More Cruisin'

Waiting inline at customs on our last day :(. What a great trip!

Lindsey LOVE Bingo too! She won $200 big ones!

At the "adult only" comedy show. HILARIOUS! Prouncouned Tra-Shawn ... Spelling Trashcan. Nevermind you had to be there....

The winning ticket! $250 Big Ones!

I LOVE BINGO!!!

The first night getting ready to go to dinner. We're so HOT!

2010 Girls Trip!

Our trip began with Seattle Espresso in the morning and then we were off to Long Beach! Along the way we made a few stops and got to the cruise terminal with plenty of time to spare. Of course that's when the "Cluster" began.

The Carnival man yells out, get out your ID's and pre-printed fun pass. Fun pass...check.....ID....?....ID....?......Wait....Where's my wallet??? Yep sure enough my little Coach wristlet with my ID, credit cards, and $$$ mucho dinero was gone! We searched the car over and over again, searched my giant purse, tried to call McDonald's and the gas station where we might have left it, everything! Luckily I had my passport, but go figure it has my maiden name on it, where as my reservation with Carnival has me as a McConkey! So that took a while to sort out. Eventually we made it on the boat! After numerous phone calls to Mom and Justin I finally got my credit card and debit card canceled. Sarah, Sheri, Spaulding and Lindsey graciously offered me whatever I needed the entire time we were on the boat. Sarah even put me on her credit card! I'm so very fortunate to have the friends that I have who stood by me and made me smile! I love you girls and don't know what I'd do without you! Shopping in Ensenada! The girls found a ton of fabulous deals on designer purses, sunglasses and lots of other goodies! I even taste tested Tequila for Sheri!
We shopped, learned how to make animals out of towels, played/learned how to play Craps, Spaulding and I entered into our first slot tournament (we lost) and we laid out! Sarah and I had a massage and a facial which was super fabulous! We ate, drank, gambled, relaxed and laughed a TON!!

Overall our trip was pretty amazing despite how it began. Believe it or not I even won Bingo....TWICE! Lindsey won a $200 jackpot and I won both $160 and $250 cash prize! So 3 out of the 8 games that were played on the boat, we won 3 of them! Pretty exciting stuff! Winning bingo definitely got me out of my funk and it was smooth sailing from there! (no pun intended!) Ha!

Can't wait for our next girls trip, 2011 here we come!

Crockett's Jewels are Gone!

I'm 48.6lbs!!

I took Crockett into the vet for his Rabies and Parvo shots and they said UH OH! Crockett's 48.6lbs! We need to take his man goods asap otherwise it's going to get significantly more expensive for you. So needless to say he went in at 11am and came out less of a man at 6:45pm. Poor thing! He's doing great though! I woke up early this morning and gave him his medicine and sure enough he was back to jumping up and down and terrorizing Roxi!

Diamondbacks Game

Our kickball team and a few friends decided to head to the ball park to watch the D-backs lose drastically to the Cubs! I personally wasn't paying too much attention to the game but I did love it when they sang, "So let's root, root, root for the CUBBIES!" During the 7th inning stretch. My Dad was the one who taught me, "Take Me Out to the Ballgame," when I was young, and that's how the song went as far as he was concerned :).

Check out our PURPLE Bonus Room!

We're painting our bonus room! Lucky Justin had one day off this week and I surprised him with 2 gallons of purple paint! It only took a couple of hours, thank goodness. We painted 3 walls and then ran out of paint. We're not sure what color we'll do the 4th wall. But now that we're done and it looks so good...I'm willing to bet that the 4th wall won't be painted anytime soon.

The finished product! I wish my blackberry took better pictures. This makes the room look a little on the blue side when it's actually purple! I just ordered two old school Miami Vice posters from Amazon. Yes, they do exist! So that will be the beginning of our bonus room "art work." I'm sure we'll be seeing some Entourage and maybe even some Twilight in the near future. We shall see! My future children aren't even born and we're already hard at work, embarrassing them! Especially since this will be the main play room for their friends. Loving Motherhood already! :)

Our Dining Room

We have a dining room table! So very exciting! The china hutch will be delivered at the begining of August. And the chairs....Well....That's a whole nother story. We're still trying to agree on what we'll be sitting on for the rest of our lives! But I'll keep you posted!

