A fleeting chance at fame

This weekend has been our Sonoran Living audition weekend.  Sonoran Living is a local talk show – a Today Show for Phoenix if you will – and a friend-of-a-friend is a frequent contributor on the show. 

But we were still very surprised to receive TWO invitations this weekend.  Laura Mahoney is a party-planner, decorator and held two themed-events this weekend to later be presented on the show.

On Friday night, Aaron and I went to a couples game-night.  (THANKS Aunt Lic for baby-sitting!!)  We’d met several of the couples before but primarily knew our friends Mike and Jacquelyn – so this was a good excuse to make some new friends.  The group was energetic, food was delicious, and the games were extremely fun.  We played a version of the ‘Marriage Ref’ in which each couple argued a trivial topic and then allowed the audience to vote on a winner.  [I lost ours by the way and now need to pick up my own shoes.]  There was also a version of the newlywed game and a husband’s blind taste-test to guess his own wife’s cooking (all of the husbands got this right).

On Saturday morning, Laura hosted an art exhibition at Aaron Brothers for the kids.  The 6 kids are all approximately the same age and they had an opportunity to select their own supplies and make their own art.  It was very cute and Elayna seemed to have a great time.

We’ll see if any photos of us appear on the TV show.  But it was a fun weekend even if we don’t become famous…. 

          

A Fridge Story … Part II

Have I talked about this fridge enough?  Because I’m frankly sick of it – regardless of if the blog-biosphere is yet or not.

The new fridge was delivered on Friday.  It was beautiful.  It was a beautiful, non-functioning fridge.  Saturday morning – after giving it the benefit of the doubt – Aaron called Lowes to complain.  The customer service rep recommended we unplug/replug the fridge and give it another 24-hours.

This morning …. still room temperature.  Another call to Lowes has yielded us a ‘temporary’ fridge that does in fact appear to work properly.  I am tempted to keep it forever except that its dented and not the fridge that we ordered.  Our real, newly replaced new fridge is expected to arrive on Wednesday.

So in the course of a week, we’ll have 4 different fridges in our house (the old fridge, the new-non-working fridge, the temporary fridge, and hopefully a perfectly beautiful working fridge).  All of this is fairly unimportant since we no longer have food to put in it.  Most of our food has gone bad and I refuse to buy anymore until we can guarantee it a safe home.  So…. next stop:  Taco Bell!!

Anniversary in Flagstaff

Happy 12-years to Aaron and I!!  It is surreal how quickly time has flown by and what an incredible 12-years we’ve had together.

For the last few years, Aaron and I have spent our anniversary weekend in Tucson.  This year we decided to head the opposite direction to Flagstaff.  Our little family spent Friday and Saturday night at a beautiful hotel in the pines.

Our hotel had a 2-mile hiking trail, playground, and swimming pool; we explored them all on Saturday.  Elayna was a leisurely hiker, stopping frequently to play in the dirt or demanding rides from Aaron.  But the pool afterwards was heavenly and we all took great naps that afternoon.

Saturday night we explored downtown Flagstaff.  There was fun live music in the square, a yummy dinner, and some fun shopping.

Sunday was delightfully overcast and perfect for exploring the volcano park.  Elayna was a great hiker and very good sport.  We headed home after that to take naps and recoup.  It was a great weekend!!

Death of a Fridge

I can hear the fridge slowly dying in the kitchen.  The motor sounds like a diesel engine – and since it’s no longer efficient at keeping things cool, it runs all the time.  Several nights ago, Aaron hopped out of bed to shift it – secretly hoping the midnight dance would magically fix things.  It didn’t.

Last night we drove to Lowes to investigate replacement options.  I thought Elayna would have a great time exploring the appliances but she was not the least bit interested in what we were actually at the store to shop for.  First, she had to grumpily complain because we didn’t get a shopping cart that looked like a race car.  Then she tried every piece of outdoor furniture.  And THEN she played with two demo toilets, gleefully saying ‘Potty – ehhhhh!!’ every time she looked in one (over and over about a million times).

We ended up buying a fridge just to help the poor salesman who had to explain their features twice – once to me and again to Aaron after we traded parenting duties.

About 5 minutes ago I received the confirmation call from Lowes about our delivery.  Next Friday.  That’s right – 8 more days of the poor complaining fridge.  <Sigh>

  Isn’t it pretty though?

Congratulations to Aaron

We found out yesterday that Aaron was officially offered a great promotional opportunity at Honeywell!!  He’ll be the quality manager specifically supporting AirBus and have 3 employees reporting to him (2 in France, one in German). 

I’m very excited for him as this will be a GREAT boost and he gets an additional week of vacation.   CONGRATULATIONS, HONEY!!