Date opportunity???

An Exclusive, Private Evening of Classical String Enchantment

Enjoy light refreshments & an adult evening out with class, culture & friends! To Benefit Symphony of the Southwest - DATE: Friday, May 1, 2009 TIME: 7:00 PM LOCATION: The Home of Dick & Marilynn Pixler 460 S. Riata St. Gilbert, AZ 85296 - RSVP Kindly Requested. Contact: VerRona Grandil: 602.692.0020 verronagrandil@gmail.com

Mendelssohn & Debussy Performed By: Cathy Worcester * Jesse Gross * Richard Chelpka * Patricia Cosand * VerRona Grandil * Mark Engelsman Click Here To Be Included On Our Mailing List Symphony of the Southwest Office Is Moving As of May 2009 Our New Home: 122 N. Macdonald Street Mesa, AZ 85210 tel: 480.827.2143 www.symphonyofthesouthwest.org

Easter 2009

Easter was lovely this year. We had rain all day Saturday (hurray for Arizona rain...love it!!!) and then Sunday was sunny and gorgeous. Some (okay, a LOT of) pictures to prove it.


Easter with the Greers on Saturday...




Classic Ellie...bum crack forever showing.




Easter morning at home...



Easter with the Allreds on Sunday afternoon...

Pretty in yellow (Kristin, Emma and Jana)

Josh, always the chef...

My brother Nate is the bunny and his lovely fiance, Jenna.

Bill Bitter bought a bit of butter...

Have I mentioned they used to call me "Butter-ball?" Well, I have a protege. Introducing "Butter-ball Char."

You can see she wasn't so sure of the texture in the beginning. More the feeling of "get this stuff off of me!" was in order. But I insisted, ensuring her that it takes but a moment before you're sure you were meant to be a butter-ball.

"Hmmm...yes, I can see you were right, Mom."

"Definitely my calling is clear. A butter-ball I am!"


And then there's Ellie.

We were getting dinner at DQ last night (on my way home from the gym...can you believe they place that thing right there in the same parking lot?) and as the guy was handing over the kids' meals, "hot dog, chicken and here's your cheeseburger," Ellie said quite seriously, "Cheese booger? Who got the cheese booger?" I laughed a little and explained no it wasn't a cheese booger but a cheese burger. She thought for a moment and then just started cracking up! The whole way home Ellie and Char couldn't get enough of that joke.

And I'm thinking the sad thing is Ellie probably would love some cheese with her boogers.

Lake Havasu Tri

Recognize the two guys on either end? I didn't either but that's because we don't have T.V. I'm told they're the two cousins from this season's Biggest Loser. My sister and brother-in-law are big fans. Anyway, we ran into them at the tri and are pretty much best friends now.

My seester and me all happy before the start of the race...


And this is after finishing the bike portion. I affectionately named my bike "pinky" but actually I have no affection for the thing. In fact, at one point on our drive home we thought it had fallen off the bike rack and I was jumping for joy until we realized it was just hanging by a thread. Darn.



I think I'm done with races for a while.

Private

One home break in, one car break in and two fraud alerts on our credit later and I am now officially paranoid. I'm taking the blog private. Feel free to leave a comment if you'd like an invite. I feel dumb doing this but even dumber not after these recent violations. Seriously, some people!

Happy Friday!!