2 things......FREE Salsa Festival is TODAY

1 - Maricopa's 5th Annual Salsa Festival is today Saturday, April 25th at Pacana Park at 5pm and is FREE. There are shuttles running from most schools so we are meeting several friends at Maricopa Elementary School on Alterra Parkway at 4:30pm to head over. It's from 5pm to 10pm with shuttles running every 30 minutes or less. They will have over 55 salsas & 50, 000 bags of chips free to sample and lots of other good food. They have a HUGE kids zone that has bounce houses, 20 foot slide, carnival type games, relays, performances, free snow cones, business area, salsa dancing, bands all day and so much more. A celebrity judge from the Food Network will be there Ingrid Hoffman. Anyways should be super fun! Gather up your family and meet us at MES at 4:30pm it will be a blast! To ride the shuttle for free just bring two cans of food! Everything else is free except for the items you can purchase such as drinks & BBQ food etc. Here's the link http://www.maricopasalsafestival.com/events/

2 - Does anyone have a plastic/vinyl check book cover for duplicate checks I can buy from them? I can't find one anywhere and they don't come when you order checks anymore! I will pay you I just need one to fit in my leather tri fold wallet. :o)

Be Honest........

Please be totally honest with me even if you think it might hurt my feelings.....do I look old enough in this picture well in any picture for that matter but especially this one to be the Mother of 3 Children with the oldest one being Will my husband who is 4 years older than me?

This is the second time someone has thought Will was MY SON. I had to get an import connection on my computer today by one of our software companies and so as the IT guy gained access on my computer screen from his over in California he says seeing this picture on my background, "Oh is this your family?" I say, "yes my husband and kids." He says, "so you have three children, 2 boys and one girl what a cute family you have." I say, "thank you but we just have two kids." He says, "OH I thought that the one on the bottom was your son...he is a young looking man." I say, "yes he does look young for an almost 40 year old husband." He says, "well he is a young man compared to me as I'm 58 years old and have college age children."

As I said before this is the second time someone has asked me if my husband was MY son from this picture.....so do I look old enough be his Momma????? The other guy from the technology department was in our office a few months ago and looked at the same picture and asked me the same thing and he was face to face with me! When I told him no it was my husband he says that he thought I was way too young to have a son bigger than me but that Will just didn't look old enough to be the Dad in the picture so he assumed I was the Mom. Please be honest....I can take it.....I will immediately hide the picture and start saving for botox or something! I don't want to look 50 years old already. :O) I know Will looks very young but really his Mother? I'm just very curious if I look like his Mom...it's eating away at me and I need to know the truth not just the nice answer. :o)

Watch my sister's newest show...

My sister, Brandy is always doing 101 things and she has recently added a new online show to her list of jobs and these two are only about 6 minutes long.

http://www.lockandloadshow.com/
www.youtube.com/lockandloadshow

They get paid per click & view so the more you share it with others the more money she makes. :O)

Will's follow up appt with surgeon

This is Will the day before his follow up visit with the surgeon over at his brother's house for an Easter get together (that post will come later this week). Monday Will and I went to the follow up visit with the surgeon and they took his sling off, then his hard plastic splint and then began cutting this padding stuff.

It sticks to your skin obviously. His elbow was very tender because he wasn't able to bend it for almost 3 weeks.

She tried being careful but it all looked painful.

Still peeling the fuzz off
There it is the incision where he had 8 very large stitches. The picture below is before the doctor came and started pulling them out which was extremely painful. Poor Will about after the sixth one got all pale and almost past out...he was sitting on the table and started tipping over and the doctor helped lay completely over on the table so thank goodness he wasn't standing. It made me sick to my stomach so I couldn't watch.

Viola stitches are out! They were totally shocked that he didn't have more bruising but it is because his skin is so thick that it doesn't show. If you compare it to his other arm it is bruised but not like most people bruise.

Now after lying down for a few minutes and regaining his color we saw the X-rays. It was Will's first time to see all of the metal in his arm and wrist. The metal plate is about 4-5 inches long and at least 1-1.5 inches wide or at least it looks like from my perspective. He has about 12-18 metal pins in there and a few screws. The doctor said he will probably need another surgery and that he still has some fractured bones in there but that it was the best they could do. Due to the complexity he required assistance from another surgeon and they used double the amount of metal than they had anticipated and it was according to the surgeon ranked in the top 3 of worst breaks he has ever operated on. "It is so busted up in there it was just crazy!" The doctor said wash up your arm, we will put a cast on you and I'll see you in 4 weeks. I asked him what the prognosis was and he said it is going to be weeks and weeks and at least one more surgery before we can speculate that.

Will finally getting to get his arm wet. It's been driving him crazy to not be able to itch it, use it, move it etc and most of shower!!! He has to wrap it with a couple of towels then double trash bag it and tie it up tight.

