We're number One! ...in the "multi-family builders" category of the annual Ranking Arizona magazine. Mark-Taylor is the Development company I work with. Who is that handsome devil in red on the far left? We won't be building much this year. Nobody will around here! Gotta find a way to get at some of that stimulus money. If only we were builders of bridges to nowhere!

Bridget has been teaching herself to play the guitar over the last month or two. She's pretty good - except when she practices at 5 in the morning!!! (I don't get up that early.)

I took a step back in time this past weekend at the NHRA National drag races in Phoenix. I felt like a teenager again. I noticed there were lots of us middle-aged men there feeling (and some acting) like teenagers again! Kept my eyes open for Orme Brothers' stickers or other paraphernalia, didn't see any. Click on the photo to enlarge it and look at all the guys in the background with their hands over their ears. Raw horse power - gotta love it!

And lastly, this is my simulation of Trevor's finger (which Lana mentioned below) - at least the way I interpreted his description of it. Eeeeeww! (it only goes to that angle if Trevor pulls it over there - and maybe this is a little exaggerated.) We don't have any pictures of the real thing (yet.) Chipped bone and torn tendon. Orthopedic surgeon said to give it a shot at healing on it's own and if it doesn't heal satisfactorily -- we can operate.

I ,for one, have enjoyed browsing through the blogs and partaking of all the fun info and photos. Everyone is looking FINE! I certainly hope that all are happy and healthy. Trevor did something to his pinky finger while playing basketball that allows him pretty much to rotate into a full circle at the first knuckle! He is working at the Marriott and doing studies, too. Weston is prying his finger from the computer to go over to his friends house to play more computer games! Bridget has her first track meet this week: triple jump, mile, 2 mile relay, and the 800. I quoted her several Steve Prefontaine quotes today, as she has been ordered to not run today due to shin splints. My sister Lori runs Marathons, and has invited Bridget to participate in the Wasatch 24 hour Marathan and the St. George one, too. I will keep everyone posted if it happens that she runs. Rob is ironing all his shirts currently, as I sit and type this blog. I have enrolled and paid my fee for Phlebotomy school to start up on July 20 and last for 11 weeeks, in the meantime the sub jobs filter in a little at a time...less than last year, anywho!
The pool leak has been fixed $900.00 later! But we don't lose 2 inches of water a day now. Ellie will reveal to us if she is having puppies by the end of 10 days. Hope so! She was bred with a Cavalier Cocker Spaniel, they call the hybred Cavapoos. It's possible, a puppy chihuahua will join our pet clan, if I get my way! (usually happens). My sister 's chihuahua had pup and she is offering me one. They are SOoooo cute!...right Rob?