My Family

We had my sister-in-law take some pics of our family and they turned out great.

Yellowstone in Winter

For Christmas this year we took the kids to West Yellowstone. We went snowmobiling, snowcoaching, etc. We took off the day after Christmas and came home New Years Eve. West Yellowstone is the snowmobile capital of the world and we saw snowmobiles at businesses, the grocery store and even at church. The ward is about 70 active members but sacrament meeting had about 250 people, and they said in the summer it averages 500. It was good to see the church is the same where ever you are in the world.

We went to the Bear and Wolf Discovery Center and saw real live bears and wolves, I was suprised to see how big wolves are, no wonder the pioneers were afraid of the wolves as they crossed the planes.

Monday when we took off on the snowmobiles it was -24, and Zane got very cold. We got him warmed up at the warming hut, about 15 miles into the park, and he was good to go the rest of the day. We saw elk, swans, buffalo and coyotes, I just wished I had a gun. Old Faithful was lots of steam, as were most of the geysers. But it was cool to see the park covered with snow. The snow conditions were down from average but it was much colder.


Tuesday we took a snowcoach to the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone. It was a 15 passenger van with snow tracks on all 4, it went in the snow very good. The waterfalls were all frozen over and it looked cool to see the water shooting out thru holes in the ice. We saw hundreds of buffalo and some were bedded right next to the road so we got a good look at them.


Wednesday we went outside the part on snowmobliles on our own. It was lots of fun. We went 72 miles that day. One spot we stopped was called Big Spring, it was a river where a big spring came into it. It was warm so nothing was frozen over and their were huge fish everywhere in the river.


It was a great trip and we were able to see Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. Lots of country we have never seen before.

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Texas Whitetails

December 7-13, 2009 I went to Maryneal, Texas for a deer hunt. I had a great time and made some new friends. Cal Workman, Larry & Shawn Larson, Ken & Kendrick Wilson (Rock Springs), Don Gifford (Provo), Dee Ray Gifford (Lubbock). We killed 15 deer, 10 pigs and a few other critters. It was a blast.

Jolley's Pharmacy

Our store is one of 4 Jolley's Pharmcies in the Salt Lake Valley. Our store is located at 8806 South Redwood Road in West Jordan. I have enjoyed owning my own business and only wish I would have done it sooner. I have great employees and a great partner, Mardy Jolley. We continue to grow even in this tough economy. I hope we continue to do well. Check out some pics.

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SHHS Cross Country

Kaylynn is running on the cross country team this year, she enjoys it and it is also helping her with her competitive cheer team that she is on. It has cause some pain on me though, I have run 3 - 5k's this Summer. I have posted better times each time but it is a tough way to start a perfectly fine Saturday morning.

Please don's let us die!

Santaquin pole canyon September 12, 2009. Today is the first day of the Pine Hen Hunt. My Dad did not want to get up too early and go so I waited for Laura to wake up and took JoAnn, Laura and Zane, oh yea, and the dogs(Wisk and Sammy).
We took the Rhino and had a good ride. We found 4 horny toads, lots of rocky trails and no chickens. A few places the trail was a bit rough and Laura and Zane sat in the back repeating "Please don't let us die, please don't let us die" over and over and over and over again. When it was all over Laura did say it was fun. Zane liked the BB gun shooting and JoAnn and I liked the views from up on the top. We could see all of Utah Valley and even down to Mona on the South. I guess I need to do a few more adventurous things with them to toughen them up.

DC 2009

This year the Cardinal Health Retail Business Conference was held in DC. JoAnn and I went and left the kids home. We had a great trip. We did get to sight see some and took care of business as well. It was amazing to stand in some of the great historical sites and see them with our own eyes. The tomb of the unknown soldier was very awe inspiring. The Washington and Lincoln monuments are huge. We were able to see the Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights and Constitution. They were in the National archives and they keep it dark to preserve the documents. No flash photography is allowed so the pics we took were hard to see. Cardinal reserved the Air and Space museum on night and so we had dinner and the whole place to ourselves. It was cool to see all that stuff in actual size.

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