This is what he left in a short arm and wrist cast and his sling. His fingers are still swollen and his elbow is sore but he is thrilled to have the option of straightening out his elbow now. Poor guy has really been a trooper through all of this and never complains.

He had the kids signed their names on his cast the underneath, they thought that was awesome! :O)

Free Easter Fun at Pacana Park tomorrow

Saturday, April 11th from 10am to 12pm there is Easter Fun at Pacana Park. They will have Egg hunts every 15-20 minutes, bounce houses, petting zoo, pictures with the Easter Bunny and lots of games and music. It's super fun and all of it is FREE! We have gone for the past 3 years and have a blast. Just remember to wear sun screen, bring water and your Easter basket.

The Easter Bunny insisted Kenna sit on her lap :o)Pictures from last year


Easter Bunny fun!

5 posts in one night....whew

Yes I'm behind so I just did 5 posts tonight 6 if you count this one! :o)

JA BIZTOWN Fieldtrip...CEO of Wells Fargo Bank

JA BIZTOWN the coolest city in America with the youngest corporate tycoons on every channel!!!

Here's one now beautiful, smart and successful CEO of Wells Fargo Bank McKenna Wright!

Located in Tempe, Arizona is a city called JA Biztown the place where all 10-12 years olds want to be at least for a day that is. You see these amazing citizens are running a city for the day which took months of preparation. Every person applied, interviewed and trained for their positions today. They also began learning how to set up a checking account, write checks, make deposits and balance their checking account as well.

Mrs. Garoutte (telling me McKenna earned her CEO job & was the best candidate)and her class of 5th graders were totally excited for this wonderful opportunity. I had volunteered to accompany McKenna on this field trip a few months before it actually took place and I had a blast although I ended up doing payroll most of the day for the entire mall and utility companies within the city. :o) Funny how that worked out huh!

Anyways McKenna really wanted to be the mayor of the city but her class didn't draw that particular part of the city duties they however got a couple of very predominant businesses though such as Papa John's Pizza and Wells Fargo Bank. One day McKenna asked me, "Mom should I apply for the CEO job or waitress?" I said trying not to laugh...."which one do you want to do most?" She said, "well I really want to be the CEO of Wells Fargo Bank but a girl in my class (I forgot her name) who is really popular told me that I'd better not apply because it was her job." I said "if you want to apply for the CEO job then you shouldn't listen to her!" Kenna said "ya you are right and I'm better at math than she is so I think I'll get the job." I of course told her "right on you go after what you want and don't let anyone try and discourage you!!!" So she worked on her resume, application and letter of intent. She then interviewed the next day with her teacher and in front of her class. A day or two later she came home so excited because she got the CEO of Wells Fargo the most important job at the bank. She told me that she was going to make $9.00 an hour which was the most any of the children were earning that day but wanted to know how much real CEO's made and when I told her in the millions she decided that she in fact wants to become a real CEO!!! :o)

It was so cute to see her in action! This town had all sorts of businesses within it....utility companies, a TV station, a Radio Station, Best Buy & printing/copy store, Diamond Backs stadium, a health clinic, UPS Store, Attorney's office, Beach Store, Papa John's pizza, US Airlines with a real looking front of an airplane, a City Hall, I'm forgetting the rest but several neat little places that looked so real. They did live interviews all day...had a radio station with DJ's taking requests and jamming out the town all day!

All day the kids had to work as if they would in real life and on their breaks they had those handy dandy check books to buy things and deposit their paychecks they got paid twice that day and was able to take a lunch break and eat as well. Several CEO's, CFO's and Payroll Officers had to work through lunch to complete their tasks. The poor boy I was helping for the majority of the time was literally sweating as he paid bills, created deposits and did payroll for several of the businesses there. He told me that he didn't want to do payroll when he grew up and I told him that neither did I!!! ha ha He earned $8.00 per hour.

McKenna said she loved every bit of it except when the customers got upset waiting in line and yelled at her. I laughed and told her to get used to it. She put me to work a couple of times for her and I think really enjoyed bossing her staff and her Mother around!!! :o) At the end of the day she got to speak at City Hall and give out awards to her staff and to the CFO's of other businesses that balanced at the end of the day with the city's local bank Wells Fargo. Her staff one of which is her one of her best friends Kaylee said McKenna was a very nice boss.

And McKenna's favorite customer CFO of Papa John's Pizza another young, handsome finance tycoon....Conner Scoresby who was earning $8.50 per hour. (notice the smile is gone because the shy & awkward kicked in) :o)

It was an awesome field trip for the kids, staff and parents! She gets to go back in 6th grade to do JA Biztown 2 where they focus on more financial things that grown ups do. We can't wait to do it again!!!

So proud of this beautiful little CEO! Never give up on your dreams and shoot for the stars sweetie you will and can do amazing things!!!