Busy January

Vince and Dawn at her birthday party at Valle Luna in Phoenix


Dawn and son, Colby at Valle Luna


Proud parents, Ellen and Larry at daughter Dawn's birthday party at Valle Luna


Friend Rachel, Granddaughter Bethany, and Grandma


Birthday girl, Dawn at Valle Luna


Entrance to Cummins Rocky Mountain Avondale, AZ


Us at Cummins Rocky Mountain Avondale, AZ


Ellen and Mom Clark for her 89th birthday in Prescott


Larry and Dawn in Prescott


Vince, Mom Clark and Larry in Prescott, AZ


Ellen, Dawn, Larry at Red Lobster for Ellen's birthday


Ellen blowing out her '627' candles. Can you figure out how old she is?!


Bike rack on the back of the MH getting ready for a trip with just the MH and bike as our transportation


We started the month off with taking Dawn and Vince out to lunch at Sweet Tomatoes after church for her birthday and then on her actual birthday we met at Valle Luna along with grandkids Colby and Bethany. I baked a cake and the servers brought it out and sang to her which was a lot of fun.

We had a nice breakfast at the park the second Saturday of January and are meeting more neighbors. We like to move the MH about once a month and so we went to Cummins Rocky Mountain in Avondale to have the pan gasket replaced. The problem started four years ago when we had a problem in El Paso with a repair and since both Cummins dealers are "sister" companies, El Paso paid for Avondale to fix the mistake. PTL! We stayed at their facility and they provided us with both lunch and then dinner when the repair didn't get finished until 7:30 PM. We stayed the second night and stopped at Home Depot on the way home to pick up a 10 ft pipe which wouldn't fit in the car. We put it in through the window and it worked out fine. It seemed strange to be in 'just' the MH without the trailer and car but since we were going just for the night (so we thought) it was more economical. We were very pleased with Cummins Rocky Mountain, LLC in Avondale as everyone was super nice and went out of their way to answer all our questions.

The 21st of Jan. Vince and Dawn took us to Prescott to celebrate Larry's Mom's 89th birthday. I again baked a cake, we took KFC in and had a very nice visit.

For Ellen's birthday, Dawn and Vince took us out for dinner to Red Lobster's in Paradise Valley. They bought a Blizzard Cake which they took to the restaurant and everyone sang. It was a fun evening and we had leftovers including those wonderful cheese biscuits! Yum!

Sat Jan 28th we went to a friend's 65th birthday party along with 150 other people. What a shindig! They had a disc jockey (we actually danced one slow dance, Larry's suggestion!) and Larry won tickets to the Renaissance Festival near Apache Junction that runs weekends from Feb 11 thru April 1, 2012.

Larry finished the bike rack for the back of the MH for our March trip to Yuma when we will take the bike but not the trailer to the Gypsy Journal Rally.