A little delayed.

Now that it is in the middle of December, I guess Phoenix finally decided for it to be the "fall" season. I noticed this beautiful tree as I was leaving church today. After that I noticed other trees here and there that had their leaves in beautiful colors, also. Of course there aren't very many of those trees around here, but it was beautiful nontheless.

Happy Sunday everyone.

You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch.

A little something to show you what I've been up to at work lately:

{Can you see me??}



Yep, I got to play "dress up" with the General Manager of our hotel last week.

More details later; I was at work for 14 1/2 hours today, and I'm ready for bed. Happy Friday!

Dear Family,

Dear Extended Family,

I meant to add to the post about wrapping...

...I apologize in advance for the wrapping job on your presents this year. No, a 4 year old didn't wrap them,

I did.

Rain day

Remember when you would listen to the radio, and wait to hear that school was cancelled, or impatiently wait at school for them to give the "ok" to release school early for a "Snow Day?" Well, let's be honest, that didn't happen that often in my hometown.

Anyway, I had one of those days today: the grown up, central AZ version.

It has been raining a lot the last 24 hours or so. Needless to say, people generally don't like to swim when it's cold and rainy outside, so I was sent home early today from work after being there for 4 hours and not one person came out to the pool.

I'm about about 5 seconds away from celebrating by snuggling up in bed and falling asleep to Christmas music.

Wrapping

Evidence of a successful morning wrapping and sending off Christmas gifts. Glad that's over with! Austria presents are the next victim.

Sedona

I just love Northern AZ. It has it's own unique beauty, that is definitely not present in Phoenix.

We decided to take a day trip to Sedona, AZ with a couple, just for fun and to get out of town. Wolfgang and I had the opportunity to have a complimentary off-roading tour (thanks Marriott!) with Pink Jeep Tours. Unfortunately our friends didn't come with us, because the wife is 8 months prego... we didn't want to play doctor on the tour (nor would they let her go anyway)

It was chilly but the air was crisp and clean. It just so happened that they also had some holiday festivities going on at Tlaquepaque so that was fun too.

Here are some pictures from the day, and if you'd like you can look at some more if you click here.

Cupcake.

Alright people, today is a monumental day.

Today marks the first day I've ever had a "specialty cupcake" {aka a ridiculously priced fancy pants cupcake}


...and it was amazing.

I was one of those people who would judge other people who fell into the trap of paying a pretty penny for a stupid cupcake. I thought, "it can't possibly be that good." Oh, but was I so wrong.

Today at work I had the pleasure of eating a glorious cupcake from 'Nothing Bundt Cakes.' One of the departments had them, and had extras...so some co-workers and I scurried on over and had one.


The icing was amazing; don't ask me what kind of icing. Not to mention I'm kinda an icing snob. Moving on, the cake itself was lemon (big score right there) and as I bit into its deliciousness, I was surprised by the raspberry filling! {our exact wedding cake: lemon and raspberry}


It couldn't have gotten any better.

The quality was definitely there. Think I'm being ridiculous? Well, I guess you'll just have to try one and see for yourself.

I plan on taking Wolfgang and my prego friend there, I hope they fall in love like I did. Although I'm scared to see how much one of those suckers actually costs...