Category: Updates


April/May 2010

Filed Under: Travels, Updates by skrdflute — Leave a comment
June 10, 2010

Howdy!

So the months of April & May have just flown by! We spent a fabulous week in New Orleans. We had a lot of awesome food, heard some great (and not so great) music, did a lot of walking and saw the sites with some conference friends. There was a ton of amazing stuff that the conference put on and had available to both the attendees and the significant others. I will put pictures up at some point.

It was really nice to come home after the conference and be able to move into our house. We did a lot of little packing since we still had to keep things prepped for our upcoming trip to California. Then Darrell asked to borrow a truck, and not only did he end up with a truck, he ended up with a 16 foot trailer and 4 co-workers to help. So we just finished moving everything from the apartment. There was still cleaning supplies and little stuff at the apartment, but we were staying in our new house. At least for two days.

Then our trip to California. We left early on Saturday morning to drive to Dallas. We landed at SFO and then got the rental and spent the day hanging out with Ryca and Jon. It was a total blast. We had brunch on Sunday with Michelle & Ryca at a cool little place in Oakland. Don’t remember the name, but it was great! Then we traveled down to Santa Cruz to visit some friends down there. We got there a little early, so we hit up a couple places that are our normals when we end up in that area. We got to have dinner with Turtle, Michelle, Megan, Geoff, Abby, Henry, and Matthew. After chilling out for a bit, we drove through Sunnyvale to stop at Trader Joes and say hi to Min since she couldn’t come for the dinner. Then we spent about an hour getting lost in San Francisco (gee.. why does that always happen when you move away?) then finally made it to Boonville. We hung out in Boonville with Will, Peggy, Rod, & Janna on Monday. On Tuesday we drove up to Humboldt. We picked up Lorna on the way and then hung out with Kendra, Lee, Wiz, Loyn, & Ben. Ahh.. we were feeling the relaxation of hanging out with normal people! We spent a couple days in Humboldt seeing a whole bunch of people (Liam, Toshi, Sigrid, Kearney, Grace, Jes, Matt, & lots more). Then on Thursday we traveled back down to Ukiah to stay with Book & Janna to prep for the awesome weekend!

Boonville Beer Festival 2010!!! We got to see so many of our friends that it made us hope for the next five years to fly by! We hung out around the firepit, played our horns, grilled up a meat fest, got drunk (ps – sorry Jon but I would call operation Caye Caulker a slight bust.. It was great until most of it came up along the drive to SFO :/) Ahh.. we were slightly bummed the weekend was ending. Since we had to leave real early on Sunday, we didn’t get to say goodbye to a lot of people, so next year, I think we are going to set things up so we don’t leave until Monday. The trip just went to fast.

So we finally returned from all of our vacations and Lorna flew back out with us. We worked a lot on unpacking all of the stuff into the house and catching up at work. I finished up my school year, so summer here I come, but no paycheck…. Oh well.. Gives me time to relax. I also got my netflix wii disc, so now I have unlimited movies.. hahaha!! Darrell likes to call it my Wiiflix.

If any of y’all wanna come visit, our door is open! Just give us a call!

~The Ross’

Tags: , , , ,
Comment

March/April 2010

Filed Under: Travels, Updates by skrdflute — Leave a comment
June 10, 2010

**It’s been awhile since an update since we switched over and then I couldn’t log in. :/ I’m gonna work on getting all the updates posted in the next couple days. **

Hey y’all

Boy oh Boy have we been keeping busy. Darrell is working hard at his job. He’s doing pretty much the same thing he has been doing since January. Just trying to keep up with all of the bugs. I’m also doing more of the same thing. Just driving buses and keeping busy. There are a lot of things going on in the District, so I have been putting in massive numbers of hours. I put in almost 70 hours in a week. That was the week before Spring break, so boy was I glad it was spring break. 🙂

So other than work, we have been pretty busy on our own time. Darrell found out that we were qualified to buy a house, so we began a kind of small looksie to see what we could find. Will, Darrell’s dad, came out and visited us early in the month. We wandered around through open houses and found a real estate agent to help us look at houses.

After looking for a couple days, we found a house we absolutely love! It’s a brand new 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom, 2 car garage. We are excited and can’t wait to close on the house and be able to move into it and out of the apartment.

Then Steve came and visited us during his spring break which also happened to be my spring break. We had some fun and really enjoyed hanging out with him. We were sad to see him go, but it just meant that we were a week closer to our trips out of Texas.

Things have been going by really quickly. We are currently halfway through April and things are progressing nicely. We had to move our closing date up to this Friday, so we are getting set to close and then leaving for New Orleans on Sunday. I also got my wisdom teeth out last Thursday, so I am still adjusting to the surgery recovery. Slowly working on getting back up to solid foods.

