Wedding, Engagement, Table, and First Day!

Last time I updated we were off to California for Sergio and Andi's wedding. The wedding went great. Andi looked beautiful and they were both so happy. I don't have any pictures of the wedding since we were both busy being in the wedding! 

We have been spending most of our free time doing "house stuff". Last weekend, George finished the table and bought and assembled chairs to go with it! We also decided on paint colors and booked the painter for the weekend that we move in. On Sunday, we looked at tons of couches. We finally decided on one from Costco so George and his dad went and bought it tonight....and barely fit it in the truck. This week, our goal is to decide on a washer/dryer and fridge. 

Not too much has changed since the last pictures that I posted, but here is the most recent!

Over the weekend, my good friend Marie got engaged to her boyfriend, CJ! Brittany and I are having dinner with her to see the ring and get the details in person! :)

What else.....

Hannah starts his senior year tomorrow!! I can't believe it.....seems like just yesterday that she was going to kindergarden. Haha. But really, it does! Can't believe that next year it will be college.

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. 

Tucson

I was gone last week for a work training in Tucson so I did not get around to updating. Although, since I was in training....in Tucson (not much happening there), I wouldn't have had much to write about even if I did have time. 

This past weekend, my work had an employee appreciation event at Wet and Wild Water Park. It had been awhile since I had been to a water park and it did not disappoint. Waterslides are SO fun, aren't they?? I brought Marie, Hannah, Jeremiah, and Emily....George had to work (he has had kind of a crappy work schedule over the past few weeks). It was a lot of fun. The one bummer was that the lines were super long so we didn't get to go on all of the slides. 

We should find out our official move-in date this week. It sounds like it will be in mid August. George went by today and said that the insulation is now in. We're thinking that the drywall will be next. THEN all of the fun stuff (tile, counters, etc). 

We have been looking just about every night online for home decor items. We browse different websites to get ideas. Last weekend, I bought a couple of items that I had my eye on. My mom also found this cool printer's box from an antique shop in Pinetop. I love it and it matches the one that my parents have (theirs is in the cabin). Let me know if you have any idea of little trinkets that I can put in it! 

Kitchen Table

George and I have been looking at a lot of furniture online lately. Just kind of getting ideas as to what we might like for our house. We have a small amount of furniture from our apartment and George has a bit from the house he rented with friends before we moved to CA. We have our bed, my small twin bed, a desk, side table, shelving unit (that we used as an entertainment center), coffee table, and small couch. We will have a loft upstairs so we plan to use some of our current furniture up there (i.e. small couch, shelving thing). Other than that, we aren't going to worry too much about decorating/furnishing the upstairs too much (at least for awhile). Downstairs is where we will focus. We have the office, the dining room (which we plan to use as a piano room instead...George bought a piano a few years ago on Craigslist), and the kitchen/living room area. So, our major purchases are going to be a bigger couch or couch and a love seat and an entertainment center of some sort. We were going to also buy a table, BUT George is making one instead!! He did quite a bit of research online to figure out what materials he needed, the measurements, tools, etc. On Sunday, he went with his dad to get the wood (they're using pine) and they started to construct it. So far, it looks really good. I'm excited to see the final result.

Lazy Saturday

I am currently enjoying a lazy Saturday. I love the weekends....don't we all? Except for those of you who are retired. In your case, everyday is a weekend!

We had a great time at the cabin over Memorial day. Half of us headed up on Friday (Paisley, my dad, Emily, George, and me) and the rest (Brian, Terrisa, Emily, Hannah, Jeremiah, and my mom) came up on Saturday morning. 

Prior to heading up there though, George and I went to Yewon's graduation from high school and Sarah Moser's graduation party. Yewon only had 6 people in her graduating class....yes, SIX! She went to a really tiny Christian school in Mesa called Redeemer. Yewon spoke at the ceremony - she read a Bible verse that her and the other students chose as a representation of their time in high school. She also gave a little talk on why they chose that verse. She did a great job. Afterward, we popped in at Sarah's graduation party. I have to say, the fact that she is graduating makes me feel old! I used to babysit Sarah when she was in 1st grade and now she is off to college. Crazy! Hannah will be next.

Back to the cabin trip....Saturday was spent hanging out at the rec center in the neighborhood. We had a few ping pong matches (Brian and Terrisa beat George and I in an intense match), played some Rummikub (I won), and then joined in on BINGO! They had a few sessions of BINGO - one for kids, one for teens, and one for adults. Hannah won the grand prize in the teen round. George and Terrisa both won a game in the adult round. Their prizes were decent....Hannah got a sleeping bag, George got two pizza pans, and Terrisa got a running pack with a with a water bottle. Nothing like a riveting round of BINGO! We finished off the day with a spaghetti dinner and a movie. 

On Sunday, we all went to the movies (minus Brian who was watching Paisley). The guys watched Man in Black 3 and the girls saw What to Expect When You're Expecting. Brian and my dad golfed in the afternoon while the rest of us relaxed at the cabin. At night, we found a restaurant that could accommodate our huge party and then came home, watched another movie and made milkshakes (Strawberry Haagen Dazs shakes, of course). 

On Monday, we went on a family run/bike ride and then packed up and went home. Fun weekend with family :)

This week was busy at work, as usual. The summer months tend to be busy for us. I guess people like to eat some cold ice cream when it is 115 degrees outside. I do.

Not much going on this weekend. George is swinging by the house on his way home from work today so I might have some updates on the house for you all tomorrow. We are probably looking at a mid August move-in date. I'm sure it will be here before we know it! We actually might go look at some furniture tonight or tomorrow. 

I made peach cobbler (from the peaches that we picked) for the cabin. It got good reviews :)

Yewon speaking at her graduation ceremony

The people that I beat