Wordless Wednesday - FALL

Wordless Wednesday - William's new obsession

Friends on Friday No. 4 - Meet Jessica

I met Jessica on my first day of work for United HealthCare. Jessica sat next to me in training and we had quite a few good times in the classroom "learning" and laughing. Jessica and I have been on different teams, we have both worked from home and Jessica even left UHC for a few months, but now we both work in office on the same team and we even share a cubicle!

Jessica and Tony have three young children, Alana, Kyle and Juliana. Jessica is a very girly girl and so to hear her tales of life with a boy is very amusing. Jessica doesn't like dirt, or rocks or bugs or dirt or anything messy, and Kyle sounds like he is all boy. Her girls are little princesses, they are sweet and kind and very well mannered. Jessica is a good natured and compassionate person. She is a hard worker and loves to spend her free time with her family. I like to tease Jessica about the fact that she has lived in Arizona her entire life and has NEVER been to the Grand Canyon. Even though her mother's family lives north near the Utah border and she will fall in the Grand Canyon if she takes a wrong turn on her way there, she has never stopped. Some day she may just go to keep me from carrying on about it every time she heads north.

Jessica is a very sweet, fun, happy, kind and considerate person and I am lucky to have her for a friend!

Wordless Wednesday- Close out at Borders

Happy Birthday, William!

Happy 14th Birthday to William! Fourteen years have gone by in the blink of an eye. I know I know I know it's a cliche. It just seems one day I am playing Buzz Lightyear and looking at bugs on the sidewalk and then I turn around and he is 14, grown up right before my eyes. William is an amazing young man, to know him is to love him. William is funny, intelligent, athletic and a genuine joy to have around. I can't wait to see what the next 14 years will bring! Happy Birthday, William. I love you forever and always.

Road to NAU

We are on the road

I hate this section of the trip

Headed down to the Verde Valley

Someone told me there were no forests near Flagstaff

7000 - I really dislike the climb

Family weekend was September 23rd to 25th, so off to Flagstaff we went. It is about a 2.5 hour drive from our house and while the scenery becomes very picturesque, I really don't like the climbing the mountain thing. I especially don't like the 5 miles where they say turn off the air conditioning to avoid overheating. I decided to amuse myself by taking pictures from the car window on the way up. That explains the glare and not always in focus photos here, but such is life. More to come on the fun that was NAU Family Weekend 2011.

Geez

I am just not doing that well with my goal of posting minimum two times a week. Life is getting in my way and it's not that life is so much more fun than playing with my blog, it's just that life is life and must be done. Work is consuming a lot of my time and energy lately, in fact, has been for months to the point I don't have any energy left for much of anything but the necessities - you know sleep, shower, eat. Anyway I am disappointed in myself when I happened upon my blog and saw I haven't posted in a month. I am going to try to change that, I have a few things to say in case anyone is checking and/or listening, and if not well I am use to talking to myself so no worries.