Check out what Fast, Furious rain does to AZ...

A huge winter storm slammed into Arizona Thursday, flooding highways and forcing some evacuations, stranding travelers at the Phoenix airport, and prompting Gov. Jan Brewer to declare a state of emergency for the entire state.

As heavy rains continued to pummel the Valley, Glendale officials Thursday offered residents safety tips and free sandbags to protect their homes.

Glendale remained under a flash flood watch, according to the Phoenix National Weather Service. Prolonged, widespread rains were expected to bring another 1.5 inches of rain between Thursday afternoon and early Friday.

Sustained winds of up to 40 miles per hour are expected throughout the West Valley, with some chance of gusts exceeding 60 miles per hour, according to Dan Leins a meteorologist with the Weather Service.


HA!! I will admit our flash floods cause problems but even some businesses closed due to the heavy rains. I bet our Oregon family members would be laughing at us now!!

I LOVE this RAIN and am trying to savor every second and listen to every raindrop!!! Finally something different than blue sunny skies ;)

EVEN MORE FUN IN FLAGSTAFF!! Dang I wish I was there too...

New Years Eve w/los amigos la Cervantes!!

Okay, I don't habla. Clearly. Last 3 years on New Year's Eve, we go out our side door to the next-door neighbors house, the Cervantes, and Fiesta with those Mexicans who really know what they're doin!! :D Eat and karaoke all night! Imelda and I have our standards, with our favorite one being "Only the good die young" by Billy Joel...she sings "the mormon girls start much too late" while I sing "I'd rather laugh with the Catholics than cry with the Saints!" Unison..."the sinners are much more fun..." Of course it's all in good fun cuz I am of course, a good little mormon girl and they get us Cherry Pepsi and well, I guess even that's debatable but I'm not perfect :)

These are the twins Janette and Giovanna...Maddi would go play with them almost everyday, Jarom would too actually since Danny was still too little. Oh the fun they'd have!


Oh Mr. Efron. Wow.

Mikki and all the little neighborhood friends she's played with for years...her oldest and dearest friend GrAAAAAAce (said like Ed the principal in Ferris Bueller's Day Off) and of course Danny, plus Joey (the house behind us-usually seen bouncing above the fence line on the trampoline) and Tanner from the Jr. High group.

Joey trying to act like he's passed out from the Sparkling Apple Cider

Pablo Cervantes...he thinks he passes as George Lopez





Okay, Menudo. I just can not partake, I know I know...I'm at a Mexican Fiesta and they serve Menudo at midnight. Too bad. Regan usually has some but this year...Maddi was the practically a Mexican WHITE GIRL this year...she ate a bowl, even the TRIPE!!! SICK!!! Anyway, she made Pete and Imelda very proud. They raised her right. the first two pics are of the cow HOOVES ick that you supposedly suck on?!?!? and the third picture is the tripe and Maddi actually sunk her pearly whites into that. I'm just not this brave!

the Rennies!!

We met Allen, his wife Jamie and 2 kids Alana and Derek at Glendale Glitters. Allen is a close awesome friend of Regan's from Gresham, OR...their childhood stories are classic! They're so close that even after years, they both were in sync and wore black leather jackets!


Those strawberry fruit kabobs and frozen cheesecake were YUMMY!

Christmas Lights

Seems like something dramatic or extraordinary happened this night but now I've forgot...It was Marcie's last Thanksgiving with us as a UofA student, not the last Thanksgiving mind you but the last one as a student of education at UofA. OH MY we'll miss her this time of year ::sniff sniff::

All of Courtney and Maddi's fun friends who came with us...

Thanks for all the efforts when choosing what to wear Jarom! He would not have left the house in this if he'd left with me. Dad is cool and doesn't care and luckily for low maintenance Jarom and an almost 95% guarantee he wasn't going to see anyone he knew (any girls he knew) the apre-Halo w/dudes outfit goes to the temple lights.

Who reads Confessions of a Mormon Bachelor Pad?

I don't know how many of you know about this blog or already read it but...it's fascinatingly horrible. Couple of RM's at BYU who blog about their dating escapades while trying to remain anonymous. It's crazy! I want them to be discovered, and please all my Mormon single ladies...not all boys are like this. I, and many others...have found HONEST AMAZING GUYS!! Don't give up hope but if your dates ever sound all too familiar to these blogs...RUN!!! Having said that, if I'm bored or during my lunch break at work...I find myself reading about these bachelor's ridiculous antics probably because with two daughters in college and listening to their tales...I'm awe struck and almost impressed these clowns are getting away with it.


Okay so, need a cheap, guilty read?? Start from the oldest posts, & go backwards or skip around by all means. These guys are idiots and I just don't see how it could really be happening nor do I see how any of their dates haven't figured it out. Doesn't everyone in the BYU/SLC area read blogs? They actually posted a letter some poor girl wrote after one of the guys had broken up with her...Oh My!

http://mormonbachelorpad.blogspot.com/2009/10/letter.html

I guess I'm supporting them with this blog but I find it amusing and maybe someone in Utah knows about it and that it's all a big GAG?? Let's just say I'd kill Jarom if he was involved ;)

Connolly Jr. High Flashback

HAHA...Halloween post first week of January! Awesome! I just didn't want to NOT post these cute pics of Mikki wearing my JUNIOR HIGH POMMIE UNIFORM...yep. The hair is fabulously late 70's and the thug in one of the pictures is one of her best friends next door...Dan the Man Cervantes. His mom Imelda and I like to be politically INCORRECT and call them M&M...Morman and Mexican :D Where's our M&M's? They've done quite a bit together this year...choir/band and cross country and next sport is track. Either of them could legitimately be called "SPEEDY GONZALEZ" The other buddies are bff's Amanda and Sara!

Uncle Johnny and Aunt Robbie and their pet, the Corvette

John and Robbie were touring with their Corvette club which brought them down South :) We were so glad they were able to visit real quick, never long enough but better than nothing. Every one of us says we'd live in Pocatello just cuz of John and Robbie. No battle.