Adventures at the Dog Park!

Anyone who has a dog (especially a dog who loves water) should take their dog to Cosmo Dog Park (on Ray between Greenfield and Higley). This was so much fun! Zilli had the best time ever!

I actually found out that the dog park was recognized in 2007 as the best dog park in America! Pretty cool! And it lives up to it!

The park is big and wide and open, plenty of room to run around, but it also has some areas that are fenced in for dogs that are more shy, or for specific training or classes. There is actually even a little obstacle course built in part of it. Plus there is a giant lake (with fish!) for the dogs to swim in with a beach entry as well as docks to jump off. Up the hill there's a playground for children of the human variety.

We honestly didn't even have to bring Zilli's ball. As soon as we got close to the water, she realized that someone had the audacity to leave a tennis ball floating in the lake, and she wasted no time to jump in and "rescue" it.

Then, after depositing it safely on land, she turned around to realize that another ball had floated by! This could not be! Before long, we had a bit of a collection of these "rescued" tennis balls.

Such a good little momma dog, making sure all the tennis balls are safe and sound on land, haha!

She was so pleased with herself though! She was so excited she didn't know what to do! We could tell she was starting to get tired from all the jumping and swimming, but she didn't want to stop! We even tried giving her some taco bell - her own taco and everything, what dog wouldn't love that - but she was too excited to eat it and actually spit it out! The only time I've ever seen her happier is when Anthony's mom is around. And even then its a pretty close match!

I think the best part of the experience, for us anyway, was the fact that she got a free bath at the end. There's all these little shower stalls around the park with hoses, and we brought some shampoo and lathered her up nicely.

Even I got pretty hot and sweaty from the experience (c'mon, it was only something like 110 degrees out that day!) But I did notice that I got a freaking flip-flop tan on my feet!

And here's Zilli after the experience was over. Still as happy as can be.

Unfortunately, when we got home, first of all, the cat was freaked out of his mind (he couldn't recognize her smell) and started hissing at her like crazy, and also our house smelled like wet dog the rest of the day. Yummy. I bet you are SO jealous!

Bitterness

I was supposed to have some really cool things to blog about right about now.

We were supposed to be in Utah this week for my husband's family reunion doing all sorts of fun exciting things.

But his dumb work decided at the last minute to not let him have vacation time.

Who even does that?!?!?!?

Anyway, so we're just sitting in stupid stinky hot AZ for the week instead. By the way, when did it decide to get so ridiculously hot?! It was so nice up until a few days ago, and then the weather decided to change its mind last minute too. And now it is both unbearably hot and humid.

Yuck.

Well, I'm not THAT bitter.

Really, I'm not.

Maybe I still can have something cool to post about soon. Maybe...

Just tapping the potential...

Ok, ok, I know my last post was about my new toy, but I just downloaded the drawing software that came with it (instead of just the standard paint that comes free on any computers) and I am so excited about what I can do!

It's like having my own art studio right here, but I can ERASE when I make a mistake! So COOL!


Here's the same picture I drew before, but done in the new program:




Scroll down to see the old version. Slight difference.

Yeah, I really want to learn how to draw now! So many possibilities!

New Toy

So, the other part of my birthday gift came in the mail yesterday - a tablet to go with my new mini laptop! It is just like an electronic mousepad that comes with both a mouse and a pen and hooks into my USB drive.

The main reason for it was so that I could sign all of my real estate documents electronically and not have to go into the office to print out everything.


But, I can also use it for PHOTOSHOP!


Now, I don't have photoshop on this little computer, but I do have Paint...and check out the picture I drew with my tablet:

Yeah, I know it isn't any work of art or anything, but I thought it was pretty cool how I could do that! I'll have to practice on photoshop - I'll be able to make some really cool stuff now! Oh, and did you see that I got my signature on it too?! Pretty freaking awesome.

I'm excited.

Makeup Madness!

So my darling husband, even though he hates it when I wear makeup, found this fantastic website with really cheap makeup!

There was an email that went around talking about how a Nordstrom makeup line was getting rid of all of their inventory to reinvent their line, and so all the makeup was only $1! Well, that turned out not to be true...its ALWAYS only $1!

I read several of the reviews (unfortunately, I didn't learn the truth until after I bought everything - I thought if I didn't buy it right away then the inventories would disappear) and they said all of the different products were kind of hit or miss, but hey, I got a ton of makeup for really cheap!

Now, I haven't bought new makeup, other than the occassional powder, foundation, or mascara and maybe a small neutral eye shadow for many, many years. I think some of the blush and eyeshadow in my makeup box has been around since high school. Kinda sad. I just never use much.

So my wonderful husband allowed me to spend $75 on new makeup. This should last me a lifetime! Plus, because it was so inexpensive, I was more willing to try daring colors.

So here's what I got for my $75:

My favorite part was that they had mineral makeup for only $3-$5 as well!

Oh, and I got a full set of makeup brushes too! I haven't ever had a good set of brushes. And again, each one was only $1!

And there were several incentives as well on the website, including free shipping (hence the $75 order) and I got a little makeup box with sample size makeup in all sorts of different colors FREE! Almost all the makeup I do have is sample size, and it lasts me forever, so I was beyond thrilled! And the colors are great too - not just bright red or neon pink like what comes in some free kits.

Yay for makeup!

If you want to check it out as well, go to www.eyeslipsface.com - its always $1!