Poker Night

Last Friday was couples poker night. We have been playing poker with the same people for years. We do get newbies and we love to have them come, but for the most part it is the 6 of us. We use to play about once a month but over the last year or two it has been about once every two to three months. So when I say I am excited about WINNING I really mean it!
I WON, I WON, I WON!!!!
Dusty usually wins but this was the first time I took it!

Us with all our chips

Me with most everyones Chips!

MLK DAY

So this last Monday I had the day off for MLK day, it was so good to have a day just me and Dusty. We were talking about it and the last time we hung out ALL DAY together just US was in November when we went to Grandma and Grandpa's cabin. WOW where does the time go...WORK! The weather was GREAT and so we came up with a plan to head to Tempe Town Lake and rent a paddle boat. Well after about an hour of driving back and forth across the bridge on Mill and asking several people where the boat rental place was, and everyone of them having a different answer we gave up! We ended up at Macayo's in downtown Tempe and hung outside there. It was fun to be just us!

MACAYO'S

Girl's Night Out

Last Saturday we had a girls night out, and it was well needed!!! Me, Robyn and Pooja went to Tempe for the night and left the boys at home.

The girlies

Robyn and Kyle...Kyle was a security guard at one of the places we went to, and then he became our friend.

SUPERBOWL BABY!!!

For those of you who haven't heard that The Cardinals are going to the Superbowl...THEY ARE! Dusty has been a Cardinals fan since we moved here 7 years ago, even when they did suck. We went over to our friends Evan and Tyler's for the game and it was perfect weather...WE HAD A BLAST!

Tyler doing what he does best....MAKING TACOS!

Their little dogs have these Oscar Mayer Weiner outfits...they look so cute in them.

Jaime and Austin....Austin came down for the weekend, it was good to have him here.

Tyler dancing for us, he was way excited they won!

Ryan, Dusty and Richard

Their backyard felt like our own little Mexico

Evan jumping for joy since the Card's won

Oh and Little Jamison was supporting the Cardinals also!

New Years Eve and Dustin's Birthday

This New Years we went over to Dustin's not my Dusty but a friend named Dustin. It was also his birthday party. We left pretty early and ended up sleeping in Lyndsey and Brett's truck. Long story...just hope that our year doesn't turn out the same as our New Years night.

US

Jaime and Dustin with 25 or 26 candles HAPPY BIRTHDAY DUSTIN!

Lyndsey playing bumper pool

Zack and Rachel

Some of the Girls

Me and Stephie

The rest of Utah trip

I still have pictures from Utah that need to be seen and posted. I love pictures.

I loved this view of the mountains from mom's porch

Dusty pretending to pick his nose. We were at Becky's on Christmas for the Prime Rib cook off

Fred and Jake. Fred was passed out as usual

Me and Brady at the Jazz game. My last night in town my mom told me to take their Jazz tickets at 6:15 for a 7 o'clock game. So I called my snowboard instructor and asked if he wanted to go. He said YES

Brady liked this car and thought it was "SWEET" so we took a picture
Fred and Bryan worked so hard keeping the drive way cleared of all the snow. I did somehow get stuck in the Dodge one day and had to have Bryan come and get me out, but I think that was user error on my part.
Cortez trying to get Fred's train
We tried wrapping Cortez up for the gift exchange, maybe Brent would have taken him...YEAH RIGHT!

A little Update

My last few posts have just been slide shows. I love doing slide shows because it doesn't look like I take a thousand pictures if they just breeze through them. But then I hate them because I can't write what is going on. I guess most everyone knows that we were in Utah for Christmas. It was SOOO good to be home with our family and friends, we get so wrapped up in everyday life that I tend to forget how much I really do miss everyone. When we were there we ran from here to there and everywhere in between. Christmas was nice and snowy. Dusty came home the day after with Jaime and Austin my cousin joined them and he stayed the weekend.

I stayed in Utah until the 30th for Lorrie and Bryan's reception, then drove home with Lyndsey and Brett since they came for New Years. When we were packing to leave I had over packed just a tad...and Lyndsey ended up breaking her trunk in the process of getting my bag in her car. I told her I would ride in the back of the car with my bag, but she was trying to give me more room. We ended up in Brett's truck and started south. New Years we went to some friends house and most of Lynn and Brett's visit consisted of eating and wii playing. We had Audrey and Cole over for cards one night and it was a lot of fun to get to know them, we are related but never have really hung out. I hope we didn't scare them away!

I started back to work Monday and I am ready for a vacation already. The Holidays were great, and what a difference a year makes. I am looking forward to what 2009 brings. Life seems positive right now and I hope that this year stays that way. Thank you to all our family and friends who made 2008 great. I am so looking forward to 2009!

Lorrie and Bryans wedding