Just an update

Things are going well here. I started my 3 weeks off of work. This week I have off work just because but then next Monday I am getting my tonsils taken out and will have 2 weeks to recover. I'm not going to lie...I'm nervous. I've heard the pain is awful. I'm kind of a baby when it comes to pain. I don't like it. We're going to stock up the fridge and freezer with cool creamy stuff for me to eat. Right now I'm sick, so hoping to get better before Monday. Not really able to reschedule my 2 weeks off. Tomorrow is my birthday and we're going out to eat with my parents. Then Friday I'm going to ride along with Mike at work. Hopefully they'll get some cool calls. Then Saturday we are going to go out with some friends for my birthday. This past Friday I got some scrapbooking done with Kimberly and Saturday Mike and I went to Phoenix for the World Of Outlaws race. Hit the scrapbook store and Rosa's while we were up there. Hope everyone is well. I'll keep you updated on the surgery.

Gotta Love The Dunes

We went to the dunes for Rodeo weekend. We left on Wednesday so we got 3 full days and part of Sunday for riding. We did LOTS of riding and had a great time. The weather was great. Not too hot and just the right amount of breeze. We camped at Buttercup again because we ended up meeting up with some people who were already going there instead of Gordon's Well. The other people we went with rode quads, which was nice for me because it's much easier for me to follow quads instead of the dirt bikes. There were a couple of hiccups in the trip. Our friend Daniel wrecked on Saturday afternoon and broke his collar bone. Then on our last ride on Sunday Mike had a pretty bad wreck and got a concussion. He's still feeling the aftermath of the wreck, but is doing good. He got pretty lucky to get away with just a concussion and broken plastics on his dirtbike. On Saturday night our friend JC rode his street bike out from Tucson and stayed the night. Then Sunday we went for a ride to see what his street bike would do in the dunes. It did surprisingly well. But JC is such a good rider he could make anything handle the dunes. All in all it was a great weekend. Unfortunately it will probably be our last trip of the season. Usually we would go again for Easter but I'm getting my tonsils taken out the week before so we probably won't make it for Easter.

Our home for the weekend. Our camp is the circle in the middle of the picture. You can see our flags. We fly a Divers flag and the flag from the country of Montenegro (yes there really is a country named Montenegro) so that we can always distinguish our camp from all the others. Rodeo weekend is always nice because it's not super packed like other weekends. Thanksgiving weekend you probably wouldn't see any open spots between camps from this vantage point.

Our friend Daniel - before he broke his collar bone
Daniel again - he sure can ride a wheelie
Our friend JC brought out his street bike to see what it could do in the dunes
The VStrom tearing it up
Looking down on the group from up on Competition hill

Taking a breather

That little speck on top of the dune is Mike

Erik's rail in the bowl

WHY I LOVE LIVING IN TUCSON

NO hurricanes, NO tornadoes, only enough snow to make it fun, awesome sunsets, captivating thunderstorms, just 4 hours to the beach or the dunes, and ...
IT WAS 81 DEGREES TODAY...IN FEBRUARY...I LAID IN THE YARD IN MY BIKINI...NEED I SAY MORE?!
Just loving the weather lately. And next week looks just as good. We are heading to the dunes Wednesday and the weather looks good there, too. Next month we plan on tackling the garage door (you have to manually open it) and we bought new cabinets for the kitchen. Right now they are just stacked in our already too small kitchen/dining room. But we got a great deal and had to snatch them up when we could. I think they will look great after all is said and done...if we live through a kitchen remodel. I'll keep you posted.
(No, I didn't take that picture...found it on the internet)

My newest obsession

Yes, a video game. We finally bought Guitar Hero for our playstation (thanks in part to Circuit City going out of business- the extra savings was just the convincing I needed). The first time I played it in a store I didn't know what I was doing and therefore sucked at it and thought it was dumb. But our friends Kristen and JC have it at their house and everytime we go there I want to play it. I was hooked. So we broke down and bought our own. Mike seems to prefer the drums, I like the guitar, and we both agreed that neither of us should try the singing again.
As you can tell, not much else going on at the Montenegro house. We did finally get our brick wall for the backyard completed and Mike is doing a great job of getting everything organized and stashed so that we can start making the yard look like a yard. We have a big patch of fake grass that we are going to put in the yard and we rolled it out to see what it's going to look like and the dogs LOVE it!
I should be going now... have to get ready for scrapbooking tomorrow!

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Happy New Year to everyone! Just wanted to get a quick post in today. Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. We both had to work Christmas day :-( so we spent Christmas Eve at our families' houses. We both also spent New Year's Day at work, so no New Year's Eve partying for us. The day after Christmas we went to the dunes for 4 days. Had an awesome time! It was not too busy and the weather was pretty good (warmer than it was in Tucson). It was raining/snowing on us while we were loading up to go on Friday but it was nothing but sunshine at the dunes. Some friends went with us that had not been to the dunes and I think they really enjoyed. We're trying to decide if we are going to go back at the end of this month or if we are going to Vegas instead. Definitely going back at the end of February though. Next weekend we'll be in Phoenix for Supercross. I don't have any pictures to post because I didn't take any on Christmas Eve and we all forgot to take our cameras to the dunes.
Hope everyone is enjoying 2009!