Fur, friends, family, and flees!

Last week, I went to the zoo with Ryan's cousin's wife (cousin-in-law?) and her two cutie patootie kids. We have a great zoo here...they even have baboons! I'd never seen a baboon before!



It's so great when kids don't know that you can put a quarter in and it makes the sounds for you...



We had a great lunch that afternoon with our friend Samir who is in med school and, lucky for us, has an easy rotation right now so he can sneak off for lunch some days! :)


Yesterday we went to the U of A vs. UNC basketball game...we were anxious annies from the tip off to the end, with a horrible loss of 62-94!

Ryan led worship at church again this morning!

This evening we went over to Chris and Melissa's for dinner....Chris made an incredible gourmet meal that was sooo delicious! Chris' mom is in town for the weekend, so we got to have a lot of fun spending time with her at Chris' concert last night, and dinner tonight!


And, of course we couldn't let the night slip away without another rendition of "My Cat Has Fleas" on the uke!

Ice Fights

Last weekend Lori, Ryan, and I went to an Ice Cats game (our Christmas gift from Sara!), unfortunately though Sara was sick and couldn't join us. I was really into the idea of seeing a fight on the ice, since that seems to be such a crucial element in hockey. Well, my wish was definitely granted, and I quickly regretted it...it just wasn't pretty. They were ripping each other's shirts off and going crazy until they got done on the ice and then the refs would break it up. Four players got kicked out of the game due to fighting and there were 120 minutes in the penalty box...it was an unreal kind of game....but a fun night out!

We're Tuc-sno-nans!

We were planning on going up to Mount Lemon today to go sledding and have a "real" winter experience, but then decided we'd wait until tomorrow to avoid the weekend traffic... But, the winter experience actually came to us instead while we were at Melissa and Chris'!

Prior to the knock on the door by a neighbor to tell us to come outside...


The second largest snowfall that Ryan can remember ever having in Tucson...the other being when he was 5...








And...of course a great rendition of "My Cat Has Fleas" on the ukulele to finish the night!

spray paint?

I was just at Home Depot to buy spray paint and decided to make my purchase in the self check-out lane to save. In my rushing to save time, I accidently pressed the button for everything to be in Spanish instead of English....which I wasn't too concerned about since rarely do you really even need to know what the "register" is saying. But of course that wasn't the case today. After I scanned my bottle of spray paint, the register screen said something in Spanish, and I could pick out that I needed to wait for cashier assistance. The cashier came over, and of course was a native Spanish speaker, and assumed I was as well since I was doing the check-out in Spanish, however she quickly learned that I couldn't keep up to her speed. It turns out that I needed to show my ID in order to buy spray paint! Who knew one could be carded at Home Depot!?

Momarama

My mom came to visit for a week, January 1-7. Much to my dismay, I didn't take many photos...I guess we were too busy having fun to take the time to capture it on film. :) Overall, we had a very relaxing week of sewing new placemats,

planting flowers,

creating a compost pile,

going for walks, etc.
We also went downtown for a great dinner and a great benefit concert that involved: Luca, the Pueblo High School Mariachi group, Luz de Luna Mariachi group, and Calexico. Our friend Chris played bass for both Luca and Calexico, so it was fun/proud night for us to get to cheer him on. It was an incredible show that involved 2 rock bands and 2 full mariachi groups...I mean there were like 50 people on stage at one point...it was crazy! It was soo much fun though...the perfect concert for anyone visiting Tucson to get a taste of our Mexican flavor.

Ryan and I were spontaneous with our cash for once and bought new shirts to support Calexico...


I took her and Grammie to the botanical gardens that I work at and we got to see all the beautiful butterflies fluttering around...


This morning I woke up nice and early to meet my college cross country for a 7.4 mile run at Sabino Canyon! He is originally from Tucson and still has a house here, so whenever he's in town we usually get together. Thankfully, I was in much better shape this time than during his last visit when I thought I was going to have to crawl up the canyon! :)