Thanksgiving in Iowa

So, I've got a few post to catch up on...here we go.

We got to spend some time with the Cavanaugh clan in West Des Moines, IA for Thanksgiving and had a great time!!! We saw New Moon opening night, saw the Blindside, shopped at our favorite grocery store, HyVee and visited the local gym where I tried a Spin class for the first time. Between Spin class and my father-in-laws stairs my legs were like jello all week! Here's a few photos from our time in WDM.

11/19/09

Loren, Kaye, Kate and I in front of Bella's truck at the New Moon premiere. We saw the midnight showing and I did find it a bit difficult to stay awake because the movie theatre was warm and we'd been up for just about 24 hours.

I love the Chipmunks. My favorite is Theodore. The cute lifesize posters were in the theatre lobby. I could resist snapping their photo.

11/20/09
The amazing cookies at HyVee.

My hubby waiting at Maid Rite for our sandwiches.

Maid Rite sign...they have unbelievable loose meat sandwiches. I'm wishing we had them here in Phoenix.

Yummy time!

Thanksgiving football with John, Nelson, Murphy and Gabby. It was very cold out so there wasn't alot of time spent outside.

My hubby throwing the football.

John tackling Murphy...they had fun despite the cold temps.

More football

11/27/09

Major shopping day!

Here's Miss Murphy sipping a hot chocolate sample from Godiva Chocolate.

Uncle Joe and Murphy at Jordan Creek mall.

Me and Miss Murphy.

Uncle Joe and Nelson

Nelson attempting the upside down smile.

Facebook is consuming my blog time...

I just realized this evening it has been quite some time since I've posted. So, here's a bit about what's been going on with us lately.

Some exciting news for us is that we are moving apartments. We found a great three bedroom apartment that has granite counter tops, wood flooring and a stove with two big burners (yes, our current place only had one big burner- very annoying) and it's less expensive than where we live now, go figure. The bummer part of it is we are moving July 10th- HOT, HOT, HOT!!!

My hubby got a great surprise in the mail today from our nephew Nelson. A Star Wars coloring book page that he colored with a Han Solo sticker. The best part is was signed by him. Priceless! It immediately went to the fridge hall of fame. We still have Murphy's wedding present to us on the fridge. It was a wonderful handmade book with drawings about our destination wedding.

Our Niece Sophia and Nephew Shane turned 7 on Cinco De Mayo. I want to wish them a blog belated Happy Birthday! I spoke with them that night and my Sister-in-Law was making sopapilla's for their b-day celebration with friends. Yummo! We will go over to my brother and sis-in-laws house to do the family celebration this Saturday. It will actually be one big bash as we will be including our Nephew Brycen and Niece Piper's birthday. I'm sure I'll have some fun photos to post.

Stay tuned for more updates from the AZ Cavanaugh's and look for May's 12 of 12. Happy odd day (05/07/09)!

Random Wedding & Cruise photos

More photos from our wedding and cruise...

Kate took this photo of the ocean view from our hotel in Puerto Rico. So beautiful!

W!kked ~ the restaurant in St. Thomas where we all gathered for our wedding brunch.

Nelson and Uncle Joe on the patio of W!kked. Nelson was wearing the new t-shirt that his Uncle Joe bought him.

Here we are in front of the restaurant.

Murphy and Nelson

Me and my hubby. We were waiting in one of the bars on the ship for our group to be called for departure from the ship...boo hoo, back to reality.

Blog update and 7 months until the big day!

I've been slacking on updating my blog and the only reason is that I am too tired by the time the evening rolls around and just can't muster the energy to write or post a photo. I've recently joined Boot Camp Chicks which is a fun and hard workout. I started out only going 3 days a week and upped it to 5 days. Kim is a good Boot Camp leader and is helping us stay motivated and requires us to track our calorie intake. She suggested a website called SparkPeople that I would invite anyone to check out if you want help tracking calories.

Last night I got the pleasure of meeting up with some of my bestest girlfriends. We have been hanging out with one another since the early 90's. In our 20's, we spent so much time together going to clubs, movies and traveling. Now that we are well into our 30's and busy with work and family we find it challenging to get one night that works for everyone. Luckily, we were all available last night and had so much chatting and laughing.

l to r: Melissa, me, Josie & Leah

The LOML and I are busy working on the details of our wedding or should I say I am busy with the details! : ) We have 7 months from today until the big day. Very exciting! We are happy to annouce that Miss Murphy agreed to be our flower girl and we are kind of hoping Nelson will be able to carry the rings down the beach but Murphy informed us that he was too little to carry out this duty. We shall see.

Happy 4th Birthday Nelson!

A big happy birthday wish from your Uncle Joe and Christina!