Day 277, November 22nd

The wonderful thing about holidays is it brings friends back in town!! Michelle left in the Fall to get her MBA at NYU.  She is living a fancy life in the big city and we are all excited for her.  But, on the same hand, miss having her around.
So now it's Thanksgiving week, and she's in town for a quick visit.  After work I met the ladies at Mucho Gusto for some catch up time.  It was great to see everyone, and hear about Michelle's adventures.   
I am pretty confident all my friends are tired of me taking photos of them for the blog...sorry ladies!! 

Day 153, July 21st

I'm proud to live in South Phoenix, SoPho as us hip locals call it.  I like how close we are to different parts of town, and hello, we're right across from South Mountain, no complaints there.  My only complaint of SoPho is that we don't have great restaurants around here.  Ihop, Applebee's and Filiberto's are our best options.  Why do city planners think since it's near the ghetto we only want to eat at chain restaurants?!!  Give us good food! 
Anyway, so one of the good options we do have is this adorable little pizza place, Amano.  It's this seriously adorable little place that is tiny and has delicious food.
Mary and I met there on Thursday to catch up on life, and see each other's beautiful faces.  She was finally back from her Wisconsin/Michigan trip, so I had to hear about all the fun she had without me! 
We had a fun night, and made the decision that game night needed to be brought back to life!! When we lived together we had game night every Wednesday night, I mean, you wouldn't even think about doing anything else on a Wednesday.  Then Mary had to take a class one semester on a Wednesday, Mike found trivia more fun then board games, and sadly our game nights came to an end.  But now, we will bring them back...and they will be amazing! 

Day 146, July 14th

Thursday, after work, Ryan headed home and I headed to San Felipe's at Tempe Marketplace to celebrate Michelle's birthday! In a few short weeks Michelle is off to New York for Grad School, so we have to get in as much Michelle time as possible. 
We had a nice dinner, and Elise brought her newly famous cake pops for us to enjoy for a birthday treat, and we had a good night chatting it up and celebrating.
Michelle and some of the other gals then headed to line up for the midnight showing of Harry Potter, she asked all of us to go, but not only have I not seen any Harry Potter movies, I'm pretty sure there is no way I would be able to stay awake to watch the movie, and then also work a full day of work on Friday!!  So being the old married ladies, Amy and I headed home, as the youngins lined up for the big event! Another fun night with friends in the bag!

Day 123, June 21st

While I worked away on Tuesday, I thought to myself how much I really did not feel like making dinner! So I rang up Ryan and asked if he wanted to meet for some happy hour before we went home.  He agreed, and so we ventured from our planned meal for the night and headed to Hula's Modern Tiki for some eats and drinks.
Ryan called to see if Tommy wanted to join us and he did!! So Ryan and I had some food and drinks and then Tommy showed up and we had more drinks! We played catch up with our favorite cousin and talked about Sam and how much he is missed at our house.
Because I spent Monday blogging, my camera was sitting on the coffee table, I saw it this morning when I left for the day, but thought, "why would I need my camera today at work?" Well, so you can understand my frustration when I came up with the happy hour idea and didn't have a camera to capture our adventure!! Lucky for us it's 2011 and I have a camera on my phone, but unlucky for Tommy, the photo of him and Ryan didn't turn out as my phone was hitting dead mode. So his face does not get to grace this blog post.
We headed home and did a quick clean of the house and I baked some cookies, because tomorrow is book club at our casa!!

Day 104, June 2nd

On Thursday Ryan had a baseball game, so after work I met Amy and Elise at Aunt Chilada's for  happy hour!! I wasn't planning on going, but since it was a stones throw from my house how could I refuse?! 

It was lovely catching up with the gals, we got so caught up that Amy was almost late picking up Heath from the airport!! Luckily he was a bit delayed so he was never the wiser.

Once I got home I decided to finally use up the going bad bananas and make some banana bread.  The last recipe I used I really liked, but couldn't remember where I found it...if only Ryan had written it in my recipe book!! :) So I found another one that used ingredients I had, it wasn't as good as the first one I made, but it was okay. Ryan came home and we went to sleep.  Wild Thursday!! 

Day 84, May 13th

Friday night, Ryan had a baseball game, crazy right, he just had one on Tuesday!! So when my friend Elise asked if I wanted to do Happy Hour, I was happy to have plans, other than my shopping trip!!
I met Elise at Ra after work, and lucky for us, the last time my mom went there they had a bad experience, so I had a coupon for 1 free roll!! Elise and I chatted about our lives, about the book for Book Club that neither one of us had finished, and enjoyed a nice evening.  Of course, in Sarah fashion I didn't take a picture of that.  For all my followers know, I don't ever do half the things I talk about because I don't capture the moment!! 
After dinner I headed home, and to the gorcery store.  I know these coupon people save like 90% when they go shopping, but for my first time I knew that wasn't possible, and I knew I had to keep it small.  So I saved about 27%, which isn't impressive, BUT I got a bag of tortilla chips for like $0.17!!! Small victories for now.  Plus, I stocked up for our next week's dinners!! 
Ryan came home, from another victory, iced his elbow and we spent the night chillin like a villan...yep I said that!! 

Day 61, April 20th

I stayed home from work on Wednesday, that darn migraine continued on.  I slept most of the morning and  started to feel a bit better late in the afternoon.  Enough about me.  Ryan called me around 4 telling me he had quite a day at work and wanted to go to happy hour.  I obviously wasn't totally feeling hitting the town so I offered to just have a cocktail at home.  I felt like maybe my offer to just stay home wasn't totally excitedly received, so I figured I'd kick it up a notch.  Our favorite spot is seriously Z Tejas which I'm sure you know because in the 2 months of this blog I think I've mentioned it a zillion times! 
Anyway, I love the Tejas Trio and those shrimp tostada bites, yumtastic!!! Our little serving thing has four spots for dips, so I had to add a salsa to the trio, but I for the most part replicated the Z Tejas wonderfulness.  I even tried to recreate the Chambord Margarita, good, not as good as theirs, but okay for the most part.

I could be wrong, but I think Ryan throughly enjoyed our at home Happy Hour. I didn't have to put make up on or do my hair which always make my day!! We enjoyed our snacks and watched our Wednesday night shows.  While in Tucson I watched Happy Endings and thought it was hilarious, so I had to get Ryan hooked too! So funny...watch it if you haven't! A nice relaxed night to feel better and chill out from the day.