Birthday Part I And Halloween Parties

Wow it is really like fall today! It is cloudy and rainy and the temperature is in the 50s. It really got me in the Halloween mood so I did some decorating which I will share another time.

My birthday was a couple of weeks ago, but I have lots of photos that I haven't shared so here we go! I got to go on a trip to Bisbee where I had never been before. We went on the Copper Queen mine tour which was super neat. We also made a little stop in Tombstone, but didn't do a lot there because that really needs to be a whole separate day. Anyway here are a few pictures from the trip.

It was really a fun day! More birthday related photos in the next post.

I need to get these up so I can be added to the party lists. Here are a couple awesome blog parties that I will be attending! The buttons with links are in my sidebar.

Toni's House And Christmas Misc.

So the Lows are a family that has been good friends with my family for a long time. When I am home to visit I end up hanging out there quite a bit because they are awesome. The mom, Toni, buys and sells antiques, junk, and vintage treasures and she has an amazing eye. She goes all out for almost every event imaginable. That woman is out of control (in the best possible way that makes me wish I could be out of control like her!)!

To demonstrate what I mean here are a few photos from their house this Christmas.

Am I right?! And that is just scratching the surface of all the decorations!

(note* at this point in the post I ran out of free photo storage on blogger and had to purchase extra storage! I guess I am a real blogger now that I pay to blog.)

Here are a couple other pictures from the Low's house this year.

The corgi is actually their neighbor's dog, but she wanders over to their house so I got to play with her. I think I have mentioned it before, but I LOVE corgis! I want one sooo bad. For anyone else who loves them here is a wonderful blog to read:  http://thedailycorgi.blogspot.com/

And some other miscelaneous photos from my trip!

If you liked Toni's house you will love the store where she works and sells her finds, so stay tuned!!

Feeling A Bit Tropical

(Part II)

Still in the tropical frame of mind from yesterday's post? I know I am. The reason for all that sunshiny, palm tree-y goodness is that last night I went to a happy hour held by the local Parrot Head club. Yes that is right, something you may not know about me is I am a sun worshiping, flip-flop wearing, margarita drinking, ocean craving, Jimmy Buffett loving, kinda girl. Now don't make fun, I grew up listening to his music (thanks mom and dad!) and it just stuck.

Anyway, I have never actually belonged to a parrot head club before, but when I moved to this new place I thought it would be a perfect time to start since I know basically no one. I am not very good at meeting new people since I am kinda shy, but when I found out they were having this happy hour (they do it every month) and that anyone could go, I said to myself "self, you gotta get up and make it happen instead of sitting around not having friends because you are too scared to meet people!" In the words of one of my heroes Captain Ron (if you don't know who that is, you need to get to the movie store pronto) "If anything's gonna happen, it's gonna happen out there."

So, after giving myself a pep-talk, I did indeed make it happen and had a really great time! I am going to officially join the club. Besides happy hours and parties they also do fundraisers and other events for charities, which is great.

I thought, since that side of me doesn't make it onto this blog as much as certain other sides, but is a big part of my life, I would share a few things from around my house that represent it!

If you are still reading and interested, here we go.

This is a lei they gave me at the happy hour yesterday and some postcards that I bought in the Bahamas because I thought they were so bright and pretty!

Life is a beach sometimes.

I also got this shell in the Bahamas. It was given to me by a local. It is one of my favorite things.

I love, love, love, boats of all kinds, and would jump at any chance to be out on the ocean.

That was just a small sample. I have so much more, but will save it for another time.

Does anyone else like these things, or is just me?

Feeling A Bit Tropical

One of my problems is that the different parts of my nature are conflicting and it is sometimes hard to make them fit together. Take for example today. Lately I have been feeling ready for the fall season, Halloween, etc. But also today I have been feeling very tropical (which is a common occurrence). How do I mesh those two so that I can make them both work at once? Oh what a difficult life I lead....haha.
Anyway there are reasons today was such a tropical day which I will share tomorrow, but in the meantime here are a few old vacation pictures of mine so you can understand where I am coming from.

So, since I posted it, there is a funny little story that goes with that last picture. My family went to the Bahamas for Christmas one year, which is what all these photos are from. While we were there we heard that Sean Connery was in the area and had chartered a boat. Then, when we were out on our own little boat for the day, we saw this big boy. We noticed (as maybe you have too) that on this huge boat there was a little boat that was none other than a Thunderball speedboat! Well by golly who else would have enough money to charter such a massive beast and have a Thunderball speedboat? We couldn't get too close because there was security on board that waved us off, but we did see an older gentleman on the deck, and we like to think that it was Mr. Connery himself.