So, as you all know Chris and I love to hike. We went hiking up Red Rock again; however, this time we took a camera and remembered to use it. Here are some pictures from our hike. I hope you can see why we love it so much.
Sit back and enjoy the only good part of Vegas...haha. Just kidding, almost!

Nothing too new...

So, it's been awhile since I've written. I have been busy. It's obvious to me that others are busy as well, seeing how nobody made a peep about me not writing for a long time, this time. Anywho, nothing has really happened worth writing about.
Um, let's see. Our Loss Prevention guy got fired yesterday. That was exciting. Today a cashier poured her lemonade on the register and fried the keyboard. We don't allow drinks up at the front anymore. Oh, I know, there's a girl at work that has challenged me to a one-on-one game. I started running and lifting again. I don't lose. We talk a lot of smack.
Chris and I slept upside down in our bed last night. His idea. He has wanted to for awhile. I gave in.
We had the missionaries over for dinner a few nights ago. All I can say is that they helped us realize what freaks we are. We served LOW acid OJ, salt FREE ketchup, and sugar FREE syrup. They kept laughing and saying, "oh, how ironic," "what an oxymoron!" Yes. If you come to our house, don't expect gourmet food, but please be prepared for the unexpected! Who knows, maybe we'll serve you ice FREE ice-cream.
I remember something. Last week, Tivo had a blow out in his kennel. I came home from work, opened the door, and stepped inside. This is when my nose retreated into my nasal cavity to escape the putrid stench. It took everything in me to drag that stupid cage outside to the back porch. I was gagging like crazy. I promptly locked Tivo in the room and left. I could finally breathe again!!! That was NAAAAASSSS-T
Anyway, I guess that's it for now. I'll try to make things a little more exciting around me so I can write something worth reading. Thanks for wasting your time!!!

Cashier Olympics

So, we do this silly thing at HD to encourage unity and show "cashier appreciation." It is called cashier olympics. It's comprised of ringing up merchandise and being graded on accuracy and speed and other really stupid things. Winners of each store go on and compete other really great cashiers. It's lame. Anyway, our FES was super stoked. She made our theme Hollywood. She made us all dress up. I have pictures. They're hilarious. It was funny and shameful all at the same time. Here you go:

We had a Hollywood sign, red carpet, and stars with our names on them.

Sara, the genie, and me in the parking lot

Our fire drill, just like in 3rd grade

The FES and her 4 HC's

That means the Front End Supervisor and her 4 Head Cashiers!!

Hanging out and having a good time

Deserea in the parking lot

Desi and Tony, our Ops Manager

Desi and Jess (with Genny in the background)

Desi putting on her black gloves

And.............it's DESI, again. I can't help it...hahaha
Yes, it's scary....very scary

The action...not really, but do you like my shoes?
Gettin ready to go inside for Cashier Olympics

And there you have it. Hollywood Depot

So, I hope you got a little taste of my new life at the Vegas Depot. It sure is crazy!!!

Weekend with the Stokers

We had some visitors last weekend. In fact, we had 5 visitors. We had two canines and three homosapiens. That made us even-steven. Four and four (well, for most of the time-Boy took off to San Diego for a physical by a Naval Officer).
Anyway, it was a very exciting weekend to say the least. We compiled 9.5 lbs of poop, I did 30 loads of laundry, and we had four very tired pooches.
Day 1 I was sick so I called in. Day 1 also included a leisure hike up Red Rock. I wanted to show off our beautiful "backyard." This turned out to be a DISASTER!! Tivo and I are pro, so naturally we did very well. I forgot to take into account a 9 year old girl, 3 primpy dogs (2 Maltese and a chihuahua), and a woman with a bad back and bad knee, who had to carried the dogs and water for her daughter. After 23 stickers in random paws, 45min of whining, and blood pouring from a leg, it was time to leave the desolate wasteland we were "hiking," turn around and head back to the car. Finally, we reached the end, or car. We all got some water and everybody was satisfied.

After grabbing some food, we went over to the pool (the dogs were all tucked away in their kennels). The water was too cold to swim in (or so Alecia said), so naturally, I jumped in with Alyiah in my clothes, for I couldn't find my swimsuit that was hanging on the back of the door in my bathroom. I got my looking skills from Chris!! hehehehe

Alrighty, later that night the three of us went to the strip. Well, before we hit up the strip we went out to DI and found me a wicked awesome costume that I wore to Cashier Olympics last Sunday. I will post pictures soon. Anyway, we walked around the strip and then saw three water shows at the Belagio. It was awesome. We had a blast. That night, Alecia and I stayed up giggling about nothing until the wee hours.
Day 2 I woke up after 3 hours of sleep and went to work at 5:45am. Alecia has a thing for Popeye's chicken, so we went and ate there, obviously. We spent a little more time at the pool. Chris finally got home from SD and we hit up downtown (the "REAL" strip, according to Alyiah!). We watched 3 amazing shows on the...well, let's has Vegas.com explain it "In Short,Tourists and families stroll under a 90-foot-high, four-block-long electronic canopy that flashes colorful graphics and animations. Dubbed Viva Vision, the world's largest LED screen is paired with a 550,000-watt sound system to show specially produced shows played every night at dusk." We all loved it. We also went shopping in all of the souvenir shops. Oh, and this blog would not be complete if I failed to mention the doughnut excursions. It really became a HUGE deal, when it simply started out as a comment, "Oh, I love Dunkin Doughnuts." After searching for one the first night and not finding it, I have to convince Alecia that I wasn't driving her out to the middle of nowhere to kill her. The second night, we discovered there was one on Freemont Street in a casino. They had crappy one's left, so we tried a new spot. We went to the one by our house (we had looked it up) only to find that they were closed...CLOSED!!! Ok, so we took a little adventure down to Rainbow and found the stinkin place. The two employees were smoking outside and ran in to take our order. It was comical. We ended up getting a dozen. Yum.
Day 3 we went to church. Wait, wait, wait, Boy woke up early and made all of us a smashing breakfast. We had pancakes and hash browns and eggs. It was delicious. It was very thoughtful of him. Thank you Boy!!!! Ok, so we went to church. When we came home, Alecia helped me put primer on my chairs so I can start painting them.
The traveling circus left Sunday afternoon and we were all very sad to watch them go. Alecia found cheap gas. That set her drive off to an amazing start

