I'm tired!! We have been fundraising for days and days and days!! I'm so glad we are done for now. We head for Kentucky on Wednesday. It's going to be long bus ride. 32 kids and acouple chaperones. YIKES!!! What am i getting myself into. Collin is so excited. I think it is going to be a great experience for him. There is suppose to be 5000 plus kids there. From 48 states and 6 countries. I'll post when I get back to let you know how things went and if I survived. Take care and have a great week.

Collin got his braces off!!!!! Yeah!! Now if he just wears his retainer. It has been a long rode. We started this process when he was 7. He will be 14 real soon. I'll post pictures as soon as I figure out how. He looks so different. Yikes!! He is getting older. Or is it that I am getting older. Alittle of both. LOL!!

YEAH!!!! We did $608.00 at our car wash and we are waiting to hear what we did at Dippin' Dots. This weekend we will do another car wash and a rummage/bake sale at the school. Every penny counts and all the hard work will pay off. Collin and I will be going to a golf tournament today so I'll post later this evening. Take care and have a GREAT day.

Hello all, Just let me say that I am TIRED!!!! Yesterday started off with me going down to Mesa with some of my gal pals to CKC. We had a BLAST!!! Lots of scrapbooking stuff!! I left my pals in the afternoon to come back to Prescott to do a fundraiser night at Dippin'Dots. For every ice cream treat we sold we got a percentage back. We are trying to get our archery team to nationals in Kentucky. I got to be a dipper. It was so much fun. Then today we had a car wash. Yikes!!! What a work out. I was there all day and worked my bum off. We washed ALOT of cars. But I think we had a great $$ making day. I got alittle sun burn on my arms. But it will turn to tan by tomorrow. I think tomorrow I will do nothing but hang out at home and maybe do alittle work in the scrap room. YEAH!!! Take care and enjoy your Sunday. I'll post on Tuesday. Collin has a golf tournament. Oh, I'm not sure if I posted that he got 2nd place last Thursday and his team took 2nd also. Way to go team!!! All the boys are doing so much better than when they started. Anyhoo off I go to take afew Advil and get ready for bed. Night

Tonight I have a Stampin Up club meeting. I LOVE all the ladies that come. They are all so creative and so funny. We have been doing the meetings since January. All the gals get a chance to be hostess and get the freebies. Plus we have alot of laughs. I am in the process of cleaning up the scrap room for tonight. Better go get back to that. The day goes by to fast. Enjoy your day and I'll post later.

Happy Easter!!!! I hope the Easter bunny was good to all of you. Hope he brought lots of chocolate your way. Enjoy your day with friends and family. May God bless you all, Aimee

So an update on the golf tournament. Collin came in 2nd place and his team came in 3rd. He did well. He beat the guy who has been beating him by 5 strokes. But the guys team mate beat Collin out of first place. Oh well next time. Also Collin had a baseball game last night and tonight. Won last night, lost tonight. Last night he had a GREAT catch out in centerfield and he also had a AWESOME bunt. Tonight he got the first hit of the night and got the first RBI. YEAH!!! I'm tired and thank goodness we can sleep in tomorrow. NO school. YIPPEEE!!!!!! Another game on Monday so will post again then. HAPPY EASTER!!!!!!! Eat lots of candy and find lots of eggs.

Heading to Cottonwood today for a golf tournament. Collin is excited!! And a little nervous. He has never played this course before. I will walk with his group. Hope he won't be bothered by that. I have been with him before but I was a score keeper and not with his group. We'll see. It's suppose to be in the upper 70's that will be nice. I long for hot days to come our way. I'll post again later. Take care and keep your fingers crossed that he does well.

Take me out to the ball game.......Opening ceremonies happens tomorrow morning. Baseball season will officially be started. Yippeeee!!! Collin is playing on the Cubs team. He plays centerfield. He would like to do alittle pitching also if the coach will let him. We had a practice game tonight. We didn't do so well. Partly because the weather was freezing but also because the other team was playing like a team. Our boys need more practice. Anyhoo, I'll keep you all posted as to how the season is going.

