So Friday when the trial ended mom and I drove back to Green River. It was nice to be home for the weekend to celebrate Kayli's 21st birthday and get the annual family picture. During this time I began preperations for the Miss Wyoming pagent. Those of you who haven't heard my sisters and I have been asked to participate in the pagent this year. My mom was excited to have all of us spend a weekend together and do something she never got to do. The program is excited about having 3 sisters compete together for the first time. Kayli has been exstatic about getting outfits together. So when I got home I had to have my hair dyed (for the very first time) a lighter blonde color right. The preperations for the pagent have begun.
The rest of the weekend consisted of horseback riding with dad, babysitting, going to garage sales for furniture for Kayli, going to church, and a cleaning of the whole house to begin collecting items we no longer need for a garage sale of our own (or just donating we aren't really sure as of yet).
Monday Mom, Dad, Adar and I prepared to go to Riverton for Roni's sister's wedding. We were running some errands when I got a call from Roni to let me know that there was a drowning case that Ed was working on when he collapsed. He was immediately rushed to the hospital. I was really worried about him but there wasn't much we could do as these errands had to be done. So when we did get out of town (in the truck pulling the camper behind) we got to right in the middle of our journey (South pass area) when the truck began to have transmission/clutch problems and we had to roll the truck and camper off the highway into the byway.
Talk about horrible luck only one cell phone had service (dad's union cell) and with that we were able to call my grandpa who lives in Pavilion, Wyoming (between Riverton and Lander) who drove the hour out to haul the truck into Lander where they should be fixing it. Then he drove us to Riverton to get my car that was at Ed and Roni's while my dad waited for my grandpa's friend who had a bigger truck to drive dad out to get the camper. My mom, Adar, grandpa and I drove to the hospital to visit Ed (who looked alright except for a bruise on his head and all the wires he was connected to- but he was content watching Mash :) and then we drove to the prenumptual sweat to see Roni and everyone who was involved with the wedding and give them the juice we had promised (and give mom and Adar an idea of what a sweat lodge looks like- I was really bummed they wouldn't get to experience it.) and then grabbed dinner and drove to my grandparents' house for the night.
The next day we drove to Dubois and spent 3 hours getting together a gift for the wedding (we had left the other one at the house- more bad luck). Then drove to Ed and Roni's cabin where we met the happy couple and I was asked to take the wedding pictures). The ceremony was done by Willie (the shoshoni elder we sweat with) in his buckskins and feathers. PIC? It was an experience getting used to taking all the pictures (Ed was going to do it but when he couldn't he suggested they ask me). I will try to get some of those so I can show you how beautiful it was (and how good my pictures were :)
We spent the afternoon at the lunch then had a campfire, played worst scenario, and went to bed in Roni's sister's tent. Just to be up early again to get Adar back to Green River to work. I drove back to the office got dressed for the day, (when I got keys) ran to the house checked on Ed and then drove to help Erin with documenting items located in an apartment of a man who just passed away who hasn't any next of kin. The office has had a lot of cases lately and Mark is
exhausted from running to each one (he hasn't gotten much sleep because they all happen to be late at night or early in the morning.) Right now the drowning victim still hasn't been recovered and we have one deputy coroner sitting in the IC (incident command) vehicle waiting for the body to be found. He will call us when it is so we can transport it back to Lander.
The rest of the weekend consisted of horseback riding with dad, babysitting, going to garage sales for furniture for Kayli, going to church, and a cleaning of the whole house to begin collecting items we no longer need for a garage sale of our own (or just donating we aren't really sure as of yet).
Monday Mom, Dad, Adar and I prepared to go to Riverton for Roni's sister's wedding. We were running some errands when I got a call from Roni to let me know that there was a drowning case that Ed was working on when he collapsed. He was immediately rushed to the hospital. I was really worried about him but there wasn't much we could do as these errands had to be done. So when we did get out of town (in the truck pulling the camper behind) we got to right in the middle of our journey (South pass area) when the truck began to have transmission/clutch problems and we had to roll the truck and camper off the highway into the byway.
Talk about horrible luck only one cell phone had service (dad's union cell) and with that we were able to call my grandpa who lives in Pavilion, Wyoming (between Riverton and Lander) who drove the hour out to haul the truck into Lander where they should be fixing it. Then he drove us to Riverton to get my car that was at Ed and Roni's while my dad waited for my grandpa's friend who had a bigger truck to drive dad out to get the camper. My mom, Adar, grandpa and I drove to the hospital to visit Ed (who looked alright except for a bruise on his head and all the wires he was connected to- but he was content watching Mash :) and then we drove to the prenumptual sweat to see Roni and everyone who was involved with the wedding and give them the juice we had promised (and give mom and Adar an idea of what a sweat lodge looks like- I was really bummed they wouldn't get to experience it.) and then grabbed dinner and drove to my grandparents' house for the night.
The next day we drove to Dubois and spent 3 hours getting together a gift for the wedding (we had left the other one at the house- more bad luck). Then drove to Ed and Roni's cabin where we met the happy couple and I was asked to take the wedding pictures). The ceremony was done by Willie (the shoshoni elder we sweat with) in his buckskins and feathers. PIC? It was an experience getting used to taking all the pictures (Ed was going to do it but when he couldn't he suggested they ask me). I will try to get some of those so I can show you how beautiful it was (and how good my pictures were :)
We spent the afternoon at the lunch then had a campfire, played worst scenario, and went to bed in Roni's sister's tent. Just to be up early again to get Adar back to Green River to work. I drove back to the office got dressed for the day, (when I got keys) ran to the house checked on Ed and then drove to help Erin with documenting items located in an apartment of a man who just passed away who hasn't any next of kin. The office has had a lot of cases lately and Mark is
exhausted from running to each one (he hasn't gotten much sleep because they all happen to be late at night or early in the morning.) Right now the drowning victim still hasn't been recovered and we have one deputy coroner sitting in the IC (incident command) vehicle waiting for the body to be found. He will call us when it is so we can transport it back to Lander.
