Hello Old Friend.

Hello!! Thanks for still following my little blog!! Ya know, I listed my blog on our Christmas card, and I haven't blogged since December. Whoops. My apologies. No promises that I'll be posting weekly, but I wanted to say hi to my great buddies. I still read all of your blogs. Maybe it's that I didn't feel like I have been doing much. Life has really slowed down since we moved to Tucson. Also, our 'point-and-shoot' camera isn't reliable, so these are just random phone photos for the last few months.

Instagram, facebook and blogs- it's sorta tough to know which one to focus on as one's mean of communication.

Tucson has beautiful sunsets!

A few times, we've gone Geo-Caching. There are several good caches around Tucson. Thanks to the Miller's to introducing us to the activity!

I'm in Young Women's and we went to the Temple for Baptisms one day. Our ward's YW's group isn't huge, but I'm really loving those girls!
In February, I was able to sneak away to the Bay Area for a few days. It was an awesome little trip to see a lot of good friends there. Didn't get many pictures though...

I did get to see cute Stacie Anderson and meet Oz (which looks like you're not able to meet the cutie-patootie).

Valentine's Dinner- I made an awesome Steak dinner and Peter sang me an awesome song to me! Hurry and watch it before he makes me take it down! :)

I cook a lot out here-

My Lovely Lizza was in Phoenix, so I snuck up and saw her. She's a doll and I love talking with her.

Sedona is an amazing little city! I'd love to spend a weekend there! I've been through it twice, but not for longer than a meal or two.

Seems like most of you saw it on FB, but I started teaching Spin and BootCamp Cardio classes at LA Fitness. I LOVE it!! It's better than I thought. I officially only have two classes a week, but they seemed to be understaffed, so I'm subbing a lot.
It's great to get paid for something I'd be doing anyway.

Seems like it took me a few months to find my circle of friends, but here's a little girl's night out/un-baby shower for my girlfriend and her third baby.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Love, Peter.
I came home from the gym with green doughnuts, and Peter was wearing this little number. Awesome, huh?

A triple date to the go-carts and mini-golf, thanks to Groupon. The girl who's blonder than me, is my tennis partner. We place once a week and we love it! Although I don't like that she is naturally blonder than me, she's great and we have fun being tennis snobs!

My brother-in-law, Chris had a Conference in Tucson, so my fabulous sister Liz came along. I love my family! I think this is the only picture I got of them, bummer. But, sorta funny that the only picture is at the nail salon where Chris is getting his first pedicure (he said it was his first, but I wouldn't be surprised if he lied about that. He carries a man-purse and has WAY nicer clothes than me).

Similarly, in January, Maurice had to come to Tucson for a climbing thing, so Tash came along. It was great to have my girl with me. We just doinked around this city for a couple days. I wish I could see her more often!

Peter and I are Dave Ramsey-ophiles. It made sense to us, so we sold the Volvo. I had that car for 4 and a half years!! I was sad to see it go. We're a single car family and it's working out alright, it's been about 3 weeks now. We live really close to campus, Peter rarely needs a car and we love that our insurance is cheaper and that we don't have to do repairs on that car anymore.



Phew! That was a lot of random photos, but thanks for still following!!
Love ya!

Grand Canyon - Spring Break 2012

Since Peter is in school- he got a classic Spring Break. It was his idea and planning to go to the Grand Canyon. It was a great little camping trip! I had been when I was in my teens, but not since. It's an unreal view! You think you're looking at a picture or holographic image. Here are some photos of our first time camping together.

Setting up camp!
Check out Peter's beard! Awesome, huh? Gives him a lot of 'street-cred' at a campsite, at Grad School, and around my brothers.

SMORES!!

Walking along the 3 mile trail along the top of the canyon.

On the more ambitious hike, down into the canyon.
The Bright Angel Trail.

Peter LOVED that there was snow on the north facing fronts!
But because of that snow and north facing fronts, our hike was cut short. My shoes had zero traction for snow hiking and, well, we're sissies. If you look at my right hand- my pinkie is the start point, my pointer finger is how far we made it (3 miles round trip) and my left pointer is where Peter thought we could make it to. Rookie mistake.

There's No Place Like Home!

There is a LOT of good Mexican food in California. Mexican is typically the first place we pick if we're going out to eat. Everyone has their taco shop. I just wanted to show you a picture of my all-time, 5 year standing favorite meal at any Mexican place. This is the Carne Asada Nachos from Santana's in PB. The picture may not look amazing, but it's just my favorite-est-est meat, pico, guac and cilantro meal! I highly recommend this place (also called Fresh MXN).

We've been in San Diego about a week now. It's been great to be back where we have so many great memories, family and friends!

If you saw Peter's blog (I think a lot of our readers are shared), you know that I caught some 24-hour bug. I'm mountains better now, but Tuesday night - Wednesday night was plain ugly. I'm not sure how the flu inspired it, but I did three puzzles in 24 hours and watched The Happiest Millionaire. In that time, I saw what was in my inner-self and I saw what my inner-self likes to do when I'm hurting. Puzzles and classic old Disney Musicals.

Happy Holiday Home

We'll be away from Tucson for Christmas, enjoying holiday-family-play-eat-music-cheer time. We don't get to enjoy our tree for long, but we love when it's up!

This is our new apartment. I love that we inherited the light green walls. I like the way it makes the tree pop against the fireplace.

Family Pictures

We got these pictures taken right before we left Pacific Beach last summer. We felt sorta silly, like they were engagement photos again, but I'm glad we did it. We LOVED living a mile from the beach and all these places are places that were really important to us for those 2 years.

Oh, the places you'll SLEEP

I left for my big trip three weeks ago today. In reflecting on the trip - I wanted to put down in writing where I've slept since then...

1 night on a plane to London
1 night in Qatar
3 nights on a spare bed in Dubai
1 night in different bed in Dubai
3 nights in Tiff's spare bed in Qatar
1 night on a plane back to London
1 night at my mom's new house
3 nights with my mom in a Marriott in Palm Springs
3 nights with Peter in the same bed at the Marriott
1 night on a pull-out bed/couch with lots of kids on the floor
1 night in a different bed in the Marriott, alone finally
2 nights in our bed in Tucson

So- there it is. This is probably more for me to remember and enjoy than for your enjoyment, but it's 11 beds in 21 nights. Seems like I'm in my early 20's again... I was always crashing and staying at friend's places. (right, Tash?)