Bucket List

I don't know if I mentioned this before but we (the crew, Stephanie, Bart, John, and I) made bucket lists a few months ago. Well, really, we went searching for Trapper Keepers. If anyone knows where we can get the good Trapper Keepers let me know. So we found Trapper Keeper folders and made our Bucket List folder.

 (and I wonder sometimes why I feel like a kid with a credit card and no supervision.....)

Anyways, so of course, skydiving was on the list. CHECK!
Next on the list that should be crossed off .... we are training for a 1/2 marathon in January. Yep, 13.1 miles. I think I started the whole challenge and it's gotten a little away from me. So we'll keep our fingers crossed that we actually do it.

SKYDIVING

 We finally got our skydiving scheduled about two weeks ago. We have been wanting to do this since we did the indoor skydiving in May. I have to say that it was the best experience ever. I kept waiting for the nerves to set in and have the freak out moment but it never came.

 This was on the tram taking us to the airplane. It's about a 15 minute plane ride to 13000 feet. We each had our tandem person (Joe for me, Jared for John, Pat for Stephanie, and Aaron for Bart). Then we had a photographer also. My photographer was Keith, I don't remember anybody else's. I know Joe was awesome about telling me what was going on and what we were going to do. Once we got to 13000 feet people start bailing out! It's about a 1 minute freefall from 13000 feet to 5000. Then you parachute the rest the way and that takes about 4 minutes.

 I was surprised because when the parachute comes out there wasn't a much of a pull as I expected. Joe let me "drive". We went full speed, stopped, turned left and right.

 The landing was perfect. Basically I stood on Joe's feet and kicked up my legs when he said and then stood up when he told me to. We didn't even end up with any grass stains on our butts.

 It is definitely addicting and it's hard to describe the feeling. I would say that having done the indoor wind tunnel was a good starter to skydiving. I never had the feeling of falling and I want to do it again as soon as possible!! For surviving our fall we had a celebratory dinner at LoLo's! Chicken and waffles with some red Kool-Aid. Best day ever!

Amazing

Quick post. I had the chance to finally volunteer at Phoenix Children's Hospital on Thursday. They do a 2 day radiothon and I have listened to it since we moved here and have loved it. Then I have been wanting to go volunteer at PCH for a while. Well, it was an amazing experience. I loved every minute of it. Maybe I'm demented or something seeing as that I can't have kids, but I feel very strongly about volunteering there. I can't wait to get back and complete the class so I can go back more often!

Hmmm

So I have been thinking about this blog. I don't have a whole lot to say. That's not true, I don't have a whole lot of time to type it all out. And I'm not documenting anything for my kids or anything so should I keep it?

Recap

Ok it's finally time to try and recap.

May:
My mom was here over mother's day weekend. We went to Water for Elephants, still a great movie. Love Rob. We painted some pottery at As You Wish. We must have finally pottery painted out as we haven't been back since. I do have some platters I picked up to paint. Then the best part of the weekend we went indoor skydiving. I was a little nervous but it was amazing!! We had done a 4 minute package. So you go in for two minutes and then rotate through and do another two minutes. The first time is really to get the feel of it and learn how as you adjust your body you can control your height. Then the second time they let you go a bit more and at the end they take you clear up to the top of the tunnel and you spin around and around. Basically when you're experiencing it you are just thinking:

"THIS IS TOTALLY AWESOME!! MY MOUTH IS HANGING OPEN. DID I JUST DROOL ALL OVER? THIS IS SO AWESOME! MY NOSE IS ALL DRY. WE'RE GOING FAST. THIS IS SO TOTALLY AWESOME"

We came out and immediately asked if we could go skydiving from a plane but it was too windy. So plans are in the works that we will go before my birthday.

How pathetic is it that when trying to remember what we did I am looking at my bank account! So apparently the weekend after Mother's Day we went to Oreganos....probably with Bart and Stephanie.

Nick got here on the 19th..ish. I took Friday off and he and I basically unloaded his entire house. I remember being sore and tired and a bit sunburned after this.

The next weekend was Memorial Day weekend. I don't really remember what we did Friday or Saturday. I know I started a class on the 17th so I probably worked on some homework, etc. Sunday we did a caravan with Stephanie and Bart up to Jerome. It's this little town at the top of this big mountain and it was pretty cool! We wandered around all the shops and grabbed some lunch, etc. If memory serves that night we came back and went to Oregano's and tried to burn the place down.

