The Great Haboob

Okay honestly I don't know what a Haboob is because all my years in Arizona we have called them dust storms but that is the trend. So what happened that night is my friend Heather asked me to go with her to help clean an office building. As we were driving we saw this giant cloud rolling towards us so as Heather and I thought we were going to die, I recorded our last moments. lol Gladly we survived and only suffered some massive dirty cars. So without further ado here is our near death dusty experience. 

A letter

Dear Mother Nature,

          I have a feeling that it is early enough in the season that I could make a difference. I absolutely love monsoon season, I enjoy the lightning and the thunder and of course the rain. But this is where I am somewhat frustrated with you, it being July it is uncomfortably humid 100% of the day and then you only rain for 5 minutes. I think there is something wrong with that. If you are going to make Arizona humid at least rain for 2 hours is that to much to ask?

Sincerly,
Domanique

Vaycation, no STAYCATION!!

Can you believe it Derek and I have been together for two years! woot woot time sure does fly. Well, it happened that our anniversary was the same weekend I graduated and also the same weekend as memorial day, lets just say it was a busy weekend. So we decided we needed to A: go on vacation and B: celebrate our anniversary. So we decided to do both. But going up north was out of the question, it was to expensive, going to Cali would have required 6 hours of driving time each way, and flying was out of the question too flights were overbooked so we couldn't have used buddy passes. So we opted to go on a staycation. So we went to the Hilton in Scottsdale, sat by the pool, hung out at the mall because it was too dang hot to be outside, and went to restaurants we have wanted to go to for quite some time. While hanging out at the mall Derek's cousins met up with us, they have been stalking Haagen Dazs for a few months so they made a visit and it happened to be the same time that we were there. We have also been wanting to try out Fogo de Chao, ever hear about it, AMAZING! Fogo de Chao is a brazillian churrascaria or a brazillian steakhouse with all you can eat meat. yummy! I ate my weight in meat, and I feel like I could go vegetarian to make up for the amount of meat we ate that night. By the time we were done eating we realized we were stuffed, but while talking to the waiters we had mentioned we were there for our anniversary so they came out with the best creme brulee I have ever eaten in my life. To think we were stuffed but then realized we could still eat more... this is why america is obese. But it was so worth it. Well without further ado here are some pictures of our fun adventure and I highly recommend a staycation.

 Us with Laura and Jordan, oh my husband is so silly.

 Now that I think about it Derek and Laura both have similar personalities. Love them!

 Love him!

Moral of the story

We need a new camera with a manual setting. I took tons of 4th of July pictures and they turned out horrible. I was so proud of myself for taking pictures and they didn't look great on the viewfinder but they looked passable. Well, I just uploaded them to my computer and they sucketh! But I will show you some of the passable ones.

 Derek really enjoyed shooting off fireworks. Derek, Tyler, and Andrew all looked like children in a candy store.

 The boys had so much fun that Andrew pointed the fireworks in the direction of me and his sister Courtney and pour Court ended up in the rosemary bush..

Derek and Andrew lighting off fireworks. 

Court and I! 

Tyler, Derek and Andrew all thought they were wizards and were shouting things like Expelliarmus, Expecto Patronum, Accio, and of course Lumos. 

 Courtney and Tyler apparently don't have any pictures together so we needed to solve that problem Ü

 My studly husband with his magic light the fireworks on fire wand!

 Oh we are cute!

Love him!