Sunday, October 25, 2009

One Year!


October 23rd was our ONE year anniversary!! Brandon surprised me with a song he recorded for me, flowers, earrings, and chocolates :-) I can't believe its already been a year!! I sure miss that day, it was the funnest and most memorable day of our lives. It was so nice to have our families and close friends together with us all at once. I don't think that happens again in this life, right? And I must say it really has been an easy year together. Maybe because we were already dating about 5 years?

Now that I'm out of school it's nice to have less stress at home always studying. Brandon's got it easy right now, he's doing online classes and sometimes I take his tests with him :-) In case you're wondering, these are his classes (kind of ridiculous!): 1) Geology 2) Elvis 3) The Beatles 4) The Beatles AFTER the Beatles. Not too shabby huh? He needs those for electives. Well next semester he will be going to NAU and taking more construction management classes so he will be more busy.

Here's some pictures of our little weekend anniversary trip we just took to Sedona...


haven't seen one of these plants in awhile!

red rocks

hiking

brandon trying to climb everything, as usual!

Safari ride at Out of Africa. this was the coolest part of the place because the bus rides through the habitat they live in and a lot of them live together

Giraffe! We fed him out the window

Zebras! Their enclosed areas are so big it looks like they are just roaming around our desert and seems strange!

meeoww. these guys are caged in.

almost stashed him in my purse!

found this when we were hiking!!

kissing his booboos. he crash landed

Oak Creek Canyon. prettiest place in AZ! never knew it existed...its the drive between Flag and Sedona. And who knew the drive was only 30 min? I didn't!

sittin' by the crick!

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

autumn est tres jolie!


Last weekend we decided to go out and hike and enjoy the beautiful fall scenery before it's gone. It sucks being inside working all day when it is lovely out! So we headed 20min up towards snow bowl and hiked a trail, walked around, and took photos. Up on the mountain they are bright yellow but when you drive around town they are all the colors..reds, oranges, etc. Well here was our weekend...Enjoy the pics! Maybe it will convince some of you to visit ;-)









Friday, October 16, 2009

Megans Bridal Shower

Last weekend was my good friend Megan's bridal shower. She's getting married January 23rd! I am one of the 6 bridesmaids, and we had so much fun throwing this party for her :-)

some of my desserts!

mmm!

Megan and her doggy!

Won the toilet paper dress contest! I did have some previous experience with this though...hehe

Wearing our banners ;-)

Presents!

Housewife cleaning supplies!! yipee :-/


The bride and bridesmaids, minus one!

Friday, October 2, 2009

Liberty Market

http://www.libertymarket.com/

I would like to say that this restaurant is amazing! Liberty Market. It's on Gilbert Rd. between Guadalupe and Elliot (in the downtown area across from Joe's Real BBQ, the same guy owns it). Since I have studied food for the past few years, I can't help but love scrumptious things to eat and kudos to it also being pretty healthy :-) Don't get me wrong, I am not entirely healthy...if you know me well I have quite the sweet tooth!! Well here's some cool things about this place other than the good food (wood fired pizzas, grilled sandwiches, espresso bar)...


-they use local organic produce
-back in the 1930s it used to be a family-run grocery store
-it has a little market inside :-)

I know I live miles away from there now, but just thought I'd Blog about it because it's good and everyone should go right now!