Do we have a Birthday here....

YES WE HAVE A BIRTHDAY HERE!!
Happy Bithday... Happy Happy Bithday... Happy Bithday...Happy Birthday.. YEAH!

Hope your 21 is a good one. It means you can legally drink and in AZ buy lottery tickets, and of course gamble with your Grandma!

Next turning point...25 when your car insurance goes down!

LOVE YOU!





Why do a nice photo when I have this one?!?!

Elllie

I have this habit. I name my house plants. Cloe the Cactus. Bert, Ernie and Grouch the Bamboo. The newest addition is Ellie the Elephant Foot Palm. I recommend getting one, she is beautiful.



I mean just look at her. So fun! I just need to re-pot it.

Time Warp

......7th Grade.... .....8th Grade....

And today after I got my hair cut.....

Okay so I am playing them up with a the curl and everything BUT ya know... I like the bangs when I fix them NOT like I did in 7th and 8th grade!

I am thinking that it was a good change. A needed change, but a change just the same.
Summer is here. The temps have felt like summer for months now, but now that school is out it is summer. I admit I have been enjoying lemonade, Popsicles, and soon peaches. Those are the 3 food items that mean summer for me.
I am still unclear of my summer plans... BUT they will figure themselves out soon, I just know. I am trying to be patient and get other things done to keep my mind off of it until the time comes.
I invite you all to jump into summer. To drink lemonade until your taste buds are sour, to eat a popsicle in the sun and try to finish it before it melts. Bite into a peach and have the juice stain a white shirt. But really.. make a change it is summer... It might be as simple as a hair cut.. or possibly making a weekly trip to a park. Add some bright colors around your place but mainly soak up the sun.

ENGAGED!

My boy proposed! Wednesday May 9. I got a ring! It was really cute and sweet. They are glow in the dark stars stuck to the ceiling! Spelling Out will you marry me.




That is me celebrating with the entire bottle of champagne. See the shiny ring!


This is a photo of us! Not the same day but us the same.

Study escape

This weekend was mainly spend trying to recall the things I have "learned" or placed into my short term memory and now need to restore again for the last exams of the semester.
I was able to escape a bit from the notebooks of reviews. I had to in order to make it through.
I made some banana bread and muffins. It is my mom's recipe and I must admit the BEST recipe out there. It is soo soo good.. The photo is just after the bananas are put with everything else awaiting their fate of being all mixed up.
I also made it to the park, a different one than last Sunday afternoon. This weekend we went to Papago Park. It is very close to the Phoenix zoo, and Botanical gardens and has mostly desert plants and scenery. The main attraction are the rock formations, the one in the photos is "Hole in the Rock". Although the first time I went to see it, I was unaware that there man-made steps up the back of it, so my brother and I climbed up the rocks, wondering the entire time how the little kids at the top managed.
The Saguaro is the cactus that holds that Arizona state flower. I must admit that when I choose this park for the afternoon I was hoping for more natural color from flowers but really the state flower was about all I could find. There were a lot of palm trees around all the "fishing holes" and massive fish in them. Although the water is soo nasty in the "lakes/ponds" I would not dear to eat the fish for fear of gross polluted things the fish ate.
I will stop putting photos together.. it is just not working out how I want it too.. But yeah at least there is a REALLY blue bowl!!