Happy New Year!

Ok, so maybe this post is two days late, but it’s always better late than never. I have just been a bit lazy these past couple days, well actually, I have been pretty lazy ever since we returned from Wisconsin. Well, I hope everyone had a fun and safe New Year’s Eve. We of course did. Andy’s brother, Ryan and Lisa, have been in town for New Year’s so we spent NYE with them and our friends, Mike and AJ. We spent all week trying to decide how to ring in the New Year. After research and some thought we all decided to go down to the Fiesta Bowl block party in Tempe. We haven’t done this yet since we have lived here and thought it would be a good time to try it. Since it’s quite the drive from our house we decided to rent the Big Orange Bus. This company picks you up and takes you to your destination and 30 minutes before you are ready to leave you call and they come back to get you. It’s a guaranteed ride home and since the taxi system sucks in this city the Big Orange Bus was the best route to go.

We decided to get down to the block party early and grab dinner on Mill Avenue at Gordon Biersch. Then we went to check out the main stage with the main beer tent. It was ok, but since it was early in the evening it was slightly boring. We decided to walk around Mill Avenue and check out the bars. We ended up paying a cover charge at The Library bar and that was where we ended up for the rest of the evening. Not ideal as we all wished we would have checked out the block party a bit more, but either way we all had a great time ringing in the New Year together and we got home safe by the Big Orange Bus. We all arrived back at our house about 1:30am to a stinky surprise the dogs left in the kitchen. Of course they had to ring in the New Year with two large stinky doggie dumps that smelled up the whole house. It stunk so bad that I couldn’t help clean it up due to fear of vomiting from the horrendous smell. Maybe that was their way of saying thanks for leaving them home alone on New Year’s Eve.

So, did you make your new year’s resolutions? Normally I don’t do this because I can never come up with something that is actually realistic. 2010 is a different year as I did come up with two New Year’s resolutions that are realistic.

The first resolution is to be more organized at home. At work I am plenty organized but for some reason when I get home it’s a different story. I need to clean out my closet, clean the closet in the third bedroom as well as plenty of other hiding places in this house. Our messy garage needs to be cleaned out and organized. We would like to buy the nice garage organizers and just get all the crap in their donated or stored away nice and neatly. I am done being a slob at home, or at least this is what I am saying for 2010 and I plan to stick it. I do know that it will take time to get this house completely in order, but I figured one weekend at a time will do.

My other resolution is to get this house decorated. We have been living here two and a half years and there are no decorations anywhere. It looks like we rent our house. The lack of decorations is not because we are lazy, but because it’s not something I am good at. I have tried many times to purchase stuff in stores, but when it comes down to it I never buy anything. I am not good at picking out colors, paintings, and other misc. decorations so I just get overwhelmed and put everything back. This year I am going to keep trying to decorate until I have stuff on the walls and curtains hung. I mean, how hard can it be…right?

Well, I hope everyone has a great 2010 and I will continue to write posts through the year to keep you updated on our lives.