Mighty Mud Mania 2010

She wasn't really thrilled at this point to be in the mud

After she had ran the race and was hosed off by Fire dept.

This is the last mud whole of the obstacle course!

June 19th in Scottsdale at a park not far from our house was MIGHTY MUD MANIA!

It is an annual event that is extremely popular for kids from 1 to 17. Megan and I have wanted to go every year but it was always held on a week day, and this year they held it on a weekend and we were able to go.

It usually draws 10,000 to 12,000 people.

It started at 8:30am.

We got there about 8am, Megan was the 3rd 9 yr old in line. They had the kids separated by ages. 7 and up could run the obstacle course. they grouped them as 7&8yrs, 9&10 yr olds, and then the rest.

The only bummer about being the 2nd set of kids to run the course was the mud was too firm, but Megan had a blast and came in 3rd.

They had a big mud pit for the kids to play in check out more pictures form the event at www.flickr.com/photos/ninjas

Megan lasted 5 minutes in the pit and was done. She didn't like mud in her shoes, and she was cold.

So we took her to get her hosed off by the fire dept so we could even put her in our car. She didn't like that because the water was cold.

We finally got her clean enough and we were home by 9:15am. I was kind of thrilled because I had no sleep the night before but I would have liked to stuck around took pictures and checked out all the booths they had set up. I would like to go back next year but I have a feeling Megan won't want to play in mud next year at all because she will be too concerned about her hair or boys or something.

Oh well we had fun!

Our Foster dog Abbey-found a home

Our beautiful Foster dog Abbey found her new forever home two weeks ago today.

We really miss her. She was a super sweet and shy dog. She found the perfect home though and even though it was very sad to see her go at least I know she is going to be happy.

She would wake me up every morning at 5:05 am and howl(talk) to me and try to get me up to feed her.

She would sleep on my bed all day and leave her hair there too, which I did not care much for.

She will be 7 in July and had lived with one owner until he died recently. I think this had something to do with her being so incredibly shy because she had only been with one person her whole life.

She came to us very skinny and we managed to put a few pounds on her in the almost 1 month we had her.

Abbey girl I am going to miss you but I hope you have a very happy rest of your life!

Dan Ryan-for Constable and Small Chicken Little Man!

Well thanks to the not so honorable, chicken man Dan Ryan the current Constable, my husband is no longer running for Constable for the Mc Dowell Mountain District. Dan Ryan was AFRAID of losing to some one, the reason he got into office this current term was because he ran UNopposed. So of course we was elected, NO one ran against him.
This time he had some one to compete with and he could not handle it so he resorted to whatever tactics he could to eliminate any fair voter contest!
Lloyd even received an email from a CURRENT sitting Constable in Maricopa County and if I remember right I think it was on the west side of town. This current sitting Constable told my husband in an email that "this was going to be a very difficult election for him." Meaning more than JUST Dan Ryan, this Constable that wrote my husband and, who knows who else were going to see that either he didn't get elected, or they were going to make it very hard on Lloyd.
First, I find this sad and disgusting! Second, Lloyd and I took it as a threat!
Well they came threw on their threat!
On the LAST day you could challenge a Candidate signatures AND 15 minutes before the election office closed Mr. Chicken Dan Ryan challenged my husbands signatures, well actually he said that Lloyd "frauded the citizens by not disclosing on his petitions that he was running in the Mc Dowell Mountain District."
Well this is false! Lloyd asked the election office what exactly he needed to write on his petitions and the lady just said to write Constable.
We handed out cards and told everyone that signed his petition that he was running in the Mc Dowell Mountain District. But when you are desperate to keep your job that you skated into by running unopposed, and you are in a "good ole boys network" why would you want to risk losing it. Plus Dan Ryan is retired and collects a pension AND the income he receives as a Constable, so I am sure he doesn't want to lose a dime.
He also is a retired Marine, and he is a disgrace to the Marine force that he could not handle running against a candidate, and obviously one that could have beat him.
Because rest assured my husband Lloyd and I knocked on a lot of doors getting Lloyd's signatures and when we ran into people that knew Dan Ryan they said they would GLADLY sign Lloyd's petition because NOT one person we ran into liked Dan Ryan. So maybe Mr Constable knows this and is afraid he would lose!
Whatever! Lloyd and I are not letting it ruin our lives. We put this election up to God and God made his choice and he obviously has a better plan for us.
Maybe Mr. Ryan isn't aware of something called a "write-in candidate.'
Here is some advice to all voters of the Mc Dowell Mountain District, just because the only name you see running for Constable is Daniel Ryan, you DO NOT have to vote for him.
You can write in MY name or anybody over 18yrs of ages name. So whatever you do, don't let this man be re-elected simply by default write in some body's name.
No one should be able to be elected to office by default we should always have a choice.
I truly believe one day Mickey Mouse will be elected President, because a lot of people are like me and if they don't like their choices on the ballot they write in the name of some one they do like.
So Please write-in a name for some one for Constable if you do not believe that Dan Ryan in the man for the job or that he should win by default! I am, I am writing in Kathleen Stites, and so are all are friends and a we will get a lot of people to do so as well. I would be a great Constable, and if nothing else I refuse to vote for Dan Ryan, so I will vote for myself, and get all our friends to vote for me too. I am picking up a write in Candidate package and with this there is NOTHING Dan Ryan can do to stop it.
Lloyd is a very well liked and HONORABLE man, and this is what scared the current sitting Constable in our District!
Well I will run as a write in and see what he has to say about that!

WRITE-IN KATHLEEN L. STITES for Constable of Mc Dowell Mountain District!

P.S for all you people out there that forget that we live in a country where we have free speech and the freedom to express our own personal opinions, well this is MY opinion and I am exercising my freedom to say what I want.
These opinions are not of my husbands or of anyone else.

Megan's new do!

Here is my cutie kids new hair cut! She loves it and I do too. It is so much easier to take care of. She never wanted to put her long hair up and it always looked messy 5 minutes after I brushed it and now we don't have that problem.

She actually cut of 7 1/2 inches and we sent it in to "locks of love" and even though it isnt long enought to become a wig they will sell her hair to differ the cost of making the wigs so everyone is happy, most importantly Megan!