That pretty much wraps up May. In between all this was just the normal school and work.

June:
I think it may have been the first weekend in June that we went on a pretty awesome bike ride one morning. We rode by Kim Whalen's house and then to Dunkin Donuts and then around Power Ranch. I believe that was the weekend I broke down and had someone finally cut my hair. Turned out ok. Then we tried Blue 32 that weekend. The burgers were good.

Shar and the kids got here on 9th or something like that. On the 10th I went to Wicked with Heidi. We had dinner at Casey Moore's and I had an awesome salad and then the play. Except I typed it was Wicked and it was really Les Mis. LOL. It was good and I was surprised it wasn't on the turntable and then I read an article specifically about how it wasn't on the turntable.

Then the weekend of Father's Day. We didn't do anything. I got sick Saturday night/ Sunday morning. Like throw up sick. I haven't thrown up so much as I have this year. So I ended up calling in sick Monday to relax a bit.

Life has been crazy finishing up this class in school and then I have been double covering at work which has been a bit of a nightmare but is hopefully getting under control. 

I don't know what we're doing for the 4th; possibly some bowling and I'm sure some general hanging out. We did have some fun the weekend of Father's Day when I finished my assignment and then 2 hours later my motherboard crashed. So I am now the proud owner of a Mac. Four hard drives in less than 4 years I couldn't handle it. So far I am getting used to it and liking it. But who knows where all my pictures are. I will try to find them and get some uploaded. Two weeks to get that done until my next class starts!

Awhile

I know it's been a while since I have posted anything and a lot has gone on. Sometimes it's so hard to sit down and type something up. I also have a bunch of pictures to add, but that is so time consuming. So with that said, I will get this updated but today is probably not the day.

Only a month?

So it's been just over a month since I updated this last and WOW a lot has happened. Let's see if I can remember back that far. I have a ton of pictures I could load as well. Right after my last post John's sister and niece was here for a week. She was out at my in-laws but she was in AZ.

While they were here did dinner with John's uncle from Chicago one night and some of that side of the family we see about once a year, but always have so much fun with. We went to San Tan Flats and went to Tombstone ;-) and who knows what else. It was our finance appreciation week at work so one day they took us all to a spring training game. Couldn't tell you who played or who won, but it was a great day to be outside and get sunburned!

Kim, Brittany, and I went to Tombstone one day. We were going to go to Karchner Cavern but couldn't get the tour we wanted. We also stopped at John's cousin's house in Casa Grande on the way home and had dinner with their family.

Let's see... John started his new job the first of April. It was a busy end at Harley with bike week and so far I think he's liking his new job alright and I know he's liking not working weekends because we've been SO busy every weekend so far.

I was in class also at that time. I'm done with that class now, just waiting for my grade to post. I'm out for 4 weeks and the time off is flying by!

Also about this time Nick started interviewing with University of Phoenix and the next thing we know they are moving down here. They'll be here mid-May. I'm excited and nervous at the same time. I want it to be a good move for them and I'm worried about all the logistics and everything with moving. I think it is a good move career wise but I just don't know that everyone has bought into the idea.

We knew it would be nice if they were close enough for us to car pool....so I found a house 6 houses down. Again, excitement and apprehension at the same time... John and I have enjoyed our independence since moving down here 5 years ago. So just staying positive and getting ready for them to move down!

We've managed to stay super busy this past month with car shows, bike shows, and lots of As You Wish. For Bart's birthday we went to As You Wish and found out how much fun it is to paint pottery! We've been back since then and plan on going again soon. It's a learning experience everytime because we have learned that we need more time than we allot. On Bart's birthday I was also introduced to Sprinkles. I have read about Sprinkles in magazines and I love them. I would drive to Scottsdale once a week for a half dozen any time.

That doesn't sound like a whole lot typing it up but it keeps us busy! This coming month doesn't seem to be slowing down either. My mom will be here next weekend and we have some pottery painting, maybe a pedicure, a movie, some indoor skydiving, and who knows what else!! Then two weeks later Nick and Shar will be moving. I've also got a date that weekend for Tyler's wedding some of the peeps from BoA!

Of course I'll be starting class again in there too, we haven't even thought about Memorial day weekend! And most importantly Friday I'm taking a motorcycle class with the option to do a trapeze class in a week or so... should be fun!