I Give You My Heart

The Gonzalez household has officially postponed Valentine's Day until Saturday. That's what happens when the husband has his anatomy class until 9 p.m. on the actual Valentine's Day, a test on Wednesday he needs to study for tomorrow and we both have a birthing class on Thursday.

However, in honor of the day the rest of the world uses to celebrate Valentine's Day, Wil sent me this picture in a text, along with the message Happy Valentine's Day!

It's a sheep heart - and the subject of Wil's anatomy class today!

I have to admit, it totally made my day! :-)

Sitting on the Floor

The Arizona Lottery sponsored a Facebook Night at the Phoenix Suns game last night. Since I'm in charge of the Lottery's social media presence, I was in charge of helping at the game. Now normally, there would be much grumbling about having to work on a Sunday night. However, the Suns said they'd get us tickets to the game, so I invited Wil along and decided I could handle going to a Suns game in the name of work.

Friday night, I got an email from my contact at the Suns that said, "We got you great floor seats. See you Sunday."

Floor seats? FLOOR SEATS??? I got home and excitedly told Wil that we had floor seats and his first question was - "what's their definition of floor?"

Me, "Does it matter? They'll still be better seats than we have ever had in our entire lives!"

Followed by Wil saying, "if only I'd known four hours earlier, I could've bragged to all the guys at work when they asked me what I was going to do this weekend!"

The view from our seats!

For the record, we were in the second row of floor seats just to the left of the basket. The seats were AWESOME...and the game goes by so much faster when you sit on the floor!

Steve Nash shooting Free Throws

You were hoping for a close up of that? Oh, okay!

I kept wanting the game to slow down because I wasn't done savoring my floor experience, you know...the experience where I could hear the players yelling at each other, make out what they were saying to the ref, see them breathing hard and the beads of sweat on their arms, and was totally distracted because the other team had some sort of logo/writing on the butt of their jerseys and I couldn't figure out what it said, experience!!!

It was a great game! We played the Hornets - led by 10 in the first half, were down by 10 in the first half, were up by 10 with five minutes left, were up by 5 with 30 seconds left, were biting our nails when we were up by two and the Hornets had the ball with 9 seconds left...and managed to pull out a win!

Plus...floor seats come with this perk called the Flex Print Club - yep, I know it sounds like the business center in a hotel...however, it's actually this cool little place under the stands that I never knew existed. It's full of free drinks, free food, private bathrooms (this is a very big deal when you're eight months pregnant!) and a nice old man called the host that welcomes you, gives you a run down of everything that's going on and remembers you every time you pass him after that. Plus you get to watch the team run from the locker room to the tunnel to enter the court. This is the place where the really rich people hang out - this is the place where you see the Governor just hanging out and snacking on dinner - this is a seriously COOL place!!!

Wil and I decided we would have to be filthy rich (like over the top filthy rich) to justify purchasing floor seats...however, if anyone has some free floor seats they don't plan to use, we would be more than happy to take them off of your hands!

Phenomenal Cosmic Powers, Itty-Bitty Living Space

We've been looking for a new dog bed for Elvis. I was SO excited when I found one for only $9 at Kohls. It was the only size bed they had, so it looked good sized when I was walking through the store. I came home, removed the tags, let Elvis in and proudly showed him his new bed... he thought it was a chew toy!

I might have underestimated his size/overestimated the size of the bed just a bit. He still lays on the bed, but he generally shoots me looks that say I'm the meanest master ever to make him sleep on such a tiny bed!

Gonzalez Geyser

The weekend before Christmas, we had a few home improvement projects we wanted to get done. I planned to deep clean the house, while Wil replaced the faucet and garbage disposal in our kitchen sink - we recently discovered a rather large hole in the garbage disposal and a leak in the faucet that were causing much nastiness underneath our sink!

Waldo came over to help/hangout while we worked on our home improvement projects. The day was going along smoothly when the fittings/pipes/something from the new faucet didn't fit what was already under our sink. Wil had been thinking about replacing those parts anyway, so he decided to turn off the water so he could remove them and get new ones that would fit with our new faucet.

