Happy Holidays

The holiday season is upon us! Disclaimer: no photos :(

The fabulous weekend began with what else? A three day work/school week! Which let's face it, cannot be beat.

Meghann's sister Stephanie (and family) came into town to visit Steph's in-laws which coincidently live in Tempe, AZ. So good news for us, we got to spend the Thanksgiving holiday with family!

As usual patrons celebrating Thanksgiving, we snacked all day and ate a huge turkey feast, ate some pie and repeat. The night ended with Meg's two nieces, Madeleine and Olivia and nephew, Noah having a sleep over at our place! Nothing like a slumber party with Aunt Meghann and Uncle Daniel! The short story is, Noah (on more than one occasion) asked if he could move in with us. Beat that other aunt's and uncles.

The rest of the weekend concluded of braving the crowds on Black Friday with other crazy bargain shoppers, drive-in theaters, more family dinners, putting up Christmas decorations and some much anticipated sleeping in and chill-axing.

We hope everyone had a fulfilling holiday and is getting excited for the Christmas season! But first, Thanksgiving wouldn't be complete without saying what we are thankful for.

Daniel's list: His loving beautiful wife, HD tv and hot dogs

Meghann's list: Family, 80 degree weather and sonic cherry coke (easy on the ice)

HAPPY HALLOWEEN....a little late

After all the ghost and ghouls have had their fun and we have gorded ourselves on the troves of candy collected (or stolen from your respective kids), the Arizona Tracys are wishing everyone a Happy "Late" Halloween!

Ours began a week before Halloween when we went to the local pumpkin patch and picked out the most perfect pumpkin! We braved the blazing October heat (it had to be 80 something) and cut through all the vines to find that all elusive perfect pumpkin. We went back to the Hatch's place and had a great pumpkin carving party!

At the party we kept the old tradition of all pumpkin carvers world-wide, Meghann, Kylee, and Clarie were busily getting their men Halloween treats while the men were actively engaged in a good work (making the pumpkins SCARY).

Some of you might be wondering, "Why is a piece of paper on Daniel's pumpkin?" Well, Daniel is always out for perfection. He HAND drew the image he wanted on the pumpkin and wanted it do be the best pumpkin EVER (it had to be better than last year)!
These are the pumpkins that we all carved that night!!!!! The picture below is our pumpkin with the candle in it. It looks scary huh!?! We even got the drunk neighbors approval when we put it on the door step.


Does Meghann ever turn into a monster on Halloween?????
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Yes, but Daniel had her back in the house before the last stroke of Midnight fell.
Halloween was fun and we dressed with the theme of Decades! Meghann was a hippie in the 60's (she even tie-dyed her own t-shirt!) and Daniel was a Wanna-be in the 70's. We ended up going to the Thunderbird Old Hallows Eve party and got to see all kinds of costumes. Namely Vampires (non of the Edward variety), Smurfs, Kung-Fu Panda, a Gold Digger, Satan, The singing bush from Three Amigos, Easter bunny and so many more. We had a great Halloween and hope that you all had a good one too!

Trip to Utah!

One thing Meghann REALLY misses about fall...are the changing leaves. Since we've been living in Arizona, we are constantly reminding ourselves, yes, it is October. It's easy to forget when it's oohh 90 degrees outside! During our drive up to Utah it was nice to be able to get a sense of good ole autumn weather! As you can tell, Meg was super excited. So excited, we had to stop and take a picture of her hugging a tree. Tree hugger.
We made the trek up to Utah for wedding festivities in the honors of Rachel and Scott and to spend some family time with the Tracy's. It was nice to be able to spend a long weekend with the fam vacationing from work and school! Our weekend however did not go untouched from delay. For the 4th time Meghann has, you guessed it, locked her keys in our car. Yup. We had to take a moment and document Camille's diligence in jimmying the car door with a wire hanger and screw driver. Classic. All is well! The keys were right where Meg left them...in the back seat.

After two days of shopping, eating and eating, the fam was able to gather together for Rachel and Scott's reception. It was so fun to be with everyone during the exciting beginning of Rachel and Scott's life together!

Wedding weekend would not be completed without the initiation of the newlyweds car! Streamers, two canisters of silly string, some markers and condoms later we have completed our masterpiece! It was all out of pure love, we promise.



On the way home from a relaxing weekend, we took our time driving back home to enjoy the scenery. We think this is a "baby" canyon leading into the Grand Canyon. Whatever it is, it was an awesome view!

We made it home safely and want to thank the family for such a great weekend. We miss you all!