Sedona Trip

Justin and I went up to Sedona on Monday and had an AMAZING time! I'm sure I've been there before but I just couldn't get over how breathtakingly beautiful it was. There was still snow on the ground in a few places in town and near our hotel cottage (which is just enough for me).

We stayed at L'auberge and boy was it cool! It's not your typical hotel. Instead of a room they have cottages complete with your own outdoor shower! Yep outdoor shower! I personally was not brave enough to try it out but Justin was! Lucky for all of you I forgot to charge our camera's battery so you won't be seeing any live shots! But here's one from the website and it looked exactly like this.

(I know you're thinking it so I mine as well clear the air now...yes there was an indoor shower, yes, I bathed this trip)

The room had it's own fireplace which was way cool! And it functioned on a remote to boot!

We walked around town and searched for a bottle of wine and munchies for later on that evening, but as it turns out, everything's closed on Monday's! So we settled for wine and cheese in the lobby. Justin found a backgammon table next to one of the many wood fireplaces. So we sipped our wine, ate our cheese, and I kicked his but 2 times in a row in backgammon! My kind of happy hour if you ask me :).

The only 2 pic's of us taken with our fabulous camera phones. I can't believe I forgot to charge the camera!

Poor Roxi

Our poor Roxeroo! While we were in Sedona Roxi stayed at Mom's house. When she came back she was walking funny. Sure enough she'd been chewing on the pads of her feet. She literally ate the skin off a few of the pads. I wasn't sure what to do so we tried a new remedy. I gave her a half Benadryl, put some Neosporn type creme on her feet then wrapped her up with duct tape in my socks! She looks so sad in these pictures but I just had to take them! She was so stinkin' cute when she walked. It was hilarious!

We'll see how she's doin' in the next couple of days and take her to the vet if it gets any worse. I really hope it was just a nervous reaction to her Mom and Dad leaving.

Poor Poor Roxeroo!

Sheri's Birthday

The Girls all in town and at our first Sunday breakfast of 2010!
Saturday night Lindsey, Sarah and I took Sheri out for her 29th birthday! We had a great time at Zocalo but goodness those portions were huge! Between dinner and the margarita's there wasn't much room for dessert, but we found room anyway! We had a super yummy Tiramasu and Chocolate Souffle at the Italian restaurant down the street. Of course the Souffle came with a candle so a certain song had to be sung! Even when you turn 29 you still have "Happy Birthday" sung to you by all of your friends. We love you Sheri!

New License

After spending a ridiculous amount of time at the Social Security office it's finally happened. I'm a McConkey! Who'd of thunk! Now I get to spend Lord knows how much time changing my name on everything else.

If the tradition was reversed and men would never change their names, Ever. I mean let's face it. Women are much more proactive in getting things handled. Men on the other hand....???

New Year's Eve

OMG! What a crazy super fun New Years! Justin and I joined Bill, Nicole, Luis, Megan, Kenny and Kim for quite an adventurous night! It all began with meeting everyone at Nicole's house only to find Bill in a Red Suit with a very Red Hat! Yes, he went out like that. He took the liberty of getting us 4 girls giant rings that light up, you know, just in case they couldn't find us. The boys had clappers to go around their necks as well as purple, gold, and black sparkly hats to wear as well.

All 8 of us piled into Luis's "seats 6 comfortably" Yukon. And don't worry Bill remembered to bring the blow horn as we drove to the restaurant. He proceeded to let everyone around us know his blow horn was definitely working and it was definitely LOUD! We all made it there after some interesting directions from Justin. Had Nicole and I not stepped in we would've seen Tim-buck-two before we saw the Keg restaurant. Needless to say we made it there safe and sound.

The bar and restaurant were packed. Apparently a table for 8 on New Year's isn't easy to come by. We proceeded to sit in the bar for 2 hours waiting for our table. We definitely kept busy though. The Keg managers loved us so much they bought us a round of shots as well as appetizers. Then when we finally sat down our favorite friends Jessica, Eric & their family were sitting right next to us!

Dinner was fabulous and extra goofy. Some where in there more rounds of shots were ordered as well as many more drinks. I haven't laughed that much consecutively since McKenna and I saw Jeff Dunham & Achmed preform! We had an amazing time and are so grateful for our wonderful friends! Thank you so much for dinner and drinks Luis and Bill!

We left the restaurant and returned to Bill and Nicole's to 4 bottles of "The Veuve" Champagne. As Luis says, one bottle per couple! If you can believe, and I'm sure you can.... We actually missed the ball drop by a few minutes but made our own count down. Then I lost my engagement ring. As Justin was frantically looking everywhere I realized I just had it on my other finger. Whoops!

It was a very special night and I promise to never forget it, however 4 tequila shots doesn't help the memory all too well. Talk about ringing in the New Year with a BANG! Bring it on 2010 I'm ready for a GREAT year!

Bill, Luis and the General Manger of The Keg
The Girls

The Boys with our Fabulous waiter

How could you not laugh?!

So much for a serious picture...

Nicole and Bill with his RED suit and her matching RED ring. Awe....