2nd & 3rd Jobs!?!?!

Summer is coming in just 4 SHORT weeks! Katie and I have a tremendous opportunity to WORK, WORK, WORK to pay off some serious debt! (As suggested by Dave Ramsey in our FPU class!) So we decided to take the opportunity to do just that. I had a job offer to work as a paper boy (hince the graphic) for the Ark. Demazet. I had to turn down the offer however because it just took too much time away from Katie and I especially since I would be tossing the papers from 2:30 – 5:30 A.M.!!!! OUCH!! Not only that, if any of you have played the video game, you KNOW just how hard it is to satisfy the customers on your routs and not to mention the obsticals: kids on big wheels, guys with jack hammers, old ladies who would run out and yell at you. The list is endless. Who would want to go through all of that at 2:30 A.M.!?!?

I had been praying about that offer for a couple of days and tonight at dinner, Katie and I talked about this summer and what she was going to do. She worked last year at Red Robin waiting tables. There is a brand new Red Robin up here in Rogers and she happened to know the manager. We decided to swing by and she asked if he was hiring and he looked at her and said, “You’re hired.” (A testimate to how great a woman I married!!) He looked at me and said, “Now you, we’ll have to get together and talk.” We laughed & later he explained it was just because he didn’t know who I was. So tomorrow at 4:30 we will be meeting up with the manager to work out all of the details and formally apply. If all goes well, I’ll be working 3 jobs this summer & Katie will be working 2 and collect pay from 3!! The gloy of summer time and teachers!

Ray’s Jobs:
Real Estate Assistant to: Jana-Wrenay Heck & Janice Harris – Real Estate Agents – Lindsey & Associates
Real Estate Assistant to: Jim Gabel & Melanie Gabel – Real Estate Agents – Lindsey & Associates
Red Robin (maybe!)
I’m also available for hire on a case by case basis for Visual Tours.

Katie’s Jobs
Teaching (off for summer)
Baby Sitting (maybe)
Red Robin – Waitress

So, if you want to get together with me and Katie sometime this summer, be sure to plan it and let us know a head of time! It is no offence, we are getting out of debt!!!!

Body for Life

So tonight Katie and I decided to drop by Barnes & Noble to see what we wouldn’t pay for a book (their online deals are MUCH better), Body for Life by Bill Phillips. But we were sold on the book. I’m sure we will be ordering it shortly from Amazon where they have new and used books for much cheaper than the $25 bucks retail that we would have to put up. The book has some really phenominal stories about folks who have done this 12 week program and who have been totally transformed! Some of our favorites are there on the right! Dad, the bottom one is for you! If that guy can do it, ANYONE can! He looks like a 25 year old body with old man head! Click on any of these pictures to read about their story on Body for Life.com. There is also a Success Journal which does a GREAT job with forms and helping you to track your progress while adding success stories of other folks EVERY DAY! When/If Katie and take on the Body for Life Challenge, I belive we will create a seperate blog just for that news so we don’t clog this one up with B4L stuff day and night!

Here are a couple of quick links for those interested in more info

The Body for Life Challenge
Entry Kit
Challenge Round Dates
Challenge Rules

The Books
Body for Life
Body for Life for Women
Body for Life Success Journal

Enjoy!

Happy Birthday…. SOOIE!

That’s right!!! Today is Sooie Belle Unlimited’s Birthday!!! She is 1 year old! WOW! Talk about time flying by! When we got Sooie we read several books: Before & After Getting You Puppy by Dr. Ian Dunbar, Water Dog by Richard Wolters and several others! I STRONGLY suggest Dr. Ian Dunbar’s book & Water Dog above all others! Sooie has become a great pet to have around and very well behaved (most of the time). She still gets SUPER HYPER like any other young lab, but that is just a lab for you! There is nothing wrong with “butt tucking” and running all over the place for a while!

Here is a picture of her receiving her Birthday Bone! WAHOO!
She loved every second of it! It only took about 30 minutes for her to completely devour this bone for “Large Dogs” – next year, we are going with the Mammoth Bone!!

Tricks she knows:
Basics:
Sit, Down, Wait (or Stay), Off, Take, Come, Up, Speak, SHHH (or Hush), STOP!
Other fun stuff:
“Take” then Katie will call her with “COME” and then say “Off” dropping the object into her hand- we use this series of commands to do funny things like pass the remote controller or send a pen into another room and so on. It is probably one of the neatest to me!
“Go to your room.” – she’ll go to the laundry room
“Go to bed”
Kennel
Hi Five
NEWSPAPER! – one of Sooie’s favorites! She goes out and gets the paper, brings it STRAIGHT back and waits on her favorite bacon treat!
“Get in the car”
Stuff she is working on:
Drop it
Take (random objects that aren’t treats – take and hold them until we tell her “off”)
“Call those Hogs!”

Cloudy Birthday!

Did you look up yesterday? If you did you either saw spectacular views or got very wet! I LOVE storms! After I renewed my drivers license, I walked out of the revenue office in Springdale and saw this incredible sky! I couldn’t resist taking MULTIPLE pictures! What a blessing! It really makes me realize how small I am to see these deep storms rolling in, whether we like it or not! (Luckily our lettuce & tomatoes are planted so we like it!)
These pictures don’t quite do the actual sky justice! Most of the time we get storms rolling through and the sky is very low on top of us. These clouds were still VERY gray, but VERY high in the sky! As a matter of fact, some storms came in UNDER these clouds shortly after this picture! Amazing!

PS: I was born 24 years ago @ 10:15 p.m. of April 28th

Arkansas vs Texas!!!

VS

I was driving home this afternoon and happened to be listing to 1030am. Chuck Barrett brought up an issue that he briefly mentioned in the morning news: Arkansas could be playing against Texas again… starting in 2008 in Austin, 09 in Fayetteville and then returning to Dallas from then on!!! What a BLAST!

Keep your ear to the ground for some upcoming announcements! Here are some articles to keep you busy!

Bob Holt: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Arkansas Razorback Sports Network: AP

Let me know if you find out any more information!

I’m off to bed!