Our First Anniversary

We just got back from our first anniversary trip to Sedona. We stayed at the Territorial House B&B in the Miss Kitty room (named for the character from Gunsmoke) where we enjoyed amazing breakfasts and stargazing (we waited until night for that).












While there we visited the Amitabha Stupa, Chapel of the Holy Cross and the Airport Vortex so we are one with our spiritual selves now.












We did see some fantastic views from the different touristy new age spots as you can see from all of our pictures. We didn't get to do too much hiking but we did hike up one very steep hill and got some great pictures from the top.













On our way home we stopped at a couple wineries which were suprisingly very good. We didn't know Arizona produced such good wine. We also stopped at Motezuma's Castle. It's not quite a castle and we're pretty sure Montezuma didn't live there but it is an amazing cliff dwelling site. We even saw some amusing squirrels who seemed very friendly and were rolling around on the ground looking cute which we thought was very funny until we saw this sign:

Yup, apparently the Bubonic Plague is alive and well in Arizona - gotta love it here!












The cats were happy to see us when we got back. I had grown some grass for them and left it out for them to enjoy while we were gone but apparently Mia would rather sit on it than eat it.









We're having trouble with snapfish so I will post all of our pictures later.

I once caught a fish thiiiiis big.

While Scott was decorating the house I went out to the lake for the afternoon.

The Curtains are Done

And it only took six months. I'm lightning fast! We also made and hung a collage of our house progress pictures. Our next project is hanging all of the music posters Scott has collected over the years. Once we do that and then get our new tv and entertaiment center our first floor will be complete. Just don't look in our study...

Our Dining Room

Another exciting weekend in the Wilken household. Our dining room is finally completely finished. We put up our maps (from the same book of maps that we used to make our wedding invitations). The orange table runner matches the curtains in the family room. Enlarge the picture and note the ball and chain sitting under a picture of comet Hale-Bopp over the Springfield carillon. We're trying to finish the house up so we can have a party. On non-related news Scott received lots of accolades at the latest quarterly City Manager's meeting for sticking through the rough periods during his department's restructuring. Scott is now a "senior citizen" in the City as deemed by the City Manager.

Our honeymoon: the coffee table book.

We did nothing exciting this weekend so I thought I would post pictures of the photobook I made of our honeymoon. In less then one month we will hit our first anniversary! Anyone officially lose any pools yet? Below are some of our favorites including "At the zoo", "First day at the Del", "Drunk Katie" and "Dinner at Mister A's".