Kitchen!

OK, here's a really, really quick post. I am literally about to jump in the car to drive to California for Sergio and Andi's wedding (on Sunday, rehearsal tonight). BUT before I do that, I wanted to share some house updates. I am particularly excited about the latest progress, because now I have a kitchen!! Here are some pictures....

Off to California....

Family Vacation

Hello Everyone! We just got back from vacation and we are tired! We had a long and exciting couple of days of traveling....i'll get to that later.

First, our trip. George and I headed out to Rochester last Friday. We didn't have much time there before we headed to Canada on Saturday. We made a quick stop in Syracuse to see our Aunt Lesley and cousins, Sarah and Ian (we just found out that they're coming to AZ for Christmas!) We arrived in Pineridge on Saturday right before dinner. Arriving there and seeing everything that I remembered from 14 years ago was one of the most exciting parts of the entire trip for me. It looked exactly the same as I had remembered. 

The week was wonderful. We spent most of our time relaxing, laying around, and reading...not bad, huh? We also did some fishing, cliff jumping into the lake, and swimming. Every evening we all gathered in the big log home for dinner, games, and hanging out. I'm so glad we all made the trip happen. It will definitely one that we will all remember. 

After Pineridge, we headed back down to Rochester for a couple of days. We did our usual favorite things.....Friendly's, Abbotts, etc! As always, time with our two Grandmas was great too :)

         

AND....staying true to the Warren tradition, we got bumped on our flight home from Rochester. We were traveling with Brian, Terrisa, Paisley, and Emily and all five of us got bumped. AirTran put us up overnight in a hotel in Atlanta and gave us TWO free roundtrip tickets each. We spent the next day hanging out in Atlanta until our flight the next evening. We took a tour of the CNN Center and ate lunch at Brian and Terrisa's favorite Mexican restaurant in Atlanta. Soo....now we need to plan our next trip. AirTran flies to Aruba, Dominican Republic, Cancun, the Bahamas.....oh yes!

Better Late Than Never

I think I am overdue for a post....better late than never, I guess!

Since we had yesterday (July 4th) off of work, my week is all screwed up. Today felt like Monday and Tuesday felt like a Friday. The good news is that the weekend came up really fast. Yesterday, we went to the lake with the Froehle's (family friends in Las Sendas). They have a really nice boat and just about every summer they've invited us to join them on it for a day. Yesterday was very strange weather for an Arizona summer. It was overcast almost all day....that NEVER happens here during the summer. Oh and the temperature was around 80 degrees all day. We got rained out of the boat after a couple of hours, but the nice weather made up for it. George and I went over to our friend's house for a BBQ. Nick put on a nice firework show for all of us. I actually took a video of it that I will post later. Speaking of firework show, did you hear about the mess up at the one in San Diego? Apparently, the entire 20 minutes worth of fireworks were set off in 10 seconds. Oooops!

Over the weekend, George and I went with his family to the SRP cabins near Saguaro Lake. SRP stands for Salt River Project....it is a utility company that Anna works for. When they were building the dams around Arizona, they also built housing for the workers. They now rent out the housing to SRP employees. The cabins were right next to the river (and dam, obviously) so we walked down to the river and hung out for awhile. They also had this little game room to hang out in.  Here are some pictures!

This one is from the boat on the 4th. Notice the clouds that Hannah is driving us rich into!

I am getting so excited for our vacation. We are going to Pineridge, a "resort" in Canada that my Dad has been going to with his family since he was a kid. It really isn't a resort....more like a step up from camping. They have little cottages with 2 bedrooms each. We haven't been in years (probably 12+ years, I guessing). I have such great memories of trips there with our cousins. I can picture the entire place perfectly in my head. I can't wait to see if it is like I remember.