Staycation!

Well as of 1pm tomorrow July 2nd, 2010 I am on vacation from work for 2 weeks and 1 day.
I do not return to work until July 20th. I am so happy. We are not going anywhere but I am just beyond thrilled that for 17 days I can sleep in and not go to work. The only days I am getting up early is Sunday's so I can go to church.
Other than that it is sleeping in and laying out by the pool. I want to go to a water park at least once. I want to go to the movies. I want to rent movies and stay up late and then sleep in the morning.
My daughter will be away at camp for 4 days and that will leave alone time for me and my hubby, and then the remainder of the time will be family time. The only bummers I see are 1, the heat, and 2, my daughter telling me she is bored. My daughter is bored at Disneyland.
I can't to take naps, sleep late, and come back with an awesome tan. It doesn't take much to make me happy, and naps and tanning will for sure do the trick.

So Staycation here I come!

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!

Summer

Well School ended this week for my beautiful daughter Megan, she will be going into the 5th grade this fall. I can't believe how fast she is growing up!

We scheduled our summer vacation for July, but due to some unforeseen events in our life our vacation may not be what we had originally planned. However, we are praying and working hard that things may change for the better soon.

Megan had wanted to go to San Diego for a couple of days, and camping and to some water parks, but we will just have to see what God has in store for us this summer.

Megan had wanted to cut her hair for the long hot summer but recently changed her mind. She has such a big and loving heart. She is currently saving her change to donate to the Arizona Animal Welfare League, and she isn't cutting her hair this summer because she needs it to grow 3 more inches so that she can donate her hair to locks of love. She needs to be able to cut and give them 10 inches of hair to make a child's wig. If you want to see how you can help out children with cancer and Locks of love go to this link http://www.locksoflove.org/

I can not believe how caring my child is for everyone, animal or human. She makes me so proud to call her my daughter.

She made Principal's List all 4 quarters in school this year, and I am so very proud of her.

I haven't told Megan that our summer vacation plans most likely will be a whole lot different due to financial reason, because I am holding out hope that things may change and I won't have to break her heart.

So we will see how this summer goes, it is definitely going to be a summer of changes, and hopefully will end in the fall with some very good things for our family. We will just continue to have faith in God and his plans for us, and pray to him for guidance.

I can't believe I deleted one of my post......

but I did and I only did for the love of my husband!
My husband received an email from a guy that did not like MY OPINION, and rather than make life harder for my husband and although I have a first amendment right to free speech, I took it down.
However, I am posting this now!!
This is MY blog and the opinions on this blog belong to ME! They do not reflect the opinions of anyone else including my husband LLOYD STITES!
If some one has an issue with something I post on my blog they need to email ME, and not my husband as these are MY opinions not his!

My husband and I are Christian and love God, and we are not going to play dirty politics in my husband's election to be Constable, but we are fully expecting others to make his life difficult. To me in MY opinion that is a sign of fear, and people that would do this seem crave and have all the control in their lives they can.
We however are going to campaign our hearts out but we are leaving the results in the hands of our God and Savior for him to do his will whatever that is. HE has a plan for us and we must give our control up to him. That is not to say we are going to try hard and see who comes out on top, but we do not need to resort to dirty politicking or stealing sign or whatever else some one may plan to do to us and my husband's campaign.

I am finished with this subject, but I for now on will not take down a post just because some one didn't like what I had to say!

I hope everyone votes in all new people into office this election season and give all new people a try as I personally am not happy at all with the way the State of Arizona is being run or the Country as a whole so I am voting out all incubments this year, and I hope you all do to, and vote LLOYD STITES for Constable of the McDowell Mountain district!

I love my husband very much and will fully support him to the end and pray that he will come out the winner and can serve our community with honor and intergity with God in his heart!