Glendale glitter and glow

Last night we went to a local event called the "Glendale Glitter and Glow Block Party". It was fun. We parked a few blocks up and took a shuttle bus to downtown. It think the girls had more fun on the bus than anything else! They have hot air balloons set up amongst food vendors, stilt walkers, jugglers, live music, rides and lights. It was fun to get out and it was the perfect temperature right around 70 degrees. Beautiful!

Olives!

We have a couple of olive trees in the front yard of where we live and they were thick! So the Maloufs came and cleaned them out. We had fun! They have a recipe to make really good olives apparently..I still need to try some Teralee!

picture catch up!

Here are pictures from our Holidays.

Catching up

Well, here we are back in Arizona after a nice trip home to Northern Idaho. We intended to stay through the whole month of January, but some meanies from Cory's school got our hopes up and then decided to rain on our parade! So here we are....Cory has to travel to east Mesa Monday through Friday which is easily at least an hour commute in good traffic. We only get to see time about 3 hours each evening. He's exhausted and so am I, but life is good and I am so thankful for the wonderful times we had with friends and family in Idaho. The Holidays were so fun, especially since one of my best-ever friends Rochelle got married and we got to spend a lot of time doing shower and reception stuff and I got to meet her awesome new husband Paul. We miss you guys!!
Christmas was wonderful as usual and of course we all got way too spoiled, especially Lauren. I will post pictures as soon as I feel like taking the time! We got our fill of snow too, which is weird for our little valley, but we had a white Christmas and it was so fun to go sledding on Christmas day!
So now it's time to get back to some normalcy in our lives and stop celebrating with food! Wish us luck getting back on "the wagon" after falling off of it for 6 weeks!

crafts and hobbies

So, a group of us girls got together last year and all brought supplies to create a "Thanksgiving Banner" that we were copying from the Pottery barn. Many of them finished theirs in a timely manner...me on the other hand just got it done. Here's the finished product!











Also, Kristen has a new Hobby...























Sooo proud...

Little Rock Hounds!

Remember a few months ago when I did a post on Lauren being a huge rock collector??? Well now she's showing Kristen the ropes! This is how I found them the other day playing in the back yard. You can see in the pictures how proud Kristen is of her rocks! I love how they're in skirts and getting right down in the dirt. I love my little rock fanatics!

Halloween

I am worn out after all of the Halloween festivities this year! The girls had many opportunities to wear their costumes. Kristen was a candy corn for a couple of events and then a little mermaid to match Lauren's mermaid costume. It was my first attempt at homemade costumes! It was so fun coming up with an idea in my head and then putting it all together. No patterns...No instructions...and I feel pretty good about the outcome!
Here are the little beauties!We went Trick or Treating with our good friends the Phillips.
We had a good time hitting all of the houses in the "richer" part of the neighborhood called Arrowhead Lakes and envying all of the houses that we will never be able to afford! It was a perfect night with the temperature around 80 degrees...No jackets covering up the kids costumes here!










The night ended with this nasty "whip scorpion" on a wall. Pretty cool huh Patti?! It was pretty creepy, but not as creepy as...

...these big dorks who think it's sooo cool to shave big ole' mutton chops and a handlebar moustache..and then top it off with a fabulous Hawaiian shirt...