Holiday activities...

Finished up the oil painting class and here is my second masterpiece...

My friend, Stacy, got married on Dec 10th...



On Dec 11th, the Secrests carried on the annual Muszynski Christmas party. The food and company were great! :D


This past weekend, Bob & I bought our Christmas present to ourselves - the iJoy massage chair. It feels very good on a sore back...

The next Monet

This fall I'm taking an oil painting class. It's taught by a older woman named Dora McWilliams. She tells funny stories and teaches by example...Here's my first effort.


Currently we're working on another larger landscape which I'll post when we're done. It's fun, and I get paint all over myself! :D

Anniversary #2 and counting!

The night of our anniversary (Nov 15th), we went to Shabu Fondue for a yummy dinner. To celebrate our second anniversary, we went down to Tucson for the following weekend. We stayed at a great B&B, Jeremiah Inn, where the owners provided lots of information, great breakfasts, yummy home-made cookies, and a hot tub with a beautiful view of the Catalina Mountains.

Saturday, we played golf at Arizona National just a mile down from our B&B. It was an amazing golf course with beautiful scenery.
It was also the weekend of the Tour de Tucson, a bike race around the perimeter of Tucson, so we had to take a roundabout way to the course.

Sunday morning after breakfast, we hiked into Bear Canyon to the Seven Falls. The desert scenery was beautiful, although the falls didn't have much water. We'll have to go back after the rains...


After the hike, we went back into Tucson, for yummy Mexican food at El Charro and then wandered downtown at the Holiday Craft Fair in the Tucson Art Museum (well, actually I shopped and Bob found a local bar). :P

All in all, it was a great trip and we got to explore Tucson a little bit.

Showered!

Okay, so the clutter is driving me crazy but the purging is being delayed by life's many activities...I'm going to save it for the holiday break. On Saturday, November 12th, I attended a couple of showers for a couple of Stacys. :D I drove Brig, because she was jet-lagged from returning from her trip to Italy.

The first was a bridal shower held for one of my belly dance friends, Stacy Jenkins. It was a lot of fun, and thankfully, there weren't a lot of games. :D Here's a picture of Stacy showing off her new lingerie


The second shower was a baby shower held for my first cubemate and fellow rotational engineer at Motorola, Stacy Johnson. It was quite posh decorated in a French bistro style with a gazebo, chocolate fondue fountain, and lots of yummy food! Here's a picture of Stacy with an amazing diaper cake she received: