Racing with the Hansen's!!

Well, a few weekends ago, we were lucky enough to have my parents come visit. My little Brother JorDan had another Race out in Surprise, Rhett and I both had the day off so we spent most of Saturday out there!! It was so great to see them... We are lucky enough to have them come for Races pretty often, and i ALWAYS forget to take pictures... so this is the best i got...

I actually love this one of Rhett and my Dad for some reason... And below my parents contemplate about the race with my little bro!! Good job Jor!

A little of what we have been up to....

Well, Rhett finished Surgery and moved on to his Primary Care Rotation... and i couldnt e more excited for the better, well at least a little more normal hours!! During the quick two day semi-break he had, we headed to the temple, and of course Cafe Rio!!

Well, we FINALLY hiked Thunderbord mountain the other morning. Yes, that is right we have lived here for two years and never hiked the wonderful beautiful mountain that is half a mile from our house. Now we regret we didnt do it more!! The view is gorgeous(minus the early morning smog) you can see all the way to downtown phoenix, all the way to the stadium and even most of surprise. Gorgeous views, if you havent hiked it yet!! Excuse the pic. we literally rolled out of bed to go...

The Frei's are going GREEN!!!!

Since, we have been home from Utah, it seems we have been seriously busy!! Rhett is his Surgery rotation... and life couldn't be more lonely!! He is gone so much-- i feel so bad for him, just looking at him i feel tired!! But today is the last day(YAY!!! shout from the roof tops, get surgery out of here, and never let me return until next year!!).
BTW-- for you future surgery rotater wives out there, my hubby left at 530 this morning(no exaggerating) and it is 6:15 and guess who is still not home?? When Rhett went on the first day, he asked the intern

"So, what is my schedule like??"

the Intern replied with, "Be here by six, and when we are done we are done."

Holy Crap!! I haven't decided what is worse on my part, Not knowing WHEN the heck he is coming home, or feeling horrible when it is 7 at night and he is still not home!! Not to mention, i cant talk to him the WHOLE day! AAAHHH... but alas, today is the last day...

So, while Rhettser has been away(so to speak) I have done some re-organizing. Organizing is one of my favorite past times... i know pathetic... sometimes i just pull things out of closets just so that i can reorganize it(how lame o is that, I should get another hobby, but i cant i am addicted to organizing things). So my kitchen cupboards have been driving me crazy, we have these HUGE, very TALL cupboards in our kitchen, wonderful dont you think??? Not so much, our dear wonderful, crazy apt. people only out one shelve in them!! Seriously look how tall they are?? I can stack 2 HUGE cans of oatmeal on top of each other, they are so tall, who has anything that tall in a cupboard??? So i originally bought some shelves and that worked a little. Then i went to our new wonderfully, large, newly remodeled, and added Walmart Supercenter, and found stacking shelves and they work wonders for can storage!! So i bought four and for $20 i saved a little bit of sanity and time when i am in the kitchen, i DONT, repeat dont like to spend a lot of time in the kitchen!! Beautiful, dont ya think???

Also, i have been wanting to spruce up our living room a little, i feel like it needed a little make-over... My friend and i made these cute hanging things that we copied from another friend, who copied them from pottery barn... you make the picture bigger... I love mine, but lately i am way into shelves and picture stacking, so i decided to take down the cute picture hanging thing(i don't even know what to call it, but it is cute) after getting it down.. i decided to ummm... paint!!!

And well the product... Lime green... it was way brighter and lime-y on the walls then i expected... and i thought Rhett was going to flip when he saw the color... and i was a little worried at first but I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it!!!!

It is so fun and different and so not WHITE... especially since all our furniture is white... Seriously what was i thinking, a white sofa?? I definitely was not thinking about anything except i wanted micro-fiber and at the time this is the only color i could find!! And do you like my sofa, i have several friends that have the same one, in different colors too!! I am a little jealous... i really wanted a sage green one... but then again if my sofa was green i could have never painted my wall lime green!!! So this is the Frei's way of going green... oh and i do also take my own bags to the grocery store now, so i am trying to do my part.... and really go green....

****By the way... 6:30 now and still no word from the hubby, that means he has been working 13 hours!! So sad!!!****

Fun with the Hansen Fam!!

While we were in Utah, I also got to spend a week babysitting this little guy!! He is so cute!! my Brothers wife was the Stake Camp Director... SO i stayed with my brother and took care of my nephew while he was at work!! It was so fun!! This particular day, my Dad decided to surprise us and took the day off of work to spend it with the two of us....

