Good bye friends 10.20.10

A couple days before we moved to Tucson a group of my friends all met up at a new hip frozen ice cream place that did not dissappoint. I miss you girls already.

Brenda, Ashley, Jessy, and Kristin

Cara, Britani, Liz, me, and Christy

Klinton's 3rd Birthday Party 10.17.10

I have loved living so close to Evan's sister the past two years. We get to participate in birthday celebrations and big and small events in our niece and nephews' lives. Klinton loves Clifford the Big Red dog, so his talented mommy made him an awesome Clifford cake. He also got a rad motorcycle bike. Above is a picture of him closing his eyes waiting to see his gift.

After cake, silly string fight, hot dogs, and swimming I helped Kallie with her "all about me poster" for school. She is so creative. Kallie came up with hiding the pictures under the flaps all by herself.

Fancy Fancy 10.16.10

Evan and I continued our quest to find the best "lava cake" in Phoenix by going to Roy's inside J.W Marriott at Desert Ridge. It is a pretty fancy place. So we dressed up and didn't use the valet parking and had a good time. We sat in the bar area since we only ordered desert and watched one of the Giants playoff games. The cake was good, but for the price we paid I'd rather go to Applebees. Now that we moved our quest is on hiatus, but we had a great time especially since we got to go to some fancy places we normally wouldn't have gone.

Fall is finally here 10.10.10

Evan and I only have two more weeks in Glendale. We've know for the last 9 months that we had to move, but it doesn't make it any easier. We had some friends over for dinner. I made homemade soup and rolls since this is the first week we've had under 100 degrees for months. (I'm not complaining I LOVE the heat, it's just hard to justify slurping soup when it is 100 plus degrees outside.) After dinner we made fancy carmel apples with white and semi-sweet chocolate, peanuts, cinnamon-sugar mixture, oreos, and sprinkles. They were a hit. They tasted a lot better than they looked.

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In other news Evan and I went to the local high schools' rival game this week Deer Valley Vs. Mountain Ridge. I was very impressed with both schools' marching bands and Deer Valley's cheerleaders were non-stop cheering the whole game. Although there were no fireworks at this game. A couple weeks ago we went to Chaperal's homecoming game and saw quite the firework show.
We also had a CRAZY hail storm this week. It hailed the size of golf balls (no seriously). Lots of people in the area have lots of damage to their cars and/or houses (the storm happened during rush hour, so LOTS of people were stuck on the freeways because of accidents and now have golf ball size dents in their cars).

Fall in Seattle

Evan and I purchased plane tickets LAST fall to go to Orlando...the trip didn't work out and we haven't been able to use the airline credit and on the eve of them expiring my parents flew me up to their place. And what did I discover? There is a fall in Washington. I guess I took the "evergreen" a little more literally then needed.

My parents spoiled me. Mom and I got haircuts and our toes done, we all went out to dinner and a movie and had popcorn, we decorated the house on the First Day of October and made it OH so scary...decorations included a hand painted figurine by yours truly, General Conference while crafting, and of course lots of shopping (which is where I found the piggy bank dressed up like a doctor-too bad Evan didn't have one of these growing up or else maybe we wouldn't have had to take out so many loans;)

Hot Molten Lava Cake

Evan and I went to PF Changs a couple weeks ago and noticed a dessert on their menu that reminded us of an awesome dessert we had on the cruise we took for our honeymoon. After inquiring about the dessert we found out it was not the same. Yet this event was not fruitful to our taste buds it sparked the desire to find the best Molten Lave Cake in the Phoenix area. So far we have tried 3 separate cakes at 3 separate restaurants.

1) Flemings: a very swanky up scale place with great lighting and ambiance. This cake got a 5 out of 5 in the appearance category but rated low in taste and temperature.

2) Applebees: A less expensive treat that was ready in about 6 minutes has ranked highest on the Norby scale. The temperature was hot and the abundance of lava pushed this dish into first place.

3) Bravi: Locally owned Italian eatery served up a small portioned lava cake that disappointed the Mister, who ranked this dish 3, however the misses graded this one slightly higher for the quick order time and inexpensive cost, yet of the three it is the only one not served with ice cream.

the "Move" has begun

I was putting somethings away in the storage closet and found some small boxes (perfect for packing heavy books). So I decided to make use of the boxes and pack of some of Evan's giant text books. Two boxes later you can barely tell I've packed anything up at all. Just an early reminder that you always have way more stuff than you think you have!

We also faxed in our application this week to live at Catalina Canyon Apartments in Tucson. We will be moving in 5 weeks:( The place looks nice enough. The best part is the friendly office staff (and the cheap rent...the price is over 100$ less per month than we are paying now) and biggest draw back is there is not a washer or dryer in the apartment unit and it is about 100 square feet smaller (YIKES).