1/4 of a Century...

Happy Birthday Brandon! It's hard to believe that you are 25 today! Where has the time gone? I love you! 

One year older and wiser too!

Happy Birthday Daddy, I Love You! 

New Job

FYI- Brandon starts his new job tomorrow, with Apple, as an iPhone tech. We're excited! (and crossing our fingers that he gets an iPhone to play with...teehee) :D

Brian Regan

So, as some of you may know...Brandon's birthday is this Tuesday. But we celebrated a little early! Yesterday, we got to go see Brian Regan Downtown at Dodge Theater. It was awesome!! (thanks mom for pointing out to us that he'd be in town) We went and grabbed some food at a little restaurant across from the theater, called Crazy Jim's. It's a Mediterranean place with pretty good food. Then we walked across the street to find our seats. There were tons of people there! The theater claims to only seat 6,000 but it seemed like more than that. Brian's brother Dennis, opened the show for him, and in my opinion, he's just as funny as Brian! Lol-minus a lot of the facial expressions. Anyway, we laughed our guts out and had an awesome time. He is definitely worth seeing live! Happy Birthday babe! :D

I was kind of exited to see him

If it looks like we are red, that's because we are sunburned beyond belief...

Here is our view from up in the balcony..lol it would have been tough to see him without the giant screens....LOL

We've Moved!

Yes, if you've heard the rumors...they're true. Brandon and I had been wanting to get out of our old apartment for quite some time. Our rose colored glasses had finally faded. We were tired of the cars, the people on the sidewalk, the graffiti that would show up feet from our door every morning..and most of all- I was tired of living in a dungeon. We had 2 windows, and could hardly ever have them open, because we faced the street. So anyway, I guess Brandon got tired of my complaining-because last Saturday he says..lets go see if we can get out of this place. So we went, and found out Monday that we would be able to move immediately, to a 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom..here's the best part, for the SAME price as our stinky 1 bedroom. So we pretty much signed the papers on the spot, went home and started packing. Tuesday we got up early and moved all of our stuff across the complex. Now we are happily settled in our new place. Which by the way, has 2 small windows, 3 giant windows, that face the horse corral and golf course, a huge patio that we can actually go out on now, and not worry about people staring at us as they walk by--an open floor plan for the living/dining room which is nice. Ceiling fans, which are awesome...and one of my favorite things- a huge master bath for me! :) Grass, that we can let Lucy run free on, and not worry about her getting in the street, we're across the parking lot from the pool, the mailboxes, and the management office. Needless to say, we love it! I'm grateful to see the sun again, and to feel like we are at home. We are planning on staying here at least until Brandon is finished with his Bachelors- and maybe longer, depending on where he goes from there. So- I just thought I would share the news with everyone, Home Sweet Home (finally!) :D

Our Front door :)

Lucy exploring the new patio-look at that grass!

A cute Hibiscus by our stairs

The Living room

The dining room put together

The horsies from our bedroom patio

Brandon exploring all of our new space

Dining/Kitchen

Me, happy to finally be here :)

Special Olympics Arizona

SUMMER GAMES 2009!

fyi- the Special Olympics are being held at Mesa Community College this weekend. I will be volunteering Friday with Cortiva, and think it would be something fun to do if you don't have a date planned! The opening ceremony will be Friday night, and events will be held throughout the day Friday, and Saturday. If you have the chance, wander over-it's free to the public, and should be quite the experience! I'll post photos this weekend!

www.specialolympicsarizona.org 

Man's Interpretation

Ok, so I was driving home the other day, and saw this board, I almost crashed! Leave it to man to interpret "COMMANDMENT" as "eh, suggestion!" 

Calley's Photo Mosaic

DIRECTIONS:
- Go to Google image search.
- Type in your answer to each question.- Choose a picture from the first page
- Use this website (http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/mosaic.php) to make your collage.

- Save the image
- Post

QUESTIONS:
1. What is your name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What is your hometown?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. What is your favorite movie?
6. What is your favorite drink?
7. What is your dream vacation?
8. What is your favorite dessert?

9. What is one word to describe yourself?
10. How are you feeling right now?
11. What do you love most in the world?

12. What do you want to be when you grow up?

Happy Valentine's Day!

For Valentine's this year, Brandon and I stayed home! Brandon made me waffles for breakfast, and gave me three pretty roses. We lounged around all day watching movies and playing with Luce. I made some Chicken Parmigiana for dinner and some delicious Chocolate Mousse for dessert! It was a good day!

South Mountain Part Deux...

Ok, I know I already blogged about South Mountain, but we went again last week on a different trail, and saw some different things :D I also wanted to post a video of Lucy ready to go. Enjoy :D

Listen carefully for Lucy, but just ignore me talking, I'm just trying to get her to talk back. :D