FYI - Our computer caught a bug and now it's dead
:-( so I won't be posting for a while. Same goes for emails for the most part. So if any of you are thinking we are never to be heard from again, we're just waiting for our computer to get fixed. Having to use the library computer sucks!!! Hope all is well with everyone else.

Our Visitor

Just a fun quick little post...Today we had some guys at the house installing our air conditioner and one of the guys had a little puppy with him that he had just gotten. I took the liberty of playing with it all day. I even made her a little bed in our laundry basket. So fun to have a puppy around. I'll be sad to see her go tonight.

The latest

Last weekend Keith and his family came down to my parents' house to visit. Keith has been working in Texas since the hurricane and has not be able to come home much. It was so nice to see them all. I wish so badly that we lived closer to them so that we could see them more and babysit the kids. Violet just gets so much bigger every time I see her. She is soooo freakin' cute. I just love her to pieces. She just turned 3 last month (already!). I love playing with her when they're here. I think it's cute that she still doesn't have much hair. Poor thing can't have a real pony tail yet. Violet and Nathan both had on their Wranglers and cowboy boots that Keith got them in Texas - so cute! I've posted some pictures from when they were here. Unfortunately most of the pics I took that day didn't really turn out. I've also posted some pics that Sarah emailed me of Violet at home and at the store.
On Wednesday (the last day of our 2 weeks off before we both went back to work) Mike and I took our bikes out for a ride to make sure they are all ready for the dunes. It has been so long since I rode my quad. It was so fun to just get out there on it again. I can't wait for Thanksgiving at the dunes! (Hopefully we get the heaters installed in the trailer before we go) Again, posted some pics from our riding.
Hope all is well with everyone. Thanks to everyone who is visiting my blog. Hope you like it.

Show Low Bluff Tour of the White Mountains

Just wanted to also add that last month Mike did a 37 mile mountain bike race up in Show Low. We went up with some friends. Mike and his friend JC did the 37 mile race and me and JC's girlfriend Kristen did the 8 mile race. It was so nice up in Show Low. We had a great time and stayed in a beautiful "cabin". The weather was beautiful the first 2 days we were there, but the day of the race was freezing cold and windy and it started raining about 1/2 hour after Mike finished. I am so proud of Mike for finishing the race (his first ever, and 17 miles longer than he had ever ridden before). Just wanted to get some pictures up of it. If you ever head up that way The Red Devil is a killer place for Italian food!

Lining up to start
(Mike in grey, JC in flag jersey)


On the trail

Crossing the finish line

Caving In

Well, after spending quite some time viewing blogs of my friends and family, I (Steph) decided to give in and try blogging. I can't promise I'll be any good at staying up with it, since anything involving staying in touch seems to fly out the window for me. I'll try to post often (or at least when we do something cool or have big news) but we'll see how that goes. Right now we are both enjoying time off. We celebrated our anniversary in Rocky Point last weekend for 5 days. We can't believe how fast the year has gone. We actually took a trip to Cozumel in August as our "anniversary trip" but decided we had to get away to celebrate the actual day. It was wonderful as usual. FIve days of laying on the beach - glorious relaxation. This weekend we enjoyed several Halloween parties in town. Last Tuesday we went to MetalHead (an 80s cover band that plays here every week) for their Halloween bash. Then Friday and Saturday we went to parties hosted by people I work with. We were planning on making Halloween our first trip to the dunes for this season, but weren't able to get everything ready in time. Looking forward to Thanksgiving at the dunes though. I guess that's all for now. We'll see how this goes...
Below are some pictures from our recent trip to Rocky Point and some Halloween pics


Mike relaxing by the beach
Enjoying tacos at the swim up barWe stayed at Sonoran Sea this time Steph and Tabitha at MetalHeadWith "Lucky," the lead singer
Steph and Mike
Mike playing Beer Pong
(yes those are purple zebra spandex pants Mike is wearing)