We're Alive! Alive!

Hi there!  This is going to be one of the most random posts ever...but hey, ya gotta do what you gotta do.  Here's what's been happening in the lives of Jeremy, Sara and Diesel over the past few months.

Diesel stole my pajama shorts and ran upstairs with them.

I co-hosted a baby shower and it featured a dessert bar with many pink accents.  Would you expect anything less from me?

We bought Diesel a pool!  It's a lot of fun to play in it with him.

Our friends, Jayla, had a baby!!  Meet our God daughter, Emma.  She's cute, huh?

I saw a bat at work!  Seriously!  Like a real, live (but sleeping) bat!  Ewww.

Our friend, Noel, is in town for the weekend!  Jeremy and him are playing video games, as we speak...and I have a feeling they'll be doing that all weekend.

That, among other stuff, has been occuring in the exciting lives of the Bofferdings.  More too come soon!  I have watermelons, a trash compactor and a vaccum to tell you about. :)

Product Review Preview, Valentine’s and a Knee Update

Those fabulous people at CSN Stores has given me another opportunity to review one of there products!  Yay!  If you look back through my blog, you’ll see that I’ve reviewed items such as shoes and kitchen products, but CSN Stores has so much more.  From swing sets to bedroom sets, they have thousands of products to choose from.  Talk about one stop shopping!  Stay tuned to see what item I select this time.  Also, if you’re interested in winning a CSN Stores gift certificate, be sure to stop by my other blog!

Moving right along, I wanted to talk about Valentine’s day.  Did you all have a good one?  I sure did.  Jeremy and I are pretty laid back, so we aren’t the type of people to go out to a fancy dinner and buy expensive presents for each other on Valentines.  We must just love each other SO much throughout the whole year! (Ha! )  Anyway, since Jeremy hasn’t been able to drive due to his knee surgery, I didn’t even expect a card from him this year.  Well, he pleasantly surprised me and when I got home from work…I found that he had baked me a PINK Valentine’s cake, had Hershey kisses all over the place and had gotten me a card.  Awwww!  As my mom would say, “What a guy, huh?”  Apparently, the Friday before, he asked our friend, Jake, if he was available to take him to Walmart, so they did a little Valentine’s shopping.  Anyway, we exchanged cards, went out to dinner at a little steakhouse in our po-dunk town, watched TV and ate cake.  In fact, I’ve been eating cake all this week.  Best. Husband. Ever. 

Not gonna lie…I’m really surprise he even knew where the cake pans were.

PINK funfetti Valentine’s cake!  Drool…

Kisses! (And yes, I’m almost 28 years old and I keep my childhood teddy bears by my bed)

Lastly, I wanted to post a knee update.  Jeremy’s knee is doing really well and the Dr. is proud of his progress.  He’s getting his permanent brace soon (which he’ll wear for about the next year) , he off his crutches, and he’s started physical therapy.  He’s taking one more week off of work, but he’s definitely on the road to recovery!

Ewww! It still looks funny.

Jayla and Saremy's Vacation 2010 - Caribbean Cruise

Hi friends!  Are you ready for an exciting post that will make you want to go someplace tropical, kick your shoes off and lay in the sand?  Alright then!  Here we go...

 

As you fine readers know, we hang out with our friends Jake and Kayla (lovingly referred to as "Jayla") a lot.  We usually have dinner with them a few times a month, we have video game and movie nights, and we go on vacation with them.  If you refer back to our prior vacation posts, you'll see that we have plans to go on an annual vacation with them.  Last year (that sounds so long again, but really it was in December, and I'm just now catching up on blogging about it), we decided to go on a cruise through the Western Carribean!  So, without further ado, ladies and gentlemen, I present you with: Jayla and Saremy's Vacation 2010!

 

 

We departed for our cruise, aboard the Celebrity Eclipse, out of the port of Miami on December 11th and set sail for 7 glorious days of vacation.  Our ports of call were: Grand Cayman Islands, Cozumel, Mexico, Costa Maya, Mexico and Roatan, Honduras; along with 2 full days at sea.  At each port, we did excursions such as: going to Hell and the turtle farm in Grand Cayman, doing zip lines in Cozumel, power snorkeling in Costa Maya, and visiting the preservation park in Honduras.  Plus, while aboard our ship we ate delicious food, took in nightly shows, ate delicious food, laid out by the pool, ate delicious food, shopped, ate delicious food, gambled in the casino, ate delicious food, dressed up for 2 formal nights, and did I mention, we ate A LOT of delicious food?? :)  For those of you who have never cruised before...eating is a big part of the activity on board, and the food is amazing and always available.  It's somewhat ridiculous, actually. 

 

Yep, that’s our ship.

 

Neighbors.

 

Our room.

 

Complimentary rob, slipper and iced tea.

 

Our first night aboard.

 

We’ve been to Hell and back.

 

The waves were huge in Grand Cayman.

 

We got to hold turtles!

 

About to go zip lining.

 

On the shuttle boat back to the ship.

 

Jayla’s “pretend” anniversary.

 

Costa Maya.

 

Honduras was gorgeous!

 

At the preservation park…

 

Where we made new friends.

 

Formal night.

 

What a great vacation!

We had an awesome time on this cruise and there have already been talks of cruising the Eastern Caribbean in the future.  Jake and Kayla, thanks for another great vacation!  We had a blast!

 

My favorite group shot!

Finally...a New Post!

Hello friends!  Life has been pretty dull lately, so that's the reason for the lack of posts.  Just the same ole, same ole...but finally, I have something to post about!  Exciting, isn't it? 

So, this past weekend, Jerm, Diesel and I went on a mini vacation to one of my favorite places in the world...Scottsdale!  The reason for the trip was that the Angels were in town playing the Diamondbacks.  For my dad's birthday, my mom got him tickets to one of the games and since Jerm loves the Angels, he wanted to go to all three games...so we did and we hung out with my family for a few days.

Diesel, getting ready to go to Scottsdale.

The first game was Friday night.  Jayla was supposed to come with us, but Kayla had prior plans, so just Jake came with us.  We ate overpriced popcorn, drank expensive water, and watched the Angels beat up on the Diamondbacks. 

Jake and Jerm.

The Angels spanked the D'backs, 12 - 3.

Game #2 was Saturday afternoon.  My mom had bought tickets in the new "All You Can Eat Section" of the field, which was really cool.  It was on the 2nd level suite area and we got unlimited: soda, hot dogs, chips, peanuts and popcorn.  Yum!  Needless to say, the Angels won again.

Jerm and his peanuts.

Dad and his hot dog.

 

Me and my popcorn.

Not quite the game as the night before, but the Angels still won.

The last game of the series was Sunday afternoon.  Jerm and I had great lower level seats and once again, the Angels won.  We left at the top of the 5th because the Angels were up 9 to 2, and we had to get Diesel and our stuff from my folks house, plus drive home to Prescott.  When we got to the car, we found out that the D'backs had come back and the score was 9 to 8.  What the...?! 

We could only watch so much of Angels beating up the D'backs. 

So, it was fun, baseball filled weekend.  I went to more baseball games over the past weekend, then I have in the past two years!  Woo!  I think I'm "baseballed out."  :)

Stay tuned tomorrow for a post about our other weekend activity...playing in the pool, with our water obsessed dog!