Silver Spur?

I have recently discovered or rather finally tried out Restaurants.com. It is a website that sells gift certificates to locally owned restaurants at a discounted rate (and they are even cheaper if you have a promo code (use promo code "FLAG" until 5/29/10). I like these certificates for the following reasons:

1. Evan and I get to dine out for a very inexpensive price

2. We get to order lots of food or even dessert and still stay under budget

3. Spending less money means more frequent date nights

4. Getting to experience new restaurants

5. Stimulating the economy by visiting local ma and pa restaurants.About a month ago we "experienced" the Silver Spur with Landon and Ashley Winget. We even ventured out of our usual 1 mile radius around our apartment complex, since the place was in Cave Creek.

The food was good, especially the corn bread, the service was excellent and the atmosphere was really fun.

After dinner we took a stroll around the restaurants where there are some fun gift shops and props to pose with and take pictures.
Evan in the old school out house.

The Wingets at the gallows.

I thought the name of the bar was funny, really bear garden?

pickles

In mid April Evan's parents and one of his younger brothers came for a visit. So we all went out to dinner with Evan's sister's family. It was a cute family restaurant that was featured on "diners, drive-ins and dive" or whatever that show is called ne ways it was a cool little place that served a lot of organic things including...home style pickles. This is my nephew attempted to eat one... At first we couldn't figure out what he was doing. It was pretty cute. His kept making faces as if he didn't like the pickles but he kept eating them go figure.
The other cute kiddos

SURPRISE!

Evan and I threw a surprise birthday party for Evan's older sister who turned the big 3-0 and his younger brother Patrick who became a menace to society at age 26. Patrick was in town for a week so we thought we would give them a surprise when they stopped by to visit. All the guests (me and Evan) hid and yelled, "SURPRISE" when they came inside, needless to say since both of their birthdays had past they were surprised.

Evan and I decorated the birthday sign, cute right?

The rough housing started almost immediately after the kids walked through the doors, lucky for them they have two young very cool uncles. "Flour Tower" Kinda like Jenga. Whomever makes the coin fall has to pick it up with their teeth. Little Wade kept making it fall, but Uncle Evan was willing to pick it up for him.

See how many cotton balls you can stick to your nose with Vaseline and blow off in 45 seconds...one of those games that is more fun to watch then actually participate in;)

It's a Norby family tradition. Honestly I was a little skeptical of the whole concept of giving someone a straight pin while being blind folded, but Evan assured me that his mom let them play the "pop the balloons attached to the ceiling fan while it's on" game, so I obliged.

Sara and Patrick with the special birthday plates.

the "other" birthday plate. I saw these at Target and couldn't pass them up. Really? Come on

Blowing out the candles on the self decorated cup cakes
Presents!

Playing dress up the next morning after our walk to the duck pond and before swimming in the pool

Easter

Evan hunting for his Easter basket.

He found it!!

After General Conference so friends from the ward came over for some Easter dinner. My family doesn't have any traditional Easter food, but I like ham. So I cooked up a ham and we had a very tasty pot luck. Good thing I invited some good cooks.

Landon and Ashley Winget

Cameron and Amy Earl
Kristin and Bryan Anderson and Steve and Grace Lyon

Aimee and Kyle Nay

Biggest fear comes to past

4-6-10 This is how the morning went...
-Alarm goes off...I turn it off
-Evan comes in to the room and guilts me out of bed, "oh, I'll just walk to school"
-I'm asked " did you hear those cats last night?" "No" "They were so loud, I wanted to hit them with a baseball bat" "good thing we don't have a baseball bat!"
-As I'm slipping me flip flops on Evan asks if I've seen his keys. I tell him to look out on the back porch since they were in a bag with his cleats from his flag football game the night before. (I already have that mom instinct, where you just know where missing things are, except for Evan's wedding ring, still can't find that)
-Evan grabs his keys and we're out the door.
-Evan begins to say our family prayer as I'm driving down the road (with my eyes open) then he pauses..."what is that smell" "I don't know, (I think, "I hope he's not talking about my unbrushed teeth") then I respond, "Did that cat pee on your keys?"
-Evan unrolls the window and sticks the keys into the air. He hastily finishes our family prayer and we are at the gate to school. He assures me to will clean his keys immediately. I love yous and he's gone
-I laugh as I drive home, only because Evan is petrified of Cats ever since a Microbiology lecture they had on the dangers of Cats and their poop. He has told me on more than one occasion that our future children are not to play in sand boxes for fear of disease.
-rest assure all the sports equipment has now been washed and is now drying...Hope we don't die.

Fast as lighting

(Evan is the blurry black shirt on the right)

Evan loves being active. He is currently playing on an intramural flag football team and a co-ed soccer team (that I play on as well). I tried to get some action shots of him playing so that our future children will believe Evan when he tells them how athletic and fast he was before they were born (that's why he says we need a video camera).

1st Day of Spring

The first day of Spring is my favorite non-holiday to celebrate. I spent all morning doing some "spring cleaning." Then as the day neared it's end I informed Evan we were celebrating! I convinced him to move the dinning room table out on our back porch and I served "spring chicken." It was a perfect day for an outside dinner. This is my sorry attempt to capture the gorgeous Arizona sunset. It didn't work, but look at my cute my "spring" hair accessory(it's a flower).