What happened?

I'm sure everyone is wandering what happened to our blog. I accidentally deleted an email that logged into the blog. When I deleted the email, it also deleted me as an author on the blog. There's been a negative response from friends and family so I have decided to start a new blog at this address.

Opening Day.

Today is a big day in Casey's life. It's the Opening Day for his beloved St. Louis, Cardinals. This is the first Opening Day he has missed in 10 years! He's a little sad but excited because the Cardinals play the Diamondbacks in next week in Arizona. We are planning on going of course.

Rockstar.

Mark Driscoll: a rockstar.

It doesn't matter if you are married or not. You should really listen to these.

For men. Hard core.
For women.

It's been a quick week for us. Casey accepted a job at our apartment complex doing maintenance. The lady that owns our apartment complex (friends of my Uncle/Aunt) offered Casey the job Tuesday. We are very blessed. He will start on Monday.

Casey's school stuff.

Casey JUST got home from the last day of his first class. He is loving it and doing really well. He got a 96% in the class. He also heard from Firestone this week about a job. Though he doesn't have the job officially, we assume he will if he passed the drug test and physical he had on Wednesday. And in other good news, we are getting a tax return. We were excited since we had no clue what would happen since I lived and worked in two states in 2008. But it all worked out.

Our weekend should be normal. We go to church on Saturday nights and then I really want to go somewhere fun to eat after. I'm looking forward to it.

Happy weekend to everyone!

Rolls Royce.

Casey and I had a fun morning/early afternoon today. I needed to go to the Gap to return a sweater and the closest Gap is in Scottsdale at the Scottsdale Fashion Square. Apparently they have closed down the Gaps that were closer to where we live. Casey also wanted to meet the Service Master at the Porsche dealership in Scotsdale to establish a relationship. So we headed to Scotsdale which is a good 30 or so minutes away. We stopped at the Porsche dealership first and that went really well. The Service Master was really nice and told Casey to stay in contact with him. Casey was stoked. Then we headed to the mall. It was super nice. I was able to find a the Gap. As we were walking out, we saw a new Rolls Royce parked in the special valet parking. It was crazy. In the same parking area was a Viper and a Aston Martin. Casey was joking because the guy with the Dodge Viper thought he was pretty cool until the Aston Martin showed up. And the Aston Martin guy thought he was pretty cool until the Rolls Royce shows up. We left in our Saturn Ion.

Things are going well. The past few days have started to really warm up outside. I'm sure a sign of things to come. My job is going well. I am learning lots. I like the people that I work with and the ability to walk to and from work. It's super nice. I will start going to a bible study on Monday. Casey is loving school and having lots of fun. He is doing really well and making friends. Shocker. Everyone loves Casey. Today he will finish the second week of his first class. Each class is 3 weeks long. He is almost done with class #1. Crazy.

Inventory.

Casey registered at Sears for our wedding and was able to get a lot of tools. They are useful and make it possible for Casey to fix our cars and do other handyman chores. Unfortunately it is really easy to lose tools especially since we don't have an actual garage and a specific place to put them. They are either in his car or our apartment. It is easy to lose track. So he was busy the other day doing inventory on his collection so he knows exactly what he has.


He also laid them all out on the floor and took a picture. So organized. It's kind of scary.


He really likes Craftsman tools because of their lifetime guarantee. He is apart of the Craftsman Club at Sears because you can get good discounts.