A weekend in heaven

scottsdale

Jeremy won a two nights stay and dinner for two at the Hotel Valley Ho. I entered him in a Father's Day contest on channel 12 and he won the Grand Prize! I've been wanting to stay at Valley Ho for a while so I was thrilled that he won. My mom, and sister, Hailee, took care of all the kids for us so we could have a couples getaway. We had so much fun. We haven't had a night away from the kids since Andie was little so I'd say it was about time. We got to eat at my new favorite resturant, the Kona Grill, we also ate breakfast at The Breakfast Club, lunch at a Mexican resturant, Ice cream at the Sugar Bowl and free dinner at the hotel's resturant, Cafe Zuzu. We also shopped around fashion Square and saw Get Smart in the theater. It was like a dream to get to be just me and my hubbie. My sister, Hailee was able to go on a getaway with her husband just recently and she made a good point. She said that single people want to know what things get better when you get married and have kids. She was right when she said that trips with just the two of you are way more special after having kids. I'm having major vacation withdrawls.

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Locks of Love

locks for love

Andie has had long long hair for a while but it is getting harder and harder for mom to manage it. It was so long that I still had to wash it for her and she's getting a little old for that so what did we do, we chopped it off! Andie plans on donating it to Locks of Love as soon a mom takes the time to help her. I secretly miss her long hair but I just keep telling myself that it's okay, hair grows back.

Andie the gymnast

Andie in gymnastics

Andie has been wanting to take a dance or gymnastics or karate class for some time now so we finally signed her up for a gymnastics class through the City of Buckeye this summer. She really learned a lot and seems to be a natural! On the last day of class, the parents were allowed to come into the class and see what the kids have learned. Poor Andie got nervous and couldn't concentrate on what she was supposed to be doing. She kept getting confused between a round off and a cartwheel so she would just end up doing some flailing move. Her teacher was confused and was wondering what was happening. I didn't know that my little social butterfly was capable of stage fright.

Now it is Gavin and Amelia's turn for gymnastics. We'll see how that goes.

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Birthday lunch with the girls

birthday lunch

My sisters, Hailee and Katelyn and my Mom went to a birthday lunch in June. We went to Kona Grill, my new favorite restaurant, where I got hooked on the Macadamia Nut chicken. After lunch and an enormous brownie that we couldn't finish between the 4 of us, we drove around looking at some cool houses. It was fun but Allison was missing.

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tagged again

Someone else tagged me and I decided to have some fun with it. I didn't exactly follow the rules but it was fun.! You're supposed to take pictures of all this stuff as is, as it is in your house. I like how I decorated my house but it's a little messy right now so some of it isn't exactly true, it's just what I would like it to be. Tee Hee Hee!

The Guest Bathroom


The kitchen Sink

My favorite shoes

The refrigerator

Laundry room

Master closet

Favorite Room

What the kids are doing....

Reese is out fighting fire

Mia is skydiving

Gavin is up in space

Andie is scuba diving

Self portrait....

Favorite vacations...

Disneyland of course. It is still just as magical as it was when I was a kid!

New York City. I did the New York City thing with my friend Bettijo a few years ago. I had a blast but I wished that Jeremy could have joined me. I plan on taking him there someday.

We plan on going to Hawaii for our 10th Anniversary. It will be in September of 2009.

I'm black pepper!

You Are Black Pepper

You may be considered ordinary by some, but you're far from boring. You elevate the mood of any discussion, and people miss you when you're not around. You are secretly very dominant and powerful. Most can only take you in small doses.

What Spice Are You?

I saw this on Kary Hoopes' blog and decided to give it a try. I answered the questions twice but tweaked the second time a bit and got the same thing. It's pretty interesting except I really hope the last sentence isn't true.