spent with me up working the Gate & Mac in bed asleep…
Happy New Year everyone!
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