First Visitor!

   OK so this is again for two weeks worth, last blog was on March 15th soooo lets think back. I made a trip out to David's Bridal and ordered my shoes for the Thornsbury wedding, I can't wait to be home again! I had a very good and fun St. Patricks Day. I spent it upstairs at the Freight House with some co-workers, played some shuffle board. I can't decide if I am good at shuffle board or not, it's all about finesse and I have a hard time deciding if a slide is too hard or too soft. Drank some green beer, which I will probably stay away from in the years to come. The dye made the next day awful.

   I got the opportunity to go see Trace Adkins in concert at the PepperMill. I went with Christmas (my quarter sister), her boyfriend Tony, his friend Andy and then some other girls. I had a really good time at the concert but get this, to any of you who have ever gone to a country concert; is everyone in their seats? I am talking that I was the ONLY person that stood up for any song and I know because I was in the back and at some points felt like a fool. It was the strangest country concert, let alone concert, I have ever been to. There were no fights, everyone stayed in their seats, and it didn't sound like the crowd was singing along. The only constant was people were drunk. But I am mean come on! In their seats?!?!

   I ended up going to a Bridal convention(don't get any ideas) because I have so many weddings coming up this year. I am a bridesmaid in some of them and I just wanted to glance around and see what I should expect. It was fun, I took advantage of the samples of catered food that's for sure, haha.

  Work has been picking up as we get closer and closer to opening day, on Saturday March 20th the single-game tickets went on sale! Everyone upstairs is working really hard to pull off a great and successful season, at least on the business side, can't do anything about the players haha. More and more people come in every day to check out what we have a gear up for the new season. The new Away hat is selling like crack, a lot of fans are asking that the new logo (grey with R) become the official logo of Aces, as fans are tired of our 'A' getting confused for the Atlanta Braves 'A' .

  The Bighorns won their 6th straight game last night and we only have one last regular season game this Friday before the playoffs begin. Which also happens to be Aunt Pat's Birthday!!!!

Friday came rather quickly with both excitement and mourning, Lauren finally got here! As Friday also marked the official 3 years of Jeremy's passing away. Although I couldn't be home to honor him with my friends and family as well as his friends and family, Lauren and I did a

pretty good job. Saturday at work was even worse than the day after St. Patricks Day but well worth it. We took a nap, some of us with our sunglasses on, haha.

We entered a beer pong tournament at Harrahs, they play by officially Beer Pong rules, which is honestly just funny to me. So for those of you who play or know the idea of house beer pong, no swatting bounces, bounces only count for one cup, and all of those things. OK I'm fine with that, but they don't care of your elbow is over the table!! That just blows my mind, follow all those rules but not that one. Regardless we did well and came in 4th place, being the only girls left in the tournament.

We went snowboarding on Sunday which was in my opinion awesome. We got up early, too early, caught a bus, for free I might add, out to Squaw Valley. Lauren has been doing it since she was 6, so I decided to take a lesson since I only skied once when I was in elementary school. It was 2 1/2 hours long and totally worth by the end of that very long day I felt pretty comfortable. I am lucky that Sean lent me his snow things, I had gloves, goggles, a neck warmer, and his ski jacket. All I had to pay for was renting the board and boots ($54) and the lesson ($61). I had acquired two free all-day lift passes. Squaw Valley had gotten 12 inches of snow the day before we got there (crazy!)

As tired as we were, we made a trip out the El Dorado, a casino, Lauren played Craps for the first time, put in $20 and walked away with $60, in about 45 minutes. We slept in until 1PM on Monday, thankfully, although we didn't get home until 3AM or so. We devoured some delicious all you can eat sushi, and Lauren got her cartilage double pierced. Walked around downtown a bit until it was time for us to head to the airport. It was an awesome weekend, I had a blast, I am still sore from snowboarding haha, as I am also still trying to recover from one crazy weekend.

For the record, I of course had to edit and be vague about some parts of the weekend. Some of the people who read my blog, which I am so pleased and happy that you do! But some of you are our bosses, family, athletic directors, head of majors, etc. hahaha.

Love and miss you all!

Meet Ty..

So my place is officially all done, minus a few photo's that I would like to get frames for. So my first week of working without Tonya went normal. I am getting more and more responsibility, and with the beginning of the season right around the corner its crunch time. The store has been getting busier and busier and single-game tickets go on sale this Saturday, so I am expecting a lot of traffic in the store, and hoping for a lot of spenders. 

I have a new friend Ty. As you can see he is big and fuzzy right now with his winter coat. He is 7 years old, and has had maybe a years worth of training throughout his life but none of it has ever been consistent. He loves to snuggle and nuzzle my face, which I don't really mind. I have ridden him but I am taking it slow and doing a lot of ground work and games,Pat Parelli's 7 Games I like how he whinnies at me when I leave and always watches me go, even watched my truck drive off the other day. Granted it probably all has to do with whether I give him snacks or not.

I know that this past week was Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, so no meat which means that I tried my skills at fish and again, I was extremely happy with the results. I tried some green beans(canned, not as good as fresh) with some sliced green, red, and yellow peppers, garlic and onion. Pretty decent for veggies I have to say, I even ate the left overs. Daylight savings just passed as well and did you know that the Cayman Islands doesn't recognize it? Sean found that out the hard way when he was at work an hour early, haha. So although most of you are still 3 hours later than me, Sean is now only 2 hours later than me. Which is good for us, now I don't feel so bad talking to him until 9PM my time, which is 12PM your time, but now 11PM his time! I'm still on my 30 miles in 30 days, I am doing a variation of it at least, which is better than nothing.

