Our New Home in Tucson

Holly was able to "finally" get to accomplish one of her Arizona goals when Mr. McNierney went and got the keys and took Holly for a ride on the park golf cart. He even let her drive!! Way to go, Holly. The older generation of Wagons West thought this little blonde lady was so special and of course, who am I to disagree. Everybody wanted to meet her and were talking about her a couple of weeks after she'd left.
You can come anytime, Miss Holly. Grampa and I LOVED, LOVED, LOVED having you with us all to ourselves for the whole week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is my latest gift from one of my very dearest friends - there is no one in the world like Linda. I absolutely cherish her and hope she knows how much she means to me. Isn't this the neatest little dish - someday when she's a world-famous potter, I will be able to say I knew her when.

Now to our new home:

This is the wall hanging that Holly and I picked out at the swap meet - it's my inspiration and I really like it. You see it as soon as you walk in the door.

Here's the kitchen with the new terra cotta paint. The pictures are now hanging rather than just sitting there. I really need a cute one of Chase yet but in the meantime I have one of our home in Brandon with all the snow on it. Reminds me why I'm in Tucson!

Another picture of the kitchen.

I have my stereo speakers sitting on this little shelf now but the tv will go there when we get one. DeAnn, note my little bird ornament that you purchased for me at the gift store in Lynden - can't remember the name of it just now. Sorry.

Looking down the hallway toward the bedroom. Note the clock which I purchased for $4.00 on a garage sale - goes very nicely with the woodwork.

This is the light fixture and the medicine cabinet in the bathroom. It needed some freshening up so I painted it white, along with the vanity; however, I didn't get a picture of the vanity. I really like it painted rather than the wood color. Might do it to my master bathroom in Brandon also.

Well, that's it for tonight. Dad and I were sitting in the living room of the new trailer one evening and he says, "I really like the way the kitchen turned out, dear." When I was painting it, he wasn't sure he liked the color, at all.

Have a wonderful week ahead. Holly, I have more pictures coming of you on my next blog. Love you all to pieces!!!!!

MOM & Gramma

Welcome to Arizona, Holly

Welcome to Arizona, Miss Holly. After picking up Holly in Mesa and having her plane come in 15 minutes early, we were off to Eloy, MN. On the way, we kept looking for a DQ but of course, when you're looking, you can't find one. We did find a little ice cream joint which served the purpose. This is where they do outdoor skydiving but because we were experiencing high winds, they were not able to skydive. Next best thing is to go to the indoor skydiving arena. They have big blowers and people are able to experience the feeling of skydiving. Sorry we didn't get any pictures of the inside. After leaving Eloy, we made it to church just in time for the Youth Service. It was a very nice service. Ended the evening at Wienschnitzel for hotdogs and chili/cheese fries. Monday is shopping day - a day that Holly and I thought we were going to be going it alone but Grampa came along. Unfortunately he was not around when Holly was trying on dresses or he could have given us his opinion. This is the picture of the Kohl's dress. I thought it was very cute on Holly but I'm not sure she liked the little "ruffle thing" over the boobs.

On to the Foothills Mall where I went to Kirkland's to find some "inspiration" for my new kitchen. There was an Old Navy store there and they had a couple of navy blue dresses and a really cute eyelet sundress but it was black Here's our girl:

Aunt Amy, this is the one that Old Navy had in white also. It's really cute. We think you should take a look at it.

This was a knit sundress in navy, also at Old Navy. Only thing with this one was that it was a little lowcut and you would have to wear something under it but it was still cute!!

Check out the new sunglasses!!!!

NO, these are not Holly's new sunglasses. She had to wear Grampa's glasses until we could find some for her. We found this at Old Navy and besides the fact that they're really cute, they were on sale!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not sure what's on the agenda for today, but it'll be fun whatever it is. We're planning to play mini-golf before going to pizza with the others at the park this afternoon. We "may" do a little more shopping or we may clean the house or we may go swimming. You just never know!!

Have a great day and see ya tomorrow. Love from warm, sunny Arizona

MOM