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FRIDAY FEBRARY 11TH , 2005

 

     Mom and Dad head to Daytona Beach Florida, and the Daytona 500. The boys are staying with Auntie and Cousins while we are gone.

 

SATURDAY FEBRARY 12TH , 2005

 

There is only Practice during the day at the track, so I manage to get Keith to go look at homes in the area, with the possibility of relocating to Florida. this winter has been WAY too much for me, and all this snow I can do with out.

The Bud shoot out is in the evening and brrrrrrrrrrr it’s a whole 500 out and you can tell we aren’t from around here LOLOL

 

I talk to Ian every night after 9 pm, he uses his cell phone to call me. they are doing good but his brother is spending entirely too much time on his game boy. we’ll have to have a talk about that when we get home.

 

MONDAY FEBRARY 14TH , 2005

                                  HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY                              .

 

     We take our hosts out to dinner to the Port Orange Steak house, this is the way we spent the last Valentine’s Day we were there with them. and it was just as good this time and as always the company was the best part.   Hi Bruceanellie ;)

 

TUESDAY FEBRARY 15TH , 2005

 

     Since there isn’t that much going on at the track until the Gatorade Duels on Thursday, we head down to Tampa to see Dad, and spend the night.

 

     We look at homes in the area, but are very disappointed in the Boyette Springs Development by KB homes, this girl doesn’t even want to talk to us, because they are sold out, they have other developments going in, but she is so not interested in us.

 

WEDNESDAY FEBRARY 16TH , 2005

 

     I don’t think we ate any meals at home in the 2 days we were at Dad’s. But it was wonderful to see them.

 

     Keith and I again looked at homes, the one we looked at in Apollo Beach last night was just a dirt pile still. But way too far from everything.

 

     We gathered our stuff together and headed to Panther Trace (another development) with again no luck, the homes were too small for what we wanted. well Keith had seen one on the way to Panther Trace, so we stopped there. RIVERCREST is the name of it.

 

     We liked the people in the office and went to look at the models. and we found an AWESOME HOME. and the price was right.

 

     It is called the Hudson II and it has 2100 sq ft the way we looked at it. There are enough bedrooms to have a guest suite, and the boys to have their own rooms. PERFECT.

 

 

     There are none available now, but they have release dates for the balance of the lots and we put our name on the list of people to be notified.

 

     We have dinner with Dad and Lois and tell them how perfect this place is, we show them the plans on the house and where we picked a lot, and they say they will look at it over the weekend.

 

     That and we set Dad loose to find Keith a job in engineering. He is having absolutely NO LUCK up North. and we have wanted to relocate to Florida since 1991.

 

     We then head back to Daytona, and arrive late as usual, spend time visiting and head to bed.

 

THURSDAY FEBRARY 17TH , 2005

 

     The Gatorade Duels – my guy wins the 2nd one…. it is a good day!

     Race 1 – Michael Waltrip

      Race 2 – Tony Stewart

 

FRIDAY FEBRARY 18TH , 2005

 

      Ian’s 11th Birthday – he is bumming cause Mom & dad aren’t there, but Auntie has a cake and then they head to Gramma B’s for the weekend.

 

     Mom & Dad head to the Truck race at 7:00 we make it in record time – 20 minutes, no traffic and a great race.

 

SATURDAY FEBRARY 19TH , 2005

 

     Today is the Busch Race and I get a bonus, I was unaware that Tony was driving in this race. so I am thrilled. Well he is the class of the field, and even has a trip thru the grass, and still WINS!!!

    

     But I didn’t get to see the last lap, on the 2nd lap from the end there was a wreck by the flag stand, my seat was just to the right of the flag stand and I was hit with a piece of debris from this wreck.

 

     I must say tho, I would have made a great “How bad have you got it” commercial. I was sitting in the stands with my head bleeding and surrounded by EMT’s and sheriffs and I’m telling them to move, I can’t see and my driver is winning.

 

     Not to panic tho, it was a SMALL piece of debris. It was a lead wheel weight and must have shot up from the wreck since it came down on my head. I had thought it was a bottle cap or something until, when I pulled my hand down it was covered in blood. It didn’t hurt, it was just very messy. I was more upset I got blood on my brand new Harley Davidson T shirt. J

 

     The EMT takes my Blood pressure and pulse, and asks if I am excited, DUH, I have just spent the last 5 laps screaming and my guys just won the race, I think I am excited.

 

     Got a golf cart ride to the care center, a free tetanus shot, and made sure I got my wheel weight back. (The sheriff had taken it, NASCAR had to look at it and would then return it) 

 

 

Tony does some lawn and then

Manages to save it….

 

And then goes on to WIN the race!

 

 

Tony’s 1st Busch Series Win,

 

 and I was there…

 

tho injured LOLOL

 

 

I had my driver win twice on this trip – life is good.

 

SUNDAY FEBRARY 20TH , 2005

 

DAYTONA 500 DAY

 

 

     Tho he didn’t win – he led all day. It was a great race

1st – Jeff Gordon

2nd –Kurt Busch

3rd – Dale Jr

4th – Scott Riggs

5th – Jimmie Johnson

6th – Mark Martin

7th – Tony Stewart

 

MONDAY FEBRARY 21ST , 2005

 

     Just Hanging at the Beach aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

 

WEDNESDAY FEBRARY 23RD , 2005

 

     Mom and Dad return from Florida, to two very happy boys. and yes we were out of state when Ian had his 11th birthday. L

 

 

THURSDAY FEBRARY 24TH , 2005

 

     My 1st day back to work and I head straight to the eReassign site. I put in for a transfer to several Post Offices in the Tampa Area. Crossing my fingers, that maybe one of them will want me.

 

FRIDAY FEBRARY 25TH , 2005

 

I just realized that it has been WAY over a month since I updated this thing..(The Daytona stuff I just stuck in) Just so you all know. Assume that no news is GOOD news, since we are just going along about our NORMAL lives and there are no medical problems or venting needed to be done. J

 

SATURDAY FEBRARY 26TH , 2005

 

     Ian’s bowling birthday party is today. from 4-6 pm.

 

Things went very well, the kids had a great time, and I did too, since there is no mess at my house to clean up. J

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

 

BIG GUY !!!

Lil Brother Dylan

Hams it up!

 

 

 

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