We had two Bighorn Basketball games this past week and the team is going to the playoffs. Our first playoff game I just heard will be April 8th or 9th, which is good that it doesn't overlap with the Aces games, at least not yet. On Saturday night the Bighorns had a gathering for the employees at Sapphire, which is live music joint inside Harrah's. The music was awesome and the drink specials were even better. I love living downtown purely because I can walk to any of the places, and walk home and its no more that 5 blocks. The cold is the most annoying thing about walking anywhere though.

Got a card from Aunt Lela and Uncle Perry, and a package from Mom & Dad always nice to get mail, that isn't bills. I'm doing my best to keep in touch with people, call them back, or call them and write back to e-mails. The time difference for us is pretty rough though. I have a busy two weeks coming up, my boss Jessica, is going home for 10 days. I will be running the store by myself and working the Wednesday night Bighorn game solo. Going to the Trace Adkins concert on Saturday night, scored a free ticket, sweet! Riding Ty. St. Patricks Day celebrations whatever they maybe. Then next week Lauren will be here as well as the 3 year anniversary of Jeremy. The next two blogs will have much more exciting and interesting stories promise!!

Love you and miss you all!

Settling In..

I didn't get a chance to post last week so this is for the past two weeks.

So I have come to the conclusion that I love it out here in Reno, even the weather. Reno's only vice(in my opinion) so far is ice. I hate the ice. When me and my dad made it out here we asked several people who have lived here for years even the mechanic that changed the oil about getting snow tires or chains. We were told we it might snow but it wouldn't stick and there was no need for snow tires or chains. So as I have showed on Facebook and in this blog is that the snow in fact has come and stayed. So I went to leave my parking garage two weekends ago, on the North side of the building that the sun does not shine on ever. What do you know, I am spinning my wheels on 3 inches of ice. Stuck like Chuck, Curious where the phrase 'Stuck like Chuck' came from? , I then try backing up, going forward, rocking and nothing is working for me. Completely desperate and I am sure looking like a fool I call up my co-worker Bart, who also lives downtown, and ask for help. He and my boss Jessica come to my rescue, and we rock my truck right off the ice. Thanks guys! Not only that but the night before I was out with both Jessica and Bart, get out of the car step on a patch of ice in my cowboy boots.  Totally eat it, Jessica said that I was higher than the hood of the car when I was horizontal in the air, landing on my butt, and hands. I had my phone in one hand face down and was concerned that I may have broken it but thanks to my Terminator phone case, all that was bruised was my butt, hand and pride. That is the back story of mine and the ice's un-salvageable relationship.

 At work in the past two weeks we have received over 1,500 hats and most recently our St. Patty's Day T-ShirtCheck out our St. Patrick's Day Shirts here. We are getting ready for the season, which kicks off on April 5th vs the UNR Wolf-Pack and then really gets rolling April 15th vs Salt Lake. I have seen a large increase of traffic in the store, even having one guy spend $400.00 in hats in 2-days because he knew how fast they were going to sell once word got out about them and wanted to have extra just in case, crazy. 

Here are pictures of all the new hats that we have, we haven't put them on the website yet, if we even will.


My co-worker Tonya who is pregnant, I think I may have mentioned that previously, but if not now you know. Was scheduled to have her baby girl Emily on March 14th. Well it didn't quite happen that way, her Mom came into town on Tuesday night and Thursday was supposed to be her last day of work. She had a doctors appointment scheduled for that morning, the doctor noticed a dip on the baby's heart rate. Next thing I know I am getting a text saying she is probably having Emily that night. It was really fast, she was born at 4:50PM. I went to go see her in the hospital last night and got to hold 26 hour old Emily Grace, who is adorable. I am also pretty sure that she is the youngest smallest child that I have ever held. My dad says maybe Theresa but there are no solid facts to back that up, besides at the age of 3 I am not really responsible for not dropping the baby. I broke out in a cold sweat and had clammy skin for like 20 minutes after handing her off. Whew, in case anyone was wondering, this is pushing any plans of me having a baby back even further. Can everyone hear my mom and dad cheering? ha-ha


So I have a new love and his name is George Foreman, I have discovered after all the years of watching my dad cook and grill, and my mom cook and grill. Enjoying their amazing pork chops, fish, steak, burgers, chicken. I have learned a thing or two, thankfully. I am a master at cooking in a pan with vegetables, and it doesn't hurt that I probably put more seasoning on than anyone. Cooking the meat nice and slow, having rice and black beans as sides. Yum, yum. I told my dad that I am going to have to grill for them when I come home. I've added some pictures of my pork chops from the other night, amazing!

 I have started a new challenge, 30 miles in 30 days. I started just yesterday, with a 1.4 mile run. It's killing me running in the cold I have to say I am not adjusting well, my ears and nose feel like they are going to fall off after only 5 minutes.
I bought my plane ticket home for both May, for Gloria and Randy's wedding. Also in June for my friend Alexa's wedding! Yay, my friend Lauren is coming out to visit me coming in March 25th, which as a lot of you know is the 3 year anniversary of Jeremy's death. I'm glad she will be here to help me celebrate his life and that I won't be alone out here. I guess thats all for now, miss you all!