Wil and Waldo went outside to turn off the water so they could continue their manly task of fixing the sink. I was inside cleaning the bathroom, when all of a sudden I heard rushing water. "Huh, I thought they were going to turn OFF the water, I wonder what that noise is?"

Wil came running in the house looking for our water bill. He frantically called the City of Peoria to let them know that we had a "gusher," as he called it, and to request they send someone to come turn off the water as soon as possible!

I went outside to see this...

How high did this gusher go?

Well... about this high...

Yep... that's definitely higher than the street lamp outside our house!

Apparently, you turn off the water to your house at the meter in most cities in the Valley - and in any city where Wil and Waldo have ever lived. Unfortunately, in Peoria, there is a separate valve up by your house, and you are not to ever touch the meter for any reason, ever. So, when they tried to turn the water off at the meter, it broke.

I laughed and giggled and laughed and made jokes, while Wil got more and more mad that it was broken. He was SO bugged! :-)

Neighbors came out of their houses and all asked the same thing - what happened... "uh, it broke!"

It took more than an hour for someone from the City to show up, and that guy wasn't qualified to fix it, so he waited outside in his truck for at least another hour, with the geyser of water gushing from our front yard all the while, waiting for the guy that could fix it to show up.

In the mean time, Wil and Waldo turned off the water at the house and took off the fittings/pipes/whatever from under the sink and Waldo ran to Home Depot to get new ones that would fit properly.

I thought Wil went too, but he was outside watching the new City guy fix the water. I was sitting on the couch surrounded by our child size table and chairs, cleaning/disinfecting them.

The City guy asked Wil to turn the water back on to our house so he could get the air out of the water line and turn the water back on to the street (yes, they really did have to turn the water off to the entire street while the guy fixed our meter! I'm sure our neighbors all love us now, and there's really no way to pretend it's not your fault when a geyser is shooting out of your front yard!).

Wil forgot about the missing fittings/pipes/thingys under our sink and turned the water back on to the house to get the air out of the line. At this point, I had the small table on my lap and heard the sound of many rushing waters coming from the kitchen!

"Oh no, oh no, oh no..."

So...I promptly removed the table from my lap, stood up, hobbled around all of the chairs surrounding me on the floor and ran to the kitchen - where I saw water projectile spewing from under the sink.

"Oh no, oh no, OH NO!!!"

Add to my freaking out the fact that I thought Wil went with Waldo to the store and that it must have been the City guy who turned the water back on to our house. I ran out of the house, trying to figure out how to tell the guy from the City that he had to turn the water back off because the fittings/pipes/important parts were missing from under our sink!

I ran out yelling something clever like, "you turned the water back on, you turned the water back on!" Luckily, Wil was still home, heard me and turned it back off - because the City guy just looked at me like I was growing a second head.

Needless to say, my deep cleaning plans were extended to include mopping up a small flood in the kitchen and cleaning behind the fridge and oven because we had to get all the water cleaned up.

Our quick, few hour cleaning/plumbing project ended up taking closer to 10 hours! But, our new faucet is beautiful and we got a GREAT story out of the ordeal! :-)

Christmas Craft Day 2010

Every year, we have Wil's nieces over for a Christmas craft party. This year, we decorated gingerbread houses, painted Christmas masks, played games and had a relay race.

It was great fun to have them all over and to see how different they all are in their decorating styles!

Arlene

Adaly

Lyzette

Clarisa

Karina

Xujey

Good Enough To Eat

I was downloading photos from my camera today and realized I needed to play some massive catch-up!

Somehow, a few of the vegetables in our garden managed to keep growing through the summer, even when I was a super huge slacker and too tired/lame to want to walk outside when it was 8,000 degrees outside.

This is our pumpkin! Isn't it cute? Don't worry, I put it to good use by making a pumpkin roll for Thanksgiving. It was delicious!

Kicking

Wil felt our little girl kick for the first time today! HOORAY!!! :-)