Where does the time go???

Talk about blog lazy! Ok well I don't call it lazy, I call it busy.

Spring break came and went in a flash. We took the last part of the week off to go camping for a few days. We joined our friends Jeremy and Nicole, their kids, Jeremy's parents and we took Rick's mom with us. We had a blast. The weather the first day was horrible but by Friday it was gorgeous. We took their boat out and the boys fished, the kids expressed their boredom and Nicole and I just enjoyed the weather. When we got back my parents had driven up for the day and were waiting. They stayed for dinner, a feast of steelhead, tri-tip and more sides than one can imagine. We did not rough it in any way :-)

We got back into town Saturday afternoon, took advantage of the fabulous weather and got our house chores done. Sunday we drove up to Yakima to watch the kick off of racing up there. Both Rick's brother Steve and Kristin's husband Scott were racing. Scott had a super fast car but had a fuel pump problem that ended up causing the car to catch on fire. He was fine, the car had some damage and ended his day. Steve broke a brake rotor which also ended his day early.

I got back to work on Monday and apparently the Tri-Cities has decided pool weather is upon us. I am happy that the store is busy again but sad that my lazy, part time work days are over and full time is just about here. My kids are going to have quite an adjustment as they both have already shown signs of mommy-withdrawl, and I'm still only working part-time.

Last night Rick and I went to his company work party. It was quite the event, we est. 3000 plus people were there. We enjoyed the night, the food and visiting with his sister Lori who had just gotten back from Jamaica (the honey-mooners, Lori works for Fluor too). Rick and Trace are enjoying a boys day today while I'm working and Kaity is at school. Tomorrow night is Kaity's school auction which should be another great mommy/daddy night out. I will report on how it goes but the work that has been done leading up to it and the donations they have gotten are UNBELIEVABLE!

On a sad note... while we were gone last weekend we got news that a 12 year old boy was killed at our kart track last Friday morning. He was practicing for a national event that is held at our track every year and was supposed to be run last weekend. We, along with everyone in our club has been devestated by all of this. The board members have really stepped up and are in the process of doing all kinds of safety improvements. In 26 years of operation our track has had a near perfect saftey record and this accident was pretty much the defination of a "freak accident". Many officials have already stepped up to say that our track is extrememly safe but because we have such an incredible board we are going to work together to make it safer. Already they have had a new fence installed, on Wednesday Rick hauled over 200 stock car racing tires from his dad's wrecking yard to the kart track. This weekend we are going to have a work party to get stuff in place and to prepare the track for being paved, which was already planned. They have also ordered some more safety barriers and we are recruiting sponsors to help with that cost. So if anyone wants to make a donation for a safety barrier it is $75 and there will be a board placed on the side of the tower/concession stands that will have the names of everyone that has donated. We hit up Lori and Michael last night, Rick got Steve this morning... if you are related you will be hearing from us :-)

So thats our week.. I hope everyone is doing well and I will try to not go over a week again without posting.