Door Decorating at Playa

So our PTSO asked all of us to decorate our doors for Halloween and they would have a contest judged by our principal. My class and the class next to mine decided to do a pumpkin patch theme.

We used the book, "Spookley the Square Pumpkin" as our muse. That is what the scarecrow is reading.

In the story, Spookley, who is square saves other pumpkins because of his shape and so the farmer decides to grow all different kinds of pumpkins, like so...

My class did the clouds and the class next door did the pumpkins. I did the scarecrow.


Believe me, this display is going to stay up well after Halloween! It took a lot of time. We didn't win but here are pictures of other classes that did.

New Toy

Ok, so the sickness is spreading. I have wanted a fun car to drive and I have always loved older mustangs from the 60's. But my husband's sickness is spreading to me and I have fallen in love with the C3 Corvettes (they're the really sexy looking ones from the 70's and early-early 80's). Well, needless to say, the Corvette crazed husband found one for me, (actually he found a lot) but this one was the best price for the great condition it was in.

It also has some pieces on it that give it its own style.

So, we bought it and went to the DMV, MVD, whatever you like to say, and had it registered. I always liked the idea of having historic plates on an old car like that so I asked the gentleman how old the car had to be to get historic plates. He said only 25 years, so we got the copper historic plates!

This one is MINE!

School is in session

Ok, obviously you can tell that school is in session because of my posts, or lack there of. This past weekend, Nathaniel and I took a cruise down Route 191, previously known as Route 666. It is rightfully named, Devil's Highway. It is a blast with curves, twists, and this time... snow!
Check out my little slideshow to the side to see some of the pictures I took on that cruise.

Little Projects of Mine

This past Saturday, I had a church activity where we got to make home projects. I was in charge of the Christmas cards and getting all of those packets together. Luckily, they didn't need much help so I was able to do a few other projects for myself.

This one is a family board. I chose my colors and papers to best fit my house. This is a 2' x 2' board. There will eventually be a family picture in the middle. This project originated from Michelle Devine at Devine Memories. It has made its' way through many church "Super Saturdays" as we like to call them.

This project is made out of a glass block and vinyl. I love the little snowman. Eventually, I will put a string of colored lights inside. I love him!

Angela's 20th Birthday!

Well, my sister turns 20 on July 22nd. 20 is a pretty big deal; 2 centuries old, not a teenager anymore...

So I made a book for her with "words of wisdom" from family and friends with their picture.

check it out:

If you couldn't tell, it is in the shape of a 20. :)

Camping, Take Two

Here we go again. This time we went south of the Mogollon Rim in the area of Payson.

Salt Lake City

Ok, I need to catch up a little.

At the end of June, I traveled to Utah with my dad and sister for a family reunion. As soon as we got there (as is custom) my grandmother welcomed us with "It's a party, it's a party!" and then promptly put us to work.

I don't think I sat down after that moment. Except that I did get to go to the movies with my cousin Jake and his wife Nikki. Check out his link... this is my little claim to fame that he is a guest DJ on a radio station up there.

The family reunion was great, especially because it seems to be reason enough to pull everyone together. So I was able to see just about all of my cousins that weekend.

Here are some of my favorite shots!

Camping in the Great Outdoors

Well, we decided to make another break for cooler weather up on the Mogollon Rim just east of Payson. We found a great little campsite away from everyone else where we got to relax and read. I had the book "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer which Nathaniel continued to steal from me. Luckily, I won it in a bet and got to read it.

As the sun was setting each night we could hear elk. One evening we heard a pack of coyotes not too far from our campsite. Other than the coyotes and elk there wasn't much around (thankfully, as I heard there are bears in that area), except for the occasional butterfly.

But we had a nice, relaxing, cooler (it was WARM during the day) time as we got to get away for awhile.

Sedona

The weekend of June 12th - 15th, Nathaniel and I headed up for cooler weather in Sedona, AZ. Little did we know that cooler was 92 degrees instead of 109 degrees. We'll take it! We stayed at the Los Abrigados Lodge with this beautiful view of the Sedona red rocks. We got to be tourists, lounge around, and basically enjoy the beautiful scenery. One of the days we went to Tlaquepaque (one of my favorite places in Sedona). There are shops there but I go for the beautiful architecture. It is styled after the traditional Mexican village of Tlaquepaque in Mexico.

While we were there, we went into a little Christmas shop to browse around. We have been looking for over 4 years for a Nativity set that we both like. Well, just inside the door, we saw it.

It is different, but fits us rather well.

On our last day we left Sedona and drove up to Flagstaff and walked around the NAU campus to see the new changes.

On our way to meet some friends, we passed quite a few Corvettes. We wondered what they were up to and decided to follow them. Well, first we had to turn around and find them, so Nathaniel thought about where they would be cruising to... either the road up to Snowbowl or to the Grand Canyon. We found them before they turned up the road to Snowbowl so we decided to follow.

When we got up to the top, we saw about 26 Corvettes total. We climbed out of our corvette and about 7 or 8 of the people came over. They immediately noticed that we were not part of their Corvette club (it could have been the fact that we didn't have name tags on). They were so nice and were excited that we followed them up. They were a club from Prescott and talked to us for quite awhile. They were getting ready to go up the ski lift to the top for lunch so we said our goodbyes.

Notice the little white stow away to the left.

It was great!

Kenny Chesney, Keith Urban Concert

Well, Friday night, Michele calls me and asks what I was doing the next day. I said nothing and she asked if I wanted to go to the Kenny Chesney, Keith Urban concert free. Well I had to think about it, ok not really, YES!




It was at the University of Phoenix stadium where the Cardinals play, so a HUGE venue. Our tickets were in the nose bleed seats:

But who can complain, we got these for FREE!

Both Michele and I had seen Kenny Chesney before. That wasn't the real reason I was excited. I was there to see Gary Allan and Keith Urban. Michele was really nice and bought me a Keith Urban shirt.

Keith Urban definitely put on a better show than Kenny Chesney so it made me love him even more!

I love Gary Allan because he sings a couple of my favorite songs:

"Life Ain't Always Beautiful."

and

a remake of "Best I Ever Had."

See, even from our seats, we could see pretty well (with the help of my digital camera with my larger zoom lens and crop and enlarge...