Pet Walk

     Heather and I and our girls signed up for the Pet Charitites Pet Walk...You could do a 1 mile walk or a 5K...we chose the 5K (3miles)  it was a great day for a walk.  It was at Tempe Town Lake...a beautiful spot near ASU.

         As you can see by her tail tucked underneath her, she wasn't quite sure what to make of all the pets roaming around.  Ater the walk began though, she was trotting along side all the other dogs.  Some dogs were dressed up; even dogs and their owners were dressed alike :)

        I used my old camera, so some of the pics were pretty hard to see, but this Sarah and Mackenzie.

                   

        Lots of dogs enjoyed this stop along the walk...Copper wasn't sure what to do...at first.

                 She has never been around open water before...she loved it!  Heather's dog, a golden retriever, tried to swim away...Heather had to hold on for dear life and pull Bo back to shore!

    Now, if any of you are cat lovers and watch the Animal Planet, you will know who this guy is.  Jackson Galaxy Cat Therapist!!!  He has a show called Cat from Hell...  I know, right...totally silly...he kind of looks like a serial killer in this photo..but super nice guy....I get a kick out of watching his show. 

  After the walk,  we let the dogs play in the play area...on a good note..Copper was worn out the rest of the day...

A weekend at home

   For some reason when I loaded these pictures it did them all out of order :/ This was last night.  Mitch had to go to San Diego for a business trip, so it was just the kids and I.  I told them I did not want to anything that had to do with the tv, computer, DS or any other electronic gadget..we played cards and ate chips and cheese dip.

     Marcus and his sister were attemping a pillow fight...but it gets the dog all fired up, so I put a stop to it. 

    Heather and I are getting ready to move into our suite this week.  I had Mackenzie do inventory on all our polishes;  she had to check them to make sure they weren't old and then had to write down the name and how many of that color we had.  It kept her busy for a while.

        What a pretty, pretty girl I have.  Hard to believe she will be 11 next month.

         Marcus wanted to cut something with a knife...he cut up an entire block of cheese.

Ok, these are totally out of order...anyway.  Mackenzie recorded the Pioneer Woman's show for me yesterday while I was at work.  She made these yummy looking chocolate desserts.  But when I went to print out the  recipe, the reviews weren't so good...said the cookie was dry and not sweet except for the candied part.  So we went to the store and bought the double chocolate chip cookie dough.  Mackenzie made these...don't they look divine!!! She used toffee candy chopped up, m&m's and valentine chips.

With some of the melted chocolate, Marcus made some dipped pretzels.

 

Here is Mac, chopping up the toffee candy bar...

And here should have been the first picture when she rolled out the dough and cut out the cookies...she is wearing her cute apron Grandma Katy made her using red and blue for our KU!

   

New Adventure

    This is NOT my new adventure, but rather something I wake up to almost daily...when we put Copper to bed at night in her crate, we cover the crate with a blanket so the cats do not bother her.  Well she has started trying to pull the blanket through the gaps in the crate and then managed to get the poly-fill out..Bad Copper!  I have tried just a sheet, but she can pull the whole sheet into the crate...

      My friend Heather and I are leaving Indulge next week after being there for 4 years.  We are going into business for ourselves and opening our own Boutique.  It is a suite, just big enough for the 2 of us to work on clients.  We named our baby Amici Bella Nail Boutique :)  Amici is pronounced ameechee and it means Beautiful Friends in Italian.  We have been very busy buying everything we need to get started. 

 This is the suite...in this picture our room is not painted yet and still has hair equipment from the last girls that used it.  But we are excited because we got a suite with windows :)

   After it gets painted and we get our stuff moved in I will post more pictures.

     We are excited to get it going.  Wish us luck :)

    I know this pic is blurry, but it was from his Winter concert...he looked so cute in his hat and scarf.

     One morning over the weekend I had Marcus take some bread out for the birds.  I told him to put it somewhere high so Copper wouldn't get to it and eat it.  So he was putting it on top of the block fencing...he wouldn't let me take pictures of him while I was outside, so I am actually taking these from inside my kitchen, looking out the window...he doesn't know  :)

            It looks like he is looking right at me, but he can't see me...

                   .....then he started throwing the bread over the fence into our neighbors yard..he still doesn't know im watching him....hehehe

                  Yay!!!  I was so excited to have a family visitor!!!  Annie had been in Santa Fe with her fiance Alex and a friend of theirs, Sam.  They made their way to Phoenix so Annie could catch a flight to go see a friend.  Her stay was WAY too short, but worth every minute I got to spend with her.  It was nice to meet Alex too...what a nice guy! 

       While us girls caught up visiting, Marcus showed the guys how to play his favorite wii games...

                       i put a few cold ones in a cooler and Panther liked playing with the ice..

                           Mitch grilled up steaks for anyone who wanted one...we had salad and homemade mac and cheese and I made my mom's super yummy chocolate bundt cake! 

                      Thanks for coming to see us!!!  It was a lot of fun!!!!

Winters weekends

     Mackenzie's friend Caitie came for a sleepover.  Mitch was nice and went and got them whatever they wanted from Sonic... they are busy chowing down!

                            I know you can't tell what Marcus is holding; he mixed cherry slush into his ranch and the girls dared him to eat it....he acted like he was going to, but decided against it in the end.

                                              Being goofy and cute!

 Panther LOVES to help me on the computer.  He is fixated on the little arrow and right now he is waiting for it to move again.  A lot of times he paws at the screen or wants to get as close as possible and will try to lay on the keyboard.

      Marcus has had trouble with the chain constantly coming off his bike.  Mitch has fixed it a couple times, but after a while it pops again.  Marcus came running into the kitchen yesterday and grabbed my kitchen gloves.  He was working hard trying to fix his bike, but didn't want grease all over his hands...bye bye dish gloves :/

Karate belt and cooking

 Marcus completed another semester in Karate.  He earned his green belt with blue stripe.  Good job buddy!!!

           Here are the monster cookies from the Rossville cookbook that Karen Kidd and I make a lot.  I have kids on my street ringing our doorbell for these! 

 This is the overnight french toast I love to make...this is before I baked it.  This time I diced up the bread into chunks....

                          Not the best photo, but it tastes REALLY good. 

                   Marcus got his first pocket knife from Papa...he loves cutting through things.  He found some rope outside and got right to work.

                                         He loves his pocket knife Papa!!!!!!

                                        I polished Mac's nails the other night.

Hangin' out in 2012

        Copper is still a puppy at 7 months, but she is growing up.  She literally is the one that takes YOU for a walk...

               She lets me take pictures of her whenever I want :)  I have to chase and beg my own children for a simple smile...

 Mitch made labels for my spices, I know you can't see the labels, but they looked so nice and shiny after I cleaned them up I felt the need to take a picture of them...Mitch just shook his head...

                This was New Year's Eve night...we hung out at home and played games with the kids.

               This has been his favorite past time over break...only a few days remain before they have to go back to school...

     But I could easily persuade him to go outside and ride his bike. It's been in the upper 70's all week.