Showlow

My older brother and his wife invited up to his boss's cabin the day after the 4th. We had a ton of fun. The cabin is huge!!! 5 bedrooms 4.5 bathrooms, game room, movie room with leather automatic reclying chairs, off road vehicles, 1500 sq foot garage with basketball court. Ya the garage is the same sq footage as my house. So here are the pics from our trip.

Here is Zac with the bear that is carved out of metal and is on their porch and its HUGE...we laughed so hard with this lovely pose. Heres the 4 of us posing in front of the bear. We had to use the timer in order to take the picture, hence the bears head is cut off.

We also went off roading, that was a lot of fun. Jason & Emily strapped the baby into the Polaris and Zac and I were behind them and off we went. We almost tipped once, kinda scary but so fun. Zac is an outdoorsman and had the situation under control. Quinn didnt even cry during the ride, he only cried when we stopped. This same time last year Zac and I went to his aunt and uncles cabin in Showlow. We drove up to his families homestead then up to Greenspeak. We ended up taking our engagement photo there so we thought it would be fun to do the same pose one year later. Most of you will recognize the photo from the wedding announcements . My little brother and his family were also up in Showlow. His wifes family lives up there so they too got to hang out with us. It was a family filled weekend. The last 2 trips I have taken were without Zac so it was so nice to go out of town with him. I dont get to spend enough time with him and I truly can't get enough of him.

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ZAC

Zac has asked that I share with my fellow bloggers that he doesnt do most of the chores that they are split equally among the 2 of us. Hope that makes you feel better honey :)

Washer & Dryer..YEAH

I have been using the same washer and dryer for the last 20 years...YES 20 years. My family moved here in 1987 and purchased a used washer and dryer. I still remember the day my mom taught me to do the laundry and which buttons to push. I moved out in 2002 and my parents graciously gave me the washer and dryer. Zac, my wonderful husband, does most all of the laundry, among several other things around the house. He has been complaining about the washer not washing his clothes right, putting fuzz balls on his shirts, he has found holes in his shirts etc. My clothes, not a problem. So we went looking for a front loader washing machine and we found one we liked at Spencers. I was telling my bro in law Greg about them and his friend happens to know the General Manager of Spencers & he said he could get us a deal. So rather than getting just a washer we also got a dryer. We were going to hold off on the dryer so we could go to Portland but if we bought both we would save almost $300, so here is a picture of our savings account...I mean washer and dryer. I have to admit I do love them, they work way better than the old one and whites really do seem whiter and the clothes dry so much nicer.

Tagged

Ok ok, I'll do it, Ive been tagged before but I am a slacker but I decided to do this one..Here it goes...

Pplaces I've worked
1-Red Mountain Insurance (worked for Mom & Dad)
2- Citifinancial Retail Services (worked there for 7.5 years)
3-Southwest Human Development (still there, its been 5 years this month)
4- Sorry, Ive only had 3 jobs

Movies I can watch over and over
1-Say Anything
2-Hitch
3-Sliding Doors
4-Talladega Nights

Places I've lived
1-Denver, Colorado
2-Palisade, Colorado
3- Mesa, Arizona
4- Tempe, Arizona...then back to Mesa

Favorite TV shows
1- Intervention...love it love it love it
2- Heros
3- Reality TV
4- Shows on TLC & Discovery

Places I've been
1-Hawaii
2-New York
3-Bahamas
4-Cancun

Favorite foods
1-Mexican
2-BBQ Beef
3-Bunny Tracks Icecream
4- Moms home cooking

Majors I've considered
1-Nursing L&D or Pediatric
2-PHD in Child Development
3- Counselor
4- Culinary School

Places I'd rather be
1-California
2-Mexico
3-Hawaii
4-NW Coast

Ok there ya go :)

Almost everyones blog that I look at has the cutest freaking pictures of their children. I love reading them and looking at them...which has caused to me to think that my blog is somewhat boring. Zac and I want children but jut not right this minute. I work full time, go to school at night and will be starting my internship in August. Ill be done my Masters program in May...yeah and then we can start working on a family. I found this picture of these babies made out of marzipan which is surgical paste and I thought it was pretty cool so I posted it. Keep posting the pics of your kiddos I love it...and I love the blogs that dong have the kiddos yet too :)This blog is kinda random. Zac & I went to Showlow over the weekend and Ill post those later this week :)

Chicago

I went to Chicago with Cara and Katie to visit our friend Morgan. We had so much fun. If you look at my friend Caras blog she sums it up nicely. We shopped, ate popcorn, went to a museum, rode on a 4 person bike, stayed up all night talking, rode the train, ate tons of food, saw the sites and most of all had tons of fun. Here are the pics.

Now you may be thinking why did she post this picture. Well this is the first "taste of Chicago" that I had. This is what is called a Sani Seat. Rather than you placing your own tissue paper, aka butt gasket on the toilet, these toilets come with a wrapper. Prior to sitting down you wave your hand in front of a sensor and the wrapper moves and you get a fresh piece of "saran wrap" to put your butt on, pretty funny if you ask me :)

I absolutely hate this advertisement but it was hilarious. We were walking down the raod and there was a truck with this on it. Its an ad for a law firm, we were in shock but you have to admit it is rather funny.

Heres the 4 of us, me, Cara, Morgan and Katie. The 4 of us went to California almost 2 years ago and we had tons of fun so we decided we wanted to continue to do girls trips. Cara and Morgan got married about 2 weeks apart so in Apirl 2006 we went to the James Hotel in Phoenix and had tons of fun, then I got married in Aug 2006 and that same month Morgan and her hubby Jamie moved to Chicago so we made plans for us to visit her there. Wheres our next trip gonna be girls?????
Ok I had to put a pic of these flowers. Zac picked me up from the airport and these were waiting for me when I got home, he said he didnt want me think that he didnt miss me. Truly he is the best. So that is Chicago in a nut shell!