Arizona Part 1

Where do I even begin? I will need to make several posts to even cover all the cool things that happened out in Arizona over a period of 5 months.  I guess I will start with how we ended up going to AZ.  Devin, my husband, got a contract to paint 15 locomotives in a little town called Globe, AZ. Globe, by the way is the turquoise capital of the world.  I will be posting tons of photos throughout my entries.  He rented a house while out there and I came to visit the 1st weekend of every month because I work full time.  He hired several employees while out there, but Randy (his painter) still works/travels with him.  The people we met that Devin worked with were super nice and it looks like we will get to see them again real soon. Devin was always invited over for dinner or to go to the casino etc.  It made me happy to know that he wasn't always by himself and that if he wanted to hang out with someone that he had friends their.  He did have a roommate, but I won't go into detail about him.  Let's just say he was interesting and loved to go mining for copper out there.  One specific person/couple I would like to tell you more about is Randy and his wife Lorraine.  Randy is a Navajo Indian and his wife is Appachi and interesting enough, they are also Mormon. Ha!  Those two tribes usually don't like each other.  Randy used to be an alcoholic, but gave drinking up when his son died a few years ago.  He realized that life is too short and that he needed to be there for his family.  He has a daughter and some grand kids.  Randy comes from a big family of 13 sisters and 2 brothers and his wife comes from a family of 12 brothers and 1 sister.  Lorraine is so sweet and passionate about her heritage.  If enough time, she would sit down and tell us stories about her growing up.  Her Mother is a strong woman.  When Lorraine was about 9, she moved to California to be in a school placement program and would just come home for the Summer.  Her Mom decided it was better for education to be out in California than AZ because the kids in AZ were mean to the Indian kids.  When Lorraine was little the Government actually came and took one over her siblings away.  The Government was so mean to the Indians.  After California, Lorraine got her Bachelors degree in Utah and that's where her and Randy met.  Now Lorraine is Randy's 2nd wife actually.  His first wife died from being an alcoholic.    Randy and his wife live in a little trailer and don't have much, but at some point they will have a house built either by Lorraine's tribe or Randy's tribe.  Before building the house Randy's tribe would have to approve the location and it will have to be a bran new house.  If they have a house built by Lorraine's tribe, then it will have to be on the Indian reservation only.