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I'm a happily married to an incredible guy that I love immensely. I have 4 kids, 2 boys and 2 girls. My sons Sean 21 and Dylan 8 live here at home with us in our new home in North Carolina now. The girls Lauren 24 and Sami 15 are living in Arizona now with(my ex) their Dad. The lovely thing about North Carolina is nobody care's what label you're wearing or how expensive your car is. Kind of a nice break from life behind the Orange Curtain. Sean's getting used to the pace here and being able to ride with the Pros on some sweet tracks. Dylan's loving the rural life and happy as all get out to have friends come over to play after school, or ride bikes till sunset and ride mx on the weekends with his big brother. I'm learning NASCAR, since we're in the heart of NASCAR country, and Joe Gibbs Racing is one of the top names in NASCAR with Tony Stewart and Denny Hamlin, soon to be Kyle Busch driving for them. The tour of the inside of the cup shop was amazing. It's like a fine tuned watch.
My husband Spencer has worked in the motorcycle industry for about 17 years. He left Kawasaki after almost 13 years, and just moved us cross country to work for Joe Gibbs Racing, to start their MX team JGR MX. My husband is a desert rider/racer, part billy goat. At Kawie his last job was to prep the bikes for the magazine shoot-outs (Dirt Bike, Transworld of MX, Racer X, Cycle News, etc.,), creates special project bikes for the magazines/editors.
We're still unpacking but things are starting to take shape. Forgot what it was like to own a brand new home and all little things you have to do at the beginning. Like argue with contractors, and deal with Larry, Moe and Curly.
Spencer's working for some of the most incredible people in racing. Both Coy and J.D. Gibbs are awesome guys with talent, vision and technology behind the new project that has me pumped. Their Team Manager is Jeremy Albrecht,(Stewart's former mechanic with Kawie, not to mention he was also Emig's mechanic). He saw both of his riders win #1 plates and earned 2 AMA Mechanic of the Year awards. He's knows what it takes to win races behind the scene, and on the scene. Combining the two factors is a win win situation, which made the offer to move here that much more compelling. I love motocross and see the possibilities in this venture.
Kawasaki was an incredible company to work for and they've treated us so very well, so this move was an incredibly hard decision; however, life behind the Orange Curtain can be daunting at times, and it's not the OC that I knew as a kid, not to mention the housing market sucks.
This year has been one filled with change, personal, mx/sx industry-wise, family members, and medical challenges. Not to mention, just as many of my mx friends who've been injured know, you find out who your friends/people you trust are, when you're stuck in a hospital bed or stuck home on the injured list.
I used to race motocross, and ride everyday until the sun went down, before moving to California. I did motocross photography, and wrote articles for AZ MX/motorsport newspapers. Here in North Carolina I've had a chance to dust off the camera once again.
All of my kids ride, the youngest started when he was 2-1/2. In Tucson, I had a mx track in the front yard, and at least 10 bikes down in the garage. My daughter Lauren raced a few times, but prefers trail riding, which she still does in Arizona. Some of my favorite memories are when the whole family would spend the weekends trail riding in Southern Arizona, or practicing in the middle of some God forsaken piece of dirt in the middle of the desert, till the sun went down, with Sean, Nathan, Kyle, Bo and a hand full of my other moto kids. My son Sean used to train with Marty Smith and grew up racing the World Mini's, etc., with the likes of James Stewart, Josh Grant, Chris Blose, Mike Alessi, etc. He started riding when he was 3, and racing at 5, then kind of lost interest when he was about 15. Fortunately, now that we've moved to North Carolina he's able to ride every week when the guys go out to test/practice. Riding in forests with tree hazards is a tad different from dodging cactus, but so far his riding has excelled. It's made a great change in him, plus watching him ride with his little brother is incredible.
I've lost touch with a lot of friends and track family, after moving to California and now that we've moved to North Carolina this page is my life line to the West Coast. I'm really blessed with all of some really incredible friends that I've met on here and I'm glad with MySpace I've been able to take them with me.
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