Birthdays on the Town

Dad treated us to dinner at Alto Restuarant in Scottsdale

for mine and mom's birthdays. It was a very fancy occasion.

This was in the lobby

An exquisite dessert

(the best I've ever had)

Dinner was followed by a romantic gondola ride under the stars.

The gondola was rowed by an opera singer

who sang to us in Italian in the middle of the quiet lake.

Fun After the Blizzard

We were snowed in for two days during a fierce blizzard.

Luckily, it ended before Thanksgiving and Brad didn't die on his

drive up here without a heater in his car!

This was our Black Friday fun.

 Brad said I looked like a fat eskimo!

Home Decor

This window treatment was a project for my home decor class.

We finally got them hung up after the construction clean-up.

The hardest part was designing the swag, jabot, and cascade

to fit the bay window. I guess math class did pay off!