Happy Valentine's Day

I'm enjoying a currently new love (things, not people):

1. watching Bollywood movies. Watched Jab we Met and Jodhaa Akbar this morning. I love the simplicity of getting to know an individual through everyday events and getting twitterpatted. Does anyone remember that feeling... thanks to Netflix.

2. Soy Chai Latte: need I say more.

These couple of items make my downtime whether it be with family or alone, while everyone else is at work or at school more enjoyable. It also reminds me on this special day that simple gestures goes along ways and are remembered more when spent with family and friends. The films are foreign and one needs to read subtitles, but they show that new adventures can be scary or awkward at first but one can reveal new strengths that one may have not know that they had in them. This character can now be more magnetic bringing the relationships that continue to bring them prolonged rewards.

Enjoy Valentine's Day as it ends, but enjoy the upcoming adventures.

Finally, recovered... I think?

Ok! So where have I been... I've being gone for quite a while don't you think? Well I completed by program and have graduated with my Dental Hygiene B.S. with a minor in Biology, FINALLY! It has been a long time coming, but it has happened in May 2010. And for the past several months, I have been recovering. It is hard to recover from a student's life to a home life. I need time to adjust, I am just now getting a handle on it. My family had alot to deal with just as cleaning out the bank account to take numerous exams (written and clinical) before obtaining my license. Many thanks to them, with out their support and understanding my goal of graduating would have been unreachable.

So, currently I am working 2x/week at a private practice of dentistry as a primary

Registered Dental Hygienist. Which I love!!!! My full-time job is being a wife, friend and mother with all its many rewards. My family is doing great. My husband is staying busy as ever being a Project Manager, Consultant for Core Structural Engineering and Hogan Engineering. My daughter just finished a 17-1 basketball season and is now playing softball for Prescott High School. Crazy, she is a sophomore-time is flying by. My son is playing basketball for the city, a seventh grader at Prescott Mile High Middle School, and I just have to say a typical boy. He won't let us cut his care very short,loves guns, video games and such. Well I'll post more pix of recent past and upcoming events.

Back to School 2008

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

What was I thinking?

I have returned to school after quite a break. But, I like to think of it like a vacation. The first week was hell - I didn't think it would end. Totally crazy. I am just glad that is all over. I was so stressed out, I would say that I am finally getting back on my feet. One thing that I could say is the dental hygiene program at NAU has totally sucked my pockets of $$$. It just seems like there are just more and more to buy. Okay, enough of me complaining. It was fun though recieving our instruments. It was like christmas - opening all the packages.

Enough of me, the kids are doing great in school. They have been back to school for about a month. Stanford and the kids have adjusted okay without me at home. I say this only because, I haven't hear any complaints. Maybe they see me too stressed out, so they don't even say a peep. I would say the hardest part was leaving them for school. Very hard, okay we won't talk about that. I don't want to start the water works. Once you get me started, it is kinda hard to compose myself.

Well as you can see - the house is still on the market. But all the open houses have really good responses. We just need that one. We have a couple taking another look this week - so hopefully they are the one. I hope so my family could move to Flagstaff, so we can have the family back together. We are always around each other every moment and then to not have that. I'm lonely - no not really. I have such a great support system from my family, parents and peers - making the adjustment not so bad.

This is me for now....

PV Allstar Major Softball

These are some photos from my daughter's softball games at Camp Verde. Boy, was it hot down there. It was hard to stay cool. The attempt was useless-I think this photo was a good example. I got so involved in softball, that I even made a banner. I think I am a little crafty. I used a screen material so the girls can kinda of shaded from the beaming sun. I thought it was cute. My favorite part was the numbers. I used a yellow material and put red stiching to mimic the thread on the softball.

