Easter

Hope everyone had a wonderful Easter! I got up a bit early and snuck out to the kitchen to make a yummy Easter breakfast and set out Jeff's Easter treats. We had whole wheat brown sugar banana pancakes that I found on pinterest and they were delicious! We spent the rest of the day going over our primary lesson, watching the Masters and preparing our masterpiece of an Easter cake.

Dreamed up by yours truly, Ice Cream Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting. It might not have looked as pretty as I had planned but it did not disappoint!

A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes

Jeff and I have been talking about buying a house since we got married, we knew our time would come and patiently waited. We started looking and browsing homes, neighborhoods, listings, etc. in November after we got settled here in Vegas. The first neighborhood we drove through we both instantly fell in love. I told Jeff I didn't care what house we bought as long as it is was in this particular neighborhood! It is that unique, darling, quiet, new, and so much more. There were at least 8 homes in this neighborhood for sale and we went home and pulled up the neighborhood just to find out that all of them were under contract and not active listings. :( That sucked but it didn't keep us (me) from driving through the neighborhood every chance I got. I'm sure the neighbors think we are a bunch of crazy creepers! Wait until they found out we're gonna be neighbors! ha We happened upon our real estate agent by chance and quickly set up a search for that area that would alert us anytime a new house came on the market in the area and we started looking elsewhere. We made an appointment to walk through 3 different houses on the Saturday Chris and Tess would be in town just to have our agent call us on Friday to tell us all three were already sold! He sent us a link to some other houses and the first listing was a house in the neighborhood we love. We were so excited and called him right away to see if we could walk through the next morning, the house had literally been listed an hour earlier and he didn't even know it was for sale! Our agent made a call and we were set to walk through saturday morning.

Saturday morning we walked through the house and found that it's everything we have been looking for! It was great to have Chris and Tess with us being our voice of reason and also encouraging us to make an offer (it didn't take much believe me!). We went to walk through another house but we both knew we weren't going to find anything better so we went back, did one more walk through and went straight to the office to make an offer. We set it up so the sellers would have until monday @5 to accept our offer but just 2 hours later we got the call that they accepted. 2 other people were getting ready to make offers and 5 others were set to walk through that day so we felt so excited and blessed to have been the first ones and it paid off!

We opened escrow on monday and now are just waiting to hear back from the bank, who has 90 days to accept our offer. The listing agent explained it is a small, local lender and she doesn't believe it will take that long. We are hopeful it won't because it's only been a week so far and we're on pins and needles! Tuesday we went and purchased a new washer and dryer and I told Jeff, "You know you are getting old when you are excited about the new washer/dryer you just bought!"

So here's "our" house!

We absolutely love it!

It's a 3 bed, 2.5 bath

2,200 sq. ft.

large loft, lots of storage

great backyard

charming double doors and porch

lots of natural lighting

Can't wait for it to be ours!

Our Spring Break Stay-Cation

Chris and Tess came down south and we all had a pretty sweet vacation which consisted of:

-House shopping, and purchasing! (More on that later)

-Many intense and sometimes long games of Settler of Catan

-dinner @ Setebellos. I had to give it a 2nd chance, turns out it's pretty darn good!

-Chris and Tess went to see Garth, so jealous! Jeff and I listened to Garth all night and watched Tower Heist (stupid!)

-A gorgeous and scenic drive around Red Rock

-Pizza ordered in and more Settlers

-Jeff and Chris went on a bike ride while Tess and I took Scout for a hike and to the dog park

-Soaking up the sun by the pool

-Jeff and I got the 2 for 1 locals' deal and saw Phantom @ the Venetian, he loved it!

We love having visitors, thanks for coming Chris and Tess!

*on a side note, Jeff and I went and saw the Hunger Games. Pretty good. And this is pretty funny

Good news & Bad news

Good news: Scout is doing much better and we have "lost" the lampshade, for now..

Bad news: Jeff started getting sick sunday night

Good news: Bachelor finale was on monday night!

Bad news: I got what Jeff had and after taking some meds, I was out for the count and slept right through the Bachelor finale :(

Good news: Didn't miss much. Ben chose Courtney. Figures.

Bad news: Jeff and I both had to work Tuesday

Good news: Actually made dinner tuesday after work and did a load of laundry

Bad news: Just the thought of eating said dinner above makes me want to die!

Good news: Pulled myself out of bed this morning to make Jeff breakfast and see him off to work

Bad news: Jeff threw up breakfast, still had to go to work :(

Good news: The spa is closed and I am at home resting

Bad news: Jeff is at work and I feel guilty :(

I promise I will never take being healthy for granted again! This week has been terrible, at least the weather is good and we have all our windows and back door open to air out our nasty germs! As soon as we kick this bug I am disinfecting this whole apartment.

P.S.

I found a darling haircut on Pinterest and cut my hair less than 24 hours later!

P.S.S.

The cut is not so darling on me. Here's to the next 6 months of ugly hair. Again!

Scout's week in pictures

Scout.

Scout.

Scout.

We love him but he is trouble!

We were watching a movie the other night when he jumped up on Jeff's lap with the end of our mac charger in his mouth. Our mac charger that was plugged into the wall mind you, while he proceeded to chew it into two pieces! It's a miracle and a wonder he is not toast right now! Naughty pup.

The time finally came when Scout was to become a puppy, forever! On Thursday our poor boy went into the vet and under the knife. He got snipped, microchipped and had 6 baby teeth pulled, he's so vain! He was surprisingly chipper and happy to come home when we picked him up but after a miserable night and a wound that was getting licked to death, he got his very own lamp shade.

He wasn't thrilled and Jeff and I couldn't decide wether to laugh or cry when we saw this mug staring back at us. So sad and yet adorable at the same time. Get better soon our four legged boy!

Have a great day and don't forget to spay and neuter your pets!

mi madre

My mom is awesome. Here she is playing me a little ditty on her accordion, that's right my mom plays the accordion!

Isn't she cute?!

Weekend Getaway

My cousin Katelyn, who is more like a sister to me than a cousin, came home from her mission in the Philippines. The same weekend miss Lauren or Lollie as we call her was turning 2, so I bought a ticket and planned to travel to Utah solo for a quick weekend. Jeff ended up being able to get off of work and even had monday and tuesday off so he drove up friday evening after work. It was a fun weekend and I was able to get to see a lot of people on friday morning when I got into town. I got to see this cutie and his sweet momma and their darling house, I had lunch with all the Larsen ladies and my friend Whit even came over and we got to chat! Thanks for everyone who made time for me :) Pictures were taken but unfortunately not by me. Thanks to Em and Ab for sending me these cute pics!

Birthday Girl with her "Lollie-pop" cookie pop Abbie made for the party

Nixon!