Election Day!

Hi everyone,
I thought I would share with you my day voting at the polls for the primary election we just had. After leaving from getting my hair cut and colored I remembered on my way home that I hadn't voted. So off I go to the small church on Broadway to vote. After arriving I was shocked to see the parking lot FULL and the line down the street. I thought wow I'll be here forever. I was lucky and found a parking close and got in line.

Jamie and I had requested a early ballot and of course it came the day of the election in the mail. I had it in the car (long story short) I asked if I could hand it to them and they said absolutely! Off I go passed all these people in line and a part of me felt good then I felt bad for them. I was told the wait was 2 hours long. After I placed my ballot in the proper box I looked over to see the table where you had to check in with your 2 PROPER ID'S there sat 5 Little (I mean little) old ladies. I thought Ahh that's why the line isn't moving. I heard someone say they were there since 5:30 AM with no lunch or breaks. Well quess what? I asked if I could help in any way because I had a couple of hours to kill. They said are you kidding, yes we'd love to have you. Within minutes I was sitting in the middle of these sweet little ladies. Okay remember I mentioned I had just had my hair cut and colored so you can imagine what I looked like. I told my hairdresser to just blow dry my hair because I was going straight home. I arrived at 3:00 and guess what time I got home? The polls close at 7:00 but if you are in line you get to vote. The last voter came thru at 8:30 pm. Then these ladies had to break everything down. They said they had another 2 hours of work to do. I said are you kidding me! They said yes we have to count all the open ballots that were not used and break down the voting booths. I told them you start counting the ballots and I'll break these booths down and we will be out of here by 9:00. They just looked at each other and laughed! They probably were thinking ROOKIE!

Well guess what were were out of there at 9:00. They kept telling me I was an angel sent from heaven. I told them no I learned so much from them in those 6 hours and loved every minute of it until I looked in the mirror and saw my hair! I learned so much about behind the scenes when voting. Also I got to see friends, neighbors, and people I went to high school with years ago. Just wish I would have had a better hair day! Hope you voted!

PS. No for the first time I didn't have my camera in my purse!

Farewell Nathan, Jill and Jackson

Today Kathy Ulrich, Gracie and I drove to Tucson to say goodbye to our dear friends.  They will be making their new home in Tomball Texas just NW of Houston.  God Bless them and they will be missed. 

Happy Birthday Bear

This is our Chocolate lab that is getting ready to celebrate his first birthday on the 21st of January. What a STUD! He is so loveble all 100 pounds!

We ended the year with a loss in many ways!

Well another year is coming to a close and we ended 2007 with a few loses in our lives. When my brother John passed away in November we had a huge VOID in all our lives. We miss him so much but we also understand and know he's in a much better pkace where there is no pain or suffering.

Then our Sun Devils ended the year with a loss to TEXAS? It wasn't there night because we could have beat those LONGHORNS!

We are all looking forward to a new year. Our blessings go out to everyone for a wonderful 2008!
HUGS

Merry Christmas

We will be cheering on the Sun Devils from home this Thursday as they defeat the Texas longhorns in the Holiday bowl game. Our busy schedules didn't allow us to attend the game in San Diego.

We want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a very healthy and wonderful New Year.
Love to all,

All in the family

Here's a picture that was taken when my cousins were here for my brother John's Memorial. We are all doing as good as we can because my brother wouldn't want it any other way. His Memorial service was amazing. God's presence was felt in so many ways. Thank you for all the calls, meals, cards and especially the Prayers. John is greatly missed.

Love to all,

Liz & Jamie

Guess who!

Guess who we saw at the Suns game last night? Yes, the picture is Jenny from the Bachelor show. She was so sweet to talk to and she wouldn't and couldn't tell us if she won or not. I have a hint that she did win because she was EXTREMELY happy. She was bouncing all over the map with excitement. Come on cheering for the Suns is great but being one of the finalist on the Bachelor show is fantastic. The Suns did win against the Chicago Bulls. I was more excited to meet and watch Jenny the whole night then the game! GO SUNS!

ARIZONA STATE WINS ANOTHER ONE!

Diana and I flew to California for the weekend to cheer the Sun Devils to a victory over UCLA. What a game. We had great weather and a wonderful time. Of couse we even had time to get in some shopping. Below are some pictures of our trip.
~Enjoy~

There were ASU fans all over the stadium but the majority of them were in this section. Boy were they loud.

GO Devils!

90 minutes before game time.


Sold out crowd and our tickets were right in the middle of the UCLA fans on the 40 yard line, but we had great fans all around us even some other Sun Devils!

Happy Anniversary!

November 11th is there first Anniversary. They are doing great. Andrea loves having her hubby's help with carving her pumpkin at our yearly carving night.

Happy Anniversary to Andrea and Chris

ASU

Who would have THUNK we could lose. Oh well, we wish them a better week.
Diana Lents and I are going to Pasadena to help cheer them to a victory and of course get in some shopping.