Arizona Living...

One of the great things about Arizona living is the fact that you can have fresh flowers inside and outside your house all year around! Of course these flowers are on the kitchen table but they were freshly cut at the florist.

Things around here have been a little busy...but nothing new about that. Zada is on the go nonstop and eating us out of house and home. We have noticed just here recently that she is starting to talk in her sleep...very cute! Zoe is growing like a weed! She seems to be standing up straighter which is a step towards walking! It also seems that she is trying to say more words...we think we have heard and few.

Tom is working his toosh off like always. We love his off weekends cause we just get to hang out and be lazy all week (which this past weekend was one of those...the main reason my blog is a day late!) We took a little time to ourselves with the help of my great friend Brandy who had the girls come over to play with her little boy. We just went to Golfland, rode gocarts, played games, had a pizza and just spent some "us" time. Of course i got in trouble cause i called to check on the girls after only 2 hours! They didn't want to leave Brandy's when we got there...but i promised them a trip to Walmart!

I have just been working my 8-4 shift and enjoying the beautiful evenings at home with the girls ( and Tom when he makes it home early). We are making our NASCAR plans with my parents and a ton of friends. Most of us are just going to tailgate but that is the funnest part!

Well not much more to update...hope everyone has a great week!

Feb. 18, 2007

this is the first quiet sunday i have had in a long time. tom got called out to work, snowball is sleeping, and the girls are both naping in their room. the only noise i heard right now is the clicking of the keyboard and the breeze outside in the palm trees. the past few days have been beautiful. the end of winter in arizona is the best. it is 78, sunny and breezy today...can we all say PERFECT! we started to get the pool in running order cause in about 2 months we will be in the pool daily again. i am excited to see what zada will do this year since she loves water now...where as last year she hated it! a bath was the worst thing you could do to her...now she never wants to get out of the tub (even if you drain it!) this past week has been very busy in our house. monday...a woman hit tom (instead of hitting a small car she thought she wanted to take on his tow truck...MORON!). tuesday...tom passed his class A cdl test (go baby!) wednesday...tom worked late and i started getting sick. thursday...i was sick and tom had worked late all week so we are going on day 4 of the girls not seeing daddy. zoe went to bed upset and throwing a fit...zada refused to go to bed. daddy came home...she played about 2 minutes then was ready for bed. friday...daddy worked late again (we will be glad when the new guy gets trained!). us 3 girls went shopping. saturday...daddy worked all day, us girls cleaned and made daddy his favorite dinner (meatloaf, fried taters, greenbeans and chocolate chip cheese cake). today is the race...go david stremme! we are going to grill out and kick back today! hope everyone has a great week!

Feb. 12, 2007

well...things around here are still completely crazy! with 2 full time jobs, a part time business starting up, 2 animals and 2 kids under the age of 3...there is never a minute without something to be done. Tom is going to get his Class A CDL...which means he gets a bigger truck...i will post pictures. Today was going good until my husband (who which remind you has the worst luck on earth!) called to let me know that his new tow truck just got hit by a woman "who was avoiding an accident". I am sorry but anyone with a little bit of sence would rather hit a car than a heavy duty tow truck that can haul a SEMI!! I guess she wasn't the brightest bulb in the bunch... To make it even better...lol...he had to tow the car to the woman's house! Idiots i am telling you...complete idiots!! Work for me has been very busy. But when it is busy it makes the days go by quicker. Tom has also been slowly starting up a computer company. "Double Z Computer Repair" Right now he is mostly getting his name out and working on computers on his days off. So...he is not getting much time to relax and unwind but he says it is all going to be worth it in the end...and i only trust him on that. The weather was starting to warm up then...someone thought that we needed another cold front! BLAH! It is only suppose to be in the 60's the rest of this week...guess the 80's were good while they lasted. I am ready for the warm weather...and to get the pool ready for swimming! Hope everyone has a great monday night...

The Zoo

Last weekend we finally made it to the Phoenix Zoo. It is far smaller than most zoo's but that is due to the fact that they change out the animals due to the fact that some of them can not be outside in the extreme Arizona heat! We got to attend the first birthday party of the baby orangutan! She is getting big and learning lots from her mommy.

Some animals were not on display yet due to the cold weather we have had this year. But we still spend 6 hours walking around. The girls did great in the wagon all day and didn't fall asleep until we got in the truck. We found that Zoe loves POPCORN! Who would have known that the pickiest kid on earth would eat popcorn from the zoo! Zada got her first "big girl cup" (regular plastic cup with a straw). She did pretty good...only turned it upside down a few times. Tom and I had a little taste of home for lunch...they had a chicago hotdog stand!

I am thinking that we are going to have to buy a membership because it is only about 12 miles from the house...and open all year around! I love living in the sunny southwest!




Today the weather is beautiful also! We played outside for a few hours this morning and now the girls are laying down for a nap. It is Tom's weekend to work so most of the fun has to be homebound. I think this afternoon we might run to get some flowers for the planter and just enjoy the day at home.