just like home

The best snow storm since 1974, so they said on the news. At 11:00 PM. we had 3.6 inches of snow. How awesome is that? I had an outside post today at work. I went to lunch at noon and there was nothing comming down from the sky at that time. When I got back from lunch though, it was a whole differant story. This all started between 12:00 and 1:00. By the time I got home from work at 2:45 (extra 20 min.) there was about .25 inches of snow on the ground. By the time I picked T.J. up from his mothers house it looked just like home. We had fun, and I hope it's still here tomorow so we can play in it some more!!!

Ho Ho Ho Time

What an awesome day!! I love having so meny great days so close together. Our day started out with me on the phone with my insurance friend Melissa. We got the Celica insured, and off we went to the D.M.V. to register it. We had just gotten onto the freeway when something just didn't feel right with the front end. We pulled over to the side of the road to check it out. All it was, was a flat tire. First timer with low-pro tires, didn't know/do now. So I pull into a Church parking lot to change it and discovered that I don't have a lug wrench. What does Doug do when he has car trouble? You got it, call Daren! Mr. good wrench comes out and lends a hand.(good luck has started) Again we're off to Register it. It's 2:30 PM now, we just can't seem to find a smog shop that's open. That's ok, we're having fun tooling down the road in our now legal car. (I have a moving permit.) We drove by the Shell Station at Russell and Mtn. Vista and they were open. (more good luck) Now it's off to the D.M.V. We get there and run inside thinking that we're running late. Nope we had plenty of time.(luck is holding out) AHHH nobody in the first line WOO HOO this shouldn't take long at all! I explained what I was there for and the guy gave me a number ticket, #466, I looked up at the board and they call # 466!!! Can you believe that, 15 second wait at the D.M.V.!!! NEVER IN MY LIFE... (WHAT LUCK!!) THIS IS AWESOME! I gave the lady at the desk my paperwork, she does her thing and says "that'll be $46"!! That's it?!! 46 dollars? This is an awesome day! The whole time T.J. is with me and jokeing and haveing a good time with his Dad. So we're off to get a new tire. First we head to Discount tire, cause that's where I get my tires. Closed!! "What the H*!!" The sign says they're open till 5:00. It's only three! Oh well. We then went down to Big O, which I never go to, long story. But this time the guy sells me two for one!! Oh somethings wrong here, this never happens to me!! But today it did! WOO HOO! So, to end this awesome day T.J. and I went home to trim the Christmas Tree. We had a ball doing that too. Yes Sir, life is good...

The reunion

What an awesome time! I just love these two guys soo much. It truely is a shame that we can't get together more often. But as life has it, we all must choose our own path and go down it alone, striving to reach our goals in life and take care of the little one's that God has intrusted us with even if it seperates us from the ones we love. My grandfather has been known to say, " If you have one single person in your life that is a true friend, your are very lucky". I my self have several, I feel that God has put these people in my life for a reason. I don't know what that reason is, nor do I care what the reason is, I just can't thank him enouph for them!! I hope that God will bless other people as much as he has blessed me. My Love.

Old friend comes to visit

Back in the mid 90's at work I came in contact with a fellow that became a close friend over the years, Chris Mitchell. 4-4.5 years ago Chris took his family to live 3000 miles away in North Carolina. Every once in a while we will chat on the phone to keep in touch. Last week Chris called to say that he was comming out to visit. His grandmother is ill, for fear that he might not see her again, he felt that he needed to come to Vegas for her. T.J. and I got the operturnity to have a quick dinner with him last night, and plan to do lunch today. I hope that Vincent will be able to join us, as I have not seen him in years either and he just lives on the other side of town!! It was fun to see Chris and T.J. together, Chris hasn't seen him since he was just a toddler. That was fun. I think it been almost as long for Vince.Today should be fun!

D.A.R.E.

What a great day! We woke up a little early and were able to take our time getting T.J. to school. We arrived a little earlier than normal which T.J. loves because he gets to play with his buddys before they go in to class. I left, only to return 2 hours early to watch T.J. graduate from the D.A.R.E. program. He was so excited about this and you could see it in his face. He couldn't stop talking about it.
I am so proud of my son! He did well. He set out to finish this and did. Alot of credit goes out to Henderson Police Officer Avila as this was his first time teaching anything. This took 10 weeks out of his life and even though he you could see that he was nervous, you could also tell that he truely enjoyed the kids he taught.