Reno

This past weekend Tommy and I headed up to Reno for our friend Levi Tudor's wedding. We were both a little excited and a little hesitant to leave. You see, it was our first EVER weekend away from Emalee and neither one of us was sure how we would react. The first few hours were rough, we felt like we were forgetting something, or that we were neglecting our child in the back seat :) Once we actually got to Reno, had phone signal again, and realized that we needed to ENJOY our time together everything was fine. We had a nice dinner on Friday night, and went to a fabulous wedding on Saturday. The wedding allowed us to visit with old friends, we had such a great time catching up and talking with them, some of them we hadn't seen since we got married almost 3 years ago. So crazy that practically all of us are married, and most of us have a kid or kids or a bun in the oven. :)

This trip also led us to some make some pretty drastic decisions...I applied for 4 jobs with the Washoe County School District. If all I can do is sit on a call back list here in Nye County, what harm could it do to TRY and get a job somewhere else? A change might be in store for the Bolling Family!!

As for Emalee...she surived without us, Nana & Papa took extra good care of her!!!

4th of July at Mammoth Lakes

We had been planning our trip to Mammoth Lakes, CA for almost 4 months and we were anxious to get out of town!! It was nice, quality family time. In all there were 10 of us. Tommy, Emalee, myself, my mom, my dad, my brother Tim, my sister-in-law Kim, my nephew Nathan, my little brother Jarrod, and his girlfriend Emily. We had beautiful weather, we even got to wear sweatshirts a few times :) We did lots of site seeing, some shopping, some relaxing, and the boys did lots of fishing. It was a nice change of pace to the "normal" Pahrump festivities. The fireworks in Mammoth were nothing compared to what we are used to, but we were also surrounded by huge pine trees which makes you wonder how they did any fireworks at all. The fireworks were actually on July 3rd, and then on July 4th there was an early morning parade, an art show, and vendors of all sorts set up.

The highlight of our trip was the last night we were there. We had a bear visit our porch...no one has any pictures and only Jarrod and Emily actually saw the bear, but Tommy and I came home with enough proof. We have some very nice bear teeth marks in the lid of our cooler....poor bear all he got was some bottled water and some lighter fluid. :)