Friday, February 25, 2011

Flashback Friday

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This week I decided to flash back to Christmas, when my nephew still had both of his front teeth!

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Scroll down for after pictures!

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Update Too!

Vegas continued to be a great trip. The next day we geocached a bit more, this time on the north end of the strip. We also did something new, something we should have been doing for years – had our nails done! This was the greatest girliest thing ever! Look at our pretty nails!

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Susan had never had solar nails before and we found a very nice place. I had gel polish done with sparkles and black tips. The gel polish is a brand new thing that lasts a month! At this point I have had it on two weeks and it still looks great! Here is another cache that we found, it was quite a walk off the strip but it was a great one to find.

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The last night was Cher’s last show. It was so bittersweet. The show was fantastic and we had awesome seats, but it was so hard to tell all of our friends good bye. Here are some of my favorites – no explanation needed.

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When I got home, Brass was very glad to see me!
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I got to hang out with an elephant gun.
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I had the privilege of attending my nephew’s 8th birthday. Here is me with far away family.
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AND I got to hang out even more with my best friend!
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This sums up a large part of our relationship!

This past few days of updating was pretty fun! I hope to blog more this year - and also floss more.

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

UPDATE - Part Duex

The beginning of 2011 brought many cold and interesting days. We actually saw some snow.

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But more than snow, we had record breaking cold temperatures. I dressed in layers and had the mascara freeze on my lashes!

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I geocached a ton, finding more caches in January then I have in another month. YAY ME! And I also started going to the gym much more. In my first step class I pulled my left calf muscle and could hardly walk for a week. Here is the calf all taped up with KT tape.

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Notice Brass here and his handsome face. This is before he got in a fight at work. (Another interesting event to start off February) After the fight is pictured here. Many stitches, antibiotics, and eye drops later, he is fine! The stitches came out today!

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He has a great cosmetic surgeon!

Right after this happened I headed out to Las Vegas. I met Susan out there and the trip was just amazing! We went to see Cher’s final shows and had a great time. I had to change my flight because of weather and was able to get there SO much earlier! It was a relief to arrive safe and sound. I was so happy to see Susan and I think she was pretty glad to see me too! We hung out in the room for a while squealing like little girls and exchanging gifts.

After a great night was had by all, we got up early Thursday and grabbed breakfast at McDonalds. We grabbed the bus and checked into the Flamingo Hotel. I loved this hotel! It smells good and everything is PINK!! Whoop! We got In N Out Burger for lunch which we LOVE!!

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We are so sad when it’s gone!

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This day we geocached our way thru the strip. We have found many caches here before, so it was fun to try and find some we had not found in the past. I had a few trackables to drop and we were able to do that! All three have been picked up by good cachers and will be moved on! I also picked up this cool one from Colorado!

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TO BE CONTINUED!
More Vegas to come!

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

UPDATE - Finally (part one)

While writing this post I had every intention of it being one large update blog. Well it seems that it is just too much for one post, so I will break it up and post the rest in the next few days. So stay tuned!

Hi all, well it has been quite a busy few months for me. I thought I would just make a nice huge blog to update everyone and hit on a few major events. The holiday started off with a bang at thanksgiving. Our whole family was able to be together for the first time in 7 years and that was a blast! It’s always fun seeing the kids and with Thanksgiving being one of my favorite holidays it made it even sweeter. December started out with a whirlwind trip to London. It started out as a trip to see a Meat Loaf concert and turned into hanging out with friends, going to a movie premiere and seeing Cher! (as well as an unforgettable night in Sheffield)

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I flew in to London early Saturday morning, got picked up by Jazz, her mom and Susan at the airport. They ran us to the bus station where Susan and I grabbed a 5 hour ride up to Sheffield. We took walked to the hotel and grabbed a tram to the concert. After the show we got to meet Paul Crook and of course see our friend Patti Russo! It was so great to see them and the night was truly unforgettable.

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The next morning we grabbed the bus back to London and spent the afternoon seeing the sights.

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Westminster Abbey

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Big Ben by night

Monday was spent hanging out and waiting for the Red Pink carpet premiere of Burlesque.

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Well the wait was worth it because Cher came by twice and even signed my book.

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From there we RAN to the Graham Norton show because we had tickets to that nights taping – with special guest CHER! We made it just in time and happened to bump into the right person who let us in! After three unbelievable days in London I was on my way back to real life.

As soon as I got home I had to get ready for my birthday weekend! That Saturday I turned 31 and truly had an amazing birthday.

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Birthday Picture!

I had a group of ladies over for lunch and mom and I shopped and ran errands and got Starbucks and just did anything I wanted to for my day! Mom even surprised me with a cake, which I LOVED by the way!

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Birthday picture with My Boy!

Christmas came next and with that came the far away family again! Because they had missed my birthday they brought my gift a bit late. Well what a fun surprise! They hid three caches in honor of me and Cher! I had to find them and then we had them logged permanently into the system for other people to find. Christmas came a few days later and it was, as always, great to see everyone open their gifts. We had some big and small surprises including a new train for me from my dad. My gift to everyone was matching pajamas!

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Ok I will stop here for today before your eyes start bleeding from all these pictures you are overwhelmed with this huge post! More to come!!