Well, yesterday was the day that I have been waiting for! A couple of months ago, my boss told me about a job opportunity that might come up soon, so I have been kind of trying out the position over that last few months to see if it is something that I would like to do and something that they thought I was good enough to do. I have absolutely LOVED doing the things I have been doing, so of course I am hoping that it works out for the best! I had an interview yesterday with my previous boss, my current boss and my maybe to be boss. It was interesting interviewing with people that I already know, but I was not too worried about it, because I feel like I can explain myself well, or at least admit if I don't know something and make sure that the interviewers understand that I am more than willing to learn! But, the interview went fabulously! I will have to wait and see what happens! Hopefully I'll hear something next week, and hopefully I'll get a nice little raise.... Would be nice!!!! Current job Title: Manufacturing Technician II - Department, Manufacturing Hopefully to be job Title: Process Development Associate II - Department, Engineering and Reliability I'm super excited and I'll keep you guys posted! Love to all!

We bought our tickets yesterday to go visit Lucas' family. I am so excited! It has been over two years since we have been able to go see them! It really stinks that Lucas only has two weeks of vacation a year... It really limits what we can do! Unfortunately this will be our only trip for the year, but it's going to be a good one, so it's worth it!! I sure do miss all that vacation time we had when we were in school and would go to Brazil for a month over Winter Break! I guess that they always say... "When you have the time, you don't have the money, and when you have the money, you don't have the time..." Except for when you retire!! My parents are also going to get to come with us!! I love them being retired! :-) Trip is set for January 13-26, 2009! Anyone want to watch a PRECIOUS dog for two weeks?!?!?!? :-)

We ran the Triathlon this weekend! This is the second year that we have run this tri. 3.1 miles running, 6 miles biking, 400 meters swimming..... It was extremely hard but pretty fun! It was only about 65 degrees here that morning and a little rainy, but perfect for a big race! I would much prefer this weather to hot and humid! Lucas and I trained for it for about 2 months (I am so proud that he did it with me)! I always of course wish I would have done better, but the motto of the race is "To Finish is to Win!" So I guess since we both finished that we are both WINNERS!!! Of course my time would have been a little faster if I had not run all the way to the pool from my bike and realized that I had forgotten my goggles on my bike... OOPS!!!!! Silly me! Here is the website if you want to see our results! hahaha! Don't get too excited, it's not like we went in world record pace or anything! http://www.huntsvilletrackclub.org/results/index(r).htm Unfortunately we didn't have our camera with us, so no pictures from this one! Maybe some of our friends from church took a couple. If we find some we'll put them up! We have several friends that like to run, so I think we are going to try to run several races this fall. My friend Annie and I are running a 5K in 2 weeks, and I am trying to get Lucas to join! Then there is a Duathlon in October that I am going to start training for as soon as my body recovers from yesterday! Duathlon is 3 miles Running, 10 miles biking and then 2 more miles running! Doesn't that sound like fun?!?!? I'll try to keep you all updated!

Grill Man Lucas fixing us some hot dogs. Lexi is hoping that he'll just drop one!

Girls roasting some smores... yummy!!!!!

Here is the hot air balloon coming over our house... it was pretty close!

View from the front yard!

Cute Hailey in the grass.

And she is WORN OUT! haha I couldn't find her anywhere in the house, but then I saw her like this and just had to take a picture!

We went camping this weekend to South Cumberland State Park in Tennessee. We had a great time for the most part, but do have some interesting stories to tell now!

We went camping with some of our friends from church, Ryan and Amanda and Matt and Elise. We set off together on Friday afternoon and arrived at the campsite that evening. Of course by the time we got there, it was already dark... I sure do wish we would have had that extra hour of sunlight that you Texans have! Anyways, we got our tents set up using the headlights of our cars, and then thankfully the campsite had a bathroom facilities, so Lucas and I went and filled up our air mattress! Ok, I know you might be thinking that that is not real camping, but believe me I feel better in the morning than I would if I slept on the ground! :-) Once we had everything set up, we sat around and chatted for a while, but we were pretty much beat from a week of work and knew that we wouldn't be able to sleep in much in the morning, so we were off to bed!

Well, sleeping was interesting... with probably about a million tree frogs croaking in sync. (I thought this was really nice and peaceful until we were trying to go to sleep!) And then the threat of rain... But, I finally did fall asleep and then about 4 in the morning I start hearing this sounds... and what could it be but ROOSTERS in the middle of the forest! I was like, you have got to be kidding! So, needless to say, we were up pretty early!

After everyone ate a little camp style breakfast, we were off to do some serious hiking! 6 adults, 3 dogs, lots of water and some peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to hold us over! We had to drive to the trail, and thank goodness that Ryan had a GPS or we might have never made it there! We got there and it was starting to rain... of course. But, we waited it out a little and then were on our way! Thankfully since we were up in the Smokies it was only about 75 degrees, because the humidity after the rain had to have been at 100%! The hike was beautiful though, and the dogs had a GREAT time! We found a waterfall, but not much water, but it was enough for Hailey to get completely wet!