MT. Charleston

Jeff and I both snagged a new pair of Keens for our birthdays (early birthday for me) and we decided to go break them in and explore Mount Charleston. We headed out early Saturday morning with Scout in tow and hiked up to Mary Jane's Waterfalls. It was beautiful and because of the rainy weekend, the weather couldn't have been more perfect. The hike was about 6 miles round trip and I only had to carry Scout for about 5 minutes the whole way, he was loving it.

(Scout is in the middle bottom of the photo, peeking our from behind the rock)

 The falls, it was more of a strong trickle but we'll take it

Dirty and happy little puppy

 A day in the cool mountains and away from everything else was just what the PA ordered and we are already planning our return trip, this time we will camp for the weekend.

This was our sweet boy on the ride home. All tuckered out from his hike. 

How can you not love that sweet face?

After hiking some mud football took place, I did not participate having already showered. It looked fun but after someone sliced their foot open on some glass in the mud, I was pretty happy I decided to stay clean. (The PA on site stitched her up) Scout loved every minute of it. It was his best day to date I'm sure.

The sky on our way home

Seare Family Photos

While in town for Scott's graduation we (Becky-Merry Christmas!) took advantage of having everyone in town and we did family photos. The Seare's have expanded by 2 daughters-in-law and a grand baby since the last ones were taken. Here some of my faves:

 Scott and fam

 Cora

 Jake

 Ryan, Jill and fam

 Calvin

 Claire

 Chloe

 Chris and Tess

 To prove how much I love my husband I am posting this picture

 Where it all began...

 Sisterly/brotherly love

*Side note: I had NOTHING to do with Jeff's haircut. Jeff used the wrong tip on his clippers and got a pretty clean buzz about 2 days before photos. That husband of mine... ;)

The Stars and Stripes

Happy Independence Day! 

We had a wonderful holiday week(end). We spent it with some pretty great people, by the pool, eating lots of yummy food, watching movies, sleeping in and of course fireworks. We went to a park to watch the Green Valley Station Casino fireworks, the show lasted seriously 7 minutes ;( Pathetic! There was jokes being made about "Obamaworks" (aka. our economy sucks so firework shows are now only 7 minutes long. Sad face.) We decided after the show ended and left us wanting more we would shoot off some of our own. I gave J a $20 limit ( I know right?) and he bought some and we went to Jodi's. Some of her neighbors had some pretty awesome and pretty dang illegal ones that they were shooting off so we ended up getting a pretty great show! I was glad when J was done lighting the ones he bought, I love fireworks but they kinda make me a nervous nelly. 

Thanks to all those who sacrifice so much to fight for our freedoms! We owe this day to you and your families who willingly give you away for a time to serve our country! 

In the famous words of my dad, "I'm just proud to be an American!"****

**** This was said over Thanksgiving dinner one year when we were instructed to go around and say what we were thankful for. We had 3 Taiwanese exchange students at the time, sitting at our table. AWKWARD. But completely hilarious, I love my dad.

Magic

Mr. Seare and I had the opportunity Saturday night to go see Penn & Teller @ the Rio, courtesy of United Blood Services. We got there a bit early and walked around, the World Series of Poker just happened to be in town so we took a stroll through before our show. It was like walking into the 'Twilight Zone', so weird. Crazy amounts of money, some of the tables were $5000 just to buy in and no one sitting at any of them looked liked they had 5 grand to spare, ha sad but true. We could hear the faint sound of thousands of poker chips being tossed onto the table the second we stepped into the room, it was very strange to me but J thought it was pretty cool.

Our show was pretty great, they are very funny and entertaining and on our way out we even got to meet this TALL guy. 

Don't mind J's crazy eyes, he tried to edit the photo on his phone and well, you shouldn't try it unless you want to have crazy eyes as well.

I love date night. 

Dirt.

 I never thought I would be so happy to say that I own a piece of dirt, but today I am more than ExCiTeD (because bright colors and big letters = excitement, I'm surprised you didn't know that) to say we own this big hunk a dirt.

Why you might ask, it's just dirt? Well it's because starting July 2 and come September 2 a cute little house all our own will be sitting right on top of this glorious piece of dirt! I bet you're looking at my (our) dirt in a whole new light now aren't ya?

I know we are :)

* It comes to my attention that I may have failed to mention earlier that we pulled out of our short-sale and it just so happened to fall through in the same day. Inspired personal revelation? I think so. I knew there was something out there better suited for us and I'm pretty happy to say that we found it.

Moral of our story: Pay your tithing boys and girls and you will be blessed like we have!

Updates to come, stay tuned!

Mr. Seare's Birthday

Mr. Seare's birthday started out with breakfast in bed, to which he replied, "I've never had breakfast in bed before." To which I thought.. "Well I know I've never done it before, so this better be his first time!" ;) We went to dinner after work and he received a 'gift certificate' (homemade by yours truly) for a new pair of Nike shoes. I learned my lesson about 2 birthdays ago and will never buy him a pair of shoes unless he is there to pick them out. Of course after dinner we headed straight to outlets where Mr. birthday boy picked out his latest pair and we ended the night with a good ol' soft serve ice cream cone from Dairy Queen. (I begged him to let me make him a cake, but he declined. I think I'll bake one this week anyway..)

Second he went in to take a shower to find this cheery note 

 
                                     and later into the family room where his loot stood waiting

We went to dinner after work and he received a 'gift certificate' (homemade by yours truly) for a new pair of Nike shoes. I learned my lesson about 2 birthdays ago and will never buy him a pair of shoes unless he is there to pick them out. Of course after dinner we headed straight to outlets where Mr. birthday boy picked out his latest pair and we ended the night with a good ol' soft serve ice cream cone from Dairy Queen. (I begged him to let me make him a cake, but he declined. I think I'll bake one this week anyway..)

PS. I came home from work the next day to find him sitting on the couch in only his G's and his new sneaks. I think it's safe to say he had a good birthday :) love you babes!

Birthday Boy

Just want to give a little Birthday shout out to my man.

Happy Birthday hot stuff!
I love you!!!