Vegas Fun

So, last Saturday I got off work a little early. We decided to take a hike over at Red Rock. It was pretty awesome. We hiked up an old river bed into the canyon. There were millions of rocks and boulders to scale. It was awesome. Tivo was having the time of his life. On one boulder, Tivo actually started whining and didn't want to come down where we were. Chris went back and carried him down. That was, however the only time he chickened out. We were out hiking for 4 hours, or so. It was beautiful. My thighs hurt. On the way home we picked up some Einstein Bagels.
Later that night, Boy and I went down to the strip and saw Shark Reef at Mandalay Bay. It was really cool. It was $15, but pretty sweet. We saw a lot of cool fish and sharks. If you haven't seen it, I would suggest it for the next time you're in Vegas. We also walked through the Luxor because I had never been inside. Nothing too spectacular. We also got a doughnut in Excalibur and looked through Urban Outfitter and a golf store. We finally made it down to the strip.
Anyway, pretty short, but that's about it.

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o, catch up we will try

So, since the last post, I have visited Moab, UT and Washington D.C. Wow. It's been a blast.
Tivo and I took another long trip last weekend. We hopped in the car and headed north east. Unfortunately, a cop caught me pushing the limit of speed (hehe, by quite a bit) and I got a ticket. Fortunately, I'm still 5 behind Chris.
I must tell you, dogs are the greatest traveling companions ever. Tivo snuggled up in my lap during the drive. He didn't whine (too much)! He didn't say anything rude or cruel. He didn't lie or taunt. He simply sat with me as I rocked out to music. I love him....
Anyway, Moab is a very pretty place. I have never been there before. Tivo had free reign of a few acres. He loved the opportunity to roam around; however, he had a tough time leaving my side at first. I got to do a little bit of 4-wheeling in the beauty of the mountains as well as hit golf balls at the Moab range. It was a fun little escape.
Tivo sits like a human sometimes Notice the lights? That's the cop....



Onto DC. I flew into Dulles International and a dear friend from my childhood picked me up-Mikale. It was her brilliant idea to attend the Temple, so that we did. She had only gone through a few days before. It is so beautiful. The next day, I took the Metro into DC to meet Brie. Brie and I had many fun filled days full of museums and artifacts and overloading information. We stayed with her cousin in Maryland (I think). The whole area confuses me. Virginia, MD, DC....they all seem the same, but apparently they're so very different.
I will put up some pictures, but if you have any questions, just post em and I'll reply. I know I have left out MUCH detail....I'm exhausted....

You call THAT school?

So, everybody keeps asking me how Chris is and how dental school is going and if it's really hard...Chris looks at his computer monitor a few hours a night. He's off at 12 on Thursdays and is never later than 5. Last weekend he hit balls with a friend. This weekend he is going golfing. SO, you can answer your own questions.
Tivo and I still hate the heat, but it is cooling off a bit, so that makes us happy. Tivo and I just recently took a trip up to Utah for a day and a half. It was way good to get outta Sin City. We both got to hang out with our old friends. We saw my garden, what's left of it anyway. I got some tomatoes, carrots, grapes, and pears from the back year. I'm WAY excited. We went on a little walk up Provo Canyon. I didn't have to miss Fall after all. Alyiah, Katie and I collected beautifully colored leaves. It was fabulous. I went to church and watched Sunbeams wreak havoc and saw how Laurels love living life. Amanda came and chilled over at Alecia's with me. We was a blast doing absolutely nothing together. I had lunch with my brother and Amanda. It was great to sit down and spend quality time with people I love. I also stopped by the Depot. I asked Aimee to wait so I could see her and she totally did. She even sat (well, stood, really) while I told endless stories about how horrific things are at the Depot here, in Vegas. Hey, that reminds me, our store flooded Friday night. We had to close. A pipe burst (while the repair guys were "fixing" it). It was a freaking waterfall coming from the ceiling. There were inches of water on the floor. We all had to push water out the doors. We've lost over $85,000 worth of merchandise, THUS far. They've only counted two thirds of it....It was insane...I guess I can't escape flooding after all. I'm doomed.....
I guess that's all for now.
I'll try to write more often (it's not like there's nothing happening, are you kidding, I'm a freaking Spillers).

Beginning in Vegas

So, it's been a bit crazy down here. Within the first week of moving here, our car got broken into and our GPS was stolen. That was a very sad day. Chris's school is going well. He doesn't have his computer yet though. His order has been cancelled 4x. SO frustrating. I got us an air card, but after 3 hours of being on the phone with AT&T IT support, we cancelled that and went with regular ol' DSL. Hopefully the modem will be here tomorrow. We are on our 76th day in a row over 100*. It's freaking hot. Tivo is doing well. He loves the dog park and whines the night we don't go. Last week, Chris and I went to an opening social thing for school. We went on a hike up Mt. Charleston. It was nice to be out in nature again away from all the traffic.
I think that's pretty much all for now (my connection might die any minute)...here's a few pics...