Field Trip - Adventures At Pier 1.....

Once again, with my partner in crime in town, we hit our favorite store, Pier 1.   I'm pretty sure that when they see us pull up, they want to hurry and lock the doors.  Oh, to have a money tree, so I could buy some of the stuff that I see.  Lets get on with the ride.  Hand over your permission slips as you load the bus.

First stop on our trip is the Salt and Pepper Shakers.  

Pull apart elephant.  

When Pigs Fly!!!  Well, there ya go

Strutting the feathers

Cute cats....

Nutcrackers

Let's move along over to the, what should I give some of my friends, section.  Tommy, stop dilly dallying.  Catch up.....

Wine bottle holder

Sexy soda bottle holder

Your "special" bottle holders

Gingerbread Men measuring spoons

Now, gather around.  I know all of you are in a panic right now wondering what you are going to be giving me for Christmas.  I have taken the guess work out of it for you.  

I WANT THESE COFFEE MUGS!!!!

Cutest........mugs.........ever.........

le sigh

Must.....pull......my.......eyes.......away.......from.......mugs.........

Oh Dear....We Done Did It Again

Yesterday, was election day.  Lucky for you, this post isn't about that.  My partner in crime  cwauson, April, was in town over the weekend to attend a funeral.  We all know what that means.  Keep your kids inside, because we are out and about.

First of all, I had an early morning doctors appointment.  Early as in 7:40 am.  I know right. How many of your doctors are in that early?  I invited April to go with me since, my doctor rocks, and it would give us more time together.  (method to my madness)

It's a good thing she was with me.  After Mary, the coolest nurse ever, took my blood pressure, she told me to sign this paper, and she would be back to SHOOT ME.  What the?  I turned to April and asked if she just heard my life threatened.   I wanted a picture of the villain, but she wouldn't let me take a picture with her face.  She must be related to me or something.  Oh well, I have the hands.  The horrible, mean hands that held the weapon. 

Ok, she was just going to give me my flu shot, but that didn't sound as cool

After the fun and exciting quarterly appointment, we sped on over to the restaurant that my sister Kathy works at.  We were going to meet Amber, coolest cutter of hair ever, (I hang out with a bunch of cool people, get over it), for breakfast.

From left to right, Sister Kathy, (no, she's not a nun, ummm, nevermind), next to her is Amber.  Across from her is Dazee, with her gratuitous cleavage shot, you're welcome, and then April.   My sister is so nice.  She is an assistant manager, so she takes people's money.  A lot of her customers adore her.  At the table behind April and I was one such customer.  Since he can never do anything for my sister, he bought our breakfast.  Can you believe it.  What a freaking nice guy.  

After breakfast, April and I went on our pilgrimage to Pier One.  Oh we love that place.   Every time we are together we get us a new coffee cup.  Amber is part of our "sassy group", so we picked one up for her too.  These are the ones we got this time around.  

I know, you are shocked, a cup with a purple butterfly on it.  squeeeee

Here is one of the cute aprons they are selling there right now.  Love

Don't worry.  On another post will be all the cool salt and pepper shakers and other neat things we found this time around.  

We stopped in to give Amber her cup, and afterwards, we stopped to get us a Carmel Frappe, and took it to Beyond Glaze, the awesome gourmet doughnut shop, and had a little treat.  On the left is her peanut butter chocolate donut, and mine is the carmel apple.   Num-O-La

And as always, we had to do our favorite scene from the movie Bridesmaids, "I don't need dental work", "you are so beautiful", "will you marry me". 

 Bwwaaa-haaa-haaaa

She's such a sport

Now, for your viewing pleasure, we made another video.  A big shout out to Amber, for doing the camera work.

Salt Meet Pepper

As I mentioned in my post yesterday, April and I went to Pier 1 Imports.  We have this fun tradition that every time we get together we buy a new coffee mug to celebrate.  While we were picking out our favorite ones, I noticed the cutest salt and pepper shakers.  

Sidenote:  I am now going to start collecting them, since my shot glass obsession isn't netting me many.

Here are the ones that I did most my oohhing and aahhing over.

The Cat and the Fish Bowl.  

Cute Monkey with his Banana

Hamburger and Fries.  These would be sooooo cute for an outdoor food gathering.

Two Pea's in a Pod.   That would be me and April.  Her sister commented on my post that when April was little, she was shy and quiet and never said a word.  Hahahahah, believe it or not, I was the same way.  AROUND THE HOUSE.   Whenever my parents went to parent/teacher conferences the teachers would always say I was always the center of the talking group.  Oops.  

I totally want this one.  A charcoal BBQ Grill.  Which looks like.....

this when you take the top off.  How cute is that!

I'll drink to that.  

And this one too.

A newly hatched chick.  Turns into.........

this.  Everyone can say aaahhhh now.

Tune in tomorrow for Part Two of, I HONESTLY CAN'T TAKE HER ANYWHERE.  

Honestly, I Can't Take Her Anywhere

My cousin April was in town from Podunk, errr I mean Hagerman Idaho, a town of no stop lights, this weekend.  So when she comes to the big city of Salt Lake, it's an adventure.

We started out our Saturday evening with a fine meal at Olive Garden.  First of all, one of the local high schools was having their Prom.  How did I know?  All the lovely dressed up kids showing up to dinner.  Now, if I'm in a formal dress, there is no way I want to be eating Italian, but hey, that's just me.  Funny thing happened.  There was a table set for 8 across from us.  Two couples swished   came in and took their seats.  A couple of minutes later, 2 other couples arrive.  

OMG, what is this, one of the girls from the first group, and one of the girls from the second group, HAVE THE SAME EXACT POOFY DRESS.  I, in my camera goes with me everywhere mode, tried to catch both of them.  If I was like some of you (Queenie), I would have totally asked them to stand together so I could get their photo.  But as it was, I didn't want to cause them any more embarrassment so I just tried to catch them without them noticing.

This is the 2nd girl that arrived.  She was closer and had her back to me.

The blurry one is the same dress, from the side, hurry and snap the photo, girl from the first couples.  The girl from the first photo kept trying to scoot her chair back closer to our table so they wouldn't have to look at each other.  I'm beginning to think it's a good thing I was never invited to the proms.

Now, please, if you will, watch this small clip from the movie, Bridesmaids.

This is my lovely cousin re-enacting the scene with our spinach/artichoke dip.  And yes, we said the same words and everything.  Because we are goons.
After dinner we stopped at Pier One.  My oh my, I love that place.  Here she is making out with the silicone oven mitt.  

Before we got to my house we stopped and got my mail, because we have community mailboxes where I live.  Yes, I love it, NOT.   With the night being warm, we had the sunroof open.  This is what happens when you get out to get your mail, and leave April in the car.  

Her shirt says "Rebel".  Yes April, yes you are.

To Be Continued..........