Five for Friday

Previous Fridays

1 - You went to the store last night to get sugar when I realized we were all out and I couldn't make the Pecan Pie.

2 - You've cleaned up our dinner dishes every night this week.

3 - You bought regular Bisquick so you didn't use up all my gluten free Bisquick.

4 - You're warm when the bed it cold.

5 - You tell me my hair smells like cheese bread ;-P

WEverb11 - Travel

prompt contributed by ME :)

You’d think if I contributed a prompt about travel I would have done it to brag about some awesome trip we went on this year. No. We take a couple of little trips, but nothing I’d consider “travel”.

We started off 2011 in Palm Springs, ringing in the New Year with our friends Tif & Jer and Felicia & Joe. A few short weeks later my sister & I drove out to Las Vegas for my SIL’s bachelorette party. Jen (my sister) and I stayed in the Bellagio for the first time, danced the night away at the Marquee in the Cosmopolitan, hung out in a lounge at the Comso and watched 2 guys attempt to play pool, took pole dancing lessons, dance another night away at Palms while DJ Jazzy Jeff spun, drank and ate tasty food… all while I was I getting over a NASTY cold.


In February, Hubs and I went to Petaluma, CA, to attended the wedding for the aforementioned bachelorette, his sister Linda to her new husband, Mark.

In May, I went back on the road with my sister, Jen, to Solvang, Los Olivos, Berkeley, and San Francisco. We visited our favorite winery, Brander,went olive oil tasting, met up with some Bees, and road the trolley.



A month later in June, Hubs and I headed back out to Las Vegas to stay at the newly renovated Tropicana Hotel. We spent a lot of time on the pool and ventured away from the Tropicana twice, once for a trip to the MGM Buffet and the other for drinks in The Chandelier at the Cosmopolitan. After spending two nights in Las Vegas we drove to St George, UT for a quick visit with Hubs’ mom & stepdad.

Hubs and I went back to Palm Desert in August to celebrate our anniversary and my walking for Graduation. Hubs booked us a room at the Saved By The Bell Marriott, aka JW Marriott Desert Springs Resort and Spa. Since our good friends Tif & Jer live in Palm Springs, we go out there a lot. This time we tried to make it more touristy by staying in a hotel and visiting the dinos on our way home.

At the end of August is we went back up North for Hubs’ grandmother’s 90th birthday and we’ve I’ve been home ever since. Hubs, on the other hand, was all over the US on business trips until mid November. I know it looks like we’ve done a lot of traveling, and we’re lucky in that we can go on a lot of little mini vacations, but our plan for 2012 is to take a big vacation somewhere we’ve not been before. I’m hoping for something tropical.

WEverb11 – Befriend & Favor

prompts contributed by Jen with livingabrigherlife.

It’s taken me a couple days to address the prompt because I couldn’t think of any new friends I made… or remember if any new friends I have made we made in 2011 or 2010. I’ve become better friends with a handful of people and that has been great! Those friends impacted me 2011 by making me feel special, smart and loved :)


July – A lot happened this July. I finished the hardest semester of school ever, walked for graduation, went to my good friend, Tiffany’s, bachelorette party and was a bridesmaid in her wedding and turned 31.
I’m not usually one to chose my birth month as my favorite month, but July was a good month filled with celebrations, accomplishments and friends.

WEverb11 - Haiku

prompt contributed by Tara at TwoWishes

I haven’t written a haiku in years. I would say since high school or even junior high, but about 5 yrs ago when I was my church’s youth group leader we did a scavenger hunt (of sorts) and the “youth” had to write a haiku at one of the stops. They were about a fountain and they were pretty awesome.

12/5 Edit
I’m sitting here laughing at myself because it’s been brought to my attention that my haiku is reverse. Would you believe me if I told you I did it on purpose? Me either.

Don’t worry Kira, I don’t think you’re a jerk AT ALL! Thank you for telling me, I would have gone around the rest of my life writing haikus incorrectly. Honestly, I probably won’t write another haiku for several years and would probably Google it again (or whatever we’ll be doing in several years to look stuff up).

So here’s my second attempt…

  
Haikus are hard y’all!

WEverb11 - Learn

prompt contributed by Julie Jordan Scott with fivepassions.

To let go. The obvious reason, letting go of that house we thought we be moving into this weekend, but the less obvious reason is more personal… too personal for this blog, but I’m learning to let go of control over things. I like having control. I’m learning to let go.