13 Weeks Old!

Crockett's 13 weeks old and a whopping 33lbs! He's gained 8lbs in two weeks! Oh Lordy....

His left ear had a short run at being up in the world. Looks like his right ear will be his main beacon. He's currently learning how to go up and down the stairs. It's pretty freakin' funny to watch him. Getting upstairs is pretty simple it's the going down that's hilarious! He likes to use both front feet at the same time, almost like he's pouncing on the next step. He just lets his back legs follow suit. We're getting there...

Crockett's 11 week vet visit

Crockett's 11 weeks old and 25lbs! Both of his ears are up too!

The Planning Crew for Mom's 60th Birthday

Laura, Lindsey, Karen, Rob and myself all met at Ztejas one night to plan Mom's ultimate surprise party! This is where all the magic happened! We figured out invite lists, decorations, dates, times, and stories to tell. It's amazing what can arise after a few margaritas and some guacamole! Of course knowing Mom frequently stops in for dinner or happy hour at Ztejas we were a little nervous she'd see us. But all turned out great as she had no idea her surprise party was in the works.

Meet Crockett!

Meet the newest member of the McConkey family, Crockett! Our first "child" together. Crockett, named after the infamous Sonny Crockett on Miami Vice is a 7 week year old German Shepherd. Born on March 23rd, his Mother is black, tan, brown, and grey, and his Father is 100% white.

Crockett at his first vet appointment.

He did so well and weighs 14.8 lbs.

The Dr. kept saying, "Oh he's going to be a big boy!"

First visit to Petsmart!

We moved our lives temporarily down stairs for the moment. We blew up the air mattress and put it in the family room. As you know with a puppy, or any kind of baby for that matter. They tend to wake up, poo, pee, eat, sleep at all hours of the day and night. It just seemed easier to park it down stairs for the time being. We're crate training Crockett and it seems to be going okay. He's not a fan of being locked up and cries for about 6 minutes after we close the gate. But then he lays down and naps.

Justin surprised me at work on Sunday with baby Crockett! A co-worker of his knew he's always wanted a German Shepherd and let him know she was expecting a litter in the very near future. Low and behold the litter came! Seven weeks later we now have our little handsome man!

Roxi is being a trooper. She's still super possessive and definitely not interested in entertaining such an energetic puppy but she's handling it okay. We've had a few growls and minor fights initiated by my little orange dog, but it doesn't seem to phase Crockett. If anything he responds with a "bring it on Bitch" type attitude and talks back! It's actually really funny! Roxi'll have to learn sooner rather than later because this puppy will surpass her in size really fast!

Vegas Trip 2010

The Brixey's and the McConkeys decided on Monday to fly out on Saturday for an impromptu Vegas trip. Our trip was inspired by Bill's birthday and the pure thought of....Why the hell not? We had so much fun!

The first night was crazy! It all started with our plane getting ready to take off. We began the usual taxi, watched the flight attendant do their shpeel on what to do if we have a water landing (to Vegas I think not). Then as we begin gaining speed, you know, where your head pushes into the back of the seat due to the force? And then BAM out of no where the pilot slams on the breaks! I flew forward and hit the seat in front of me that's how hard the breaks were hit! We finally decreased speed when the pilot comes on the intercom and said apparently the control tower saw a piece of shrapnel fall of our plane so we thought we'd head back to the gate and have a look. Ya think?!?

Mean while we're still sitting there anxiously awaiting for our 50 minute flight to begin. When they say, well we might be able to fix it, so hang tight we'll see what we can do. Only for them to come back on 3 minutes later and say, nope, can't fix it everyone off we're putting you on another plane. (Awe man!)

Normally you'd think this would take a ridiculous amount of time with debarking, getting luggage transferred and re-boarding another plane. But Southwest totally kicked butt and had everyone on board with luggage, and kicked in reverse in less than 30! It was great! So we were on our way.

