Rock On!

We went to the Foofighter/Weezer a.k.a Foo-zer concert on Wednesday night! We were joined by our friends, Brig, Russ & Nikki. The music was great...they were both great bands to watch and the opener, Kaiser Chiefs, wasn't too bad either. It went until midnight and we were very tired the next morning and still are. :D Gettin' old! But it was fun to go to a concert as we hadn't been to one in over a couple of years! Who knew that the replacement for lighters is opening your cell phone and waving it around in the dark! :D Depeche Mode is coming to town next month.... :D

Party all the time...

This weekend was a weekend full of parties...Friday night we went to a going away happy hour and got to see some work friends we hadn't seen in a while. Saturday, Ang went to a baby shower for her friends, Arlene & David, while Bob got ready for our party. Saturday night was the annual Maverick Night party.

It was a packed house full of people and food and beer. After a couple hours of socializing, we started the tournament. Everyone got a new name for the night...Ang was Tham Pawn & Bob was Clint Torres...say them fast and you get the idea. :D As people dropped out, a losers' table was started. Ang found some Euchre players and discovered that the upstate New Yorkers were much more advanced & cut-throat at Euchre than us laid-back Midwesterners. Six hours later a winner was showered with money. Andy Williams was our champion this year and the only repeat champion in the history of Maverick night. Others who placed in the money were Adrian Balderas, Stephen Kuenzli, Mark Jatcko, & Rich Johnson.


On Saturday, Ang went over to Bridget's for a crafting party and finished a couple more pages of the Scotland scrapbook. At this rate, it will take 6 months to finish the scrapbook...hopefully, Ang will learn some speed scrapbooking techniques soon!

Are you ready for some football?

This weekend was all about football. After picking up Bob's mom on Saturday, we went to the ASU-Northwestern football game. Ang's co-workers had given her their tickets, which were front row of the 2nd tier. In the first 5 minutes of the game, it looked like Northwestern might give ASU a workout, but for the rest of the quarter, ASU proceeded to stomp all over the Wildcats. We left at halftime.

On Sunday, we went into downtown Tempe again. We ate at Z Tejas for lunch and proceeded to head over to the stadium for the Cardinals-Rams game. Bob's sister had gotten us free tickets from the Rams owner, Georgia Frontiere. There were crazy lines outside the stadium due to the security measures, but we went over to will call and were able to sneak into the front of the line. We looked at the tickets and they were Suite tickets!!! We were in the visiting owners' suite! It was very cool with air conditioning, free food & beverage. We had a lot of fun & stayed for the entire game. Unfortunately, there are no pics because we didn't think we'd need a camera.

My first knitting project!

So here is my first knitting project. It took me many evenings of football and other TV shows and even a Diamondbacks game! I tried knitting in the car to & from Cornville, but I got carsick after one row. :( It's the one-skein wonder shrug, though I do have yarn left over! There are lots of mistakes because I can't count, but it's fuzzy yarn, so not as noticable! :D Anyway, after this first project, I've decided that I'm not going to join the dark side and will only knit when I want to make a scarf for myself. It hurts my wrists...RSI bad! >:( I will be devoting my crafting time to scrapbooking, sewing, beading, and other fun stuff... ;D

Weekend

Friday, I went scrapbooking with Stacy and put together the first 3 pages of our Scotland scrapbook...it took 2 hours for the title page...only 25+ more pages to go... :D

Saturday, we drove up to Cornville for Gina's (our niece) birthday party. She turned 3! It was fun hanging out at the compound and the cake was really yummy! The girls were pretty funny...

Princess cake!

Uncle Bob helping Gina dig into her b-day bag!

uggghhh...too much cake....

Labor Day Weekend

Bob's mom came to town on Thursday. Friday, I took the afternoon off to go shopping with her. I took her to IKEA and ended up buying silk pillowcases for our throw pillows and a comforter cover. :D Friday night we went to the Diamondbacks game - they lost. I knitted thru a lot of the game as it wasn't very interesting.

Saturday we watched the 1st half of the UM game at the Half Moon Bar & Grill in Phoenix - formerly known as Dan Ryan's and home of the Greater Phoenix UM Alumni Club. Got to sing the fight song - Go Blue! :D After lunch, we went to the Heard Museum as Bob & Mom Tucker had never been before. It was fun. For dinner, we ate a great Mexican place in downtown Chandler, El Zocalo. It's owned by the same people as El Sol Bakery in Chandler and Mango's in Mesa. Very yummy food! Best Pollo en Mole I've ever had! :D Saturday night, Jaime (Bob's sister) came in with her girls.

Sunday, we all went to the Hamilton Water Park in Chandler. Lots of fun and very cheap! :D Spent the rest of the day chilling out. Monday, Jaime left with Mom and the girls. Bob & I just hung out for the rest of the day.