Friday, August 31, 2007

Cupcake Heaven




Ohhhhhhhh....how we love cupcakes in our house....on any given day we have at least 10 boxes of cupcake mix in our pantry. I must admit I use the boxed kind, since I have limited time for things like cupcake baking!! Of course ,Paris and I are the QUEEN BAKERS in our house! We *HEART* cupcakes............. and a really cool cupcake blog I frequent is: http://cupcakestakethecake.blogspot.com/




Wednesday, August 22, 2007

We LOVE the USA!!!

Kids' Program on the ship

Open Sea (kinda scary)


St Peter's Basilica (at the Vatican), where Peter is buried

Robb & I
Pompeii (sad what happened here)

Pompeii (boys)

Paris in Ephesus, Turkey. Where Paul spoke to the Ephesians!

Turkey's Harbor

Us (Greek Isles) at Sunset

Santorini, Greece

Our ship (a view from a hill WAY up!!! Had to take a gondola cable car down!)

Mykonos, Greece. We got no rain...but looks really cloudy huh?

First of 3 formal nights!

The port closest to Rome

Pisa.....we LOVED Pisa....the day was perfect and not crowded at about 9am!


Barcelona Spain. Day after we arrived! Our hotel is on the right side by that tall (Eiffel wannabe) cable car tower.
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***Our family of 37 is SOOOOO happy to be home. We just went on a "Grandparents' 50th Anniversary" trip to Europe. 4 days in Spain (Barcelona), then another 13 days aboard the Brilliance of the Seas cruiseship touring Italy, France, Monaco, Greece & Turkey. 10 stops in 13 days!! It was SOOO fun and TONS of memories! But we are so glad to be home....wow. 23 our family members were on our Delta flight arriving back into Phx, Az and we were almost kissing the ground as we entered Sky Harbor. NOTHING LIKE THE GOOD OLD USA!!! Here is some photos of our adventure!!

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

California Dreaming!!

Sister & I
San Diego Zoo

San Diego Zoo


The beachhouse



Beach house balcony (Encinitas)





Disney's CA Adventure


Disneyland


Dad's 49th Bday!! Homemade Cake and LOTS of family....

Our July CA trip ;) 2007

Monday, July 23, 2007

Still here..........just super busy!

Lake Powell (June 2007)
















Preschool Graduation


MOVED :)
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Just got home from vacation and in 5 days I am off again. Here is some photos of my summer so far!!! Once the kids start back up in school I will be on more regularly and visiting all your blogs too!!










Thursday, May 17, 2007

Scrap Room







No new pics...so here is a picture of my scrap room in my Surprise house. Right now it is boxed up and moving to the new house ;)
14 days until Lake Powell..............

Sunday, May 13, 2007

We Rock!







Friday was Evan's birthday party at Solid Rock....oodles of fun!!!

Thursday, May 10, 2007

Hula Pixie


Got this in the "Dollar Spot" at Target..........................makes me in the mood to go to Hawaii ;) Of course minus Pixie......

Survey-Jacked

Ok, I stole this survey from Amie....I thougth it was cute and she said anyone can use it on their blog. Well since I am an "anyone" I thought I would.......

A - Age: 29 years
B - Bed size: King
C - Chore you hate: Cleaning toilets
D - Dessert you love: Graham Cracker Cream Pie & Any White Cake from "Az Cakes"
E - Essential start your day item: toothbrush
F - Favorite actor(s): Will Ferrell
G - Gold or Silver: White Gold
H - Height: 5 foot 7 inches
I - Instruments you play: Does drums on my steering wheel count?
J - Job title: Domestic Engineer
K - Kid(s): 3 kids, Evan, Aiden & Paris
L - Living arrangements: A 5 bedroom, 3 bath house in Peoria
M- Favorite Months-December
N - Nicknames: Nonna, Nana, Nana Rae, Mommy, Presh
O - Overnight hospital stay other than giving birth: None
P - Phobia: I have a lot of OCD issues.....a phobia of gas station bathrooms is 1 of them
Q - Quote(s): "Professionals Built the Titanic, Amateurs Built the Ark"
R - Right or left handed: Right
S - Siblings: 2 Sister and 2 Brothers, all younger
T - Tattoo(s): No
U - Unique talent: Scrapbooking & playing "mother hen" to everyone
V - Vegetable you hate: Pears
W - Worst habit: Lazy with laundry
X- If you were told to Xerox a part of your body what would you agree to: My lips, like a kiss
Y - Yummy food you make: Cupcakes, Shirley Temple drinks, Southwest Dip, London Broil
Z- Zodiac Sign:Aquarius

Tuesday, May 08, 2007

Birthday!






















My oldest son turned 10 today.....wow, I can't believe a decade has gone by already since the little lamb was born..............wow, how time flies!!!!!!!!!!! His party is this Friday night and boy will it be fun at an indoor rock climbing place!!!