A quick stop at Troy and Christina's!!

Bike wrecks on Spruce Mountain!!

It was decided that we would take a road trip to Prescott and go for a bike ride. We went up Thumb Butte to go on a short ride. We stopped by the Pioneer Home to see Rob's step mom to say hi, then to go on one more bike ride before we left.

This is the tree that Rob broke while waiting for me to catch up. All he did was lean up against it.

We finally made it to the top of the ride on Thumb Butte. This is the short ride. 2.5 miles is all I could do. Yes, I know I'm a whimp.
Isn't he cute? He turned around and went back down the single track trail and I cheated and took the road.

This is a little outhouse that is at the top of Spruce Mountain at the Look Out. After a very long drive up a dirt road we made it to the top Rob chose to take the long way down.

These are just some of the wounds he came back with. Three crashes and one tree being hit. 25 hours later they look much worse. (I'll post later)

Ricky & April...here comes a BOY!!

On the brighter side of things...April is on her way to the hospital to have the baby at 1am! So I updated my background with a boy theme as his name is supposed to be John.

Layoffs!!!

So yesterday I go to work early to get jump on all the stuff that I have to prepare for my day at work. All of the management staff is running from meeting to meeting and the Team Leads are preparing for another meeting at 10am. At 9:45ish, my supervisor come to me and tells me that we are loosing our contract with American Express and will all be LAYED OFF by 11/25/09. What the heck? We are the pest performing site that they have and WE are loosing our job. So at Noon they Big Boss Man and the HR lady start to pull people into meeting to break the bad news to they. (I already knew what it was about so I felt very bad for them) We were all getting letters as to the date when we will be, "Terminated" as the HR lady states. Now I have o wait for an additional hour while my fellow co-workers already found out their date which was November. So now it's my turn...paranoid about the DATE. I am sitting in this room with all the phone jockeys (which I am not) are asking all of their questions about the hypothetical situations...All I want to know is MY date!! I get my letter worried that it will be sometime this summer and we are not going to get a new contract before I am "terminated", i open it up. Yes....November 25th!!! Yeah for me!!! Bad for everyone else.

All of the management staff was sure that I was going to blow my top. I remained calm all day, reassuring my fellow co-workers that it will all be okay. Today everyone came in still drunk from the night before and I am still trying to be positive about the situation, I gave up at about 3:00. I wanted to go cry for everyone and myself. The worst part about this whole thing is I have to watch my friends and people I work with every day walk out the door and possibly not come back.

Stupid, Stupid Catapillars.....grrr!

So I decided to plant my garden...yes in February. It is getting in the 80's these days which is perfect for my garden to start to bloom and look pretty. Not so much!!! Tonight I come home to find that my 2 rows of radishes that finally had the real leaves are ALL GONE. After I watered them just in case they will continue to grow without leaves I find caterpillars crawling on what was my radish. I run into the house to have Rob come take a look...which he refuses because I have not yet planted his desired vegetable, make me bring them to him. There was not just one Caterpillar but four BIG and one little baby caterpillar. Did I mention that I planted carrots and they have seemed to disappear as well?

I guess I will have to defend my ground and kill one worm at a time. If I can keep the dogs out of my garden do you think I can keep worms out as well?

Tada!!!!

I think I figured it out. I hope it doesn't look to cheesy. Since Valentine's Day is coming I thought it would be fitting.

Under Construction!!!!

I know that I am a horrible blogger. Have have not the slightest clue how to make this blog actually look good. Not to mention I really don't have anything to talk about or share with others. So in the near future I will post the best blog ever (that I could possibly create). If you have any tips or can give me an education on how this works I would love the help.