Valentine's Scavenger Hunt

For Valentine's Day we planned a special day at the park for the kids. We met with the Kammeyers and had lunch.

After lunch the kids were sent on a Scavenger Hunt!!

Rob helped the kids with the clues. Even Delaney helped out!

Each kid had to guess at least one clue.

After they guessed all the clues they brought them back to the tables.

And noticed that the clues were pieces of a puzzle themselves.

They put the puzzle together but noticed that the middle piece was missing.

With the final clue in place they all ran to get the Grand Prize!

The Grand Prize was COOKIES!!!

And not just any cookies! Homemade sugar cookies that the kids decorated themselves!

Delaney didn't really enjoy decorating the cookies but she sure loved eating them!

After decorating the cookies we all had a silly string fight!

I love doing parties like this at the park! So easy to clean up!

Rockets

The boys had fun shooting off rockets at the park.

I had fun watching them shoot into the air and landing on a nearby roof!

It was fun while it lasted!

Chocolate Affaire

Every year downtown Glendale holds the Anual Chocolate Affaire. There are vendors of all kinds and of course LOTS of chocolate! We met up with the Josalyn, Jordan & Delaney and had a great time!

Landon and Jordan made chocolate pizzas courtesy of Cerreta's Candy.
It consists of a milk chocolate base that the kids can add mints, marshmellows or nuts and top it off with white frosting/white chocolate? I'm not really sure what the it was. But the boys LOVED it!


And since I really don't like chocolate I had a carmel covered apple with peanuts! Delish! Of course I shared with Landon. He loves anything that has sugar on it.


We also were able to take a tour of Cerreta's Candy factory.



It was very cool to see where the chocolate and other candies were made.


A conveyor belt of pretzels on their way to be covered in chocolate.



And what's a candy store without a giant Rice Krispie Treat in the shape of a bunny! Ten bucks says Landon and Nick could eat that whole thing in one day! I might help too!

Our Dream House!!

This weekend Nick and I took a "trip" to downtown Mesa to walk the 11th Anual Mesa Historical Home Tour. On a walking home tour, owners of historical homes open their doors for people to visit. In some houses there were volunteers that answered questions and gave historical information regarding the home. It was so interesting to make a trip into the past!

On our tour we came across the most beautiful, perfect house! I was in love before we even walked in the front door.HELLO LOVA!!!
How cute is the front of this house?! There is a sitting area on the left of the front door & table
and chairs for dinning.

But lets walk through the front door shall we?! Welcome HOME!

Here is the living and dinning room when you walk in the front door. The dinning room is on the left and the living room right is in front of you.

An angle of the living room from the dining room. Through the doorway across the room leads to two bedrooms and a bathroom.

Unfortunately I only have this picture of the bathroom. I thought I took more pictures of the bathroom and bedrooms but I guess I didn't.

Let's go see the heart of any home. The kitchen...

Ok, so this is not my most favorite kitchen in the whole world; but it's cute and works with this house. The green cabinets are a huge NO for me. But I do love the white cabinets, the farm sink, the HUGE window that lets it TONS of light, the door that leads to the porch and BBQ area (Nick's FAVORITE thing by the way!), the island, and the butcher block countertop on the island!

This however, IS my favorite/dream kitchen!

(Dream Kitchen)

(Dream Kitchen 2)

The white cabinets, the bar, the dark wood floors and dark countertops, the open/glass cabinet doors to display all the pretties. I would totally do this backsplash too!

(arabesque backsplash)

Here's a close up. Just enough frilly, girly, ruffliness without going over board!

(arabesque tile)

Let's move on to the laundry room, shall we? Again with the butcher block! Swoon! HATE the red washer & dryer, but whatev! And I think I might prefer them side-by-side. Call me old fashioned. You would lose the lower cabinets but gain uppers. A fair trade off I think.

Shall we head upstairs? On the tour they had the upstairs and root cellar blocked off. So, the only information I have is from these pictures.

Landing - they use it for a office and media center. Love the built-in bookshelves. And of course all the family photos! Old and new!

Master Bedroom- This is the only picture I can find. I have no idea if there is a bathroom up here or what the other side of the room looks like or if there is even a closet. Use your imagination I guess.

**Recently I found out that there is a guest/craft room on the second floor as well. Who knew!**

Let's go outside in the back.

You can access this from the kitchen. There again are two sitting areas. A couch and chair lounging area and then another dinning area!

LOVE the architectural salvage doors that she added to the arch! Genius!

The eating area. Also LOVE that window hanging in the arch! So stinkin' cute! And the candle chandelier, too cute! I'm usually not a fan of animal prints but those chair cushions are fun.

And finally... the chicken coop! The homeowner's build it (and some of the tables) from the old fence wood. The idea of having a chicken or two sounds kind of fun! And fresh eggs are yummy!

But I seriously doubt Nick will EVER let me get chickens, so we could make this a play house for the kids.

***All pictures are from the homeowner (unless otherwise noted). You can visit her blog at www.tuesdayswithdorie.blogspot.com ***