Wednesday, March 16, 2011

first few days back in AZ

getting ready to leave for tucson and my friend jamie came over to see higgs (she is watching higgins while chris and i are gone so we wouldn't have to kennel him) and say goodbye and she brought me over a "travel kit" which was so thoughtful.  it's so nice having such a good friend out in virginia :)

baby girl on the way to the airport... i think she was looking kind of sad that i was leaving

got to tucson and then drove up to phx for my dress fitting and to get some wedding stuff done with katie.  We all went to lunch which was really nice :)

sisters :)

sunday we decided to go see uncle fred, suzanna, marissa, jon, miranda and baby kayden

we were lucky enough to get to meet marissa's new puppy (which they had only had a few hours!) named MOLLY

we got to be baby hogs :)

aunty meme (marissa) and her niece kayden

passed out in katie's arms

kisses

self portraits

funny faces

jon is such a good daddy

baby kayden crawling

they were watching suzanne's parents dog named emma which was such a cute sweet dog :)

puppy kisses :)

such a cute pup!



tousins!


uncle fred was pretending to be "wilson" from the tv show home improvement :)

i also took a video of kayden... she is such a cute baby :)

Saturday, March 5, 2011

miss my sister...

Katie has been on her honeymoon so I haven't been able to talk to her for a whole week...  Even though we live across the country from each other now...   I didn't realize how much I'd miss talking to her!

(from mother's day 2007)

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

my dad's sister's husband's brother's daughter came to visit!

My cousin Maddie who lives near D.C. came to visit Chris and I for the weekend!

 She drove down and fell in love with Georgia.  she even offered to hold her bone for her while she chewed away :)

aghhh!  yumm!

awkward angles!

maddie was obsessed with "GA's" jowls

We went to a restaurant called Quaker Steak and Lube which my friend Jamie works at.  It was pretty busy and Maddie got super excited about the bendie straws they put in all the drinks
 Next day we decided to go see the ocean/beach.  not sure if it was considered a bay or beach but either way, there were little waves and sand.

Maddie sitting in the back with GA

Georgia got excited/confused and tangled herself in her leash

Love maddie!  Too bad GA ruined both pictures :)


Maddie on the rocks that said do not climb


Georgia sniffing the water... and then a wave came and she freaked... wish i got this as a video and not a picture



weird for me to see this on the beach


 Maddie is a dare devil!

self portraits while dare deviling! :)


georgia loved all the stuff to play with... including the yucky seaweed

how picturesque

found this...

 random plaques



of course we went to the dog park!

this big dog is named Daisy.  Maddie tried to bond with her and she just drooled all over us... smelly drool.  this is kind of a scary picture...
 dog tired
passed out patties...

Kinect!




lovers

and blockus while watching the oscars

maddie and i went on a "hike" the next day with georgia!

we had a great time!  so happy i have such wonderful family to come visit us in virginia!

oh and one last thing!!!  Chris came home with this and I think it was the highlight of maddie's visit! :)

technical difficulties

Trying to put up new pictures from Maddie's trip to visit us... but it looks as if I have run out of storage space!!!  how does that even happen?!  well probably because i always post a ton... so i am going to try to weed out some of the images so i can add more without having to be charged.  

sorry for the delay!