Blogging just isnt my thing.... Facebook is sooo much easier since I dont really have that much to blog about ( no kids, no hubby) but I do work alot. LOL Well alot has happened since my last post. I now have 2 jobs trying to pay off some debt which just doesnt seem to be working...LOL but i am slowing getting there. My sister is due in 10 days which i am very excited to meet my new nephew/niece but also very scared at the circumstances but I know my sister will do whatever she feels best and comfortable with. Whatever happens the Lord has a plan. I love my sister and her family!

26

Well I am 26 today. I was really not excited for any birthdays after 25 but here I am 26 getting closer and closer to 30. depressing! oh well i have had a great week so far went to the diamondbacks game yesterday where we kicked butt against the cubs. Which btw there is way more cubbie fans then there was dback fans but it was kind of fun when we were winning the cub fans got really quiet. I on the other hand continued to get louder and louder. I had alot of fun! As for birthday plans I dont really have much planned just going to go out to dinner with a few friends. Olive Garden my favorite! Birthday just arent as much fun as they were when I was 8! Oh well one more year down many more to go I HOPE! haha Oh ya forgot to tell everyone how adorable my niece was I was talking to her mother and she got on the phone and started singing happy birthday totally sweet! I love you Analyce. Well that is all for now Happy birthday to me!

So just a few updates... I love my new place! Christina and me and been decorating and our house and it is starting to feel like home. Her Mother is amazing and has been buying all these fun things for our house. Microwave,and a stand to put it on, curtains and rugs for the kitchen just a bunch of Necessary things! I love her mother!


Cami's husband Jeremy got a job up in Prescott and they moved up there about a month ago. I really miss my niece and nephew. A few weekends ago my friend Jerry and his kids and me went up to visit. We had this great plan to go play in the snow( it was suppose to snow that weekend in Flag) but it didnt so we figured we would go up and try to find some patches up at mormon lake. Well stupid mapquest told us how to get there using a road that is closed down. so we just stopped at a gas station and ate lunch on some benches... We then drove a few miles back and pulled off the side of the road and played in a huge patch of snow. It wasnt really how I imagined our day going eating at a gas station and only finding a patch of snow to play in but the Kids had alot of fun... Prescott is a very CLEAN and pretty place to live. I am very happy for my sister and her family to start a new change together! I really cant wait to come up and visit when My sister has her 3rd baby in Sept. Yep I am going to be an aunt again... I love being an aunt!

Pics from Up north

Jerry and MeThe Brinkerhoffs

Jerry,Ethan,Autum

Cami and Analyce

Jaren and Jeremy

Analyce!

2009

So I havent blogged in awhile.... it is a new year 2009 I am so ready for a fresh new start. I got a new job, moving into a new place. I got a job at Vertical Communications as a Inventory Control Clerk pretty much the same stuff i was doing at Epicurean Foods( i was there for 6yrs but got laid off March 08). I really enjoy working here and have survived 2 big lay off days they have let 75 ppl go company wide. The economy is not doing so good but I have some how made it by. Christina and I have found this small 2 bedroom 1 bath tri-plex which will be perfect for us I am very excited. I am NOT excited to actually move I have actually started packing and what a nightmare, i have so much stuff!!! Going from a 3 bedroom 2 bath house to and tiny 900 sq ft 2 bed 1 bath is going to be fun but I am so ready for it!

I have a couple New years resolutions I have given up drinking alcohol and soda ( i know it isnt very good in the 1st place) I ended up in the ER with an ulcer! So it is time to let these things go!!!! hoping maybe i can lose a few pounds along the way. I am definately trying to lose 25 lbs this year so I am drinking alot of water and as soon as We move I can start walking my dog. That is a good start and some good goals. I am really looking forward to what this year might bring! Happy 2009
Love you all, Valerie

Shane Figueroa....

Phoenix Officer Shane Figueroa
was tragically killed on duty in a car accident, on
Saturday Oct 25 by an illegal drunk driver.

I went to Junior high with Shane. I remember in 7th Grade getting in trouble for slapping Shane(hey i have my good reasons) and we had to eat lunch together for 2 weeks in the Principals office. Shane was so sweet and nice we did hang out often since his best friend Tyler was dating my best friend Sarah. They both came to our church dance and we all snuck out and went off and talked. Memories...... He was only 25, this past week I have alot of not so great things happen and I guess i am just Happy to be alive and have a job. My prayers go out to his wife and 3 month baby girl he will be watching over them from up above.

Rest in Peace Shane

I have been tagged by Aunt Carol

4 things I love: My niece and nephew, my Family, my dogs and i love camping
4 movie I can watch more than once: HAPPY FEET, Old School,Lord of Rings,The notebook
4 tv shows that I watch: Friends,CSI,House,Family Guy
4 places I've been: Hawaii,Disneyland,Oregan,Utah
4 places I want to go: Hawaii again,New York,Florida,Italy
4 people I tag: nobody just yet...