At it Again!!

If you know me you know I love to decorate and re-decorate things. We have a very large master bedroom with vaulted ceilings and tons of wall space. It's been bugging me for the past year and I finally did something about one of the walls. While I was at it, I rewrapped my wedding bouqet and made an arrangement from some flowers my mom gave to me.

New ribbon on my wedding bouqet

Detail of the wrapping on 2nd flower arrangement

Here's the 2nd arrangement

Details of wall arrangement-I made the "G" in the frame

Full pic of the area

Valentines Day Fun

This year Donny and I decided to keep it low key for V-Day. We usually do something quite spectacular, or very time consuming. We decided on a trip to the drive-in movies in Scottsdale. When I got home from work on Friday Donny suggested dinner that night at Ra. I got so excited......I asked him if he was sure and he said that he needed to take me out-too cute! It was very surprisng because it was not yet V-Day. It was really great because we got into the restaurant immediately. I think everyone was saving up their night out for Saturday, which helped us out a ton. We ate our yummy sushi, drank a few drinks, drank a few more drinks(we let the bartender-in-training use us for the drinks she was learning how to mix), then we went on our merry way home to watch some tv. I had a great time-it's definitley teh litttle things that count.

On Saturday we headed to the movies. We wrangled up a pizza from Papa John's and some sodas from the Mobile gas station down the road and went on down town for a good 'ol doubel feature. We took my car-a small SUV-and converted the back seat into a comfy bed area to enjoy. We saw Taken and Push. The first was goooooooood, the second-Donny fell asleep in-'Nuff said. Our gifts we gave to eachother were bookends for the Man room/Office/Hunting Themed Room (Idropped teh bookends and broke them the day I bought them and glued them back together-Ithink I did a pretty good job) and a box of chocolates for me.

I, of course, had to get Vista in on the festivities and dress her up. It was a lot of work to get the hearts to stay on her head and prevent her from tearing them up, but I was able to distract her for about 10 seconds to take a few pictures of her.


Just a love puppy.....

....who has had enough!!
My box of chocolates
The manly/hunting bookends
Dinner at Ra
View from the car
The comfy SUV/Bed
I'm so ch-ch-ch-chilly!!!

Bye, Bye to the Rock Garden and Smelly Tree

On Friday I came home to find Donny shoveling away in the backyard. For a minute I thought that our beloved fish-Fishy-had passed on, and he was digging a grave for him. Much to my surprise he was "prepping" our yard for the beginning of it's makeover. As you can tell it is a VERY glamorous backyard that most millionaires would spend oodles of money on, but it just wasn't us. We've been wanting to design a new yard since the day we looked at the house and decided to buy it, but it hasn't been a priority. The part of the yard that bugs me the most is the only greenery we have-that stupid, smelly tree. Vista constantly plays with it and chews on it, which makes her smell too. It 's absolutely disgusting!
Our friend, Aaron, is a genius in landscaping. We, of course, snagged him to help us out. The design we thought of is quite beautiful and I can't wait for it to be finished!! Tune in soon for the finished project :)

Happy Birthday to Danielle!!!!

Last night I took a good friend and co-worker out for her birthday. I've known her for 4 years and she is finally 21!! So I knew I had to take her out and celebrate. We spent our evening having appetizers and drinks at Kona Grill, then dinner at Blue Wasabi. Happy 21st Dan!!!

Me, Jenny, and Dan

I told a very funny joke
That's right...the D.D. drink-I knocked back about 4 of these

Vista and The Dust

Vista loves to watch my every move and inspect everything around me after I've touched it, steppped on it...whatever! Lately, after I get out of the shower she has been jumping and snapping at the air. It took me a couple of days to figure out that she was jumping and trying to grab dust particles. So now, when the shower curtain is open, she sits and waits for...THE DUST!

Super BOWL Weekend

This was Super BOWL weekend. We Bowled on Saturday at the new Brunswick Lanes in Gilbert. It is the neatest place to Bowl!!! I-of course-bowled very well.....actually I saved the real good bowling for the second game we played, and threw the first. (I had to let the others win for once-way to go Casey for kicking my butt!!) We had a ton of fun: we had a Cardinal's themed boy's birthday party on our right side and the "Housewives" of Gilbert on our left. Needless to say, it was very interesting.....very.....

To finish off our weekend we went over to our friends the Lucchesi's and watched the gam in their awesome backyard on two big screen tv's and had a ton of great food. I didn't take any pictures-this was the first football game I'd ever been interested in!!! I should have, but my eyes wouldn't leave the screen. Eventhough the Cards didn't win, they were pretty dang amazing. Maybe next year they'll do it again!!!

The Happy Couple...and Todd

I've got to pose with my ball :)

I think Donny is a titch too sassy

Casey-getting, yet another strike

No-you're not on drugs...I turned off the flash and that's what happens