Life:

This post is for my sister...since nothing is happening in life aside from the typical life, she thinks that I need to just post about Life. So here it is.


It's HOT! Day 19 of consecutive temps in the triple digits. Yuck! So life happens indoors mostly nowdays.

Lyle's work is still doing their typical retarded decision making and doing the non-needed stuff and ignoring the needed stuff. Ugh!

I've been working 1-5:30 at the flower shop (still love it!) but it makes for a long day when you have to spend the morning running errands, cleaning, dr appointments (I feel like I see one every week!), store, and then battling the insurance. THEN running home just to turn around and head to the gym.

At least when we both FINALLY sit down at night (around 8) we can relax with our typical...Lyle playing a computer game, I'm playing Mario Brother's 3 and both watching Angel on the laptop.

One fun thing is that we found Jaz a friend to play with at the park. Her name is Ariae and her owners live in the complex right against the park so their back gate opens to the park. She is also a lab and is about 7 months old and finally has more energy than Jaz. They run all over together and we enjoy talking to Erin and Robert. So when we head home, she is ACTUALLY tired and ready to fall asleep. It's great!

That's it...that's life as it is.

I told you so!

When I was still in high school, I took a trip (my first) to Mesa, AZ with the Ketchesons. While we were there, we all went to a pizza place called OrganStop Pizza. It was AMAZING! It's an organ that is hooked up to many other instruments and puppets and stuff and a man plays (off the top of his head) any requested music such as Phantom of the Opera, Star Wars, Sound of Music, The Little Mermaid, Mickey Mouse Club, etc...

Three years ago, I moved to Gilbert, AZ and tried to convince my husband and others that this place was worth going to see...but no-"No one wants to go to a place with the name organ stop!"

Three years later...our good friend Jake had his birthday and his awesome wife decided to suprise him with dinner with friends and family at -ORGAN STOP PIZZA! So we go and to my non-suprise...Lyle thinks it's awesome! and he tells me..."We should bring my family here to see this!"

I told you so!

One word...

SNOW??????

um... I mean PILLOW.

Lyle's Birthday Swords

For those of you that know Lyle, he has always loved dragons and swords. So while we were in ABQ, Keri's neighbor was having a garage sale of mainly swords...fancy swords. Imagine a kid in a candy store and that's Lyle with these.
Anyway...we decided that he could buy some for his birthday that's coming up (don't worry you haven't missed it-it's on the 29th).

Craft...for those that are interested.

Here's the craft I was working on that was suppose to be simple but turned into a frustrating one...thanks to Erin, we saved it...the only problem now is that it's so hot here in phoenix that it's melting the hot glue...so I haven't hung it yet.

I am finally catching up...Van Vleet Reunion

It was so much fun to see all the family. Here are some pictures from it...






So much fun!

I have another picture of this but it's with Belky passed out and Dave said she would kill me if I posted it so this one is just as cute and explains the reunion at the end. :)
We really enjoyed having all the kids there and really enjoyed having their parents not want to be around their kids so us without could enjoy.

Successful Failure-Camping

Our beautiful campsite and view:



All the good-sport campers:


Quiddler really came in handy here since we were in the tent for a few hours because of the storms

First attempt:

Second attempt...this one survived a hail storm so it passed:

A few weeks back I went camping with some friends. It was fun but it seemed like we were NOT suppose to go because everything was constantly working against us.
We got off later than planned and got to the compsite at 10pm (we couldn't find the place) and then we were going to sleep under the stars but there was a coled breeze so Jake, Quinton and I put up a tarp to block part of the wind. All was good until about 15 minutes after we went to sleep when the wind totally changed directions and started ripping our tarp and it started to rain. At that point, since Maria had Davis, the two of us decided to drive to Payson and get a hotel room for the night. This was at 11:30 and little did we know that it was about an hour drive to Payson (I was driving REALLY slow down the mountain because it was raining, the road was bad, we were surrounded by elk and deer, AND it was dark-not very good mixes for me) AND it was season for them and so the hotels were asking for $100 a night and we only needed it for four hours (it was two at this point). We ended up doing it and didn't even get much sleep. The next day wasn't any better...we had a few hours of nice weather to sit and play and then we had storms move in and we spent most the time in the tent. PLUS no fires were allowed.

Beginning of the hail storm:

After:

I don't think we'll attempt that one again with two pregos, one 8 month old, no fires, and rain...at least for a while. :)