Happy July!!!!!

Hey all,

Where to begin??  One must always begin....AT the beginning....  :)

Lots going on....

First off, Mike and I are doing really well. Taking our relationship extremely slow, so I suppose that is a good thing.  He turns 50 on Friday the 13th, so he has some family flying in this week and I will also get to meet his oldest son, Dustin, who lives in Denver.  Mike's mom, Jan, turns 80 on the 12th, so I suppose the family is also coming to see HER!  :)  They are going to have a combined party this coming Thursday evening and then not sure what the rest of the weekend will hold.  I took next weekend off (and also the next several weekends) so that I could join in on any activities they might do.  Plus, we didn't know for sure when the party would be, etc.  Mike also has his class reunion this coming weekend, but we may only go have cocktails one evening.  Mike has been competing in several golf tournaments this summer and this weekend is no exception!  He played on the 4th, yesterday and now today is the final leg of it.  He's pretty busy so I find myself home early a lot, so that he can go to bed.  We went to an Isotopes game at the end of June and that was a lot of fun.  He had never been to a game like that, so he really enjoyed it.

I ran the Firecracker 5K this year and finished in my goal time of 30 minutes!!  I was soooo proud of myself and have to say I ate very conservatively the last couple of weeks and did some outside running and that helped a lot!  They have this run yearly on the 4th of July.  It was a gorgeous, cool morning and perfect conditions!  Mike's brother in law came and watched me and took some pics.

Kalyn is moving to Kansas!!  She will be continuing her schooling in Manhattan, KS and go to a cosmetology school there.  I believe Shane and Stephanie will be picking her up around the weekend of August 11th.  She is pretty excited to go live with them and finish school.  I think her plan is to return here afterwards and figure things out!  K went to Eau Claire this past week to hang and say goodbye to everyone!  She won't get another chance, so she decided to go now while she had the week off from school.

Tyler is leaving early Monday am for Ireland with his girlfriend, Sydney and her mom!!  He is very pumped about it too!  He gets back Friday the 20th, I believe.  Tyler plans to live here until next August.  He wants to pay off his car, student loans, bills, get his car fixed before he moves on.  He told me that moving back home was the best decision he made so that he can get all this stuff figured out.  He thanks me all the time, so that's nice!!

I plan to stay here since I have good jobs, etc and just see what life brings me.  I love it here and have lots of friends, so I would hate to leave it just yet.  The scenery isn't too shaby either!!

Our beloved church had a fire on the 4th of July!!  The entire sanctuary is gutted.  They are thinking that arson was involved and it happened about 10:15am on the 4th!  I had JUST driven by the church when a saw a post on my phone that the church was on fire!!  I was like.."what?  I just drove past it and it was fine!" Very crazy stuff....the ATF is involved and now our services for Sunday will be held at the church next door at 4pm.  Everyone pulled together and boarded it up and then the next day, they took food over to the firefighters for their hard work!  I stopped over there (I was on my way to Santa Fe when the fire broke out) when I got back into town on the 4th, to offer my support and hugs.  Everyone was in complete shock...very sad!

My plans for the next few weekends are as follows:
14/15th- Mike's party---family here
21/22nd- Mike has golf tourney in ABQ that we are both going to attend.  
28th- fly to Baltimore to see Mom and Jon and his family for my birthday!  I fly back Friday the 3rd of August.
In between all that, I will be working away!  :)  Hope you all are well out there and please keep in touch!  Until next time!!  :)