Well, that’s about all that has been happening around here. Hope things are going great where you are!
~The Ross’

Tags: , , ,
Comment

January/February 2010

Filed Under: Travels, Updates by skrdflute — Leave a comment
February 21, 2010

 Hey Y’all,

We have been keeping busy out here in lovely Texas. We have had three snowstorms since the last update. We got one on Christmas eve, one for New Years, and one for Valentines Day Weekend. We are actually getting set to have another one starting on Tuesday. This has been the coldest winter that Texas has experienced since the late 1970’s. They usually only get two snowstorms a year, and none of it sticks. Each snowstorm has dropped anywhere between 3-7”.We didn’t do much for the last couple of Holidays. We stayed home for Christmas and New years and just enjoyed spending time together. It was a little lonesome and we missed hanging out with friends and family, but it was nice not to have to worry about big money issues.

Starting in January, I began to work more at the school. I am now a substitute for the Kitchens and Janitors. I sub more for the kitchen than the janitor, but it gives me more hours which is nice. On the days that I sub for them, I usually work about an 11 hour day. It’s nice for the paycheck, but it hurts the netflix subscription :). 

Darrell got moved upstairs into another department at the beginning of the new year. He is doing really good at his job. Spending lots of time at work and getting things changed around. He’s doing so good that they gave him a BIG raise. We’re both excited about that and he’s excited about getting things done.

We didn’t do much more than work in the Month of January. We bought ourselves a Wii game system and have been playing that, so we are spending a lot of weekend time on that. It has been fun playing games together that we could pause and go do something if needed. We have also been watching a lot of Food Network, so I have started trying different and new recipes. It’s been fun. Darrell really likes it. 

We have had a very busy and roller coaster type of February. Darrell turned 30 and we took a trip to Dallas to go see an IMAX 3D showing of Avatar. We also went to the Hard Rock Cafe for lunch. It was a long day, and it didn’t help that the first theater we went to was sold out of tickets until 10:30 at night and we were there at 11:30 AM. We ended up going to the theater in Colleyville just north of Ft. Worth. We really liked that theater and would probably go there again. You were able to order actual food and have it brought to you in the theater. (By actual food, I mean more than popcorn and candy. Like burgers, huge things of Nachos, and stuff). You were also able to buy a beer and they would let you take the pint glass into the theater. Darrell really enjoyed that part. 

The weekend after his birthday, we were invited up to Whistler for his family vacation and to hang out for Opening weekend of the Olympics. We had a blast once we got there. The gettting there was another matter. We were suppose to fly out early on Friday, but we got the huge snowstorm that dropped 4” here in Abilene, and 11” in Dallas, so our flight from Abilene to Dallas was canceled. We spent lots of time on the phone with airlines figuring things out. We finally ended up driving to Dallas and flying from Dallas out. We had to leave early so that we would beat the cold front making all the melting snow ice. It took us over 4.5 hours to get to Dallas. We saw multiple cars that had spun out and were on the side of the road. But we made it. Our flight left late from Dallas, so we had a long layover in Phoenix, but I got to see Ruth. We finally made it to Whistler 25 hours after we left our apartment. We had a complete blast while we were there and are grateful for the opportunity to go. 

The trip back was a lot less of a hassle except for the massive security screening at the airport. We were thoroughly checked. They made us pull out all electronics (cell’s included), and then they checked everything in our bag by hand, made us put our hands in our pockets and swabbed them, checked our shoes, went through our coat pockets. I felt like it was what I would do to make sure I had everything when leaving for a trip. It took us almost 1.5 hours to get through security. From the time we checked in at the kiosk, to the time we got to the gates. 

Now that we are home and have a couple weeks off before things start up again, we are doing our spring cleaning. The weather has been nice in the 60’s with howling wind. So we are getting things in the apartment clean. Will is coming out to visit in a couple weeks, and then Steve is going to be visiting for a week. Then we have a lot more things to do in the next couple months. Gonna be busy, but it’s good to be busy.Hope y’all are doing great and enjoying the wonders of life!

~The Ross’

Tags: , , , , ,
Comment

December 2009

Filed Under: Holidays, Travels, Updates by eukota — Leave a comment
December 10, 2009

Hey Y’all,

Just wanted to post an update for anyone who might still be checking here. I have been trying to post something, but I couldn’t login. But now that I can,  I will try to update here at least once a month. Here is what’s been going on:

We have been in Abilene for 6 months now. Time really flies when you have a countdown and keep busy. Our countdown is to the Boonville Beer Festival. It will probably be one of the few times we are in California. We have been keeping pretty busy though.

