Thanksgiving 2014

Thanksgiving 2014 was such a great holiday for us! We got to not only spend it with our little Arizona family, but we also got to see our good friends, Chris & Ainara, who flew into Tucson from Seattle, to visit Chris's parents.

Well start off with Thanksgiving day.  We decided to take it easy, we slept in and just hung out at around the house, until I got started on dinner.  I love cooking, especially for family & friends.  What was on our Thanksgiving dinner menu?  Turkey, Mashed potatoes & gravy, bacon wrapped asparagus, mac & cheese, and green bean casserole. It was my 1st time making the bacon wrapped asparagus & green bean casserole, and they both turned out great, thank goodness! lol.  I was also very happy that I was able to find 90% of our dinner ingredients at Trader Joe's :P

Here are some pics from Thanksgiving:

Our new formal dinning room.  We feel like such grown ups now, lol

I was very excited about our new placemats and dinner plates

Jon doing his yearly duties of pulling the neck and yucky stuff from out of the turkey

We had some champagne and brie while our the turkey was cooking

All set and ready for dinner!!!

Husband carving away 

Jon was very proud of his plate for dinner :)

Our little Arizona family! Me & Jon, and My little sister and her BF Austin 

After dinner & clean up, we all headed outside for a little bonfire

Friday evening, Jon and I made our way to Tucson to spend the weekend with Chris & Ainara and Chris's parents.   We stayed with them until Sunday afternoon.  Friday, we all just hung out at their house, enjoyed some pizza and drinks.  Saturday, the boys headed to the golf course, and us girls went out to do some shopping and lunch & drinks.

When we all got back to the Sherwoods house, the boys hung out in the pool.  Then we all got ready for the evening festivities, FOOTBALL!!! Our college teams were playing their rivals, 1st up, with our Oregon Ducks & Oregon Beavers, of course, the ducks dominated and did a great job :)  Then it was time for the Washington State Cougars & Washington Huskies (boo)…. The cougs did not do so well, and got beat by the Huskies, but it was still a great night and a fun night of football.

Ainara and I, we captioned this photo "Bisco Wives" since our husbands work together :)

The gang 

The boys being silly in the pool

The view from the backyard, so pretty :)

The whole gang watching football.  Chris's dad is in the 3rd seat, and his mom is next to Jon.  The other couple are good friends with Chris's parents. 

Go Cougs & Go Ducks! 

We had such a great holiday weekend, it was great to catch up with our friends.  And Tucson is not a bad place, I love how cute it is :)

Goodbyes & Pool parties!!!

I'm sad that it’s Monday, that my mom is back in Oregon, and that my lovie had to leave at 3:00am this morning to catch his flight to Alabama, which will be his home for the next week.  I always have such a hard time having him gone; I’m still adjusting to this new life.  I'm so thankful that my little sister lives with us, because I don’t know how I would survive being alone all the time!  

But we had such a great weekend, so that makes everything a little better!  

Friday was our last day with our mom, so Michelle and I both worked half the day, and then spent the rest of the day with our mamma!  We took her to In-N-Out for lunch, because she need her burger fix, and then we headed to the zoo.  We didn’t walk around the zoo, because it was about 104’ out, and our mom is not a fan of the heat, so we just went into the gift shop so our mom could get some souvenirs.

Mom and I at the Zoo entrance

After the zoo, I decided to take our mom to Dos Gringos for some drinks.  I think this was our 1st time at a bar with our mom.  We hung out there for a while, and Jon came to join us after her got off work.  We had such a fun time!

Photobomb!

Happiness with my mamma and siser!

My lovie and I!

We spent the rest of our evening at home, relaxing, mom made mole for dinner, and then we FINALLY watched Frozen.  I’vebeen wanting to watch that movie for so long!

Saturday, we had to be up bright and early to take our mom to the airport, sad day :(  It was so nice to have our mom here with us for a week, and her home cooking wasn’t too bad either, lol.  Now let’s just hope I can pull off some of her yummy recipes on my own!

After that airport drop off, we headed to the hardware store to get some PINK paint so I can FINALLY start getting my “Dressing Room” together, YAY! I can’t wait to post a before / after picture of my room!

Jon and I had such a productive morning, we got the paint, checked out Planet Fitness near our house and got our gym membership, ran to his office, checked out a mall by our house, and had a nice little lunch date :)

It was such a hot sunny day, that when we got home, we decided to have a little pool party.  We had our music playing, nice cold drinks, and played some pool games, it was so much fun.  

Miley was not happy with me because I made her get into the pool! Poor doggy!

Later that night, we decided to walk to the bar near our place for some dinner, and ended up staying there for quite some time because they had a band playing, and Jon loves his live music!

