.: March 2011

Trip to Willey's

Hubby & I spotted this awesome sofa at RC Willey's the other day. It was super soft and we really liked the dark taupe color.

I'm absolutely loving gray & yellow right now!!! (Is it gray or grey?? I'm never sure) This is a sweet gray velvet sofa with some yellow patent leather pillows! So cool.

This piece is not usually my style, but for some reason I like it. Maybe the stripes?? Probably the *French* script on the pillows!

Great chair and fantastic, industrial-looking clock. At the time, I didn't dare check the price tag on it, but now I'm really curious ;)

More goodies - I'm attracted to anything animal print!


This tall silver vase is gorgeous! (To say nothing of the stud muffin in the chair.)


Ohhhh, how much do I love this chair!?! Looks perfect for curling up with a good book! Plus, it has stripes!! And I'm really loving that rug. May consider purchasing it for my front living room. I've been on the hunt for some gray & yellow to incorporate with my chocolate brown furniture. (Sure beats the $ of a new sofa....or the chair!)

My striped chair....along with a gorgeous gray linen sofa.

Really liked this little storage unit, but actually have no use for it! However, I'm sure I could find a spot for that yellow beauty!!

Another shot of the taupe sofa. Very cool arms on it. Well, we walked out empty handed, but with our bank account in tact!!!

It must be spring!

Driving to work this morning was slushy & snowy, but coming back home this evening was clear & dry!!

Dinner at Christopher's

Tonight the hubs and I had a delicioso filet mignon dinner at Christopher's in Salt Lake.

The interior is beautiful. They're in a new location on Pierpont Ave that was originally Bacci Italian Restaurant.

Then it was Ruth's Chris. They invested quite a bit of moolah to renovate the place and add all of this incredible woodwork and lighting.

Then it was taken over by Donovan's, of Chicago. They had a fabulous Happy Hour w/live music & fantastic appetizers!!


This was tonight's dessert, yummy bread pudding (my fav!) w/vanilla bean bourbon sauce. I thought the fresh orchid was an extra nice touch.

Driving into the downtown area this evening. It's so nice having it stay lighter at night!

The capitol building in SLC.

Photos of CHARLIE!!!


Amazing photos of my sweet Baby Grandson, CHARLIE at 24 weeks. I'm so excited for him to get here so I can hold him in my arms and spoil him!!

These are 3-D Ultrasound images - awesome technology.

Yep, it's a boy! Cute little leg and foot.

All scrunched up!

What a perfect profile!

Sucking his thumb...how cute!!!

Nighty-night, sweet angel

Light a candle for the people in Japan

Celebrating St Patty's Day 2011

Green Beer Bread...yummy!

'The Girls' at HugHes for lunch today.


Green Beer, of course (though not at our lunch).

OMG, are you kidding me?!?

Happy St Patrick's Day everyone!!!

Maison de Provence

A cute little shop located next door to the cafe where we had lunch today. It's actually a lot of overpriced shi-shi things (IMHO) but their sign is quite fetching!

One afternoon while I was in Phoenix, Matt and I went on a really nice hike in the Ahwatukee foothills. The weather was perfect, in the mid-70s. Unfortunately it was too early for cactus blooms, but still a cool landscape. The uphill climb left me huffing & puffing a bit, but it was a fantastic panoramic view at the top. We could see uptown, downtown and clear up to the Cardinals stadium. There were also more green fields

of crops than I ever would have expected!

Mexican at Macayo's

We had a delicious dinner and great margaritas here. There were Girl Scouts selling cookies out front, so we picked up a couple of boxes to take home.

The Girls at the Ghetto Spa

Michelle and I had purchased Groupons for a treatment at a Phoenix spa, so all four of us decided to go get a massage together. It sounded really good online, but...

in reality, it turned out to be not quite what we had expected.

They were totally disorganized, the place needing cleaning, we were left waiting for way too long and Melissa got royally jipped on her pedicure!! In an effort to make up for the long wait, they offered a 'free' sauna to Michelle & I. We were pretty excited about going into the sauna room, until we got stuffed into a portable, stand-alone sauna built for one, stashed way in the back of the salon, with a folding screen for the dressing area! There was barely room for us to squeeze into the little sauna - it was hilarious! We cracked up over it. In fact, Michelle had trouble controlling herself in there...(water spitting incident on my side of the sauna?!)

And poor Meliss had her pedi done in an open area like a hallway, rather than a room, with a student sitting next to her the whole time, observing. And it was clear in the back too...right next to the beauty sauna!!

Not exactly the relaxing experience she had in mind.

But on the bright side, Seanee got a really good facial, and my massage was wonderful. Michelle's massage was pretty good too, but didn't include all of the features that mine did (hot towels on back, hands & feet...ahhh!)!

The owner was really nice and was trying very hard to make it a good time for us. She even served us champagne and chocolate for heaven's sake, so in all fairness, I have to give her points for that.
All in all it was OK, and at least makes for a funny memory if nothing else!