Thrifty must hate me

I've been meaning to post about our UT trip we took after Christmas, but I've just been too lazy busy to get around to it. I will however tell you that it didn't start out on the best of notes.

That bad note being this goober of a car, also known as the Chevy HHR. They were sold out of all the cooler, more appropriate cars, so this silver nerd was mine for the week.

It was dubbed the Loser Mobile by a loved one. At the time I thought it was funny, but now I realize that since I was the driver, maybe they were talking about me. No, that can't be right!

She (yes, I decided it's a girlie) does NOT handle well in the snow. But thanks to my mad snow driving skills, we all made it through unscathed...well mostly. ☺

Merry Christmas!

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas filled with laughter and love!

We're lazy-ing around for the morning, heading out for a delish of a holiday brunch, then of course...on to the movies. Maybe a little Sherlock Holmes, eh?

Canada for Christmas

We are trotting up North for a few days to do Christmas Canadian style.

This will be our second take at celebrating a holiday together in Canada. Our first 4th of July together we thought we'd take advantage of the day off and head up to Vancouver, BC for some shopping and then evening fireworks.

It wasn't until we were waiting to get through the border that in donned on us...Canada probably doesn't celebrate the United State's Independence Day. Oh well, you can't call us stupid, we were still in the lovey-dovey-clouded-from-reality phase.

But this time we've got our heads on straight and are certain that they celebrate Christmas in Canada.

It's a growin'!

My hair is now officially long enough to be put into a halfway decent looking ponytail.

BIG day for me, I tell ya.

Rob's been missing my long hair ever since I gave it the big chop. I think he's happier about the ponytail than I am.

I guess it doesn't take much to make us happy! ☺

and it gets even better

Lindsay just texted (or is it just 'text'??) me this picture and it made me laugh.

I forwarded it onto Rob, but then realized that he won't take it as a joke...he'll probably pick one up on the way home from work tonight.

Then we'd be a big ol' happy Snuggie family...we just need one for Sox now.

Doesn't that sound like a great picture for our Christmas card next year!?! Oh, and did you catch my sarcasm there? ☺

Laughing until I cried

Nie Nie Dialogues is one of the many blogs that has found it's way into my Google Reader over the years.

As I was catching up on my blog reading this afternoon I read one of her posts from yesterday she's written about her daughter and it had me laughing out loud in my office. And no, not a 'ha, ha' kind of chuckle...a roaring bout of laughter...tears and all.

Give it a read here...it may gross you out a bit (or a lot), but it's still stinkin' funny!

I never thought I'd see the day...

As hard as it is for me to admit it, I have just got to do it.

I am a proud owner of a Snuggie. Not just any Snuggie, a pink Snuggie.

Yep, gag...that's right...a Snuggie.

The Robster gifted it to me (cuz he ♥'s me), and got himself one in blue. I couldn't bring myself to don it though. I tried to fight it for several days, but Rob kept wearing his and he looked so dang warm, while I was just freezing.

Finally the other day he got sick of hearing me whine about being cold so he pulled my pink Snuggie out of the box and wrapped it around me.

No, surprisingly, my flesh didn't burn at the touch. It actually would have purred if it could. Since that moment we've been nearly inseparable, and I don't see our relationship ending any time soon. I just wish he would've gone with something other than pink. ☺

Half way holiday cheer

I haven't given my all when it comes to the Christmas season this year.

Since we are out of town for much of the month, I didn't feel like going through the hassle of putting up a tree, so I 'borrowed' this little tree from the storage room at work and set it up in the kitchen at home.

Yes, this is the extent of our holiday decorating.

On a whim I picked up some pre-cut sugar cookie dough while at Target yesterday and baked them up. It was only later that I realized the only frosting we had was orange Halloween frosting.

So there...part Christmas, part Halloween. Hey, I tried.

I hope my Christmas spirit amps up as the month passes on! I might even get around to sending out Christmas cards.

Maybe. ☺

Arizona, in a nutshell

AZ was lots and lots of fun! What a better way to share that than pictures! Not many pictures came out well though...I used our new camera down there (which has at least a million and seven different settings) and didn't take the time to read through the manual before using it. And, of course, I can't find the manual now. Awesome.

For Thanksgiving dinner we ended up heading to Claim Jumper. A great dinner with absolutely no clean up...plus they gave us some gift cards...that never happens to me when I cook at home! You?

I thought it would be funny to see Lyndon bite into a lemon (I know that sounds evil and rude, but I promise, it wasn't...or at least I wasn't trying to be!), but he ended up LOVING them!

Every time we went out to dinner he sucked on the lemons, made a sour face and then sucked on them again! Yeah, not so good from a dentist standpoint, but I doubt his responsible parents he will make a habit of it.

We skipped out on the early Friday morning shopping and opted for sleeping until noon (embarrassing, but completely true) The Cheesecake Factory for lunch and then
browsing through the mall.

Well, Lindsey and I browsed, Rob was chasing Lyndon around the mall. Even though we had his stroller Rob would hold Lyndon's hand and slowly totter around the mall with him...that is until Lyndon darted away and then Rob went a chasin'!

They spent a bit of time at the outside fountain...super cute to watch the two of them! Lyndon is so inquisitive and Rob (although he would deny it) loved doting on him.

Lyndon really took to Rob and I thought it was incredibly adorable. Nothing cuter...really!

Friday night we went to the Tempe Festival of Lights Parade. We got there a little on the later side, so it was really crowded. We still managed to score some prime street space to park our blanket though. It was really weird to have all of the Christmas festivities going on while it was so warm out!

On Saturday night we dined on Mill Ave again, then headed off to the Phoenix Zoo to check out Zoolights. All of the light displays were really impressive!

Sadly, we didn't see too many animals out, but the lights were the main attraction anyways. We were excited to see Lydon's reaction to all of the lights, but he slept through the entire thing...waking up at the very end as we were walking out.

The trip was really fun for us and we were so glad to finally get down there to visit. Rob was bummed that we didn't make it out to the Challenger Space Museum, so he says we'll have to go down again. As long as it's between November and March, that's fine with me! ☺

Doesn't feel like December

It's no longer Fall.

No matter what I do, my mind/body just doesn't want to admit that Fall is over. Perhaps it is because we still have Fall-like leaves on our trees still...unheard of past mid November usually!

So in hopes of moving along into the Christmas/Winter-like mood, I borrowed a few desktop calendars from Smashing Magazine to adorn the screens of all my computers. I am certain that they'll be pushing me into the Winter mood any second now.

Just a few of my favorites...grab one...it'll have you feeling all Christmas-y in no time!