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Lani

I'm in love with the macro shot- yes

Me in the snow

Bird of paradise overlooking the beach in California

Me at the beach my favorite place to be

Brrrr the snow in Palm springs

Lani and Alex at Joshua tree Nat Park

Me, alex,mckenna, kurt and lani in front of kurts popcorn booth

Happy 2009! Wow so amazing that another year has gone. We have been vacationing a little this last weekend, over new years and it was a fun little get away. We went to Palm springs to visit Lani and Kurt this weekend had a really fabulous time there. We started out celebrating New Years at their house, from there we got a grand tour of the Palm Desert, including some fun street fairs at which Kurt was working. We also went to Long Beach California and strolled around on the beach, we also visited a friend of Lani's and shared a B-B-Q. Finally on Sunday we went up into the mountains and got to see the colder side of the desert, 3 ft of snow on top of the mountains !

Now it is back to work and getting stuff done.. We still have one bathroom to complete and Alex and Rob made terrific headway getting it started, the tub is actually installed, we still have to tile the walls and floor and install a new toilet and sink and after that is finished we will move the renovations downstairs, to work on new flooring in the kitchen and refinishing the wood floors in the living room and office area. I think there must be light at the end of the tunnel. I have been experimenting with making lentils. I tried making them the other day by sauteeing them and adding water as needed instead of making a soup, this would have worked out great had I remembered I was actually cooking and didn't burn them halfway through, I did manage to salvage the lentils on top, and they were pretty good I hope to make another attempt and actually not burn them. We are also looking to purchase a wirless router since our neighbors have moved out (yeah) we are unable to leach the wirless from them so we must get our own. Once this is done I plan on signing up for some classes again though I wonder what I want to take.... I must got start getting ready for work here are some of the latest pictures

Some Holiday Fun

All of us together

Here we are just missing one sis :(
I like this pic
She is a present all in herself
Me and my new jacket that mom and Dad got me

Picking out the perfect pair

Romeo, Nadia and Lani

Alex playing his guitar.....

Mashing potatoes takes three

The flowers on the patio

Yep I soaked in that and watched the fire at the same time

Alex at the B& B in Sedona

Look at the pretty floor

Yeah its done (it does have a mirror it wasnt up here though)

Wow - I am really behind these days I havn't really been feeling "computery" and I really don't have a choice cause I have to use Alex's computer and he has been on it alot these days. We have been having a pretty good month.For Thanksgiving we had a really nice time up at a B and B in Sedona and then we went and celebrated the Holiday with all four of our parents. We also managed to finish the bathroom so it is nice and neat now so that feeling of accomplishment has settled in, however Alex wants to start tearing up the other one soon so I'm trying to soak in the relaxing feeling while I can. In December we have been staying relatively close to home as it has been pretty chilly lately and the rain has been coming down a lot. We did celebrate Romeo's birthday this past weekend and all of the Delacruz family was together again. I think the last time that happend was when Rob and Nadia came to visit last December, however Kurt was able to join us this time as well so it was a really nice time having everyone together. We played laser tag and then had some Ethiopian food, yogurt. Here are some pics of what has been going on..

Catch up

Nadia stickin her toes in Apache Lake

At the Roosevelt lake

The canyon on the way up ther

Laying tile

I always have to play a little catch up whenever I blog somehow I am always behind... Anyhow several weeks have gone by since my last post and I think stuff has happened but what... let me see. Well last weekend we didn't really do anything and the weekend was over before I knew it. Well we did go and see a movie, and then went to Frys electronic and Alex bought himself a cute little helicopter which he has been playing with all week. He has even attempted to fly it indoors and that hasn't turned out so well. This weekend we went and saw the long anticipated James Bond movie and it wasn't that Bondish to tell you the truth, I was a little disappointed to be quite honest. We also took a little trip over to Roosevelt Lake and we passed a couple of lakes on the way out there as well. We had our picnic at Canyon lake and then I think there was an Apache lake in there too. We are finishing up on our closet bathroom so glad because the living room has alot of junk in it right now, will be nice to get it back to normal downstairs. Anhow here are some picts enjoy

Moving Day

In the neighbors yard

Moving in celebration dinner

Alex's fat lip

Hello all-

Thought I'd blog a bit to catch you all up on everything. Have had a good week accomplished alot at work and not so much at home but I do plan to clean out the fridge today. It is really disgusting, Alex will pull something out of the fridge and look at it critically and put it back in the fridge, sometimes he will gag and through whatever it was away, but it has been a while since I did a thorough job of it. Yesterday went with Rob and Nadia as their guide, to Ikea (to bad I cant see a darn thing cause my glasses are on top of the San Francisco Peaks and I "guided them off a wrong exit), we made there in spite of that and they did get some new stuff for the apartment. The other day Alex was playing tennis and smacked himself in the lip, ( I don't know how he managed that) he is finally back to normal. Other than that nothing much else has been happening. Enjoying the terrific fall weather, it is so beautiful now.

This weekend we went to the snowbowl in Flagstaff to see the fall colors, unfortunatley most of the colors had already faded for the year but we did get to see some fantastic scenery, here are some pictures The ski lift on the way up
View on the way up (had turned around for this pic)
Alex and me at the top
View from the top
Nadia Alex and me at the top of the world

Alex "hiking"