dates and wnba

Some things Collin and I have been doing together, lately

Driving to Cooliage, AZ, to go to Randolf Center

the sky was blue; the desert was fresh; the husband 

was happy and there was great conversation.

Apparently this is the color we want for the baby's room.
I sort of got the picture.

I sat in back on the way home. feet needed to be up.
they are all puffy these days.

these were going to be pancakes, but
they were so thin so Collin called them belinis.
they were quite delicious.
we were so hungry that we ate each one as it was done.

Usually Collin takes the metro to work and I have the car,
but I was going to meet him downtown that day, so I decided
I wanted him to drive so that I could metro. I hadn't since we've
moved here.
It was great. Man, the metro in Phx sure is cheap and clean.
Lots of crazies, of course, which I like and which reminded me of DC.

Collin's coworker gave him tickets to a Mercury game. I'd never been,
but we were excited to do something different. It was a totally different
experience from going to a suns game, but man, were the fans loyal, excited,
and loud. the Mercury was behind 10-20 points the whole game and SOMEHOW
they came back and won by 1 basket at the last few minutes! it was pretty
exciting. hehe.

got these delicious nachos.

We've been wanting to see the Modern Mexican Paintings
exhibit at the Phx Art Museum, but we can never go because
CS works till after it closes. BUT! Wednesday nights they stay open
late, phew! It was a really great exhibit. I recommend highly.

I didn't see any "no photos" signs, so I took them freely at first, but then a very
nervous volunteer came up to me and asked me to stop. hehe, oops.

There was this one piece that we'd never seen anything like. It was so beautiful,
but I couldn't get a photo.

Go see it.

Loved these bibs in the gift shop.

Every night at 10:30, Collin falls asleep, exhausted. I usually am super tired too,
but sometimes I stay up a little later in bed, just reading.

I love him. We are making a human. We're going to be parents. A Mom and Dad.

It's like, whoa.

What a night it was!

November 17th we saw Azure Ray at the Rock and Roll Theatre in DC. Beforehand we went to a trivia night in the restaurant upstairs. We killed it. We want to start going more often. ALSO they have free dance parties every 3rd Friday of the month! Sweet. 

One of the opening bands was Tim Fite. He was so awesome!

 His eyes would look into you and it was SO scary/amazing.

RAMBO BAD!

Here they are...my heart skipped. Just as beautiful and wonderful as the years before.

Maria Taylor & Orenda Fink

After the show we headed back to the metro for the ride home, but alas! It stops 

running after midnight on the weekdays!!! How do we ALWAYS get ourselves into 

this situation??? haha. Luckily a random nice girl from the show offered for us to 

ride in her cab with her (we had no cash and the cab wouldn't take credit!) and wait

in her apartment lobby till someone could come pick us up.

She was a very interesting lady. We all had a great conversation. 

 The cab driver was super nice too. A great bunch of humans

Us waiting in the lobby. Our friends, the Beh's came to our rescue! 

The only people we could think off who didn't have kids and had a car.

So late. So saved us. I mean, we technically could have slept on the couch

in the apartment lobby and taken the metro straight to work the next day,

but that would have been a whole other adventure.

Oh Maria and Orenda. One of their numbers, November, is one of my favorite songs ever. I have it recorded from the show, but the file is too big to upload on here, apparently. I had some tears as they played it and so many memories came over me. Long dark nights driving home from Intriguing's house or back to Flagstaff while it snowed on Bumblebee, or laying on the air mattress staring  up at my posters in the triangle. Due to the Slant.

THE FOURTH!!!

I am finally posting photos of the 4th of July. This was THE BEST DAY ever. We went to church and had an awesome/super crazy testimony meeting and my FAMILY was there, yahoo! Then we rode the metro downtown to the mall where the ACTION WAS. We are awesome. No traffic because we drove to the end of the green line and took it in from there. EVERYONE and his dog and grandmother was on the red line. Suckers!

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Air and Space Museum!!

so awesome! our bodies in in-fared. super hot/scary.

armpits! and we weren't even sweating!!!

Dad and his son

We just have to do it. Every fourth of July! People thought we were SUPER crazy. They were taking pictures of us...

Getting ready for the show. Look at the red, white, blue SKY!

Here's where the fireworks begin. THEY. WERE. SPECTACULAR. It was super awesome with the Washington Memorial in the foreground. These are a few of my favorite shots. I know there are a lot, but aren't they BEAUTIFUL????

Really gets me in the patriotic spirit.

Tons of people rushing into the metro afterward....they

are all headed to the red line...but not us, HEHE!

Worn OUT

Mad because they made us get off the train, but too HAPPY to be mad!

AND THEN!!! The WHOLE train broke out singing Patriotic songs!!!! MOST INCREDIBLE THING EVER!! I'm going to put up a video I have of it!!!