Row Row Row

another great canoe trip! we saw a different part of the current river this year, with a much smaller group. but it was still a blast. PERFECT weather. hot during the day, so a dip in the dang cold water felt awesome! nice and cool at night so sleeping was comfortable. i love my friends. they rock! we saw a pretty cool new cave this year. missed another cuz i didnt know how to read my watch. i thought we were an hour behind, so i made everyone row row row...turns out, i had the watch on some funky setting and we were actually on time and could have stopped to see that cave. i felt really bad. :(

18 miles of canoeing that first day! whew. second day we did only 12 i think. much more relaxed.

i havent collected everyone's pictures yet, so i dont have many of me here. but imagine me, having as much fun as my friends are in these pics!!!

craziness

so, i'm a little late in posting this. but last week was nuts. i got a phone call a little after 12:30am thursday from chad, kind of wimpering. first thing he told me was he had just put his head through the window. i'm thinking cuts and blood and a messed up face. rushed to put my clothes on and get to his place. luckily his curtains had been closed so he had two tiny little abrasians but the window - TWO PANES - was completely shattered. not just cracked but shattered and mostly out of the frame! he apparently had a bad dream, jumped from one side of his king sized bed, head first into the window, and back across the king size bed to the floor before he woke up. he's ok. he was a little worried that he might do it again, but has so far been inactive in his sleep.

scary stuff.

planning and plotting

well, i didn't think i was gonna plan a canoe trip this year, but i'm gonna try now and i'm excited. a little nervous. i usually take 3 months or more to plan the trip, and i have three weeks. i hope someone has some canoes for us to rent! and i really hope chad can go. he's been really tied up and REALLY stressed at work lately. he and i both still have like 15 days of vacation to take before the end of the year, so we have time, he just might not have time, ya know?

anyway, back to planning...we've gone to the upper current river in missouri for the past 4 or 5 years. started out with a little group - 6 or 7 people. the biggest group we had was about 26! whew. this year we are going small again. and with some people who we dont know quite as well as in years past. not a problem for me. i like getting to know new people. chad is just shy sometimes. and this year, i think we are gonna do a different trip. still same general area. just a new part of the current, and maybe a little jacks fork. i'll keep ya posted.

back again

crazy isnt it? though i dont kwow how much i have to say.

just got back from a wonderful weekend on a cabin on a lake. chad and i hung out with his family in wisconsin. beautiful weather (not that 90=100 degree crap from last week).

my big news - i've accepted an assistant volleyball coaching position at a high school here in peoria. why? i dont have a clue!!! i'm scared to death and it's gonna take up SOOOO much time. and i'm scared. gotta take tests and everything. positives - it's only like 3 months and it pays. sooo, i guess we'll see how that goes.

back to work. busy monday.

for blogs sake

hmmm....i'm apparently not any good at this blogging stuff. over 6 months between blogs? yikes. but i do have excuses..no kids to report on, no wedding plans to discusss, no big life changes. yep, life is faily uneventful at the moment. no canoe trip plans, no job changes...what IS there in my life? :) chad's behaving quite well these days! mom took a much needed trip to utah to visit family. started sand volleyball about a month ago. not winning so much with my 4s team but they are OOOOH so much fun! in fact, we lost all four this week, but that might have been the funnest night yet.

ooh, i scupted a sand butt a couple weeks ago. darn should have taken a picture!

yep. that's my exciting life.