Doggy Play Time

Lyle and I have discovered the best play place for dogs! It's a dog park that has an enclosed lake where the dogs can swim and play together and then there is another enclosure that has steps and places to just run. It's such a nice place and Jaz loves it too! Her first time there she was a afraid of the water because she didn't realize it dropped off and she face planted, but since that, she has learned to swim and now LOVES stilling balls from other dogs. She specializes in waiting in the shallow until the other dog gets back from getting the ball and then she will try and take it away. Here's some pics and a video: This is a friend that the owner shaved his tail to make him look like a lion:




We always have so much fun when we go!

First $60 arrangement


First dozen roses arrangement

I've been meaning to blog but I've been a slacker, I know. I have other events to post about but that won't happen until after we're back from ABQ. To hold you off...since this has been my life as of late...here are more arrangements I have done.

Very Flowery

I just thought I'd post some pictures of some arrangements I've done. I am loving my job and learning new things each day! I just did my first $60 arrangement and my first dozen roses today and they turned out pretty good! I'll try and get pictures of those and post those later. Just keepin' busy.

Graduation 2009

It FINALLY happened. I am officially an ASU graduate! And-much to my suprise-found out that I actually graduated with honors (I thought I lost it by .01) or Magna Cum-laude! It was such a treat to find that out after I had accepted that I got a 3.59. I was proud of myself for it but it wasn't honors for my resume.
Anyway, it was a VERY family filled week. I was so thankful to have so much family celebrating with me. Thank you to all that came! It really made me feel special.

We are still recovering from the busy weekend.
Many of you know that I was counting down to graduation for my telescope...well after 6 years I finally got it...and it's been too cloudy and bright to see stars...grr! but I still have it and it's BEAUTIFUL-I LOVE IT! It's definately coming with me to ABQ for the family reunion!



The other AWESOME gift (among many-thank you!) is my beautiful and SO NICE (so nice that I want to frame it because I've never had anything so fancy) COACH purse! Jess gave it to me. The funny story is that I have never really been a purse person until my sister Keri got me into it. I bought a green one a while ago but I've been contemplating buying a new one for the last month..so with my graduation money I splerged and bought me one...the same day that my gift from Jess came in the mail. It was such coincidence but of course I am taking back the other...check out my new purse...



I also received a picture frame to put my diploma in and beautiful flowers. My sweet husband really was thoughtful and got me flowers at the graduation and then had bought me sparkling cider to celebrate afterwards (that never happens because he hates sparkling cider) and I finally got to use my new rich glasses! I love you babe! Thank you for emotionally, financially, and sometimes physically supporting me through my schooling. I only hope I can return the favor someday.

Thank you to EVERYONE!! I really felt your love and really appreciated everyone and what they did.

Now on to the real world...

3 years!

I always hate those posts that are all mushy and Lyle RARELY gets on here, but I did want to just note that my husband is the best a girl could ask for! He has worked SO hard to get us where we're at and he has taught me so much and made me who I am today and better. I love him so much and look forward to forever.
I love you, Lyle!

"Hellostatue?"

The Object:
Lyle's work phone

The Evidence:


The Culprit:





Motive:
Human's toy that I can't have, but it's been left on the swing and it needs a friend.

It's pretty bad when you go out to find Jaz with the phone and she's already done her business and moved on to another toy...that was in a 20min period of time and she'd done WONDERS on it.
It was bad timing because Doug was going out of town, Lyle was running the place on his own the next day, he was going to be in a meeting and had to be able to get a hold of his guys.
We called our wonderful friend, Walter, to get a new one from the company and he sent us to the local Allet/Verizon Wireless store. It turned out that the phone has insurance and so the company just had to pay $50 and he got a new one. The problem was that the way Jaz tore the phone, they couldn't get the TONZ of lost numbers. Doug said he had them on his phone but it wouldn't transfer. so we tried to transfer from the computer, but it was the wrong file. So Lyle's WONDERFUL wife stayed up late putting in all his numbers so that sick Lyle wouldn't have to worry about it. (His wife is SO good to him-don't let him make you think otherwise! :))

ALSO, I have been have problems with my phone battery dying after two minor calls and Keri (thanks) suggested that I check to see if my contract was almost up. So we did while we were there and it turned out that since my contract was up and I was a faithful 2 year customer, I got a $50 credit towards an upgraded phone on top of the discounts that the phone already came with. He showed me a few (Keep in mind that when I got my original phone it was the most basic, cheapest phone they had)


and I wanted to keep it cheap and simple again but he pointed out a VERY fancy phone



with a Full Keyboard for texting and many other WONDERFUL features including music, great rings, a card to move from the phone to the computer, AND a great camera (none that my previous phone had)...and then he informed me that with all the discounts and credits, I would get that phone (worth $100) COMPLETELY FREE! I was sold!
Now I LOVE my phone!

Call me sometime!

Titanic Exhibition

I was able to convince my friends to come with me to an exhibition of Titanic treasures. It was free and we even got a free piture in front of the Grand Staircase with the captain. It was small but really cool to see and to learn facts that you didn't know or realize.
At the beginning, they gave us boarding passes of a person that was actually on the ship. The below pictures are of my pass.


At the end, there was a board that had every passengers name and it was divided into class and those that died. You then looked for your passengers name to see if you lived or died. Maria was first class (survivied), Jake was second class (died) and I was third (died). Suprising enough, more people were saved from third and crew than second class. Then of course, first class had the most.

Some fun facts that we learned:
Titanic didn't really want to have a third class but since they wanted to be an overall boat, they added it and it was the nicest third class of any boat in those days.

It was only a minute from the time the iceberg was sighted and they hit it.

First class ticket was worth about $40-90,000 today. They had sitting rooms, sleep rooms, smoke rooms and others included in the price. Extra was the steam rooms, the gym, and other fancy amenities.

The captain of the Titanic was going to retire after he returned from the voyage.

Of the 1,324 passengers, only 492 survived.

Of the 892 crew members, only 214 survived.

Lifeboats provided on the Ship were adequate according to the British Board of Trade rules set at the times; the rules had not been updated to include ships of Titanic's size.