Coast

Some days you just want to go somewhere far enough away to get out of all the drama. When you have a few hours in the early morning to work, and a couple friends have the day off, it's easy to plan a quick trip. Savannah, Drew and I went to the Oregon Coast in April and we had a blast :)

I love to explore and take pictures, and on a sunny Sunday afternoon, it's easy to get carried away...

Excited about my new archaeology book

I love my close-ups

My shadow

The day couldn't have been better, and I can't wait until we get to go again...Crater Lake soon??

The Day of Relay

Relay For Life was a huge success. The event raised well over their goal by some $25,000 - $30,000 and counting! Our team had an absolute blast dressing up and hanging out while everything went on, and we are planning for next year as you read :)

Casey in Nemo's Bubble Lap

Savannah

Becca, the other photographer

He had a 'popper'

Steph, as gorgeous as ever!

Ryan

Super zoom!

Aww, such a cute princess :)

Um, he wanted to fit in?

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A banner, promising to help take a stand against cancer

80s theme lap

Now, while there were many fun themed laps (each person that walked during that lap took quite a leap in dressing up for it...) everyone was looking forward to the Electric Light Parade lap. When it started to get dark, the energy levels went up...

Luminarias

Casey

Savannah (orange) and Me (green)

The group of us, Andrew, Art, Jeff, Casey, Sav, and Me

Art showed up with a battery in his backpack, and Christmas lights o.O

While walking

The field from the bleachers

Tinkerbell Art

Like I mentioned above, we are very excited for next year and have already started planning fundraisers and events to bring in more people for Relay. We will find out next years theme in September, so we will begin the crazy rush of raising money when that time comes. The group of people who went were very fun and supportive, and I couldn't have asked for better people to spend this emotional day with <3

Update for RFL

With only a few weeks to go, the store has been doing pretty well for fundraising events. We've been holding Bake Sales, Donations to see which manager will take a pie in the face, Jeans Day Weekends, BBQs, and selling rubber bracelets in Best Buy colors. The pie in the face event raised well over $100 on its own!

Our General Manager, Chris

My supervisor, John

Emperor Lango, one of the favorite managers

Becca, our Best Buy team captain for Relay

Zach and Weston

Casey getting ready to film the action, MJ, and Brahim

Matt, before pie...

Matt during pie...

 I couldn't get all 3 videos to upload...this was the second pie, Weston from mobile (one of Matt's associates) applied it to his face. Right before he did, Matt stated "Come on Wes, your hours depend on this..."

The third pie was thrown by Jeffy, who made sure to annihilate Matt's hair, and the fourth by Zach who got almost as much on himself as he did his target.

Final results

And clean up afterwards lol

Avoiding the camera

Becca, Casey, Megan

Casey: Did you get that look??

Agent Barry

Art

Phil, and Becca munching...

Avoiding the camera, and watching something..

Baby Mama Kristin, due in June

Drew, closed his eyes on purpose

Jeffy!!

Brittany, loved her top!

Drew's dad Dennis. He BBQ-d for us all day

At the next employee BBQ we will be doing a similar fundraiser where whichever department in the store has the most money in their jar will get water balloons thrown at them by the rest of the store...muah ha ha ha...I will be putting in a lot of money for this one...there will be pictures of this as well.

Other than Relay all that is new with me is that I'm currently house sitting for a friend while she is in Hawaii...long drawn out sigh...on the high note, she has two super cute dogs that are very playful, an in ground pool (freezing right now, of course), a hot tub, a large TV with every gaming console ever made, high speed internet, and an actual kitchen...I'm in heaven :) I can't wait to get a place of my own and be able to live again!!