Lexi, BMX Racer

Lexi started racing BMX bikes about a week ago. She won 3rd place in her first race after another rider went down. She was so excited!

This week she tried again, but had a rough day. No crashes, but she kept up with the other kids much better and got tangled up with another rider. She didn't make the main event, but learned a valuable lesson. Always try your best, because you never know when you'll get another chance!

Spinner

My silly cat thinks he needs to crawl under the cover with me every night. Annoying, but sweet!

More great deals!

Fry's had another round of buy 4 and save $4, and I still had great coupons, so I went back. I got the vitamin water and Lady Speed Stick as money makers. The Old Spice was $.49, crest for $.69, cereals for $.60. I made $1.01 on the Secret, but had to buy the Olay to get it, but had 2 two dollar coupons to use. The CG eye shadows were between 30 and 55 cents. All in all, I did great! The only thing I didn't have a coupon for was marshmallows and they were holiday, so only 69 cents!

Coupon crazy!

Lexi's Quote for the Day

3/25/11 - I told Lexi that Becky and Ashley were coming to eat supper with us. She said "Oh Ashley is probably bringing Steve." I said "no, she isn't" and Lexi said "YAY, Ashley time!"

Too cute - and too funny that boyfriends of big sisters (or aunts) take them away from you!

Reese's Quote for the Day

I've decided that Reese says so many hilarious things that I need to record them. Hopefully by posting them, everyone else will get as much pleasure out of them as I do!

3/22/11 Bringing her umbrella on a trip to Walgreens: "I need it because it might start raining gumballs!"

Wow - Long time, no see!

I will say once again, I am horrible at blogging! It's been almost a year since my last blog, and was almost a year before that one! To say the very least, a lot has changed over the last year!

I finally got a job, but it was not in the midwest, as I expected, but rather in southern Arizona. We live about 85 miles north of the Mexican border in a town called Casa Grande. Although I was very hesitant about moving so far south and west, (like actually did not want to do it) I have been pleasantly surprised. I love it here and LOVE the wonderful friends that we have made. The people of Arizona are so friendly and welcoming and even though I've known most of them for such a short period of time, I feel like I've known them all my life. We've also met some other wonderful transplants! Lots of our new friends are from Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Michigan, etc.

I am teaching second grade at a charter school. I really enjoy it, but there is always so much work to do! I have a class of 27 students (down from 30) and they keep me busy! Lexi is in the 2nd grade and is right across the hall from me, which I love. It's so awesome to see her every day! Reese will be joining us next year in Kindergarten and we are all so excited for her to join us!

Marvin also works at the school and is in charge of facilities maintenance. In addition to making sure everything (and I mean everything) works correctly, he also takes care of the lunch recess duty. (I think this is his favorite part of the day!) He loves to play with the kids and tease them as he lines them up to be quiet to go inside.

We've had a few adventures since we've been here - two trips to California to visit Robin, a trip to Sedona at fall break, and a trip to Mt. Lemmon in Tuscon. We also had a short stop at the Imperial Dunes in Yuma, have taken in a few baseball games, and one Phoenix Coyotes hockey game.

I'll be better about blogging and promise to post some pictures soon!