Yesterday, we had a very low key day.  Michelle and I spent most of the day watching movies and Jon spent his day watching sports.  The joys of having a basement! Now we are all happy, watching TV in our own spaces :)

I hope this week goes by fast and I am able to get some rest, even though I’ll be missing my lovie!  I'm excited for Memorial Day weekend; hopefully we can have another pool party!

Happy Monday!!!!



Mothers Day Weekend

What a great Mothers Day weekend! Its been so nice to have my mom here with my little sister and I.

Our mom arrived Saturday evening.  So before she arrived, my little sister and I decorated and got the place nice and cute :)

Crafting for my mamma!

The mothers day banner I made :)

Michelle and I made cards for our mom.  Jon was SO sweet, he got a card for my mom and wrote her a note entirely in Spanish! He totally made Michelle and I look bad because we both wrote in her card in English, lol. 

After we picked her up from the airport.  We were so excited to have her here with us finally!

Once we got home, we gave her a quick tour of our new home, and then headed out to dinner for some Mexican food & margaritas! Yum!

Us ladies outside Arriba!

Sunday, on actual mothers day, I wanted to make breakfast for our mom, BUT she couldn't just sit back and watch me cook, so she jumped in and took over! lol

After breakfast, we headed out the door to show our mom around Arizona!  We headed up to South Mountain to show her some Arizona views.

The sun was shinning bright and the wind was blowing so much! It almost blew me over, good thing Michelle was there to catch me!!

My lovie and I

After South Mountain, we headed to the Mexican market to get some refreshing agua fresca, Jon's newest obsession, but can you blame him? Agua fresca is the best!

The market had a Mariachi band playing in celebration of Mothers Day.  Our mom was happy :)

Jon enjoying his watermelon ague fresca 

After our adventurous day, we relaxed at home and watched some old home videos before we headed out to dinner to celebrate our mom some more!  We headed to Oreganos, an italian place, it was our 1st time there and we were very impressed!

Outside, waiting for our table.  Michelle decided to revert back to being moms baby, lol.

Chich being silly, while waiting for our dinner.

The hubs and I.  He makes my heart happy!

 Michelle and Jon like being a little weird with their food, sooooo they decided to experiment with the pizza and pasta: Pastapizza!

And that was our Mothers Day weekend with our mom.  We had such a great weekend with her and I am even more excited that we get to have her here with us until Saturday!  She's been showing me some of her recipes and I hope someday, I am as good of a cook as her!

Happy Happy Friday!

I am so happy that its friday! Not only does Jon come home from being in Cali all week, but my mom arrives from Oregon tomorrow afternoon!

FaceTime with my lovie

My cuddle buddy while daddy is out of town

Im so excited to have my mom here for mothers day and for an entire week! I haven't seen my mom since I was in Oregon last, which was in August.  I think thats the longest Ive gone without seeing my mom, so it'll be nice to have her home with me & my little sister for a week!

My momma and I !

Hope everyone has a great Mothers day weekend!

Family Weekend

What a weekend!!!! We had Jon's brother, Joe,  come in from Oregon to visiting.

Joe arrived Thursday evening, and since we had to work the next day, we kept it low key and just went out for some happy hour and margaritas.  There is place down the street from our place that has $1 margaritas, so we often end up there for happy hour.  How can you say no to $1 margaritas?!!! lol

The boys double fisting their margaritas!

Friday, we had to watch the playoffs.  The Portland Blazers are doing really well, so we can not miss any of their games! Anyway, we went to our local bar we love hanging out at, Tukees.  We had some dinner and drinks, and then just ended the night back at home.

The Burns boys and the Vidrio girls.  Even though I'm a Burns now too, lol.

Saturday, we had a quiet morning with breakfast and mimosas.  Joe had never had a mimosa before, so i made SURE we had them! lol

We then spent our afternoon in downtown Chandler.  We checked out some shops & bars in the area.

The boys at Murphys Law, Irish pub.  The had a huge selection of beers to choose from.  We sampled the white chocolate beer, which actually tasted like white chocolate, not sure how I feel about that.  And we also tried a blueberry vanilla beer, which I didn't like, but the boys did.

Sunday, we a nice day, so we decided to have a little pool party and have our friends Curtis and Lindsay over.  It was such a fun day, spending time out at the pool and bbqing.  Im excite for all of the future pool parties we will be having in our backyard!

Mason jar drinks for our pool party

The gang.  Such a fun time!

Of course Miley was sunbathing with the girls!

I had to work on Monday, but Jon had the day off, and he and Joe spend the day checking out more areas in Phoenix, and they also did some shopping.  But I did come home on my lunch, to the boys doing this:

I love how Joe is on vacation and cleaning our pool while Jon is relaxing in the pool, lol.

We headed out to sushi before we had to drop Joe off at the airport.  He already has plans to come back, hopefully for Jon's 30th birthday!

Im so excited for all of the fun times ahead, with out of town guests!