My true star and captain and a Spring Lunch

"Success means having the courage,

the determination,

and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be!" 

My beautiful, talented, intelligent, kind, thoughtful, athletic

daughter

Rachel

is my true star.

Yesterday at her Cortina Tigers team soccer practice she became

Team Captain

with one of her besties and talented Quincy Chatwin.

While others, including Rachel, might be surprised

at the coaches decision...

it does not surprise me...

NOT even one bit!

Rachel hasn't been playing soccer for very long and definitely not as long as most of her friends...

but she is a 

LEADER 

to her siblings, her friends, teachers and those who watch her.

She is kind to her friends...

even when they aren't kind back.

She is the only one her siblings...

 say they like and who is kind to them.

She is the one teachers seek out...

to reward her for good behavior and hard work.

She is the example to others...

who watch her because she shines both inside and out!

Watching her tonight play her best...

is wonderful and I'm very proud,

but watching her be the first to respond to a crying teammate who felt she had lost the game,

or the girl on the bench who felt bad she didn't get to play...

is why my Rachel

will always be the  

TRUEST STAR AND CAPTAIN 

in my heart and in my life

FOREVER!

    I love you Rachel!

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On a separate note we had a company spring lunch

to celebrate one of our employees

leaving to serve a

LDS church mission to Tallahassee, FL-spanish speaking.

Kie Lovell you are going to make one

GREAT missionary and I'm so excited for you and for all those people you will touch!

We played a few Minute to Win It games,

boys played football

and we ate a yummy lunch.

I was thinking as I was sitting in my lawn chair...

with the weather a beautiful 80 degrees

how grateful I was that I live in Arizona,

knowing my mom and dad were getting snow in Missouri!

 Love the form Tony (our boss) has with this throw!

 Heidi planned the day and is giving us our instructions!

 Tony and Heidi wrapping streamers around their arms!

 LaRae, Jason, Kish and Jonathan pulling out tissues!

 All around BEST picture of the day!

I love my Chelsea girl!

 Cameron sure loves to have fun.

Trying to balance 5 die on a popsicle stick!

 I actually should have video taped this game...

shaking ping pong balls

 Throwing marshmallows in a cup!

 I sure LOVE LaRae...

we were really enjoying the weather too!

    This is what the girls enjoyed doing

while the boys' play football!

I sure do love our Citires team!

         

Perk of my job...

Working from home

is one of the 

BEST

perks of my job!

I start everyday looking like this...

On days where I don't have anything scheduled til later 
you can actually find me in my sweats

ALL DAY!

I wear my husbands over-sized

GREEN BAY PACKERS

sweatshirt and my baggy sweatpants!

If you come knock on my door during the day and I don't open it...

it is because I'm wearing this exact outfit!

Once a month I'm in charge of our companies

FINANCIAL MEETING

and I go to the office dressed like this:

    

  I always dress up and look like the professional

FINANCIAL DIRECTOR

that I am

but can't wait to come home

to put back on my sweats!

In all seriousness...

I never go out

without some cute outfit,

my hair done,

and my make up on.

It's just me.   

A job at Citires...

is having DESSERT

but without calories every single day of the YEAR!

I feel like I

WON

the lottery the day I was hired by

Tony and Tina Economou

to work at

City Accommodations Network

or for short we say

"Citires".

     We have the BEST team of employees!

Since this is a 

PUBLIC

blog I won't go into all the details about all my wonderful

benefits...

but I will say that my job

makes me grateful to a LOVING

Heavenly Father

who blessed me beyond measure

and provided me a way to provide for my wonderful children.

I try to repay this blessing

by giving my employer my BEST work skills

including and most importantly

INTEGRITY.

Last November we had the opportunity to have a

TEAM BUILDING EVENT

at a trapeze facility!

Since I arranged the event...

the owner asked me to go FIRST!

I didn't think I was scared of heights...

but this scared me like CRAZY!

 Practicing on the ground FIRST...

very good idea!

 

    I was so VERY proud of myself for doing this!

We ended the night at a 

PHOENIX SUNS

basketball game in our very own suite.  

 Shauna is one of my BESTEST friends!

She comes over to help me work

and we end up 

SOLVING

the worlds problems at the same time!

HAHA...well we just enjoy our girlie talk is all!

I will be

ETERNALLY

grateful for this job and the ability I've had to work with

such great people.

I also love that my boss (Tony)

honors motherhood so much that he allows the 

MOMS of the company

to work from home on our own schedule.

I think this pretty much ROCKS...

because their is nothing better than being able to have

2 jobs I feel like I can do well.

Be a mom and be a Citires employee!