3 years ago...12-19-2007

Wow, I can't believe it has been 3 years ago that we lost Cory. We miss and think of him everyday, and it makes me happy to know that he knows we love him so much. Cory went to Brazil for his mission and so Dusty takes this time to cook Brazilian food...and it is always so good :)

Rodizio (Brazilian BBQ); Linguisa, bacon wrapped turkey, Parmesan crusted sirloin, and grilled pineapple.

Gotta have some carbs...Dusty loves eating everything peasant style so you rip a piece of bread and then grab some meat and then dip it in the sauce.

Dusty came up with this dipping sauce.....which like everything else was very good. It had miracle whip, A-1 sauce, paprika, mustard and not sure what else

Kim and Mike's Wedding Rehearsal Dinner

It is almost the big day..this Saturday 12-11-10 and our really good friends Kim and Mike will be gettin Hitched! Last night was their rehearsal dinner at her parents house, they had Mexican food and margaritas...so good!

The lovely couple Mike and Kim

The bride and I in this awesome chair that her dad got, they remind me of the Griswold's

The couple

I loved this chair

Our friend Carissa, she was a awesome bartender

They had this cake made up with their baby pictures on it, it was so good!

Group photo, Summer, Mike, Kim and I

Kim's dad use to be in a Christian Rock band, and they put the band back together to sing at the dinner, they are huge Catholics and so it was very interesting to listen to the music.

Tomorrow they are getting married, wedding is at 2 in a Catholic church. I am excited since I have never been to a Catholic church wedding and I can't wait to see what all goes on.

Dusty's Birthday

Poor Dusty kinda got skipped over as far as Birthday's go...besides our move that was just a few days before his Birthday I have been preparing for finals in school.

The night before his birthday we decided to go and get dinner just the two of us, we don't have kids and you would think that going to date night would happen often but it doesn't. It seems that every time we go out we are with someone.

Started Birthday celebration off with dinner at Outback

Dusty wanted cupcakes from ColdStone for his cake, these little pieces of heaven were delicious (Cortez looks like he would like a piece also)

Blue 32, if you live in Mesa or Gilbert, this is a awesome place to go and watch football!


Me and My Roomies...we like to color coordinate anywhere we happen to go together :)

The Birthday Boy and I, don't you love his shirt? That was some of his present

Freckles and Natalia, I thought this was a cute picture of them :)

Thanksgiving Break

This past Thanksgiving we were able to have Dusty's parents come and visit. They were here for a whole week, and we tried to fit in as much as possible.

Thanksgiving dinner was somewhat early in the day this year compared to years past, Dusty had to work at 3:30 so he got up early with his dad and started cooking. Vada, Jaime and I all helped by cleaning up and I made some pies. You know the easy ones that you just add milk to the pudding mix and then dump it in a pie crust...yeah those are my specialty!

I forgot to get a lot of pics of the food, since I was a little busy eating it.

The Turkey

Vada made some sweet potatoes and oh they were delicious!

The day after Thanksgiving we always go miniture golfing and the loser has to buy lunch at In and Out. Vada ended up buying lunch.

My In-Laws...Larry and Vada

Several "Hole-In-One"s

Father, Mother, daughter, son

We took this picture and we kept saying how it looked like and engagement photo

Focus.....

Dusty tried beating Santa up with his golf club, a way I think we both feel this year. A lot going on it's hard for us to get in the Christmas spirit :(

MoVeD :/

I hate moving, I am not sure I know anyone who likes to move...if so I don't think I want to be their friend because I never want to help them move. Well we have moved, we are getting settled and between moving and finishing up my semester at school I think my therapy this week has been blogging...so excuse my thousand posts because they are helping me get through it all.

We moved in with Dusty's little sister Jaime, it is a nice condo and a great location by the Superstition Springs Mall. I can't complain my drive to work is about 2 mins at the most and that is if I hit the one red light, and we are located next to a mall a dream that has always been in the back of my head since I was a kid when I would ride the bus to the mall. We parted with a few things that have been with us for a while but we really don't have the room for it here, who am I kidding we hardly have room for us here. We went from a 3 bedroom house with a two car garage to a one bedroom with a one car garage that is full of all our crap. We will get through it and it will be worth it...I repeat that often. Anyways, back to the books, finals are on the 13th and then I'm done for a month hopefully then I can get the place organized!

Toilet

Why am I blogging about a toilet I am sure you are all asking??? Well the other day we went to dinner at this restaurant and they had the coolest (well actually the warmest) toilets and it reminded me of Dusty's Papa and his obsession with toilets. So I had to get some pictures. I came out of the toilet and showed Dusty my photo's, he thought I had lost it, and then I reminded him that Papa loves toilets and I wanted him to see the pictures.

This is the control unit, if you look closely you can see the man sitting on the toilet and the different temperature settings. Very COOL or HOT toilet and who wouldn't want a toilet seat warmer? I sure do!

Turkey Trot 10K

On Thanksgiving Morning Becky and I ran the Turkey Trot, I was so happy she was here cause I am pretty sure I wouldn't have done it without her. We did the 10K which is just over 6 miles, yeah before this the furthest I had ran was around 2.5 miles. I think time doesn't matter the important part is that I finished ;)

I decided that I have no desire to do a half marathon, I use to before this race but not now. I am good with 10k's.

My racing number

Our Futon

Many of you who know us know our Futon, haha that is the only piece of furniture Dusty brought into the relationship. Dusty bought the futon in 2001 right before we got married when he moved into his first apartment in Arizona. His apartment complex was called Colores Del Sol off of Mesa Dr and McKellips.

Well yesterday we said goodbye to the futon, it has done a good job over the 9+ years that we have owned it. The people that ended up buying it asked if it could be delivered, it was one less thing that we had to find room for so we said yes. Well when I called the people to get directions they gave me the address, I asked them what the apartment complex was called cause the address was all to familiar. They lived in Colores Del Sol.

Needless to say, we are very pleased that the futon found its way back home to Colores Del Sol.