Well the 1st game started off a little rocky. Our major softball girls had played with the wrong ball all season. As our girls practiced right before the game, an empire approached our pitchers and notified them that we needed to use the 12" ball. All the girls didn't like it, but the game must go on. The girls were having a difficult time catching the ball, since most of their gloves we better suited for a smaller ball. But, as the game went on the girls got over this delima to win the game 21-4 against Camp Verde. Yippie!!!!

The 2nd game was the next day against Verde Valley. Boy! were these girls bigger and better. So, as you can guess the girls lost. I don't remember the score (who cares). Don't I sound all bitter. Since, it was a Friday-my parents asked us to go to Gallup the next day to do some shopping for my daughter for upcoming ceremony. So, after the game ended at 11:30 pm we left Camp Verde for Winslow. Are we genius or what. But, we haven't gone to Gallup in quite a while-I think more than 8 years.

Since the girls lost game 2, we knew we had to play again on Saturday evening. We thought we could make it back in time, but of course we didn't. The girls had to play Camp Verde again and we thought we had this one in the bag. But, I was kidding myself-the girls lost. Well since we lost 2 games were out of the tournament. I was kinda of glad-since the second round was in Tucson. Can you just imagine the heat. Besides, my daughter would of have to miss them-she had a ceremony that was starting at the same time. Oh! well, this was a fun for her.

I can see the light @ the end of the tunnel...

I was so glad the season for little league ended for the kids and then both of the kids got selected for the All-Star team for Prescott Valley. I was excited until I found out that they would be playing at the same time in two different towns. Most evening during the weekday in Williams and Camp Verde simutenously. Crazy huh? My son was gracious enough to for go playing, but my daughter will continue to play until they lose-since they will be closer to where we live. I am just not looking forward to driving back those last nights after midnight. I am just awful-I just want to be lazy. But this is not going to happen anytime soon. But, I don't mind the daily workouts or should I say I don't mind watching my daughter practice.


I only say this because, we had a realtor look at our home today. She made some suggestions on to repaint a couple of rooms to make it more appealing for buyers. She keep telling me to tone it down. This was quite hard for me to do. I was raise with the plain white walls, though my parents let me paint my room whatever I wanted to right before I left home. But, I am not a fan of white-maybe trim only. Then she tells my husband and I to cancel our plans to re-tile both of the bathrooms and the kitchen. Man! Did I like the tile, but my husband was all excited he didn't need to pay for something eles. All we need to do is paint some walls, replace a broken window(softball incident), plant some flowers and have the carpet clean the high traffic areas. Minor stuff, I just hope we can sell quickly. I want to be settle in the new place before school starts.

End of Little League Season of 2007

The kids have learned alot from there 2nd season as players in a new sport. Practice..practice and more practice gets you more playing time as you improve. Unless the coaches want their kids to play more. I didn't realize there would more drama with baseball(boys) than softball(girls). But that is something one has to deal with at all times in sports or any activities. But I am sure glad we don't have to deal with coming home after 9:30 p.m. with homework still due and everyone still needing to be fed. There was alot of take-out food this season.

Shandiin(pitcher & 1-3baseman) got really close to the team after a couple of weeks of being shy. She likes to lay-back and view the action before she dives right in. This was especially tough, since alot of the girl already knew each other from school since they all go to the same one. But, there were a couple that commuted to another town for more challenging schools. She got more confident in her surroundings as the season went along.

Nakai(2nd basemand & outfielder) went through a transition period being a batter this year. Last year all pitches were from the pitching machine and this year a live pitcher. He was confident in the beginning, but after being hit a couple of times with a fast ball he got a little shakey at the base. So to help with this his sister pitched to him until he got use to person pitching and not a machine. But, he love the game. Maybe-this was due to the snacks after each game. Something to look forward to. Another thing that he look forward to was catching a pop-up or getting an opponent out. And boy did he love getting dirty.

Well to end the season, we took the kids to Slide Rock to start summer. Though I don't know why-they complained about the water being too cold. Nah! after they played for a while they were fine. I think we will do this again when the temperature reached triple digits. But, that was such a scenic drive.