We did stop on the way back to Orem and take the dam Dam tour. Sorry, a lot of Dam humor!

As promised, we took a tour of the visitor's center and took our time and relaxed for a little bit. It was actually a nice visitors center and we enjoyed ourselves. It was good for Scott to get out and walk around for a bit.

Since we had left and were on our own, we made it a leisurely ride back to Utah. It made a difference in Scott too, especially as I had him sitting in the front seat so he could get out quickly to get to the bathroom. I also watched that he didn't get energy drinks that make his sugar levels go up high!

We had also stopped at the Grand Canyon and took in the view. There were a few native American Indians selling Indian jewelry and wares, which I love!

All in all, the trip back was more pleasurable. Bailey slept pretty much the whole way back, being tired from a lot of swimming and running around with little sister, Kaydee.

We stopped and looked over at the Grand Canyon. We also bought some Indian pottery and jewelry.

We did stop for the dam tour of the dam Dam. Glen Canyon Visitors Center.
That mound is made a pretty red dirt.

Looking through the windows in the Visitors Center.
Looking down on the dam Dam.

...And under the bridge.

Tiffany, Brad and Kaydee came up for a couple of weeks for Christmas this past December. They were back and forth between Orem and Farmington visiting our family and Brad's family. They brought their dog Abby with them. Abby was a friendly dog and loves to be loved. She got along well with our dogs ~ Ariel and Heidi~ sometimes too well as some dogs do...... Problem is they were all females and all fixed!

Kaydee was reall excited to see all the snow. She, Brad and Abby went out to build a snowman. Kaydee was real proud of her snowman, as she should be! She had a lot of fun making him, and here are the results.

Kaydance and her Snowman. December 2007.

Making the snowman bigger.

Kaydee adds his arms.

Holding Mr. Snowman's "hand." She is so cute and funny.

The proud creator! Brad, Kaydee and Abby baby with the Snowman.A "family" photo.

Warming up for a bit.

Halloween 2007

I have a lot of fun decorating at work for the different holidays, and have converted a few follwers to help. You can say that there are times I do get carried away! This year Halloween was extra fun as I was able to find pressed wood 3-dimensional coffin that I laid up against the wall and made a mini cemetary scene.

I had a bag of bones laid out with a few tomb stones and a couple of rats for good measure. I set it up and it started to take on a life of its own. Every night when I came in to work, it would be rearranged a little or something added to it. It was fun to see what would happen next. Example, Rebecca on my team added a broken key board under the bony hands, and a headset over the skull.

Since we work on the USPS (Post Office) website answering questions and complaints, I put spider webbing down the row on both sides of the aisle, with a touch of a few spiders. I also hung some ghouls from the ceiling, especially my favorite, a Pirate ghoul that looked like it was floating down at you.

We had the Vice President of the Post Office and a few other VIPs coming in to visit and it was suggested we wait until they left to decorate. The other Supervisor for email, April, decided to go ahead and decorate her area, so I figured I would go ahead and decorate as well. Nedra and Jayann almost died when they came in the next morning, but loved what we had done, especially my little grave yard. The visitors were really tickled with the decorations and very impressed with my graveyard as well, and thought it was pretty cool that we decorated.

Since I sat by the one door, it was pretty fun to hear the agents laugh or make comments about the coffin and the decorations. It makes me feel good that they appreciate it and enjoy the little bit of fun that we bring into the work place. I love it as it makes it more fun to come to work, and brings some happiness. But I got to tell you, working the midnight shift, it would sometimes get a little freaky to have that coffin right by my desk!

Witch Stew. Our team aisle, "The Insane Asylum" or USPS Website.

This is the Training Room, with the new trainees trying to get out. They have been in there for almost three weeks!

This is our new Supervisor who was just too overwhelmed trying to learn everything quickly.

I love decorating our work area for the holidays, especially Halloween and Christmas.

I sometimes will go a little crazy with the decorations. At work we can only plug in Christmas lights in the outside wall plugs. I really wanted to put a couple arches of garland with lights for our row, but I had to figure out a way to get them plugged into the wall. It took me about ten minutes but I worked it out.

Since my desk was at the end of the row and close to one of the entrance doors, I put up my 4 ft. fiber optic Christmas tree next to the wall near my desk. We got approval to get a special kind of tape and taped over the cord from the wall outlet over to my tree. I also had a fireplace I made against the cubicle wall of my desk near the tree.

I connected a long line of garland wrapped in white Christmas lights that went down the middle of the cubicles, and also connected with a long strand of garland wrapped in white lights that I ran around the pole near my desk, and draped across the aisle and back down the pole on the other side of the aisle. At the other end I did the same thing with the garland wrapping around the pole with lights and draped across the aisle and down the pole on the other side, and connected with garland and lights running down the middle of the cubicles on that side.

I hung red, green, and gold bulbs from the garland on each end. It was really something to see, and made everyone on the floor thrilled to see a decorated area. I had also made little stockings of red, white, and green card stock and had little designs on them with the name of the team members going across the top mantle of my fireplace.

We also had some musical Christmas toys near the fireplace and on the filing cabinets near us. Many of the agents liked to either make my reindeer in a rocking chair sing "Grama got run over by a reindeer" or push the buttom of Karen's snow man playing a piano and singing songs as they walked out the door. It just made the floor feel more festive and made it more fun to be at work.

To make it more fun, Kay, from Stamps, surprised us and left one of the beautiful sleds that she makes and sells against the one side of our fireplace because we always decorate our area so nicely. It was like Santa had come and left a present!