Lewis Family Christmas and dinner with Friends!

So, we spent Xmas eve with my family and spent Xmas day with the Lewis family. Carol my mom-in-law was in town, so we spent the day at Erin's house. I was still pretty sick during Xmas hence the lack of pictures - I was not in much of a mood to take snapshots. But, here are a few:

Then, yesterday we went to our friend Peter's art show and out to dinner at this great place called Hanny's. We have out of town friends visiting too, so it was really nice to have a chance to spend time together. Garrett has great friends! Here are pics of some arial shots I took from the top floor of the restaurant...the place was very contemporary and that weird mirror shot...yah - well, that's the entry to the bathrooms. I got totally lost trying to find the potty, because I thought that those were just mirrors, until my friend Bobby was like, "No - you fool, walk thru space in between" Wow, I was super glad she was there....LOL!

Merry Xmas and Onto the New Year.

Love, Adela and Garrett

Carrie's Christmas Party!

Last Friday we headed out to Carrie's house in grand ol' Queen Creek...45 mins later we arrived safe and sound ready for some good times. There was plenty of good food, good times and good drinks for everyone. We played a nice, friendly game of White Elephant where Garrett and I won an awesome wine bottle opener...sweet! My gift was a very cool Hanna Montana lip gloss microphone and Garrett brought a Spiderman Bath set to the table - they were pretty nifty!

I, however, have been sick since last week and am currently still sick. I hope that Santa takes away my cold for Christmas...sad face! So, that's all the writing for today, my head hurts.

One quick addition, I forgot to post a really cool photo collage I made for Carrie's husband Scott.

Viola!

I thought it came out really well and Scott seemed to really like it! It's so hard to get gifts for men....

Okay, now this post is done, for realzy!

Janette Comes to Visit from Michigan!

So, I have been friends with Janette Biewer now Janette Beaudry since about 1st grade or so, when I met her on the swings during my brother's soccer practice. While went to the same elementary, junior and high school - we didnt really have any classes together...but we were constantly at each other's houses and were active members of the youth group at church (in my Catholic days). Janette came to visit and we got to meet her cute little boy C.J. and her very nice husband David. We started our first meeting with dinner at a place called Juan Jaime's, which was pretty good and had great tequila and tacos.

Later on the week - I was able to invite my pal Carrie to come out and we headed on out to Tempe Marketplace, where we looked at the Xmas tree, played in the (artificial) snow and ate dinner at Cadillac Ranch, which was followed by drinks at Duffy McGees' Irish Pub.

After Duffy's Carrie had to go home SAD FACE, but her husband got home late from work that night and he was hungry and he missed her....aaaaaaaw!

But the rest of the girls, Janette's brothers and I drove to downtown Chandler's Irish Pub Murphy's. It was great and downtown Chandler has a great nightlife - all types of stuff going on.

It was so much fun spending time with my old friends from school - Faith, Daniella, Angie, Janette and Carrie...I love you all!!! You are some of my nearest and dearest pals!

Thanksgiving Goodness in Payson

So, after dinner with the family we headed up to Payson to visit our Czech family! We got there about 5:00p or so, it took no time at all. Garrett and I were both amazed by how short the trip seemed to take. We both grew up going camping with our families and as young kiddies we remembered how the trip seemed to take FOREVER, and now as adults we realized it really took no time at all. Heck, we might go up there every weekend...okay maybe once a month! We stayed overnight at the casino hotel in Payson and then ate at our favorite local breakfast eatery The Knotty Pine, then we went shopping for gifts and stumbled upon this beautiful park and historical museum complete with a large lake full of ducks and GIANT geese....so much fun!

Can't wait til Christmas!!!

Thanksgiving Goodness at Home

So, this Thanksgiving we offered to provide ALL the pies for the Huge Ramos Family celebration at mom's. Mom was like, "Pies, that easy right?" But, Garrett and I were all about BAKING these pies from SCRATCH right now to the pie crust. And we did, we baked several Dutch apple pies, pumpkin pies and pecan pies. It was yummy, fun and a little stressful towards the end of the night....

Garrett got the honorary position of Turkey Carver and we had a super yummy turkey dinner!

We stayed at mom's until about 3p or so then we headed up to Payson to see some friends and we stayed the night.

That's the next blog....