It's Almost Time!

My husband and I are almost there...and I am sooo excited! Our 5 year Anniversary is on November 21st, and the other day we went and had these anniversary pictures taken.




We had a great time getting the pictures taken.

He is out hunting today, the first day of the hunt...so he looks a little more like this...

This was taken after a hunt last year..my son is kind of scowling at the deer in the back ground, it was his first time to see something like that.

I prefer the hot look up top personally...but, he loves to hunt, so this is a familiar look.

2 1/2 Hours Too Long

Every year I get my kids pictures taken professionally. This year is no different, other than I'm a bit late getting my girls' pics done. Oh yah, and this is also the first time that it has taken so freakin' long. Our appointment was at 3 p.m., in which we got in on time. But..we didn't get done until 5:20 p.m. And me and the photographer had a little talk when she told me that the enhanced photo would cost $80...WHAT?!, did I just go to France or something for our pictures???...Yep, that was my response.

So here is a little taste of what the pics turned out like...

Miss Alyssa...although the photographer kept calling her Taylor.

Miss Taylor..though the photographer kept calling her Alyssa. Hmm.

Taylor and Mom

Alyssa and Mom

Other than the pictures, I spent the day helping out my great friend Melissa. She just moved back out here near me again after years of being away. So she is desperately trying to find a job in this bad economy...and I'm deseperately trying to help her get one so she doesn't have to move back to Tucson which seems a world away from me.

Ooh, and today I got to take a tour of our new fire station that's being built. I'm one of the board members of the department, which is great for the learning experience, yet public speaking scares the hell out of me. Great combination! Our current fire station looks like an airplane hanger. The new one is nice and spacey and I cannot wait to see it all finished.

Whiskey Row

What a fun day today was. All the kids were in school and I was originally supposed to go with my man to the dentist. Well the dentist's office was kind enough to call him as we were leaving the house to cancel his appointment. This was a whole 15 minutes before his appointment. This is the second time they have done this. Great customer service!

So..instead of the dentist my husband decided to still take the day off of work and we took a trip up north the Prescott instead. We had a nice drive up there, and it was a good 10 degrees cooler than home.

We had a nice time looking through the shops and laughing at the funny sayings on some of the signs for sale. We bought a few things...my man bought a new cowboy hat and I bought a picture of p!nk.


And then we stopped in a shop that takes those old time photos. Oh what fun! While I couldn't get my husband to play along and take two of the poses that I thought were the funniest, which was one of him splayed out on the bar table passed out drunk with me standing behind him like I had just whacked him with a whiskey bottle, and the other was him shirtless in a tub and me sitting beside the tub with him looking like he's hollering and raising heck and me again giving him a look like if ya don't shut it then I'm gonna whack you with this whiskey bottle. So while we didn't get those poses, here is what we did get...

I believe that these may be the only pics like this that we ever get taken, as it costed us over $70 for the ones we purchased. Probably not though, because I really do like doing this. I get them taken every year at the state fair when I take my kids.













Once done with the pics we stopped for lunch and then hit DQ on the drive back home. Yum. I'm like a psycho hunting dog when it comes to spotting DQ's. HEY. DQ. STOP. TURN. NOW. NOW. NOW! AWW...GOT IT!