We started off at Dick's Last Resort at the Excalibur with shots of tequila and some dinner to get us started. Then headed to the Roulette tables at New York, New York! Now Bill and Nicole aren't gamblers. But then we introduced them to the fabulous game of Roulette! We had a Super fun time and gosh darnett the waitress kept bringing us drinks! I slipped away for about 10 minutes to try my luck at, Grandma's favorite, Wheel of Fortune and won $200! Around 2am or was it 3am someone had the brilliant Idea to go dancing at Studio 54 back at our hotel MGM. So we did and drank and danced till 4am!

The next day we were all moving a little slower. Justin and I went and saw the new hotel, Aria. Then sat and watched Phil Mickelson win the Masters while enjoying daiquiris and mojitos. That night we all went to The Venetian to have dinner at Emeril Lagasi's steak house, Delmonico. YUM-O! I didn't want to leave! Amazing food! Then we saw the show, The Blue Man Group.

These pictures are mainly from the 2nd night as I forgot my camera the 1st night. But we certainly had a great time and won't ever forget it! (Well maybe between the hours of 1:45-3am, that's kind of a blur) :)

In our seats waiting for Blue Man to begin.

At Delmonico waiting for our table.

Sunday afternoon watching the Master's.

The Martini Party

Our much anticipated pictures from our Martini party in January have arrived! I finally found my camera! Go figure it was with the camera I had lost previous to losing this one. So now we have 2 perfectly good working cameras.

Justin and I hosted our first Martini Party in January. We had a few different drinks to try. Of course the Kristi-ini was in the mix as well as a few others. Ken went a little crazy with his mad bar tending skills and had the girls trying different drinks all night. It was great!

We have some great memories and some very interesting stories arose from this party. Good times with great friends! What more could we ask for?

Here are some of the pictures... Jeremy at the end of the night - just resting his eyes....
Justin and Layne being goofy.
McKenna and Lindsey trying one of Ken's concoctions.

Heidi and I posing.

Liz, Dixie, Sarah and Lindsey lookin' sassy

The boys outside chattin' it up.

The 3 amigos.

Mom, Rob and Karen enjoying the first drink of the night. The infamous Kristi-ini!

Bill and Nicole toasting ready to get the party started!

Easter at Mom's

Mom hosted Easter at her house this year and served a super yummy lunch/dinner. I, like my husband, had to work. So Mom had it early. I took a couple of video's of Aunt JoAn and Mom opening up their Easter baskets from Grandma. As well as video of the dogs. What's an Easter without the pups?

We missed Sedona Rae, Sarah, Josh, Aunt Julie and Uncle Mike this year. We were thinking about you though :). We wish everyone a happy holiday weekend!

Oh and Aunt JoAn asked, "Who buys a home on Easter?" Believe it or not my collegue Jeremy Smith is writing a contract as I type. He's now 7 for 7 on sales written on Easter! One sale every Easter for the past 7 years! Great job JS! Of course he's the reason we all have to work on holidays. Putting hope in home builders heads that people are crazy enough to make huge purchases on Easter Sunday! Thanks for that.... Ugh....

Sarah's Wedding Week

Sarah and Mark were married on March 13, 2010! Congratulations to the happy couple! We had a blast at their wedding. The girls came out to "Hollar Back Girl" and showed off our dancing skills. The boys came out wearing sun glasses and busted a move to "Men in black." We had a great time!

The week prior we had the bachelorette party. All of us girls began our day at 11am at the FBR Open. We watched a few of the golfers T-off but mainly stayed in the Tilted Kilt tent drinking and playing our bachelorette games. We then went to the Birds Nest which was super crowded. Around 8:30 we all literally piled into a car and the trunk and headed to Salty's in Old Town.

Let the shots begin! Lindsey and I downed 4 Patron shots and couple beer chasers. We even got Sarah to break her "no shot" rule and have a couple! All in all it was a wild and crazy day!

McKenna's 24th Birthday

It's McKenna's 24th Birthday!

Mom, McKenna, Grandma and I went to Cafe Boa to celebrate!
Once I find my camera I promise to blog more. Stay Tuned!

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!