Email Updates for our Blog! & Red Robin Stuff

Hey yall! One of the things that drive me crazy about blogs is that if you want to check and see if there is a new post, you have to go to that site. If you keep up with HUNDREDS of blogs (like I do with the news blogs & such) it gets pretty tedidious to know when the irregular blogs have been updated (such as this one). I went on a search and found a GREAT program to fix this for everyone who reads our blog! It is called “FeedBlitz.” Below is a from for you to fill in your email address and then click “Send Me Email Updates!” You can unsubscribe at any time though any of the email’s. This will only send you an email when we update our site and included in that email will be our most recent post! This is MUCH better than having to check the site each time, although, you will miss out on updated songs and new features that maybe “website” only, so still come back and see us every now and then!!!!!

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Katie and I will be working tonight at Red Robin. It is our first Friday Night to work because we changed our availability from Friday’s off to Monday’s off. I’m pretty excited to see just how busy we get!! It gets fun when it gets busy & time FLIES!

Yesterday we went to a CDT celebration. We all had matching T-shirts, a HUGE flag, A rap, A pledge & were READY to take on the other store’s CDT’s…. we were the only ones ready. No one else had a song, flag, T-shirts, pledge, etc… We had heard that there were going to be organized games and store vs store contest…. none of that happened. It was like a twilight zone. But we still had a good time playing volley ball and lounging around in the sun. Then our store visited Cherokee Casino! It was mine & Katie’s first time in a Casino & it was fun. I don’t really understand the addictive nature of the machines. It just didn’t look fun to us. We didn’t even play a nickle! But I did play black jack with a good friend from our store. He had been plenty of times before and was showing me the ropes. We took $20 to lose & we were successful in losing it!!! HA! It will be fun when we finially get to go see my aunt & uncle in Vegas. Now, I’m not totally in the dark on how to lose my money so I will fit right in with everyone else!

PS A while back I figured that our average would be about $250 to $300 extra dollars per week working at Red Robin. Well, we are actually averaging way over that. In retro spect, we average about $250 on the weekend and around $250 on the week nights so it is actually about $500 per week on average! We’re lov’n it! We have been getting great sections lately & we have been blessed with closing shifts & gracious tables! Praise the Lord for helping us to get out of debt!

Thanks for checking back.
Keep us in your prayers!

Bye for now,
Ray

Visitors!!

We are really excited to have Sooie’s sister visiting this week! She may be with us for a while while Jason goes on a mission trip to Nepal, so we are keeping her this week to try it out and make sure her and Sooie play well together. They are having a BLAST! They played hard all day Sunday & Monday and today they seem very… subdued! Very tired! They will play for about five minutes and then they just lay down. Sooie has met her match (as far as energy goes). We were surprised to see that Boston is actually bigger than Sooie! We thought Sooie was big, but Boston is Big! Sooie looks more “stream lined” now! She still acts like the dominant one but when they are chasing each other and Boston runs into her, she is surprised by her size too!

A few weeks ago we also had a visitor… Mindy Blagg (formerly Marshall) came and visited for a morning while she was in NWA. Mindy, as promised there is the picture: click on it to see the larger one and save it.
She recently got married to John David of pilotdrift who are well on their way to stardom.

Be sure to sign up for the new email update feature over there on the right side. We update about once a week & you will get an email letting you know so you don’t have to check back blindly! The next post will be describing this service in a little bit more detail.

Bye for now,
-The Ellens

6 Months (and one day)

6 Months
Yesterday was our 6 month aniversery! We had a blast! We painted pottery at Different Strokes and then ate out at Brioso Brazil. It was absolutely amazing! Over 15 different meats delivered to your table on a sword! Of course, we tried them all! Our favorites being the House Top Sirloin & the Ribbeye. It will have to be a long while before we go again. I can’t really look at meat today! We were so stuffed that we had to go on a short walk BEFORE we got IN to the car!!! That is stuffed! Jason said we would be like a full tick, and he wasn’t kidding!
I’ll post a few pictures of the pottery that we painted when it come in. They said it would be about 2 weeks before it was fired.

(and one day)
Today we decided to sleep in and head to the Farmers Market with Sooie. What a trip! She was nuts at first, but when she realized that not every person was there to play with her, she calmed down quite a bit and was very nice to have out there. Slowly but surely we will get her used to being around people who are not there for her and I think she will begin to understand the process. She just wants to play with everyone SO BAD! It was a lot of fun.

Well, we will be heading to our “red job” at 2. (The one we use to get us out of the red)

We’ll see you soon!

Gone Fish’n

Monsters! ALL OF THEM! We went fishing yesterday at a small public stock pond and had a BLAST! Each of us cought one, and they were so large that we had to toss t hem back because we couldn’t eat that much! You know how it is! So, we had to settle for the Catfish Hole. It was WONDERFUL! I think we will be coming here again. 2 is already 2 more than we ever caught at Lake Fayetteville. Beaver Lake is also a great place to go fish, but it is so large that you have to have a boat to do any good. We are proud of our 2 and our aim is to become experts at this little place before we move on to larger waters. That means many trips & tossing everything we can. Our bate of choice this time: Night Crawlers. Needless to say, I’m so proud of K atie who bated her OWN HOOK!

That is major! She just can’t stand crick ets, but we’ll work on it. Crickets are a much cleaner bate. Much less slime when poked. I did through a little purple worm with a bubble gum tale and got a whole lot of nothing. I tried a spinner bate and got one bite, but nothing the rest of the time. Next time, we are going to try and get around to the other side of the pond near the landing strip so that we can fish off of that little point that NO ONE is ever at. I guess the sight of planes coming straight for you is a little to much to handle!
Dad, these last photos are for you! Good luck in your flight class! This air strip is about 3 minutes from our house, so fly up and see us as soon as you can! There was a guy that was getting some hours in while we were fishing and he flew by and landed about 6 or 7 times! Here is something to shoot for! Just stay out of the pond until you are fishing! Talk about no room for mistakes!

We had to run away REAL fast after that second shot! Not realy Mom, don’t worry! We were in Katie’s car, so we just sped off!

Thanks for checking in on us! It is back to work today and on into next week! Keep us in your prayers as we pay off more debt & grab our financial freedom!!

Bye for now,
The Ellens

Happy 4th!

So a few days ago was the Fourth of July and our nations Birthday! I hope everyone had a wonderful time! We visited Katie’s family in LR and then we went to “Pops on the River”. We weren’t sure where to sit at first and when the first firework blasted off, it SURE got our attention! They were about 200 yards from us on the Mainstreet bridge and the pops where right above us! It was great!

Today was a good day too! We did much of nothing and then decided to go to the lake with Sooie! She was hilarious! She was so excited to be at the lake! We plan on doing this again very soon. It was wonderful just to swim around and enjoy the nice, easy summer. Enjoy the pix! Tomorrow I will add some more after our fishing trip in the morning! Wish us luck!