My mom, is always coming up with great ideas-- and at the last minute she decided to take me and my two sister-n-laws to Mesquite for a girls nite!! It was so nice of her... we laid by the pool... ALL day... and since it was a Tuesday in Mesquite, Nevada, we had the pool all to ourselves!!!

Then we got all dolled up, and headed out-- Some of my mom's friends let us eat complimentary at their fancy restaurant... Then mom gave us $20 bucks, to try our luck at the penny slots!! I had not so much luck, but it was still fun- and of course after our twenty's were spent, we were out of there!! Thanks Mom!!

Lake Powell!!

Rhett's parents friends were nice enough to invite us to stay on their houseboat at Lake Powell, while Rhett was on his Rotation in Utah!! We both grew up out there and we love it so much!! Here is where we stayed, it was such a nice house boat and there only about 15 of us out there, and the weather was SO SO beautiful!!

While we were there the boys did a little of this...luckily there were no injuries...

Rhett caught this, and by the look in his eyes, he is super excited...





Us girls enjoyed A LOT of this.... and did little of anything else... so wonderful!!!

Rhett did a lot of this... we don't get to enjoy the wake boarding as much when we are in school...

The boys also spent FOREVER on this little guy....

All that hard worked payed off... such detail... one of the boys in architectural school-- does it show???

Thank you Johnson's for such a wonderful trip!!

Elk Ranch!!!

Rhetts Dad owns an Elk Ranch and last week he was nice enough to take us up there to stay for the 24th of July!! The weather was so beautiful!! We had so much fun riding four-wheelers, enjoying the scenery and looking for Elk!!

We think that the infamous bark beetle has infested the ranch, because there were quite a few dead trees. Rhett, for some reason was dying to shop one down...but not with the chain saw(yes we had one), but he wanted to do it with an Ax....!!! He and his Dad had to chop almost clear through it-- then they had to give it a big shove before it finally fell over!!



Poor guy had one seriuos blister from all that chopping!! Then he had to go and scrub in to surgery a couple days later--- ouch!!



Here is Rhett and his Mom... We drove the four-wheeler up a huge hill to where the trees don't grow. It was so pretty up there!! You could see all the way to Richfield and beyond. It was so pretty!!



I am doing something weird with my chin... but whatever... we never take pictures together anymore so this will just have to do!! And i felt too bad to ask someone to take it again---



Here are the boys........


We also drove WAY down to the bottom of the Ranch, to these old Gold mines. They were a little old, and a little rickety so we didnt go inside... but you can see the tracks are still in place...

The miners must have up and left pretty quickly because they left a couple trucks way up in the canyon. Although, the mine was so hard to get to by four-wheeler, that i cant imagine trying to drive a truck in and out of there.

We were a little sad we didnt see too many elk this trip... but we still had a fun time!

"Its good to see me isnt it?"

"No need to answer that was rhetortical."

-by Glinda with a (guh)

So, I now that you are all probably tired of hearing about WICKED but seriously it is amazing!! So, so entertaining and even the hubby LOVED it!! It was funny, serious, easy to understand, i LOVE how they incorporate scenes and characters from the Wizard of Oz!! I am just in love with it!! I want to see it again and fast... i hear they are in San Diego in September---hmmm... maybe we need to plan a girls trip!

Here is the theater that is was at... It was 117 degrees that day btw(seriously). Pretty cool theater huh?? This theater is located at ASU and in November Phantom of the Opera is coming!! I am trying to talk Rhett into it-- but i don't think it is working!! But i would love to see it!! We had awesome seats this time 1st row in the second tier right in the middle!! So now i am spoiled!! But i am hoping by October ill have him talked into it!! I recommend it though because really every seat seems like a good seat in the theater!

Party #2!!!

We were lucky enough to celebrate my birthday twice this year!! My mom had a BBQ with my siblings and us in SG. The whole family was there. It was good to see all of us together and of course i didn't get a pic. of the whole family I always forget!!!

Here is my mother and I... She always use to get us ice cream cakes on our birthdays when we were kids. So she got this wonderful pralines and creme ice cream cake! Have I told you I LOVE ice cream??

Candles have seriously come a long way since i was a kid.. these candles spell out H-A-P-P-Y
B-I-R-T-H-D-A-Y! I loved them and seriously such a smart idea!