Keith and I had a great visit to Arizona during the last week of March. My mom was a wonderful hostess. She knows how much we like to eat so she had several new recommended places for Keith to choose from. Everything was delicious. Keith and I were talking about our favorite place and it was too hard to pick. Keith was able to play golf with his brother Josh on two of the afternoons. They had great weather. Josh is a second year medical student in Glendale, Arizona. Josh and his wife Steph just moved into an awesome condo in Scottsdale. We LOVE their location!
We did a lot of relaxing along with the eating. It was so much fun to be outside in Phoenix after all our terrible snow and cold in Pittsburgh. On Thursday night we went to dinner with Keith's brother and his wife at a place called Zipps. We wanted to watch some of the MArch Maddness basketball. Little did we know that Zipps was a Kansas State Alumni hang out. It was so much fun to watch Kansas State play Xavier and win after two overtimes. The place was going crazy!
We also got to visit my Aunt and Uncle at their house. It has been over a year since we last saw them. On Saturday we went to lunch with my cousin and his wife Lori. Their kids have gotten so big! Their little girl Jamie is very talkative now. She has the sweetest little voice. They were very patient to sit at the table and behave during our long lunch. It does help that they have these cool leap frog and star wars hand held games. My mom tried to play the star wars game and couldn't even figure out how to start it! ha! We are hoping they will get to come and visit us in Pittsburgh sometime next year.
Sadly, Keith had to fly back early SUnday morning, so he missed seeing everyone at church and the shower. That's the life of a first year resident. I'm just glad he was able to take a few vacation days and come out to ARizona.
The baby shower on Sunday afternoon was so much fun. It was wonderful to see so many of the people that I grew up with. We had a great crowd! Two of the girls I went to high school with are also pregnant right now. We are all due within a month of each other. The hostess at the shower had 2 giant edible arrangements. It was my first experience with a chocolate covered pineapple, so yummy! All the shower treats were great. One of the ladies from church made little cupcakes with pink baby feet. They were cute and tasty. My best friend from junior high made us the most precious baby quilt. She was visiting KEith and I in Pittsburgh when we were trying to decide on a nursery theme. Keith really wanted to combine a penguin and a cowboy theme and have cowboy penguins. He was sold that cowboy penguins were a brilliant idea. I did not so much agree on this point. We ended up deciding on just penguins but Sally remembered our debate and came up with a quilted version of cowboy penguins. You can imagine that Sally's quilt is Keith's favorite baby gift. Thank you Sally!!
I was really sad to leave Arizona last Monday. I wish that we were able to visit more often. I am never able to visit everyone or spend enough time with people. Hopefully we will be visiting soon with baby Brooke.
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