Adios mi amiga

Jules I am missing you.  Hope you are loving Puerto Rico, learning Spanish, eating yummy new foods, and enjoying the beach with Sadie.  Thanks for letting us say goodbye with a delicious sushi dinner.

The Fourth of July

Michelle's artwork

Catching up on celeb gossip

The boys

Snacking and Relaxing 

It's been a long day... everyone passed out on the sand

The day was spent at the beach from morn until night. We had a great day relaxing with friends. Tim surfed all day, he only came out to say hello to friends and eat some snacks. The weather was a little crummy till the early afternoon, but it was still warm out and we enjoyed chatting, reading mags, and sleeping. The night ended with a BBQ at our place and to our surprise fireworks right at our house. We were greatly surprised with two firework shows right outside our front yard. I love this holiday!

First day of SUMMER!

LOVE this place.

It is officially summer! I absolutely love this season, the blue skies, clear water, hot summer nights, bbq's, fireworks, beach days. What could be better?

We kicked off the first day of summer at the bay with many friends. The weather was amazing, it must have been 94 degrees on the sand, the water was clear and blue, lots of seashells, and hot sunny skies. The water was warm, I found myself enjoying playing around in the whitewash and walking down the beach. Brian and Tim enjoyed surfing the big waves, while Russ, Gregg, Peter, Ben and Steve enjoyed swimming, body surfing, and boogie boarding. The girls, Jules, Sadie, Cara, Jaymie, Nic and Lauren enjoyed chit chatting and reading gossip mags. I am looking forward to spending every Saturday and the beach with good friends!

waxing the new board

the boys

surfing girl

playing in the sand

the Boyer's

Scottsdale Arizona

I had a few meetings to attend in Scottsdale. While there I was able to meet up with Jeremy and Camille. It turns out they lived on the golf course of the resort I stayed at. Camille and I enjoyed laying out at the pool a couple times. The more I get to know her I just adore her! She is a great match for Jeremy and we really miss them. We hope they can move here someday! Jeremy is a good friend and example to Tim. We are so happy for the two of them!

Arizona was a bit warm... 108 degrees,but I did not mind the warm weather. I loved wearing dresses at night. The trip was mostly business but a couple nights I got to enjoy the shopping and dining next to the hotel. It was fun to get away.

The Bones

Interesting flower displays

Dawn, Nic, Bee

The view

A few new items

We are really enjoying our new BBQ and our new home.  I absolutely love having friends and family over for BBQ's and treats.   Timmy is a stellar chef on the BBQ, I love the fish he makes!  Every week and weekend since we have had the BBQ we have had people over and I am LOVING it!  

Checking it out

Our first BBQ meal on our new patio furniture

Decorating our new abode has been a lot of fun. Tim understands that I enjoy doing this so he lets me pick out all the colors and all the cute furniture. Thank goodness the newly painted walls look great and he likes the fun colors.  I would love to decorate homes and shop of unique furniture. I have not taken photos of all of our new purchases but here are a couple...

kitchen rug

First house warming gift! Thanks Hansen's. I love it!!

a quick visit

The Girls

Us

Holly  came to town for a short weekend visit. We were able to meet up with here during our moving for a yummy lunch visit. Whenever she comes to town we always go to Javiers! Since the Laguna location has closed down and moved north we had the opportunity to finally check out the new Javiers in Newport Coast.  The decor is amazing, I am not sure what I enjoyed the most ... the food, the fans or the lanterns. I sure would love to decorate a huge home and a cozy patio! The best would be decorating all sorts of random homes with someone else's cash. Although we only spent a couple hours with Holly we enjoyed the visit. We miss you Holly come back soon.

We are back...

You may have wondered where we have been?  The past month has been non stop busy, flying by extremely fast.  I have been working the night shift for the past three weeks, which totally throws my entire body and life off.  I am continuously exhausted.  I had a major color deadline at work where I colored about 60 shoes and materialized half of those.  

We have been packing and unpacking.  Buying our first home and moving, all very unexpectedly and faster than we could have ever imagined.  We made the decision to buy in all of one day and moved in 3 weeks later to our new abode.  Thank fully my sister has come over to help unpack the kitchen and organize the tons of dishes and pots n pans we have.  It has been so fun opening boxes, it is like we just got married all over again, seeing all the great gifts we received from our wedding that have never been used!  So excited to BBQ, make fresh juice and homemade ice cream.  

When I am not working and not unpacking I have been shopping like crazy for furniture. I love decorating! Still looking for a few more items for the house, if anyone wants to shop with me let me know.

We love visitors, so stop by anytime!

My desk, you can not see all the material books, but my desk is covered with them.

Katri working it in the kitchen

Tim and Matt attempting to add a leaf to our table

We love our wedding gifts!

Is there enough stuffing in every box?