I finally got a job in late September. I am a school bus driver for Wylie ISD in south Abilene. Their Mascot is the Bulldogs, and their colors are purple and gold. I am only a substitute bus driver, so I am just filling in when a driver is out. But I get to ride the buses everyday. The pay isn’t the best, but it is a job. I get some field trips since this is a very sports centered state. The High School football team is currently in State Championships right now. The last game is on Saturday, so we’ll see how things go. It’s been keeping me busy, but I really don’t like the mornings. To early.. 🙂

Darrell has been busy at his job as well. He keeps being moved between different departments and the different departments are fighting over where he is suppose to go. They all want him with them. His boss has guaranteed him another raise in January, so things are definitely looking good for him.

Darrell’s evening’s are still pretty full, but so are mine. We played softball with his company team, and we won only 1 of the 7 games we played (we missed the 8th game since we were in Belize). That was fun and kept us occupied. Still trying to find some other type of exercise since there aren’t many sidewalks, and it’s not really a safe area to ride the bike around in. We’ll find something.

Yes I did mention that we were in Belize. Darrell and I headed to Belize on October 31 till November 7. We went to the little island of Caye Caulker. It was a total blast to hang out with friends and chill on an island. One of our friends got married there, so that was the main reason to go, but we tied it into a long vacation as well. The whole time there was fun, and not even Tropical Storm Ida ruined it. She made it so we didn’t do a lot of things that we would have liked to have done, but it was still a blast. (Lot’s of time spent in bars).

We also headed to Idaho for Thanksgiving. We spent the time with Darrell’s family in Sandpoint. It was so much fun. It was on the cold side, but we went prepared for snow, and there was only like 1/4” of snow on one day. (If even that much). We had fun with everyone. We spent the flight back realizing that we only spent about 14 days of November in Texas.

The funny part about getting back to Texas, was that the day after we arrived back from Idaho, we got about 2” of snow here in Abilene. It wasn’t icy, just a fluffy snow and it stuck everywhere but roadways. It made for a very cold day. It hasn’t really warmed up since we got back. The weather has been consistantly under 40 degrees. Just the other day, our high temperature happened at midnight, and our low was at 4:30 in the afternoon. It’s been really icy lately, so we are being very careful when we go out. Our stairs for our apartment froze over, so we were having to really watch our step and ice-skate down the stairs. Fun, fun!!!!

The apartment complex is working on renovations, so a lot of things have been redone. They replaced a lot of the wood, the back patio railing is fixed (now that it is to cold to really spend time out there.), the front stairs are fixed, and the patio is repaved. It was funny since I fell asleep one day, and woke up to go to work that afternoon, and they had just finished paving the front patio, so I had to call into work and let them know that I wasn’t going to make it to work. What a “dog ate my homework” kind of story. :D.

Well, it’s getting closer to the Christmas holidays, and it is very prevalent here. A good chunk of people had their Christmas decorations up around here a week before Thanksgiving. And boy are there a lot of decorations. Some are kind of overdone in my opinion. But to each their own. We have our small amount of stuff up. Just enough to make it feel like the holidays.

Darrell’s company has a huge Christmas party every year, so we are going to be going that next Friday. It is a big formal event, so I think it will be fun. It will be our first big party together here. Darrell went to a friends Halloween party on the friday before we left for Belize, but I had to work and drive the High school band to the football game in Graham. So I was gone until really early the next morning. We really miss having the dinner parties we use to and play games, chat, and hang out with glasses of wine and drinks. Ahhh. the good ol’ days!!!

Hope that everyone is doing great.

Happy Holidays!

~Darrell & Sharyn Ross

Tags: , , , , , , ,
Comment

Update

Filed Under: Updates, Wedding by eukota — Leave a comment
April 19, 2009

Hey Everyone!

We have been real busy here in McKinleyville. We have decided that the Google Groups page isn’t working quite like we want it to, so we check it, but you can just ignore the last couple of posts on here.

Our RSVP date was yesterday, and we haven’t heard back from about half of our invites, so we  are waiting a couple of days until we start calling. We have talked to a couple of people and have heard that they haven’t recieved their invitations, so we are hoping that it is only a couple. We will start getting ahold of people about what Cabin they are in once we get the rest of the RSVP’s. If anyone has any requests on who they would like to bunk with and haven’t talked to us or written it on your RSVP, let us know so we can accomodate you.

We have been hard at work and have gotten quite a few things done. Things will be a little slower going in the next couple of weeks, but we will get them done.

Off of Wedding: Darrell has a job interview in Texas on Friday (4/24), so we are excited and wishing him luck! We have set our departure date from Humboldt County as June 15, so we are hoping he finds a job. Everything should work out fine.

~Sharyn

Tags:
Comment
Plugin from the creators ofBrindes :: More at PlulzWordpress Plugins