Social Life

So Tom and I pretty much haven't had friends since we got married. I fell off the face of the earth and was convinced that everyone had forgotten who I was, until we received an invitation to go "camping" over Memorial Day with some of my friends from college. Camping turned into staying at my friend's grandmother's condo in Mesquite, NV. From there, we were able to travel into Zion National Park on the busiest day of the year and hike Emerald Pools and Angel's Landing! My ego took a hit that day as I panted in the back of the pack for most of the day. Tom was kind enough to stick behind with me. In fact, he even made me slow down and take breaks even though I looked at him, red-faced, and told him I was fine. I guess he is worried about the baby or something. As we hiked out onto the ridge at Angel's Landine (1000 foot drops on both sides!) Tom made sure to stay behind me to watch me hike and make sure I didn't fall. It was on this hike that we were able to capture a picture of the "belly"- something that has remained relatively hidden to the human eye up until this point. Yes, I am now showing! (Sort of). The rest of our trip was spent playing some sand volleyball at the Casa Blanca resort (yes, we snuck in), and hanging out at the house with the 4 other couples playing monopoly the card game (which is pretty fun- and addicting)! It was hard to leave and come back to the reality of work and school, but I believe Tom has found some new motivation in school after getting a 94% on his bio test!!! Woot, woot! And he continues to do well, though he has mentioned that he is looking forward to his short summer break at the end of this month. Speaking of the end of this month, on the 29th we will go in and find out if we need to paint Phyllis's room blue or pink, in preparation for the new little North one.
That's all for now! Laurie, if you wanted to add me as an author on this thing that would be great. If not, it's cool I can continue to pose as Tom.
'Til next time, Love you all!!

I'm Still Here!

Well it has been a long time since I contributed so I will just try to hit the highlights...

For anyone who hasn't heard yet Kayleigh has drawn Anchorage, Alaska for her externship, she will be moving there in about a month from now, it will be a huge change for both of us, but it is good news because she is going to a hospital that sees a lot of different pathology (disease for anyone that doesn't follow medical terms) so it will allow her to gain a lot of experience, and since the point of an extern is to gain experience this is a great opportunity for her.

Other things that are going on in my life is that I now own a motorcycle and I am going to be a federal firefighter this summer and will be moving back in with mom and dad in a few weeks

I will try to get on here more often and if nothing else I'll add some pics of my new bike soon :)

Update

We haven't posted in a while but there are quite a few new things to report. I am pregnant! (I think everyone knows that though) Baby #2 will be born around January 11th, a week before Sophie's 2nd birthday. I'm excited that this one will have a cousin so close in age.
Tucson is still in the works. We have been told that we have to move by September 1st. The company is being reorganize and Jeff will be over 2 stores in Tucson, and then Nogales and Alamogordo. He is excited to be done in McMinnville and Carlsbad. The only lame thing about this all, is that when we signed on Jeff was supposed to be 12.5% owner. Well he just signed all the paperwork and he is a 5% owner. Kinda dumb.
So we put an offer on a house, 20K lower then the asking price, and I don't think we will be getting it. There was another offer. But it is a foreclosure so who knows. With another baby on the way, Jeff is really wanting to buy when before he was all about renting.
And as for pictures, here is one of Sophie making my mother's day card.

Hello? Anyone out there?

I'm glad Laurie is taking the time to post on here...I'd hate to see our family blog completely fade into obscurity! For those of you who haven't taken the time to check out Laurie's blogs, you should take a quick look at them. They're pretty interesting.

I know all of you are very busy, but I wish you'd post stuff on here from time to time. I really enjoy seeing your comments and pictures. If I weren't computer illiterate I'd stick some pictures on here also.

Congratulations are due to Doug for having another outstanding baseball season. Henley is 8-2 in the Skyline Conference, and added another District Championship to their list of accomplishments. They have one more conference game tomorrow against North Valley (Doug will be pitching), and their first game in the playoffs will probably be against Pleasant Hill on May 25th. I promise I'll post some info on here about that game.

Laurie and Emme will be coming to Klamath on June 5th (assuming that Henley doesn't play in the State Championship, which is also that day) to run in the Lake of the Woods Run. I'm going to try to survive another 5 k...I'm glad Emme's running in the half-mile, so I don't have to worry about being schooled by a 6 year old! I'm looking forward to the run, even though the weather in Klamath has been less than favorable for running and I'm not in any condition to race.

Time to go. I have to work.

To all the moms and moms to be...

New Blog

In case any of you care about my family but are tired of hearing all about my running I've started a new blog that is more about us and less about me. You can get there by clicking HERE.

I'm starting to get a lot of "running" traffic on my blog so I'm definitely leaning more to talking only about running. I figure the running people don't care too much about my kids and you all don't care too much about my running, so this will make everyone happy.

Happy reading.

Oh, and feel free to keep us updated on you here on this poor, sad, neglected blog...

Apologies to All are in Order

I think I owe everyone who participates in and reads our blog an apology. It's been a long time since I posted anything, and quite some time since I responded to anyone's posts. I especially owe an apology to Janna and Tom, who not only posted on here without any responses from anyone, but set up their own blog and didn't get any responses there either. My excuse is that I normally work on this at work, and I haven't had any time. Pretty lame excuse, but there it is.

There are a lot of things to write about...Steph's meet in February, Doug's games, my running, work, and other assorted stuff...I just haven't taken the time to do it. What it comes down to is laziness. I'll try to do better.