Went to Cornville on Tuesday for Collin to play in a golf tournament. I believe 6 schools were there. All middle to high school age. Collins school has 5 on it's team. Some of the boys have only played afew times. But the team did come in 3rd place. And Collin came in 3rd place also. He was alittle down on himself because acouple weeks ago he came in 2nd. The same boy beat him by 2 strokes this time too. I told him look at it this way that boy is twice your size and he is 16 or 17. He can hit along ways!! I told Collin keep practicing and you too will get stronger and will be able to hit that far sometime. We had acouple days of nothing going on but tomorrow Collin has archery and a baseball game. Yikes!! We will be running. I'll post later.

He did it!! He did it!! Collin came in second place for boys middle school archery at the state championships in Phoenix. His middle school team came in first. YEAH!!!! So now we will be going off to nationals in Kentucky. We can't wait!!! I'm so proud of him. I'll keep you posted on any and all developements.

Tomorrow Collin and I go to Phoenix for his state championship archery competition. Should be fun but HOT!! He is keeping me busy. Baseball, golf, and archery. Everyday we have some sort of something going on. I will post again after we get home to let you know how he did. Cross your fingers!!

Hello and Hope you all had a wonderful Holidays. My family all came down with the flu bug on or near Christmas day. So needless to say our holidays was alittle weird. We had a small but nice Christmas. Collin liked all that he got. Loved the puzzles the most. He is so into putting puzzles together. Lamar was sick in bed but the rest of us went on without him. I would run upstairs every half hour or so to check on him. He did get to open his gifts but really was not into it. I got a gift cert. to the spa. I can't wait to use it!!! Never did snow but was very cold. My brother is now here living with us. He will be here for about 5 or 6 months. Then will get his own place. I hope. Parents are doing fine. We are all working and keeping the house going. Hope you all have a wonderful rest of the year and HAPPY NEW YEARS to you all.

So sorry that it has been so long since my last post. It is now the middle of October. WoW!! Where does the time go. Life has been busy around here. Collin just had Fall break and is back to school. He has taken up tennis at the college. His instructor LOVES him and all his energy. Swimming has been put on the back burner for now. He did well his first quarter of school all A's and B's. Lamar is still working at the course. It is slowing down abit but when he's not working he's playing. Tough life HUH?? I am still at the scrapbook store but have taken on a nanny job. I LOVE IT!!! The family is wonderful. It is for a 5 month old boy and a 2 1/2 yr old girl. I am also teaching scrapbook, cards and other projects classes here in my own scrap room. It has been going pretty good. Weather is still warm and sunny but getting even chillier at night. We are still doing some projects around the house. I don't know if that will ever end. My brother will be moving in around the end of Dec. Only for acouple months or so he says. Any Hoo, Miss ya all. Take care and keep in touch. Aimee and the Fam

September is here and the weather is still as beautiful as ever. The nights are getting alittle chilly. The monsoons seem to have come and gone. Thank goodness!! Collin is now in his second month of school. He is doing good. Still swimming abunch. Lamar and I are still working and shuffling Collin here, there and everywhere. LOL!! Still lots of projects going on at our house. I keep telling Lamar that as soon as we finish the projects we will want to move somewhere else. He says NO WAY!!! I say yes to Hawaii. I wish. Maybe when Collin moves out. Anyways, Miss you all in Oregon. Keep in contact and I'll post again soon, Aimee

It is August now and Collin started school today. He is now in 8th grade. I know you are all saying WHAT!!! school already?? Yes. They get out in May but go back in August. The one nice thing is they get about 10 days off in October. The weather is still hot and we are still having monsoons. Alot of rain and lightning yesterday afternoon. Our peach tree is almost ready for picking. YUM!! We pick and peel and freeze for later in the year. I think we had a peach cobbler every month till June when we ran out. Anyhow. Life is busy and I still miss all my buddies in Oregon. Hope you miss me to. Keep in touch. Until my next blog. BYE

It is now July and the monsoons are here. We have beautiful days but around noon or so the monsoons hit and last for about an hour or so and then off they go and the day returns to beautiful. My family and I have been enjoying dinners on our patio and we love to watch the sunsets. Not only do we get to see sunsets but we also see bunnies, deer, and javelinas. WoW!!!!! What a sight. Sure is different then Oregon. But we do miss it there.