First House Party

This last week Mara had a well deserved week off from the long days of residency...although she is having a blast...:) The first couple days she relaxed, the only way she know how, by keeping busy. She worked out, did tons of house projects, and found a few minutes to relax by the pool. Wednesday she kept Rohan home and took him to the Phoenix Children's Museum for several hours. Awesome way to beat the heat, and Rohan got to explore and run around. It's funny how different he is from the first time we went last year. Thursday and Friday I took off and we had some time together to work on the house, and just enjoy some time together! :) We both went and got our official AZ driver's licenses as well...:) Awesome to have the Grand Canyon on the license! They are good until 2043, so that's nice. Hopefully we'll be here that long! We had tons of yard work to do. We did lots of pruning, weed pulling, watering, pool cleaning, organizing and a host of other stuff. It was mostly little things we've been wanting to do since we moved in, just not a ton of time to do it until now. Unfortunately it was 115°F outside, so we were pretty wiped out when we were done, but the everything looked great, and we even found some energy to climb at AZR. Friday night we were out grocery shopping and running little errands when we came home to a surprise. A guy walked off our front porch and said "Is this where the party is?". It was my Dad! He came to crash our housewarming party! It was a really nice surprise...:) We gave him a tour and chatted until about midnight his time, then he crashed. Saturday we got up early and went and played some baseball at the park with Rohan (since it was only 95°F at 10am). Then walked to our favorite coffee house, Matador, before heading home to relax before our party. The party was pretty solid from ~2pm to the end, I think around 11pm. We had a great mix of people from TGEN, PCH, and AZR, and tons of kids to keep the dogs busy playing fetch. We had the grill going for several hours for lunch, supper, and later supper. We had tons of food since everyone brought something, and of course some adult beverages. We broke in our new volleyball net. Ringo the dog broke in our new volleyball...good thing we had a spare...and we had a great time with some great friends! Can't wait to do it again! Hope everyone had a great week, and stayed cooler than we were! Thanks again for coming Dad!!!