The Wing-ed Creatures

Has anyone else had there home invaded by these little guys? If you have please let me know. I'm not sure whether they're nats or some kind of fly, but they are tickin' me off! They started off with a few flying around our kitchen sink, then a few in our guest bath, now they're in our master bath. There are tons of them. Now I know what you're thinking-call the bug man-but I keep killing them, I'm pretty much a pro at it by now-but they keep coming back. I'm pretty sure for every 1 fly that I kill, 3 replace it. So I know they hang out around sinks and that seems to be the only place, but could they be spawning? The whole idea of it disgusts me, but I'm trying to be more frugal about getting rid of the little buggers. Any help would be much appreciated.

Forgot About Woods Canyon Lake...Sorry :(

So.....I completely forgot to post pics of our excursion to Woods Canyon Lake last Sunday....my bad....it must have been the blood boiling fever I had later that night (which should be reason #1 to convince Donny that I never camp-I'm allergic to the wilderness!!!!). Anything that has to do with the outdoors the hubs is 100%-there's NO messin' around there. Our car was completely packed with fishing equipment!!!! Do you want to know what I packed? Glad you asked-a book! Which Donny dropped in the lake. Nevertheless we had a great time. Donny spent the entire day fishing while I spent the day reading in the sun.....so my book could dry, page by page. And ya know what? The dang thing still isn't all the way dry....so sad.

Needs no caption (......except this one)

Notice: The sign says "Vista"

She's got her camo on!!

I like this one: you can see her demon eyes

This was only 1/2 the stuff packed for our day trip

Ohhh.....Saturday Blues

So I woke up this morning super irritated. It was 7a.m. and all I could think of was that i had to go into work at 1:30-crap! My whole day is wasted away. I feel that if I don't accomplish a task at home or run an errand that my day is shot to shit. Well, this gave me extra stamina apparently..... I did 3 loads of laundry, washed all the dishes in the sink and half of the dishwasher, scrubbed the kitchen counters, cleaned our master bath, got myself ready, then ran to Target to pick up a few essentials. I treated myself to a latte and a new book-Skinny Bitch (Cheryl said it will change my life). I was home by 12:15.....and now I hope to have a crummy-free day at work. My store better make some serious cash today or I'll be in an unpleasant mood this evening. Everyone else have fun enjoying your day off!

Four Peaks Brewery

Last night we joined our friends Brit and Claudia out at Four Peaks Brewery in Tempe. Now, I'm probably the last person to hear of this place-and you already know of it-but it was amazing!!! They are a true hard core brewery-loved it!! I love those kind of places that have true hard work and nostalgia...anyway.....we had a great time. The boys had these hot wings that are so hot they make you cry...and indeed, that is exactly what happened!! Donny's eyes were totally crying, and dare I mention that about the boy who likes his wings real hot! They were so bad that Donny could only have one-good thing I didn't try them we would've had to call 911.

Brit trying his 1st hot wing

Donny and his hot wing



Not so sure if President Obama would approve of this flag pairing....

Brit and Claudia



Us :)

Ahhhh.....Easter!

Don't let your eyes be immediately drawn to the picture below of the beautiful Easter bunny....there's a whole lotta good stuff here:

Easter was fantastic this year!!! We began the day with a 9 a.m. church service accompanied by my mom, dad, and brother. It was an absolutely gorgeous service with absolutely wonderful company. In the afternoon we had the annual Titcomb/Grace Easter gathering with lots of good food, a children's egg hunt, as well as an adult egg hunt (the adult's get fantastic gifts/prizes). All of mine and Donny's gifts revolved around toys for Vista.....possibly rigged....who knows. :) After that it was onto the Schumacher Easter gathering at my parents new house. There we ate a lot more and insued in lots of conversation and, of course, Wii games. All in all-we were overtiming it with some serious family fun.

The pictures of Vista are awful...that I know-but I bought these cute bunny ears for dogs @ Target and had to snap soem shots of her. The funniest thing was that I bought them at the end of February when all the spring stuff came out and immediately tried them on Vista-she rean around the house wagging her tail like she didn't evern know they were on her head....I should have taken pics then.....it was freakin' redunkulous to even get her to sit still. So these are probably the best shots I could get......so sad >:(

Bad Puppy

Lately, everytime I brush my hair Vista goes nuts. I mean she starts barking like she's scared, does laps in the house, or hides. I tried to calm her down by showing her how "nice" the brush is and it's not a bad/mean thing. Apparently she got over her fear. While I was packing up our stuff for Country Thunder I found this:

You can see the guilt in her face in the 2nd picture......what a good puppy >:(
(She stole it right off the counter in the bathroom)

Country Thunder '09

What a weekend we had! First the game, then going to Country Thunder. This is the story.......

Since late December I had decided that we were going to Country Thunder....Donny happily said it was okay with him and he wouldn't mind going since I really wanted to. I asked him to see if his dad was able to get us some free tickets. I was firm on at least going to Friday and Saturday for Tim McGraw and Alan Jackson-just in case I found someone who would go to all 4 days-I was prepared to take vacation time and not work. I was extremely serious about this. I kept bugging Donny to see if my father-in-law got the tickets so that I could buy our tickets if necessary. DG continued to reassure me that we were "in".
About 3 weeks ago Donny says he's been in charge of planning this outting to the D*Backs game for work-little did I know that it was to be on the Friday of Country Thunder a.k.a. Tim McGraw night. The only night we could attend was Saturday for Alan Jackosn. I was okay when he told me but I was baffled when I began to put time lines for the preceding actions together.
I know what you're thinking......it takes some time to plan that kind of social get-to-gether of that magnitude......YOU'RE CORRECT!!!! He had been planning this sucker since February. What DG didn't tell me was that he had never asked his father for tickets and we were S.O.L. Oh no! Not good with me! I had been awaiting this day for quite some time. I'm the girl who grew up on country music-it was the only thing my parents allowed us to listen to besides Christian Music.....I'm the girl who knows the words to every country song out there and all the songs sung by Celine Dion and Josh Grobin (small side note).....I needed to be able to tell everyone that I have been to any concert besides Hanson or N*SYNC......I NEEDED TO GO!
After enough guilt tripping Donny broke down and bought the dang tickets on Thursday of last week. Later that night Pappa Grace called DG and told him he had 2 more VIP tickets. Luckily, our friends Todd and Anissa wanted to go, so we sold our tickets to them. Our VIP tickets were for 9th row seats and were amazing!! It was real cold during the evening concerts, but it was nothing an ice cold margarita couldn't fix. We were able to spend the evening in my sister-in-law and brother-in-law's friend's 5th wheel. So needless to say, everything turned out wonderful!!!

"Suite" D*Backs Game

Last Friday Donny's company treated all their employees and a guest to the last spring training game of the season, which was being held at the ball park. It turned out to be more of social event because we were in the Owner's suite!! This place was huge!!!!! I would say the entire set up was bigger than my old apartment (sad about the apartment). We had amazing food and an open bar with lots and lots of good company. Toward the end of the game Dr. Boehle (DG's boss) presented us all with new D*Backs hats to start the season. Now I'm real excited to see some more Baseball!