Tag from Tagen

JOYS :

1-Family, I love being married to the sexiest 50 year old this side of the Border! I still find Steve amazing and the way he makes me feel makes my heart go pit or patter. Of course being over 50 makes any heart go a skip a beat or two. I’m so proud of my daughters Tagen and her darling hubby Eric, Jami and her crazy fun Mike and their son, my beautiful grandson Bridger. I love his smile, and well, just love him unconditionally! We have an old brown jeep, some of you might remember “Brownie” and it’s his as soon as he turns 16, 15 more years to fix it up. Yup I love them all!

2-Love nature, I counted all the animals in one week that I saw on my way to work this is my list: a hairy mountain sheep in the rocks, moose (tons of them outside my office) Buffalo, thousand of elk, deer, a badger crossing the road, a wolf (early in the morning), skunk (for some reason Jami likes the smell), our horses and the way they run through the field or the way they surround me when I bring out apples and carrots.

3- The gospel, however I still don’t like to bear my testimony, I have visions of my skirt falling off as I walk up there, or saying something so stupid everyone just stares. But I do love Sundays and how peaceful you feel.

FEARS:
1- Snakes, once when I was younger my cousin threw one around my neck, um lets just say I still hate snakes.

2-Heights, however Steve and I did climb the Sidney Harbor Bridge, strapped on by cable and climbed on top of it, I said a prayer and figured well if I fell it would make one heck of a obituary! This summer I’m doing a 10,000 foot kite jump off Teton Mountain with a guide, again figure one heck of an obituary

3. Frogs, once my cute little innocent adopted Garret threw one on me at Lake Powell and it went between my chest and I flipped out, ok, so I might have said a swear word or two, but frogs belong in a pond not on my cleavage!

GOALS:
1- To be kind to everyone and never judge people!

2- Continue to eat healthy, haven’t had sugar in 6 weeks, grrrr!

3- Listen to that still small spirit, it’s amazing if you listen just how you can help others. Listening is a lost art, we are so good at talking and telling others what we think what they should do, but really, just listening is where you will get the best results.

RANDOM THINGS ABOUT ME:
1- I was once bite by a coyote, he looked skinny so I was chucking crackers and cheese whiz and he got a bit close and bite my hand, no worries, Willie Coyote was rabies free!

2- I was a twin, he died at birth I was a whopping 9.6 pounds. My mom had fallen early in the pregnancy and things should have been done different. Its nice now that things are better for expecting mothers. When Jami had so many problems getting pregnant and losing babies, it was a doctor in the small town of Jackson Hole that figured out that she, Tagen, and I all have a folic acid problem, and it’s a miracle that I even had the two girls I did. Amazing how different places take you, and how you get answers in the strangest places. Im grateful for living in a place that a doctor could figure out the problems we Parker girls have!

3. I have written a children’s book and have been to chicken to publish it. Also I love to write and read, I need to make it more of a priority in my life and just take the plunge, kind of like jumping out of a airplane, (which I have done), Just do it! Again another great obituary story!

I tag Chels, Neffs, Duffins, and Megan

Weekend in Carmel

We went for our monthly California visit to get out of the cold air and visit Eric and Tagen.

A Couple of Seals in front of Big Seal Rock!

Family Fun in Carmel

Steve and I both are enjoying the wonderful Tetons. Steve works at the Jac Hole Mountain Resort as a manager, but this is what he really does; he skis in the winter and drives 4 wheelers in the summer. We are excited to have our summers back. Selling the horse business was a mixed blessing, we still have our horses and have two baby cows. Now mind you we had one cow last year, we were going to kill. However after becoming friends with Edna (she was Special Ed, till I found out it was a girl), she would take corn from my hand, lick Bridger to death, well there was no way I could eat her. So we took her back and traded the guy to take two of our horses to winter. We now have two babies, and yeah Im pretty sure it will be the same story. Steve has the worse calling I think in the church, Gospel Doc, we both had it but I got out of it and Im in Young Womans. I work at SkyWest as a Admin Assit. I love wearing levi's to work, today I took a picture of 8 Moose outside my office, everyday Im in wonder of where we live. I hope one day the snow will melt. Its funny anything over double digits, and Im like, hey a heat wave. But when its -35 I dont like! But its never hot up here in the summer. We enjoy traveling, you cant beat a first class ticket to anywhere in the world for free. My newest adventure is Im a EMT for my little town. It keeps me busy and is pretty rewarding. We love it here, Miss our family, Miss our Grandson, but go to Utah often and California. Come visit we have tons of room, and life in this area is 9 months of winter and 3 months of visitors....................................................................