Thank you Great Aunt Karen! I love my new Bee toy!

Scooter Upgrade

I got a way cool box for my scooter so i can carry stuff (like reports, rain gear, or maybe even a pizza). It came with out any holes drilled so I had to make my own..Poor Me..HEHE :c)...It could still use a few more screws and maybe another brace plate or 2 but its way cool...and i already used it today to carry a FedEx box of 6 big reports...IN THE RAIN...Nope they didn't get wet......Me i got wet..But its all okay cuz i have a way cool box for my scooter..and its red!! and its huge!! Its 20x20x13...YEAY!!

I added a metal peice to it to help support its size (it comes past my luggage rack)

My first try at making a support for the box, and shows how far it comes off the rack.

Barge and ditch

While Sarahs away Matt will Play!
So Its almost time for Sarah to get back from the Carolinas and while i did not anticipate how much i would miss her and Emma (A LOT) I sure had a lot of fun in their absence. Two bigger events happened in the last few days that i was a part of. First of all their was the big Oil Spill and clean up along the Mississippi River. So I really wanted to see them lift the barge out of the water (it sank after the wreck) So they finally started strapping it up to lift it out last week. So after work I would go watch to see the progress...There was usually no progress but i got word on saturday that they might be raising the part of the barge finally...so i got to the port just in time to see them put this BIG oily barge piece on another barge...THEN they brought it to the bank i was standing on! So i was within 10 feet of this way cool barge..I was watching the news that night and they had put police tape up and you could not get within 100 yards of it now. A Way cool adventure.

Coast Guard Photo of Barge stick up out of water and crane boats and and the barge they are going to put it on

I took this from the bank with the camera phone

Today i went to a birthday party for a little girl at work...It was a blast i got to be the offical grill master and cooked chicken, hamburgers, garden burgers, sauage, and hot dogs. I also got to be a pool monitor and watch soem cuties swim around the pool....As i was leaving i got to help get a car out of this BIG ditch...to bad it was my car....But after getting a truck and rope and chain we pulled her out...YEAY GOD!!...We ended up with the front left bumper being crack and dented in...But i popped her out and ill work on getting the crack filled...could have been worse if i had rolled (which as i was going in the ditch i was almost sure was going to happen)....Yeay God again!...

God is good!

I am so blessed! God amazes me more and more everyday it hard to not give Him all the praise as i go through my day, then as the day ends i look back and realize that God is in everything and has blessed me more than I even thought of as the day flew by.
Today God helped me to get my bill of sale and title notarized so I can finally get a license plate for Toot. Also my teeth started to hurt and i was bummed that me and Sarah and I did not have enough money for me to get a cleaning and and X-ray...So i get home and guess what is in the mail...A coupon for not just a free cleaning but also a free X-ray...GOD IS GOOD...

God has given me the most wonderful wife who has so much love for me and our sweet daughter. She is an ever present reminder of how good God is and how wonderful his plan is for me. I could not imagine a better friend and sweetheart. Thank You Lord for my best friend!

God had given Sarah and me the cutest sweetest little girl. Only God could have designed such a wonderful fit for Sarah and my Family. Thank You Lord for our Daughter!

God has given me my job that for the first time in my life i don't dread going to, I no longer throw up every morning from the stress and dread of work. I go to work and have fun...no matter what I'm doing (checking oil, producing reports, being a nanny, or cleaning, whatever). Thank You Lord for my Job!

Scoot New Orleans...

Today I took advantage of the girls being out of town to join the Scooter Club in New Orleans for an hour of hanging out...and a ride to the lakefront then back to the quarter for the Satchmo Summerfest (Louis Armstrong's Birthday). I put some pics up on Picassa....

Not superman..just a christian...

So yesterday and today were very busy days in the life of Matt....I started my day saying goodbye to the two most wonderful people in my life as they flew off to South Carolina for two weeks...Having them gone reminds me how much God has blessed me with my girls....I got to work at 7:30am after I dropped Sarah and Emma off at the airport.
Yesterday:
Tuesday I was given the privilege of maintaining the vehicles at work now (6 of them)...its pretty fun...I have been checking the break tags, oil, tires, maintenance issues and cleaning them up a bit. So far i had to put coolant in all the cars...put air in tires...and clean out the cars...
When i got home i talked to my Dad and he told me how to refinance our Car (we needed to payment to go down). So i called up USAA which is the company Sarah and I use for pretty much everything (insurance, credit card, banking, now car loan, and they walked me though refinancign the car (it took about an hour of talking to them, then i called our current financer to find out the 10 day payoff...then called USAA back and talked for a little longer. Then i talked to Sarah on Skype, sold my scooter trunk and talked to the guy who bought it from me...he has the baja 125 (older model of my scooter), so we compared scooters and had a good time....As i was going up the stairs to the apartment i heard a loud BUZZING noise...I turned around and realized it was the nursing home across the street and a lady had found a way to open one of the doors and was attempting to get out in her wheelchair...I knew this was not normal, so i ran across the street and approached the lady who was shouting at me to help her...I asked her name and gained her trust a bit and was able to convince her that i could HELP HER find a nurse....So i push her in the building and around all this halls with elderly people just sitting around...I thought this is odd , where are the nurses??? As i was dialing 911 to report that there were no nurses at this nursing home a nurse walks out of an office and about killed me with her look at me...I explained where i had found this nice lady i was pushing and saud bye and tried to get out the door I came in...But it would not open (the elderly lady must have been majic to open it). So i go back to the lone nurse and tell her i cant get out...she gives me a code and out i go...
Today:
today at 7am i took a truck to the shop for an alignment and oil change before it left on a project..While i was test driving one of the trucks today a little lizard (anole), crawled across the window so i rolled it down and let him in the truck, and like a dog he sat on the passenger seat till i opened the door for him. How cute!
Then i got to put a project area on a geomorphology map, produce a few reports, and be a nanny in the nursery....
WHAT AN AMAZING FEW DAYS!!! ONLY BY THE GRACE AND LOVE OF GOD COULD I STILL BE SANE, AWAKE, AND HAVING A BALL...

Who needs a car....

My scooter is the coolest..I needed to go grocery shopping and I did not want to move the car because I do not want to use any gas...and i had a good parking spot....So i took the scooter...I forgot to take a picture of toot the scoot with the groceries but she did a great job..Look at all she carried....